classroom. parents sharing stories about the wonderful young children they loved and lost. and the heartbreak that will last forever. our correspondents are covering every angle of this story, including cnn teams on the scene in texas. 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. tonight, investigators are starting to put together the pieces of america s newest shooting massacre. the epidemic of gun violence invading yet another school and claiming 21 more innocent lives, most of them young kids. cnn national correspondent jason carroll begins our coverage at the scene of the attack in texas. jason, state officials revealed new details of how this horrible rampage played out. and wolf, just a day after the shooting, the gravity of what s happened here has begun to sink in even more with this community. the governor here is saying that as far as they can tell so far, the suspect, the shoo
known lies for assault on texas. or really, pry nation. police say an 18 year old gunman overlaying tuesday morning and said that, and in texas. at least 19 children died. the victims was a very morales. she s been a teacher for 17 years. and according to the new york times, she was brutally murdered was trying to protect doses. president biden ordered flags on the white house and over public buildings lortabs of. and several hours ago, he spoke to the nation about every mask. i hoped that whatever can president, i will not have to do this again. another massacre, and uvalde, texas. an elementary school. beautiful, innocent, second, third, fourth graders. and how many scores of children who witnessed what happened. as a nation of, task one and doesn t they are gonna stand up to the gun lobby? not yet, obviously. our coverage becomes the sorrow and the senior correspondent lexus never guaranteed, was the latest? we spoke to our-able. yeah, the senior continues in almost
describe what happened here. what the effects to this community is. how do we speak about evil personified? again, i will try. over the next two hours, we will try to explain to you what happened here. how devastated this community really is. it is 70 miles to the mexican border, with agricultural fields, ranches, do thing the landscape. it is known as an extremely tight knit community. 80% of the people who live here are latino, many dating back generations, at robb elementary, the 18-year-old suspect, shot his grandmother before driving here. he used an ar style rifle. police were unable to bring down the shooter, wearing a tacical style vest. there were video cameras in the school. video cameras, investigators are trying to access this morning. texas tribune quote inside the civic center, law enforcement, crisis counselors awaited parents swarming about. officials took dna samples, used to confirm whether or not their child had died in the shooting. family members of the p
heard them? charlie? charlie is charlie can t hear, so we re going to move on. mayor, let me ask you this question, then, because you can t forget that georgia was ground zero to the former president s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. the man he tried to pursue to try to find more votes on that infamous phone call is secretary of state brad raffensperger, running against jody hice. hice has repeated false claims about the 2020 election. so the big lie is on the ballot in this race for sure, no? yes, and i have long believed that donald trump does not make winners. he goes with winners. so he doesn t have some magic wand that he can just anoint someone a winner, and he has not made good choices in georgia. it s going to be interesting to see. we know what s happening with perdue. the polling is showing that he is down by a lot, so people are expecting that kemp may win tomorrow without having to go into a runoff, win the primary tomorrow. the secretary of state s rac
lies. trump endorsed kemp rival, david perdue and headlined a telerally for him yesterday on the same day that former vice president mike pence stumped with kemp in georgia. when you say yes to governor brian kemp tomorrow, you will send a deafening message all across america that the republican party is the party of the future. david is the only candidate who can beat stacey abrams because i don t believe kemp can do it. he s got too many people in the republican party that will refuse to vote. they re not going to go out after what they did to two senators and to a presidential election. let s go to atlanta now. eva mckend is there. former senator david perdue is facing controversy over comments he made, not about brian kemp but the democrat to beat in this race, stacey abrams. reporter: that s right, victor, the race has been much quieter on the democratic side because stacey abrams is running unopposed but on the minds of republicans, including david perdue taking