hallway, doing nothing pretty could hear the sounds of the teachers and students being shot. so in the most powerful telescope ever made showing the distant galaxies. we will show you the picture of a real star being born. that s all coming up. good evening, i am erin burnett. accusations of potential witness tampering. congresswomen, liz cheney, accusing president donald trump of trying to contact an unidentified january 6th committee witness in recent days. after our last hearing, president trump tried to call a witness in our investigation. a witness you have not yet seen in these hearings. that person declined to answer or respond to president trump s call. instead, alerted their lawyer to the call. their lawyer alerted us. this committee has supplied the information to the department of justice. that is a serious point to make. obviously, she s making a serious obligation. the justice department does have the power to prosecute if they see the former president tamp
15,000 people and so many of the people we talked to have connections to the victims. tess maria mata was 10 years old, she was saving every dollar hoping to go to disney world. nevaeh bravo also 10 has been remembered as a young girl who put a smile on everyone s face. these are the stories that you will hear this morning. a fourth grade teacher who sacrificed herself protecting the children, a grieving father who found out his daughter died trying to save her classmates. we have learned that by tonight all of the victims their bodies will be released to funeral homes for arrangements. and some new reporting this morning about the excruciating moments outside of the school during the shooting. one parent telling the washington post, quote, there were five or six of us fathers hearing the gunshots and police officers were telling us to move back. we didn t care about us, we wanted to storm the building. we were saying let s go because that is how worried we were and we wa
hold up for you, says cities soul crushed. i think that perfectly describes the feeling here in uvalde this morning. behind me is the elementary the school. overnight, a series of crosses were put out, one for each of the 21 victims, the 19 children and the two teachers that were killed here. this small community of 15,000 people is coming together, united in grief for what happened here. about 1000 people attended a vigil for the victims last night. a solo violinist closed with a rare rendition of amazing grace. the music punctuated by the anguish of those who were there. almost everyone at that vigil, it feels like everyone in this town has some connection to the victims. including ten-year-old tests marie mata, who loved tiktok dance is, and ariana grande a. they just received the honor rolled and received a good citizen award. we are just learning about how the mask or unfolded. there are questions about how the timeline and how long it took for law enforcement to step in
wounded. today would have been the last day of the school year. instead of making plans for vacations, camps and cookouts, these families, right there you see them, are making funeral arrangements. grief is immeasurable. listen here to angel and how he learned his little girl was gone. she was just trying to do the right thing. she was just trying to call the cops. she was so scared of just strangers and things like this. she would lock the door when i would step out to put gas in the car. like, she this is literally like her worst fear. and she was just trying to help everyone. one little girl is covered in blood head to toe, like, i thought she was injured. i asked her what was wrong. and she said she s okay. she was hysterical saying they killed her best friend and she s not breathing and she was trying to call the cops. i asked the little girl the name, and she and she told me she said amerie. unthinkable the pain there. unthink able the pain. let s get to the sce
it is just appalling. everything that has happened here. these parents ever to reach out to me and they are very disturbed. seen it as you point out, disturbed by what they are seeing and how it s presented. by the timing, by what they were told to be true. it was not true. senator, the shooter walks into the school unimpeded. that is what we see on the tape. police officers come in behind him, three minutes later. then, we see the waiting and waiting and waiting. they do not rush into the classroom. more than an hour goes by. it is stunning. i understand that we have heard the timeline. to see it and to hear it, somehow it is just unbelievable. erin, what is most horrific about this video, you hear the firepower from that machine gun.