square is growing by the day. the mayor says the city is, quote, broken. 19 fourth graders and their teachers had just days left in the school year when an 18-year-old entered robb elementary tuesday with a legally-purchased assault rifle. now families are planning funerals instead of summer vacations. texas rangers still looking for a motive as the community s anger grows to the police response inside that school. arthel: live in uvalde with the scene there for us on the ground. jeff? reporter: yeah, arthel, two weeks ago the president traveled to buffalo, now he s here in uvalde, texas, to try to comfort a community that is just in the beginning stages of mourning the loss of 19 kids and 2 the teachers. the president first landed in san antonio, texas, now he s on his flight to uvalde if not already here, making his way to robb elementary school where he s going to pay his respects to the victims of this horrific shooting. from there he ll attend a mass at the local cat
texas with the latest. hello jeff. mike, present joe biden first lady joe biden are doing something many people this community and probably throughout this country are doing today. especially given what just happened a few days ago. they are going to church, they re going to mass as they pray. and trying to make sense of an unthinkable thing that happened. they are greeted by governor greg abbott is a bipartisan group of politicians. went over too robb elementary school where they paid their respects at the memorial site there for the people who died just a few days ago. he, along with first lady joe biden paid their respects and laid a wreath there. there joined by governor greg abbott as well as the mayor of uvalde, texas but we were told their protesters calling for governor abbott to take action on some sort of legislation that might help prevent future tragedies like this from occurring. once a church is over that is when president biden first lady are scheduled to spe
the mass shooting at robb elementary school earlier this afternoon. this comes as a justice department announces it will conduct an independent review of the law enforcement response to the shooting with the d.o.j. says the mayor of uvalde requested that review after we learned police waited nearly an hour to storm the classroom where the shooter was holed up despite multiple 911 calls from the children still trapped inside. arthel: let s go live to uvalde, texas and our jeff paul is standing by, jeff. arthel what would normally be a day full of excitement that comes along the presidential visit is instead full of sadness as people continue to come here to the city center to pay their respects to the 19 students in two teachers who died. first lady jill biden and president joe biden are now trying to do their best to help this community that continues to grieve. now after landing in san antonio the first family made their way to uvalde their first stop was at robb elementar
for the victims of the deadly mass shooting at robb elementary school. they also met with families as well as community and faith leaders. in the meantime the u.s. justice department announces it will conduct an independent review of the law enforcement response to the shooting. the d.o.j. says that review comes at the request of you alls mayor. jeff has the latest there. in this community, there very much in the beginning stages of grieving. they have come to terms with the unthinkable loss, that is a big reason why president joe biden first lady jill biden are here to comfort the city that just lost 19 kids into teachers. the president make his first stop at robb elementary school, that is the scene of the mass shooting, they were joined by a bipartisan group of politicians. that included texas governor greg abbott and uvalde s mayor. some protesters shouted at greg abbott to do something with legislation that might prevent a tragedy from occurring again. the motorcade ma
with the state s top law-enforcement official cult that delay quote the wrong decision. meantime present biden first lady jill biden will visit the devastated community tomorrow to console families and mourn the victims. jeff paul is live in uvalde with more. days of sadness now turning into anger for this community after law enforcement is admitting mistakes were made. one of those being the local on-site incident commander who was in charge at the time change the response from a mass shooting to a man who is barricaded inside the classroom for it as a result you had up to 19 officers for several minutes up to 45 minutes and beyond standing in the hallway trying to figure out a way to get into the classroom. authorities believe as the clock was ticking children were inside the school is that shooting was unfolding calling 911 their begging operators to police and police send police now. eventually border patrol agents showed up and got a master key to open up a classroom d