it s graduation season here. there are big photos of local graduates, on local science outside of city hall, outside of businesses. driving down main street in uvalde, texas, you wouldn t know something so terrible s happened just blocks away. two blocks away, life looks as a normally does. but something terrible did happen here. this community, this small community lost 21 of its people right here at this school, everything has changed forever, this will never be a normal spot again. this school, this town, becomes yet another name on a list that no one wants to be on. tonight, a vigil here in uvalde, texas is underway, it s paying tribute to yesterday s victims we will have much more throughout the show tonight, about the victims, the people who lost their lives. 19 children, and to teachers it s robb elementary, we re still learning the identity of some of the children who were killed. they were eight, nine, ten years old. all of them in the same fourth grade classroom, mu
that s what beto overwork said today when he provided the only unpredictable moment in the unfolding story of mass murder at a texas elementary school. the mass murder that occurred yesterday was predictable. we just could not tell you the exact location that it was going to occur or the exact day that it was going to occur. it is now predictable that a virtually identical shooting will occur again in texas and in other states. what has been said in the aftermath has also been totally predictable. but beto o rourke s crashing of the news conference by greg abbott was not predictable. beto o rourke went to that news conference in uvalde, texas to listen and then to tell greg abbott and other republican elected officials on the stage, quote, this is on you. the shooting right now when you are doing nothing. no! this is totally predictable. sir, you are out of line! sir, you are out of line! sir, you are out of line. please leave this auditorium. [inaudible] i can t be
my hands and knees and begged my colleagues, find a path forward, here. by doing something, we at least stop sending this quiet message of endorsement, to these killers whose brains are breaking, who see the highest levels of government doing nothing. shooting after shooting, what are we doing? why are we here? what are we doing? i yield the floor. with us tonight, connecticut senator chris murphy. senator, i turn that question to you. it has been 24 hours, what are we doing? i was presiding over the senate last night or yesterday afternoon, when i look down at my phone and saw that another sandy hook had happened, 19 kids in texas. i went straight to my desk, and that was the question that i kept on asking myself. it was the question that i spontaneously asked my colleagues. what are we doing? why are we here? why do you care so much about being a united states senator, if in the face of this evil and carnage, with all these parents who are just so frightened for their k
two blocks away, life looks as it normally does. but something terrible did happen here. this community, this small community lost 21 of its people right here at this school, everything has changed forever, this will never be a normal spot again. this school, this town, becomes yet another name on a list that no one wants to be on. tonight, a vigil here in uvalde, texas is underway, it s paying tribute to yesterday s victims we will have much more throughout the show tonight, about the victims, the people who lost their lives. 19 children, and two teachers at robb elementary, we re still learning the identity of some of the children who were killed. they were eight, nine, ten years old. all of them in the same fourth grade classroom, murdered with their teachers. let me bring you up to speed with what we know at this point about how this massacre unfolded, as well as some of the things that we don t yet now. this is the series of events laid out for us by texas law enforcemen
school. while there is an overwhelming sense of sorrow, there is a hunger for answers. there are new questions this morning as investigators piece together what happened. centering on the timeline of events. the texas department of public safety says the suspect was on the premises for about 40 minutes. a school resource officer, they say, confronted him, but the suspect kept going, entered the school, walked into a double classroom, locked the door, and began shooting. video has emerged appearing to show desperate parents outside the school. some appearing frustrated with law enforcement. we should note this it s unclear at the time, precisely at what point this video occurred as well as what actions law enforcement was taking at the moment. the ap reports one parent whose daughter was killed, said he was upset police weren t moving more quickly. he has confirmed that sentiment to nbc news. and that he made that statement. nbc news has reached out to the texas department o