reporting on what authorities now say happened at the robb elementary school. they re saying what they knew about survivors were still inside as they waited and waited and waited for orders to storm the classroom with an active shooter and wounded children still inside. 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. we are now less than two hours away from the first televised select hearing on january 6th. proceedings like this don t come along very often. the incident that sparked these particular hearings has never happened before in this country s history and we don t yet know what their impact will be. we do know that some of what we will see and hear and learn tonight and in sessions to come will be for the very first time. in a moment i ll talk to committee member adam schiff, but first, cnn s ryan nobles on the committee s work so far. it has been just over 17 months since rioters vio
proposals and the package that the house passed last night, but i do want to offer some caution here because despite the optim optimism surrounding some bipartisan talks and specifically they re concerned with the red flag laws and whether they have enough due process in them. so still some work to be done and still some differences to be ironed out. melanie zanona on capitol hill, thank you. up next, some of the january 6th committee chairman bennie to tompson s opening statement will include. we ve just gotten details and they ve just been released and we ll tell you what he plans to say. also, the search for answers to the mystery of who placed pipe bombs found outside democratic and republican party headquarters here in washington just before the insurrection. stay with us. you re in the situation room.