i had to protect my children. pete: a local hospital says it has discharged or transferred all those injured in the shooting. continuing search for a motive. and governor greg act praising law enforcement s, quote, amazing courage without which he says the death toll would have been higher. abbott also revealing the gunman wrote a series of messages online before his killing spree. one saying, quote: i m going to shoot my grandmother. another saying, quote: i have shot my grandmother and i m going to shoot up an elementary school. ainsley: we are also learning the heroic cbp special agent killed the gunman barely made it out with his life. the picture of the hat he was wearing shows it was grazed by a bullet. authorities say he was able to walk away safely. let s bring in lawrence jones, is he live on the ground in uvalde, texas. lawrence? good morning, family. i attended that vigil last night. i have got to tell you whenever you see grown men cry because their loved on
children s faces, the victim s faces. and it reads the children lost, faces of fourth graders murdered in one classroom. they are saying now that this all did happen, all the injuries and all of the deaths happened in this one classroom. brian: let s bring in lawrence jones live on the ground in texas. uvalde, he knows this area quite well. and of course know it even better over the last 48 hours. lawrence, what do you think is going to be the focus today as people get to understand it s not just they are not just numbers. these kids were people and these families will never be the same? lawrence: good morning, family. i think the focus today is going to be on the burials. we are going to start getting more information, the bodies are going to be release dollars to released to the familiesin manyt to be planned. i think questions are going to be continued as from the family members and community members about what we could have done to prevent this, they are going it