still chief among the questions out there and why is the police department now backtracking on some of their basic findings? officials are going to be holding a briefing in texas in the next hour. let s begin though at this hour with cnn s rosa flores live in uvalde. rosa, what are you hearing from some of these children who managed to survive? reporter: well, kate, we are hearing about those intense moments when the shooter was inside the classroom, those intense moments when children were trying to do everything they could to survive. they describe the gunfire at first. they thought it was fireworks. you mentioned a little girl who covered herself in blood and played dead to try to survive, to make sure that she could do what she could do at that point in time to survive this terrible tragedy. but here they are, children describing what they lived through in their own words. take a listen. it was very terrifying. that didn t stop one of my friends getting hurt. i got
exchange with the regional director from dps. can you explain to us how he was barricaded and why you guys cannot breach that door? so, i have taken all your questions in consideration. we will be doing updates. no, now you should be able to answer that question now. what is your name? shimon prokupecz from cnn. i hear you. we ve been given a lot of bad information. why not clear all this up now and explain to us how it is your officers were in there for an hour, yes, rescuing people, but yet no one was able to get inside that room. shimon, we will circle back with you. reporter: and the man was going to take the podium here in just an hour is one of those officials who gave us bad information the other day in a press conference with the governor. he said that there was a resource school officer on scene. that turned out not to be the case. hopefully we ll get an explanation from him on that and obviously that one hour. what was going on inside the