sean, i can t even begin to express what an enormous loss this community has suffered here today and here at this vigil at the fair play here in valge county and the families that came here to honor the 19 children that died came here. they said a broken heart with just a need to be together in a time off mourning. you can see everybody leaving right now. we ve got t a lot of crowd behid us . but i got to tell you, sean, earlier today it didn t matter where i went in this town. people were hugging each other. they were saying, youay know,ha i knew a childt that went toad that school and it made sense. this is a population just over 16000 people. so everybody knew somebodyne everybody was connected to somebody i did know somebody in this town. i knew i knew a family here that i lived only about maybe a an hour and 40 minutes from uvalda here in texas and the family was shocked and stunned to discover that a number of people on their daughter s softball team had been killed in
mr. mayor, i know you had your vigil tonight and i know it s been a very emotional, you know, tumultuous, you know. 48 hours. twenty four hours for the people in your city. what what what are the plansth for the days to come? doe? you know yet? we don t know our biggestre and foremost is to make surear these families are cared fored their needs are met whatever they need. you know, like i said, you k know, thank god we did have the state here because we didn t have the resources to it. with we ve had to deal with what they brought into our community has been justas unbelievable. and the outpouring ofev loveur that we ve got from allinot over the country and thete support that we ve gotten, you know, in the next couple of days we re going to continue to grieve. but we reo also a strong community. you know, when one man asked me, they said we ll be stuck with the stigma for the rest thf our lives. in the valley is a place whereot school shooting was know that may be true, but we re not g