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
teachers, eva mireles and irma garcia and that somehow they got notified that there was a shooter inside this school. and that the teacher rapidly went to lock the door but that the shooter was outside and fired a shot through the door to gain access. the details this little girl remembers are incredible. she said that the shooter looked at the teacher in the eye and said, good night and then started firing gunshots. she remembers this vividly, gunshots flying through this classroom. flying by her, some of the fragments of those bullets hitting her head, hitting her shoulders, and then she says, at one point the shooter walks through the ad jase sent classroom and she starts hearing children screaming. she starts hearing more gunshots and then silence filled the air.