buy beer and cigarettes, but they can walk into a gun store and buy an ar-15. announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom with isa soares. welcome to the show, everyone. it is monday, may 30th. memorial day in the u.s., when americans remember and honor the men as well as women who died serving the nation. but today in the city of uvalde in texas, families will be gagagaerg toemem lives lost in last week s mass shooting at robb elementary school. some services are set to begin in the coming hours with funeral homes committed to cover the costs of the families of the 21 victims, 19 students and two teachers. a choir paying their respects through song as the community of uvalde reels from the tragic shooting. u.s. president joe biden and the first lady traveled to texas to meet with grieving families, and also attended a mass as well met with first responders. there has also been an outpouring of support from the community as crowds brought flowers to a growing me
day. the district police chief made the decision to hold officers back from the robb elementary classroom. the shooter locked himself inside. now we know those officers waited for nearly 80 minutes. it was a terrifying nearly hour and a half for the entire school. here is what one teacher told her students to do when she heard the gunfire. she spoke with our ore morgan chesky. i just kept hearing boom, boom, boom. it kept going off for what felt like an eternity. reporter: as the gunman walked towards her school, nicole shouted for her kids to hit the floor seconds before glass shattered her classroom. i had one student laying on top of me, and i had a bunch of other students right over here by me. i just remember praying, please, god, please, god, keep us safe. reporter: she and her students managed to get to safety. when she learned as many as 19 officers waited 47 minutes before engaging the gunman, she said this where do you believe blame should lie? on the pe
maxwell frost, later on in the show. i m looking forward to hear what he says. ayman, have a good weekend. thank you, my friend. we ll be watching. all right. it was the wrong decision. that s what the top law enforcement official in texas admitted today, as outrage grows over why it took police so long to stop the gunman at robb elementary school in uvalde, texas. that gap and police intervention is even more glaring, after we learned new details about the timeline today. minutes after the gunman crashed his vehicle, he was already firing shots outside at the school. a school resource officer, who was not on the school grounds, heard the 9-1-1 call, and responded. but actually, he drove past the shooter, according to officials. at 11:33 am, the shooter enters the school, and fires more than 100 rounds in four minutes. two minutes after that, three officers arrived, and enter the school, exchanging gunfire with the shooter. by 12:03 pm, as many as 19 officers are in a h
ayman, have a good weekend. thank you, my friend. we ll be watching. all right. it was the wrong decision. that s what the top law enforcement official in texas admitted today, as outrage grows over why it took police so long to stop the gunman at robb elementary school in uvalde, texas. that gap and police intervention is even more glaring, after we learned new details about the timeline today. minutes after the gunman crashed his vehicle, he was already firing shots outside at the school. a school resource officer, who was not on the school grounds, heard the 9-1-1 call, and responded. but actually, he drove past the shooter, according to officials. at 11:33 am, the shooter enters the school, and fires more than 100 rounds in four minutes. two minutes after that, three officers arrived, and enter the school, exchanging gunfire with the shooter. by 12:03 pm, as many as 19 officers are in a hallway inside the school at the same time, one student calls 9-1-1, and whisper
rifle. that he was able to legally purchase, just like the gunman here and eovaldi. the vice president and the second gentleman will be in buffalo later today to attend the funeral of one of the victims of that massacre. meanwhile, as authorities we can continue to piece together the events of the tragedy here in uvalde, the nra is holding the second day of its annual convention in houston, just 270 miles east of here. joining me now, nbc news national security and intelligence correspondent, candlelight ian and, correspondent sam brock live in uvalde texas. can, the timeline of events of tuesday s tragedy keeps shifting. what has changed over the past few days in law enforcement s account of just what happened? good morning alicia well. you really had a shift from the department of public safety from defending the law enforcement response and saying that actually saved lives, to yesterday laying out a timeline that really made it clear that there was a series of colossal mis