square is growing by the day. the mayor says the city is, quote, broken. 19 fourth graders and their teachers had just days left in the school year when an 18-year-old entered robb elementary tuesday with a legally-purchased assault rifle. now families are planning funerals instead of summer vacations. texas rangers still looking for a motive as the community s anger grows to the police response inside that school. arthel: live in uvalde with the scene there for us on the ground. jeff? reporter: yeah, arthel, two weeks ago the president traveled to buffalo, now he s here in uvalde, texas, to try to comfort a community that is just in the beginning stages of mourning the loss of 19 kids and 2 the teachers. the president first landed in san antonio, texas, now he s on his flight to uvalde if not already here, making his way to robb elementary school where he s going to pay his respects to the victims of this horrific shooting. from there he ll attend a mass at the local cat
we re getting new pictures and details as we speak including more from the survivors and heartbreaking stories about the victims. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we re going live to the scene of the shooting in just a moment. but first a quick rundown of what happened on this horrible day. the shooting started after midnight about 12:38 a.m. in theater 9 of the century aurora 16 multiplex. aurora s a suburb of denver. about 15 minutes into the midnight showing of the new batman movie the dark knight rise rises, a lone gunman came in near the screen. when he came in, i thought he was some kind of prop or thee tri kal guy. he let off a canister of gas and it exploded. everybody thought it was a prop, but then he shot up in the air and everybody started to panic at that point. when he went straight from the air, he came down with his gun in my face. he was about three feet away from me at that point. in that instant i honestly didn t know what to do. i was