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
motivation, what was his connection to the school. i say his. i m assuming it s a male we re talking about. they ll go back first and speak to friends, relatives, family members, people who knew him in whatever school he s attended. they ll go back and look very closely at any sort of social media presence that the shooter maintained, whether he posted any statements about his intents, about his purpose and his motivation, and even if not about those things specifically, they ll try to come up with some sort of a character sketch, if you will, as to what was in this person s mind in the days and weeks leading up to this. they ll look at his browsing history, his contacts on email, text, social media, on his telephone if in fact he had one, which he probably does. so it is a massive effort to try to paint as rich a picture as you possibly can of this likely deeply disturbed person who committed a horrific act. it s important for us as a society to understand more and more abou
mourning with them. 15 lives taken. so many more lives, so many families shattered forever. we ll have extensive live reporting and perspective on perhaps the saddest fact of modern american life. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. we begin sadly with yet another mass shooting here in the united states, this time at robb elementary school, elementary school, in uvalde, texas. cnn s ed lavandera is in dallas. he s got the latest information for us. what are authorities, ed, saying about how this happened? what s the latest information we have? reporter: wolf, a horrific day in uvalde, texas. and across this country as once again we are reeling from this horrific news as the governor of texas announced just a short while ago 14 of the 15 victims shot at robb elementary school in uvalde, texas today why children. the top security officer for
Parents had been living here in the United States as permanent residents with green cards. Congratulations to the family on this very important day, new u. S. Citizens for the parents of the first lady. Thats it for me. Thanks for watching. Ill be in the situation room, amanpour is next. Newsroom with brook baldwin starts right now. All right, wolf, thank you so much. High, everyone, im brook baldwin, youre watching cnn on this thursday, count with me, 889 days until election day, get ready for a showdown, not only at the polls, but with special counsel robert mueller. Rudy giuliani is the one setting up the stakes here negotiating if the president will do an interview with mueller. And giuliani on both sides of
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