weeks to the day of the massacre of rob elementary school murder of 19 children and two teachers learning tonight the police chief daniel rodriguez was on vacation during the mass shooting . when this initially took down, the chief wasn t in town. he canceled vacation and flew back the next day. reporter: who was in charge of the police department at the time. he had assistant chief, i ll have to find out who that s uvalde s mayor there also calling for transparency, owing to the victim s families. after two americans, including actor mcconaheigh who grew up in uvalde, he honored the viktds and spoke forcefully for reforms. we also met anna and danila, the mom and step dad of nine-year-old maite, now maite wanted to be a marine biologist, already in contact with corpus christi university for future college enrollment. nine years old. maite cared for the environment so strongly, when the city asked her mother if they could release balloons into the sky for her memo
that what it is? i would say that they re concerned. they just, they re hearing that these politicians want to come and take their guns, it s not just small steps. they re talking about, you know, levels of possible confiscation, take our ar-15s and guns so they are concerned. when if comes to an ar-15, michael falone, well-known refired officer now, he wrote about this style of weapon this week saying in his experience, his experience tells him that ar-15s should not be in the hands of average citizens. let me read for you what he said. he said that some gun buyer have been misled thinking the ar-15 is somehow practical for self-defense, but frankly, it s the last gun that i would recommend for that purpose. the power and accuracy are