before the gunman entered. but that is completely different from what the public was told just days ago. cnn s omar jimenez is live for us in uvalde tonight. omar good evening to you. this is another contradiction from officials, what is the very latest? on the investigative, side this is another discrepancy of police initially told us, versus what we find out to be reality. police initially said that this teacher propped open a back door that was supposed to be lock the day of the shooting. and we are now learning from authorities, she actually closed that door when she realized there was an active shooter, but it did not lock. this discrepancy is coming as we are now starting to see the first of what will be many funerals here in this community. even as you walk around, it s hard to find people who were not personally affected by this, even if not directly, they know someone who was and so we are going to see families morning in funerals that will continue into tomorrow,
with a 2 -year price guarantee. hello everyone, i am alicia call today. menendez, live in uvalde, texas, where there are new questions mounting over the mass shooting at robb elementary school. behind me, left 19 children and two teachers that. texas authorities updated the timeline on the attack, feeling students made 691 calls as officers made calls other classroom. according to the texas safety department, the local chief commander made the wrong decision not to enter the barricade a classroom for over an hour. and then your survivor said that police also encourage students to call out for help, which allowed the government to locate and shoot one of his classmates. nbc news has learned that federal agents has eventually defied police orders and fatally shooting the gunman. meanwhile, parents outside the school trying to rush in and rescue their own children. the mother of a third grader describing the desperate scene of police restraining parents, as shots rang out. we
laura: raw emotion. new details and more questions out of uvalde, texas. a scene from tuesday s mass murder of 19 children and two adults. authorities held a press conference. they tried to the correct some earlier what they say were false reports but in doing so, they also rate a lot more questions. 11:28, the suspect just left of here wrecked his vehicle. he climbed the fence. now he is in the parking lot, shooting at that. multiple times. he walks into the west side of rob elementary. laura: what about the initial story that the shooter had exchanged gunfire with a school security officer? i want to clear up that came out early on. it was reported that a school district police officer confronted the suspect that was making entry. not accurate. he walked in on the suspect. there was not an officer available, armed. no. laura: no officer armed at the entrance to the school. grieving parents and family members, we desperately want and he desperately answers. police
many as 19 officers were in the school hallway. a student inside the class with the shooter calls 911, whispering on the phone. the tactical unit requested by those officers arrived. that s when the student called back and said there are kids still alive. 12:16, 911 operators know there are kids alive in the room. the shooter fires again. at one point 19 officers in the building according to dps. 20 minutes later, another 911 call begging police to get there now. 12:50, a tactical team breached the door to get inside and killed the gunman. an hour and 17 minutes from when police entered to the school to when police entered the room. why did it take so long to get inside that classroom where children were waiting for safety? it was a 40-minute gap. if the 911 operators were aware that children were alive in that classroom, why weren t officers notified of that. and if that s the case, why didn t anybody take action. that s the question. again, i ll go back to the answer for
of this attack and response and then how he spread it. a lot of this is coming out of the course of today. depending what you re up to, you may not have heard the gruesome details but he s using this as a time to take a platform within a crisis to lie about gun safety and gun control. we ll get into that. late today, the governor used a damage control press conference to repeatedly push false claims about public safety policy. here are the new details emerging about the failed police response to this shooter and some are absolutely gut wrenching. we are learning the timeline which is now updated because of the misinformation i mentioned. we re learning 19 police officers erroneously waited 45 minutes outside the close room without ever breaking in to confront the killer inside. we re learning that the killer was able to thus continue to repeatedly fire weapons again while the police were outside the door. these are facts that are terrible but they are also significant. they