it s graduation season here. there are big photos of local graduates, on local science outside of city hall, outside of businesses. driving down main street in uvalde, texas, you wouldn t know something so terrible s happened just blocks away. two blocks away, life looks as a normally does. but something terrible did happen here. this community, this small community lost 21 of its people right here at this school, everything has changed forever, this will never be a normal spot again. this school, this town, becomes yet another name on a list that no one wants to be on. tonight, a vigil here in uvalde, texas is underway, it s paying tribute to yesterday s victims we will have much more throughout the show tonight, about the victims, the people who lost their lives. 19 children, and to teachers it s robb elementary, we re still learning the identity of some of the children who were killed. they were eight, nine, ten years old. all of them in the same fourth grade classroom, mu
two blocks away, life looks as it normally does. but something terrible did happen here. this community, this small community lost 21 of its people right here at this school, everything has changed forever, this will never be a normal spot again. this school, this town, becomes yet another name on a list that no one wants to be on. tonight, a vigil here in uvalde, texas is underway, it s paying tribute to yesterday s victims we will have much more throughout the show tonight, about the victims, the people who lost their lives. 19 children, and two teachers at robb elementary, we re still learning the identity of some of the children who were killed. they were eight, nine, ten years old. all of them in the same fourth grade classroom, murdered with their teachers. let me bring you up to speed with what we know at this point about how this massacre unfolded, as well as some of the things that we don t yet now. this is the series of events laid out for us by texas law enforcemen
trees on his own and planted and water them every day after school. so, you are really deeply connected here. yes, i went to school here myself. tell me how the community is dealing with this. i drove in today and it is small. it is a small place. it is busy and it is a small place today. 21 people died, and everyone must know them. it is a small tight-knit community, it comes up a lot these last few days. and we are grieving. we are mourning. and we are so tight-knit as a community that my two neighbors across the street one of them a grandchild. my other neighbor lost her daughter-in-law, who was a teacher here. that s how close knit a community we are. we are grieving. but we are dealing with it. when i was coming down main street, i saw the graduation pictures of high school students. yes. and saw the pride that the
but we are dealing with it. when i was coming down main street, i saw the graduation pictures of high school students. yes. and i saw the pride that the community takes in the idea that people graduated from high school. the photographs line the street. and there s billboards in front of the school and in front of the city hall. i couldn t imagine the irony of that, that you are celebrating the people who made it through high school and 19 of these people they died. you know, a lot of good students have walked the hallways at robb elementary school. we have educators, professors, lawyers, doctors that have come out of this school. what can we say about the teachers? they have dedicated hours and days to help students, to make that student a better person. this one tragic incident that happened yesterday does not define our community. it does not define robb