good morning to our viewers in the united states and all around the world, it is wednesday, may 25th. i m john berman live in uvalde, texas. brianna keilar is in new york this morning. behind me is the robb elementary school where 19 children and two adults are dead. children, second, third, fourth graders ages 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 years old. at this moment parents are giving dna samples to try to match with their deceased children as they await for some kind of news about what happened. this is what we know at this hour, all the new details we ve been getting in overnight, as i said, 21 people have been killed including a teacher. police say the gunman shot his grandmother who is in critical condition, then crashed his vehicle before entering this elementary school wearing body armor. the 18-year-old shooter has been identified, he attended the high school in this town, he was killed by law enforcement officers at the scene. a photo of two ar-15 style rifles appeared on an ins
inside politics. . i m john king. why did you do grief and horror land in texas? why did an 18-year-old turn gun on his grandmother before murdering, massacring children inside an elementary school? this is now the latest site of an american massacre of children. he killed 19 grade schoolers and two teachers two days before the summer break. all that death inside one classroom. cnn telling us the gunman entered the room, locked the door behind him and opened fire. other victims are in the hospital right now fighting for their lives. he attended a nearby high school. people described a tacit-turned teen with a temper. he bought weapons for his 18th birthday. you see them posting them there on a social media account just days before this horrific shooting. we know from the authorities he acted alone. families huddled inside a civic center to give dna swabs to help authorities match bodies to their parents. all the victims have now been identified. families notified, forced to
live, but first bill melugin comes to us directly from the texas border town tonight and joins us now. hey, bill. tucker, good evening to you, robb elementary school is behind us now where the mass shooting took place, and the number of fatalities associated with that shooting has gone up from 14. now confirming to fox news there are 18 deceased children at the school as well as one deceased teacher. he brings it to a total of 19, absolutely horrific news. it just got off the phone with mayor mclaughlin and told me two of the staffers just found out that they lost love ones in the school shooting. they lost children in the school shooting, and they aren t the only ones. i want you to take a listen to the interviewee just shot with a dad out here a short time ago and does not know where his 10-year-old daughter is. a student at the school who is desperately trying to find her, take a listen to what he had to say. i was at work, and my daughter was at school where there was
desperation and anguish as families are dealing with enormous emotions. 19 children at least are dead and two adults as well. good morning. dana has time off. i m bill hemmer live in new york. julie, welcome back to our program. good morning. i m julie banderas and you re watching america s newsroom. this scene a horrific scene at the robb elementary school. about 80 miles west of san antonio, officials saying the shooter barricaded himself inside a classroom. officials say the victims were all in the same fourth grade room. the rampage ending we re told after a border patrol agent rushed into the school without waiting for backup and forced entry into that classroom that killed the attacker. the massacre entering the record books as the second most deadly school shooting in u.s. history following sandy hook 10 years ago. the new york post front page echoing that horrific day in newtown, connecticut. now the focus on the latest tragedy to grip america. the victims
community, entered the school with a handgun and possibly a rifle it appears he was killed by officers who responded to the shootings. president biden addressed the nation a short time ago more on his message in a moment this comes just ten days after the mass shooting at a supermarket in buffalo in which ten people were killed. one more horrific and stunning act of gun violence in a nation so weary from it we begin with morgan chesky in texas. reporter: lester, every update that s come in today on this story has only brought more heartbreak for this tight-knit community of only about 15,000 people. tonight, a massive law enforcement presence has descended on this small town, and it is converging on robb elementary school behind me. covered up in crime scene tape as investigators scour this area for evidence and try to find what caused thi 18-year-old gunman to go inside and open fire reporter: tonight, at least 21 live have been cut short. according to the state senator