covid concerns on memorial day in the usa. why case counts are at least f five times higher? should we expect a summer surge? we ll take a look. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. thank you for joining us. for the second time, u.s. president biden and the first lady mourned alongside grieving and devastated families who lost their loved ones in a mass shooting in a texas town of uvalde. the bidens laid flowers outside robb elementary school where 19 students and two teachers were killed last week. mr. biden and the first lady also attended mass where jill biden could be seen reaching out and touching the hands of several people as they walk out the isle. outside the church, some gathered, urged the president to do something to which he responded, we will, take a listen . cnn is following development and has more now from uvalde. president biden spent about seven hours on the ground here in uvalde, texas, on sunday trying to offer some s
hello and welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. live from cnn world headquarters in atlanta, i m john vause, and this is cnn newsroom. texas officials are facing a growing number of questions as well as increasing criticism of law enforcement s response to the mass shooting at robb elementary. for two days now, the official count has been inconsistent, contradictory, and outright confusing at times with some major changes to some important details. did police exchange gunfire with the shooter as he entered the school? on tuesday and wednesday, the answer was yes. by thursday, no. the shooter was never confronted by a school resource officer or anyone for that matter. it just never happened. authorities say it took up to an hour before the gunman was killed, and during that time, police were calling for backup and evacuating students and teachers from other parts of the school, negotiating with the suspect himself, pinning him down in a classroo
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
the kids who lived and died there, the distraught parents and community trying to rally around them. a lot we haven t learned yet, maybe we never will about motive behind this senseless killing and the police response and time line of what happened in small town on awards day at the end of the school year. all those families that will never be the same again. she was the sweetest little girl who did nothing wrong. she listened to her mom and dad. she always brushed her teeth. she was creative. she made things for us. she never got in trouble in school. i just want to know what she did to be a victim. that s one of the interviews i mentioned to anderson. it s heartbreaking. a small town that will never be able to forget what happened. ever. there s so many unanswered questions tonight but we re learn more about the 18-year-old shooter and what happened yesterday morning an exclusive details about chilling warnings minutes before shooting started. the gunman texting with a te
communication in our drills to be able to communicate in classrooms administrators and key personnel use radios that allow us to communicate so these are all parts of those procedures. i d add to that in a lockdown procedure that even those doors that lead to the interior of campus are locked at that moment. so the intention is to not only lock students and staff inside of classrooms, but to lockout anyone that is attempting to enter the building that is unauthorized. based on the lockdown procedures, should there have been an announcement over the intercom that went through the entire building saying there is a threat, there is a shooter in the build something. again since i am not there, i hesitate to speculate on the procedures that are currently used by uvalde. i can share with you that on the campus that i am currently the principal of, that s precisely what we do. we use the p.a. system as the primary means to initiate a lockdown. when you were in there, last ques