heightened tensions injerusalem with thousands of israeli jewish nationalists marching through the old city s muslim quarter. the french government is to hold an emergency meeting with uefa and the paris authorities after police fired tear gas at liverpool fans during saturday night s champion s league final. and the one constant over 70 years of change, as britain prepares forfour days of platinum jubilee celebrations for the reign of the queen. hello and thanks forjoining us. 78 minutes that is the precise length of time police are understood to have waited before going into the elementary school in texas to tackled the gunman, who killed 19 children and two teachers. public anger has been growing since the revelation on friday that officers waited in a hallway as children trapped with the teenage gunman made desperate emergency calls. the usjustice department is to investigate the cause of that delay. this is the hardest visit a president has to make, especially when t
do something about it. i beg you. show it to the world. when he died, i died with him. you cannot out law tragedy but we can make america safer. we can do what we have to do to protect the lives of our people and our children. i m pamela brown in washington. you re live in the cnn newsroom. ch it s memorial day weekend, a time to honor men and women who died served in military. this year the nation approaches this holiday in grief and shock after two horrific mass shootings over the last two weeks. tomorrow, president biden will travel to uvalde, texas to mourn with the community heartbroken by tuesday s massacre. 19 children, mere 4th graders slaughtered along with their two teachers. today in buffalo, new york, vice president kamala harris attended the funeral of ruth wlhitfield. she s the last to be buried. i cannot even begin to express our collective ive pain nation for what you re feeling in such an extreme way. to not only lose someone that you love but throu
still chief among the questions out there and why is the police department now backtracking on some of their basic findings? officials are going to be holding a briefing in texas in the next hour. let s begin though at this hour with cnn s rosa flores live in uvalde. rosa, what are you hearing from some of these children who managed to survive? reporter: well, kate, we are hearing about those intense moments when the shooter was inside the classroom, those intense moments when children were trying to do everything they could to survive. they describe the gunfire at first. they thought it was fireworks. you mentioned a little girl who covered herself in blood and played dead to try to survive, to make sure that she could do what she could do at that point in time to survive this terrible tragedy. but here they are, children describing what they lived through in their own words. take a listen. it was very terrifying. that didn t stop one of my friends getting hurt. i got
challenges that are now surfacing that this killer had in his life. that lead to someone doing what he did. and then there will be all other kinds of issues, but there will be committees formed. there will be meetings held. there will be proposals that will be derived, many of which will lead to laws which will be passed in the state of texas, because let me make one thing perfectly clear. the status quo is unacceptable. this crime is unacceptable. we re not going to be here talking about it and do nothing about it. we will be looking for the best laws that we can get passed to make our communities and schools safer. go ahead. [ inaudible question ] . let s be clear about a couple things. that show that these background checks, if everyone wants to seize upon a particular strategy, and just assume, well, that s the golden strategy right there, look at what happened in the santa fe shooting. a background check had no relevancy whatsoever, because the killer took the gun from
law enforcement reversed what was the initial statement about this. we covered these type of incidents before. there is room, of course, for monday morning quarterbacking and room to update information as it comes in. if you watched the news, you are familiar with that process. but there are some aspects of this painful story that are getting extra scrutiny today. a statement update says now no school official confronted the shooter outside the school. that s a change. the shooter was able to walk in through an unlocked door. 11:40, he walks into the west side of robb elementary. multiple rounds. numerous rounds were discharged in the school. four minutes later, local police departments, uvalde police department, finished the school district marred are inside. making entry. was there a school officer on campus and was that school officer armed? because that s what we have been told. so at this time no. also newly revealed video from that terrible day, what you see her