russian oil import. plus, a history making hurricane agatha slams into mexico as a category two storm. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. thank you for being with us. today marks one week since 21 innocent lives were cut short by a gunman who opened fire inside an elementary school in uvalde, texas. the first funeral will be held in the devastated community one day after grieving families gathered for visitations. more visitations and funerals are planned in the week ahead. 19 students and two teachers killed in the horrific shooting. ? the unimaginable heartbreak and grieving now mixed with growing anger as new details continue to emerge. lucy kavanof has more. reporter: a chaotic scene as police rushed to evacuate children. dispatch audio were aware that kids were still trapped inside. i am here. he s in a room. more devastating details from officials of at least two children calling 911 multiple times, pleading for help as the gunman
do something. president biden responding to the shouts of do something with quote, we will, we will. of course, we are covering all the angles, lucy cavanaugh is focusing on a country seeking answers. let s begin with you, lucy, at that memorial, uvalde s town square so many families are suffering with trauma and heart break. how did the community respond to the president and governor? reporter: well, the focus, people la, is really on the victims, the 19 little boys and girls who lost their lives alongside the two teachers. you mentioned the word trauma. i have been thinking about these concentric circles of trauma that get formed in the aftermath of a mass shooting like this. not just for the victims and their families. for the community as well. we have seen people streaming in all day in the 100 degree heat to pay respect to those who lost their lives. also on the unsung heroes. the first responders, trauma nurses and doctors who are tasked with keeping the drivers
happened here on tuesday, and i m here at a makeshift memorial in the town square in view yauld. it has just been teaming with people coming to pay their respects. people coming from all over texas, really, all over the country, to give gifts i saw a woman who was a teacher who brought a cart full of stuffed animals for the families coming to pay their respects to lay at each individual cross that was put here for each individual person murdered, and that is 21 people. 19 children, of course, and two teachers. and president biden is here as we speak in uvalde. he is playing his all-too familiar role, comforting families following an unspeakable tragedy. they visited the memorial site at robb elementary school before heading to a mass service. they re going to spend the afternoon meeting with families and first responders. it s a solemn task made even more difficult by what appear to be some serious failures of law enforcement and its response to tuesday s mass shooting. the
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some of the doctors and nurses say respondsing to these kinds of mass shootings is taking a personal toll. i thought back to when i was 10-year-old, my family immigrated to this country and my giggest chbiggest challenge g how to speak english. you can t imagine what these children are going through. it is really unfair. it is really unfair. crystal flores recalled the agonizing weight for patients and the realization it was too much. i wish they were able toll get to them quicker, soon. she teared up when thinking about her little one. there is a lot o crying that day. nurse davis says she keeps on