level. the texas department of public safety director told one child that a or nine students were still alive. audio from the unconfirmed source revealing that at some point law enforcement was aware that kids were inside the classroom. advising he is in a room full of victims. at one point to people not use common sense here, listen to 9-1-1 calls that are coming in, understand that kids are still alive inside and know that they have to go in, there do their jobs under the active shooter protocol. one teacher, who escaped the shooting, says that she wants the blame to focus on the gunman. i just hate that we have to look for blame to somebody else besides the person that actually did this to us. but the families are now left with more questions than answers, as they focus on the lives that are lost. she s not trusting another victim, she is a hero.
know they have to go in there and do their jobs under the active shooter protocol. one teacher who escaped the shooting said she wants the blame to be on the gunman. i hate that we have to look for blame to someone outside the person who did this to us. the families are left with more questions than answers. she isn t just another victim. she s a hero that ten years wasn t enough. and, omar, i understand you re getting new information about the uvalde school district police chief. what can you tell us about that? reporter: i learned from the mayor s office a little easier this evening that school district police chie f pete
talk about obviously the phone call and the message that parents were getting, this decision by the police commander on scene to treat this as a barricade situation, can you just talk to us about that at first. should this ever have been in any world a situation where he says, this has now transitioned, short of neutralizing the suspect, this has now transitioned from an active shooter situation to a barricaded shooter situation? i mean, that s not the training that i m familiar with. active shooter protocol is very clear in that the active shooter threat classification remains as such until that threat is neutralized. there is no transitioning to a barricaded situation or, you know, anything other than remaining an active shooter. so do you even though there was a lull in the shooting or there were lulls at certain points because we know there were gunshots and then maybe
the window. reporter: officials say at least two children called 911 multiple times begging police to come while the gunman was still inside their classroom. the information is flowing in. why doesn t dps have that information, the sheriff s office, federal guys, the local police. this is a failure at every level. reporter: the texas department of public safety drekt director said one child told them that nine students were still alive and law enforcement was aware kids were inside the classroom. at what point do people not use common sense here, listen to 911 calls that are coming in, understand that kids are still alive inside, and know that they have to go in there, do their jobs under the active shooter protocol. reporter: one teacher who escaped the shooting says she wants the blame to focus on the gunman. i just hate that we have to
certainly there was an error there, but i think at every point along the way, you have superior forces coming in that should have said let s go in now. just like the cbp cop at one point says i m done with this, i m going in. and so at what point do people not use some common sense here, listen to 9-1-1 calls that are coming in, understand that kids are still alive inside, and know that they have to go in there, do their jobs under the active shooter protocol? just because one person makes a mistake, doesn t mean everybody else needs to compound on that. a couple questions i have on that. i want to get your take. you told my colleague dana bash this weekend the customs and border protection team that went in, they did not do so on command of the school police chief we re talking about but went in out of frustration on their own. is it your understanding that no command decision was ever made to breach the classroom? that is my understanding.