i trust we ll have you back soon. thanks for being here. we are at the top of the hour now. it is 9:00 here on the east coast. 8:00 in uvalde, texas. let s get to several major discrepancies. let s go to morgan who is on the ground in uvalde. morgan? reporter: another tough morning here in uvalde as authorities are shifting what happened and when here inside robb elementary school. this is coming after we heard from parents who were just outside the school saying police were not acting fast enough when those gun shots rang out inside. now as authorities try to provide some clarity with answers, there are only new questions rising about why they didn t engage that gunman fast enough. this morning, growing confusion and outrage about why it took so long to take out that lone gunman. our job is to report the facts and have those answers. we re not there yet. reporter: police now say it took over an hour from the first 911 call to stop the massacre. in that time, 19 child
So theres no training behind this. Theres no standard attack in any of this. So, actually, we can see it going any way. But i think the i think the longer it goes on without violence the more likely there wont be any. Welcome back, everybody. Im john vause at the cnn center. Im natalie allen. Thank you for joining us. Weve been here several hours with this breaking news out of australia. And we will continue to bring you the latest now. And wed like to welcome our viewers in the United States and all around the world. Wed like to give you the update now. A gunman is Still Holding an unknown number of people at a lindt coffee shop in sydneys Main Business district. Sky News Australia reports that the Hostage Taker, seen here, is calling himself the brother. He has forced hostages to speak with three Media Outlets over the phone. He apparently has two demands. He wants an isis flag. He also wants a conversation with australias Prime Minister. We also have video of five hostages who manag
Here is Rudy Giuliani, President Trumps attorney in an interview this morning. We know of Something Like 183 unique conversations. That are on tape. One involving the president. There are 12 others, maybe 11 or 12 others out of 183 in which the president is discussed at any length by cohen, mostly with reporters. All clearly corroborating what the president has said in detail on many of those tweets. He didnt know about the payments to either one. He only found out later. Cohen made them not for the kpa campaign. Alex Witt hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Hes been saying that for a few days. Hes been backtracking from Last Night On Whether The Cohen Tape was doctored. There is way to define this strategy from Rudy Giuliani or does it make sense to you. How can anybody know the truth here. I think its baffling. A lot of observers have expressed concern over the strategy. Jay has gone on the record saying ta Rudy Giuliani is doing the preside
him. they were outgunned, had to fall back. but my goodness. to wait an hour and seven minutes, any parent standing outside that school has to wonder if their child might be alive today had it not taken so long. of course they do. and this is compounded by the videos that we re seeing of parents begging police to go in. and the accounts we re hearing about that. you know, as i ve been thinking about this and working through it, it strikes me that it is their job to rush in, but it s also a really unfair situation we put patrol officers in. that they are having to rush into, armed with handguns, they re having to confront a shooter with a high powered assault rifle. a weapon of war. where the rounds are designed to devastate the human body. that s the position we ve put police in throughout the country. we expect them to be heroes. rush into the gunfire. systemically, it doesn t seem like it makes sense. this happened in the parkland
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