day. the district police chief made the decision to hold officers back from the robb elementary classroom. the shooter locked himself inside. now we know those officers waited for nearly 80 minutes. it was a terrifying nearly hour and a half for the entire school. here is what one teacher told her students to do when she heard the gunfire. she spoke with our ore morgan chesky. i just kept hearing boom, boom, boom. it kept going off for what felt like an eternity. reporter: as the gunman walked towards her school, nicole shouted for her kids to hit the floor seconds before glass shattered her classroom. i had one student laying on top of me, and i had a bunch of other students right over here by me. i just remember praying, please, god, please, god, keep us safe. reporter: she and her students managed to get to safety. when she learned as many as 19 officers waited 47 minutes before engaging the gunman, she said this where do you believe blame should lie? on the pe
mourning, beset by grief after the massacre that left 19 children and 2 teachers dead at an elementary school. amid the devastation we re also seeing an outpouring of support for the community. on saturday, you see them there, a long line of mourners waited to lay flowers at a memorial site that was set up outside the robb elementary school. 21 empty chairs placed outside a local business. one, of course, for each life lost during tuesday s deadly rampage. as the community and the nation reel from yet another mass shooting, outrage is growing over why a group of law enforcement officers waited so long to rush the gunman. cnn s adrienne broaddus is in uvalde with the latest. reporter: we have seen a mix of emotions. anger, frustration, and disappointment after that 911 call timeline became more clear. but folks have wrapped their arms around the folks of uvalde and its community. i ve seen lines like this. if you take a look, folks waiting to purchase concert tickets or rece
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
texas. they will make a visitor robb elementary school, paying the respects of course to the elementary school, the memorial has been built up around that school there. they ll then move on to sacred heart. and a ten mass for an hour long service there. paying their respects to the community. and then it is the task that a president takes on every single time a mass shooting like this happens. and it is visiting with the victims and the victims families. paying their respects. this president knows all too well what it was like to lose a child as he did so many years ago. and quite recently as well. and i m sure he ll lend what he has learned in that moment to these families. but nothing can provide solace in the comfort that these families need right now. because all they want to survey these back in their arms. that s nothing this president could ever provide for them. he ll also be meeting with first responders as well. we re going to be tracking the location of the preside
yes, i was misled. tonight, what we know about the police failure, and the policy failure that allowed mass murder in a texas school. plus, pandering and a protest at the air on a convention in houston, and with you and i can do to break this uniquely american ritual of violence. all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. today, wayne lapierre, head of the national rifle association, hosted a number of republican politicians, including the ex president, at his organization s annual conference in houston. just days after 19 elementary school children and teachers were slaughtered by a gunman, a few hundred miles away. now, all of the speakers at today s conference acknowledged the shooting, and really, how could they not? and all of them blamed it on everything but the ar-15 style rifle that the gunman bought as soon as he was legally able to when he turned 18. this is standard. i mean, this is the script. we know how this goes. for nra and