mourning with them. 15 lives taken. so many more lives, so many families shattered forever. we ll have extensive live reporting and perspective on perhaps the saddest fact of modern american life. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. we begin sadly with yet another mass shooting here in the united states, this time at robb elementary school, elementary school, in uvalde, texas. cnn s ed lavandera is in dallas. he s got the latest information for us. what are authorities, ed, saying about how this happened? what s the latest information we have? reporter: wolf, a horrific day in uvalde, texas. and across this country as once again we are reeling from this horrific news as the governor of texas announced just a short while ago 14 of the 15 victims shot at robb elementary school in uvalde, texas today why children. the top security officer for
[ inaudible ] we re having we have a bad connection. we re going to try to reconnect with you and come back to you because we want to hear what you re saying, and you re broken up right now. we re going to take a short break. coming up, heated moments during governor abbott s news conference when beto o rourke showed up. just days after a shooter walked into a grocery store to gun down african american
disconnected from their friends, the school, and who connect with something or somebody on social media or the xbox games they play or whatever. it is worrisome. bill: here is chris murphy, democrat on the floor just this week. what are we doing? days after a shooter walked into a grocery store to gun down african-american patrons we have another sandy hook on our hands. what are we doing? bill: it goes a little bit to the comment you started making there. what is true in texas, i guess. if you re 18 you can buy a long gun. you can buy an ar-15. if you re 18 in texas you can t rent a car. but also if you re 18 in texas you ve been able to buy a long gun for 60 years and these mass killings, although somewhat new in american society one could
horror at this. thank you for coming here jonathan dienst, i appreciate it. a little over after an hour of the news broke, senator chris murphy, who has dedicated his career to responding to the sandy hook massacre. he took to the senate floor to just literally beg, to plead, with his republican colleagues to do anything to help curb gun violence in this country. there s 14 kids dead in an elementary school in texas right now. what are we doing? what are we doing? just days after a shooter walked into a grocery store to gun down african american
connecticut which is where the sandy hook shooting took place. he made an impassioned appeal for concrete action to prevent further violence. 1a kids dead in an elementary school in texas right now. what are we doing? just days after a shooter walked into a grocery store to gun down african american patrons we have another sandy hook on our hands. what are we doing? there are more mass shootings than days in the year. our kids are living in fear. every single time they set foot in a classroom