not sure it s going to happen. until the redemptive power of the love of all of our children is greater than the destructive power of the love of our guns and money, and power, until that redemptive love of our children turns into action, then nothing is going to change. this can be different. because i think that we have to make it different. and so we cannot give into this feeling that nothing can be done. that works in favor of the status quo that allows our children to live under this threat. we cannot live under this, we have to organize. what will be done, i m not going to be getting into that over the next hour or so, but i want to start here in uvalde, where i have liz with us. she is just across the way in the town square, in front of the memorial that has been built over the last few days. and nbc s victoria, in front of rob elementary with me. that let me start with you, this has been a story that has not been covered as much because we ve been overtaken by t
speak louder than words can that on tuesday at rob elementary school in uvalde texas, this first priority for every single law enforcement officer in the state did not come first. the awful truth which was confirmed today is that police officers waited to storm a classroom while children were hiding inside and calling 911 for help that would not come. for as long as an hour. now we often here police officers talk about split second decisions. this time, the decision to go into a classroom and confront the shooter took 3,600 of those seconds. a full hour. a bit of hindsight from where i m sitting now, of course it s not a right decision. it was a wrong decision. very. no excuse for that. but again, i wasn t there. i m just telling you from what we know, we believe there should have been an entry there as soon as you can. that s steven mcgraw, director of the texas department public safety with the bottom line, different from what we ve been hearing all week long, different
want answers. i was misled. i am livid about what happened. reporter: texas governor greg abbott aiming his ire at law enforcement. my expectation is that the law enforcement leaders that are leading the investigations, which includes the texas rangers and the fbi, they get to the bottom of every fact with absolute certainty. reporter: after damning new admissions from texas authorities. it was the wrong decision. period. reporter: the incident commander making the decision not to immediately enter the classroom the gunman was in. a decision was made that this was a barricaded subject situation, there was time to retrieve the keys and wait for a tactical team with the equipment to go ahead and breach the door and take on the subject at that point. reporter: officials explained how the shooter got into the school. where we knew the shooter entered, ramos, was propped open by a teacher. reporter: investigators clarifying the timeline as police arrived. the
buenos dias, good morning, and welcome to your new day. it is saturday, may 28th. i m boris sanchez live in uvalde, texas. and i m christi paul, boris, i look at what s behind you and i cannot imagine the atmosphere there in uvalde, and i feel like, i think a lot of people i talk to feel like the more information we get the more disturbed we are. reporter: that s right, christi, the anguish in this community has been exacerbated by the discrepancies that we ve gotten from law enforcement, different angles of different stories and ultimately learning that mistakes were made in the law enforcement response here, and this morning we are learning new heart wrenching, minute by minute details of the tragedy that unfolded at robb elementary school with 21 dead, two te teachers and 19 children, most of them no older than 10. investigators admitting that officers made mistakes including that delay. they waited to confront the gunman who opened fire inside a fourth grade classroom
911 call and the moment that shooter was killed. cnn s shimon prokupecz pushed for straight answers during a press conference on friday. reporter: you say there were 19 officers gathered in the hallway or somewhere. what efforts were made to try and break through that door you say was locked? what efforts were the officers making to try and break through either that door or another door, to get inside that classroom? none at that time. reporter: why? the on-scene commander at the time believed it had transitioned from an active shooter to a barricaded subject. reporter: you have people who are alive, children who are calling 911 saying, please send the police. they are alive in that classroom. there are lives that are at risk. that s not protocol, is it? we re well aware that. reporter: right. why was this decision made not to go in and rescue these children? again, the on-scene commander considered a barricaded subject and that there was time and there were n