lives? reporter: ryan, in the report it does mention a few lines about why officer waited. it states they were waiting for the keys. they were waiting for more equipment. but let me take you through it because there are very telling details we did not know before reading this report. according to this report chief pete arredondo actually wrote the active shooter policy. he wrote in himself as the incident commander but, according to this report, he didn t take on that role on that ill-fated day. it says that he not only didn t take the role, he didn t transfer command of the scene to any other officer which, according to this report, could have been done in this case in this jurisdiction. now the report is much broader than this. it does not just point the finger at arredondo. it also says that there were hundreds of police officers who responded to the scene, and it points out those trained police officers then did not question that command. they didn t question that there
by the austin american statesman and [inaudible] ahead of the report. the graphic footage was edited into shorter clips with some audio removed. it shows police response that day or lack thereof which critics have slammed since its release. the new report reveals there were actually nearly 400 officers who all responded that fatal day from federal, state, and local agencies. about 90 of them were state police. nearly 150 border patrol were there. about two dozen uvalde city police officers and more than a dozen sheriff s deputies and five school district police officers. this was unprecedented for so many reasons. the number of law enforcement that arrive on that day and that police chief that made a fatal decision not to send them in. the police chief square one right there. the question is, should the law enforcement officers known better to storm the building and ignore their chief? the answer is yes. ever since columbine, we don t wait. i want to be clear to the america
do you think it s going to happen again? miah was one of several witnesses who gave heartbreaking and really disturbing testimony at the hearing about america s epidemic of gun violence. mass shootings are on pace to hit record levels this year. the parents of lexi rubio, who was killed at robb elementary we want as they implored lawmakers to change the country s gun laws. we don t want you to think of lexi as just a number. she was intelligent, compassionate, athletic. she was quiet, shy unless she had a point to make. if she knew she was right, as she so often was, she was firm, direct, voice unwavering. so today we stand for lexi and as her voice we demand action. we seek a ban on assault rifles and high capacity magazines. we understand that for some reason to some people, to people with money, to people who fund political campaigns that guns are more important than children. somewhere out there there s a mom listening to our testimony thinking i can t even imagine
to purchase to 21 years old. but the simple facts, once again, are this, those measures have no realistic chance of passages in the senate. republicans aren t even talking about gun restrictions. they are once again blaming mental illness for the nation s gun crisis. we have crunched those numbers before on this broadcast and that claim does not stand up. some states are, though, not waiting for congress to act. new york state lawmakers just passed several bills including one that raises the minimum age to buy a semiautomatic rifle to 21. we will have more on those state measures in just a moment. first, let s look at the national or what remains of it. with us political anchor for spectrum news and you decide podcast. john, i want to be honest with our viewers because we will report on measures that pass of a democratic controlled house but don t have the votes to pass the senate and become law. what is the reality of the effort? wl what is still alive and might still ge
state is going to be hit by an economic hurricane. out front tonight, the breaking news, the mayor revolving releasing new details about the texas school massacre, there was a negotiator trying to reach the gunmen on the shown in the crucial next piece of information he shared with the post is that he doesn t believe the negotiator knew that there were children alive, calling 911 while the negotiator was trying to reach the gun man, but failed to do so according to the mayor. we learned those children called again and again, as 19 police officers were inside their school, outside the classroom choosing not to go in. tonight the police chief and incident commander in charge of the response team told us that he s not dodging investigators. i have been on the phone with him every day. they are saying you are not cooperating. just so you know, we have been talking every day. what is your reaction, sir? reporter: as we reported yesterday, the texas department of public s