this memorial day we know the memory is still painful of all the fallen who lost their lives during the last few decades in combat. each of them leave behind a family, a community. lives will never be the same. the same could be said of the decades of combat that american children have faced in their classrooms where hundreds of them have been shot and killed by mass murders. yesterday the president and first lady brought flowers to the memorial site outside of robb elementary school in uvalde, texas. they touched the photos of the 19 dead children and two teachers who lost their lives trying to save lives. president biden and the first lady attended sunday mass, as is his custom, but this time it was in uvalde, at the catholic church filled with mourners, including some of the family members of the victims. as the president was leaving, some in the crowd pleaded with him to do something. president biden responded by saying i will. president biden s justice department
maxwell frost, later on in the show. i m looking forward to hear what he says. ayman, have a good weekend. thank you, my friend. we ll be watching. all right. it was the wrong decision. that s what the top law enforcement official in texas admitted today, as outrage grows over why it took police so long to stop the gunman at robb elementary school in uvalde, texas. that gap and police intervention is even more glaring, after we learned new details about the timeline today. minutes after the gunman crashed his vehicle, he was already firing shots outside at the school. a school resource officer, who was not on the school grounds, heard the 9-1-1 call, and responded. but actually, he drove past the shooter, according to officials. at 11:33 am, the shooter enters the school, and fires more than 100 rounds in four minutes. two minutes after that, three officers arrived, and enter the school, exchanging gunfire with the shooter. by 12:03 pm, as many as 19 officers are in a h
ayman, have a good weekend. thank you, my friend. we ll be watching. all right. it was the wrong decision. that s what the top law enforcement official in texas admitted today, as outrage grows over why it took police so long to stop the gunman at robb elementary school in uvalde, texas. that gap and police intervention is even more glaring, after we learned new details about the timeline today. minutes after the gunman crashed his vehicle, he was already firing shots outside at the school. a school resource officer, who was not on the school grounds, heard the 9-1-1 call, and responded. but actually, he drove past the shooter, according to officials. at 11:33 am, the shooter enters the school, and fires more than 100 rounds in four minutes. two minutes after that, three officers arrived, and enter the school, exchanging gunfire with the shooter. by 12:03 pm, as many as 19 officers are in a hallway inside the school at the same time, one student calls 9-1-1, and whisper
this is cnn breaking news. welcome to the lead. y i m jake tapper. we start with our national lead. we expect an update from buffalo police after that racist massacre in upstate new york. ten innocent people killed by a racist domestic terrorist who targeted individuals in a predominantly black area of town saturday. officials say it could have been worse. police believe the shooter planned to continue his rampage after leaving the store with his sick goal of killing as many black people as possible. he was wearing tactical gear, armed with a semiautomatic rifle. he had surveilled the area the day before. this shows the moment the suspect was arrested. the erie county sheriff called the attack a straight up racially motivated hate crime from somebody outside of our community. he lived at home with his parents more than three hours away. today, investigators are parsing through a 180-page screed written by the killer. it details how he had been radicalized and was fixate
but first we want to start with the breaking news out of buffalo new york. law enforcement sources say at least seven people have been killed in a mass shooting at supermarket tops. police say the shooter in the incident is in custody, into rifles have been recovered from the scene. including one with a racist term etched onto the weapon. police are investigating whether the suspect was motivated by white supremacist ideology, and may have livestreamed the incident. let s go now to my and msnbc, kylie richard louis with the latest information. yeah we are getting a lot of different occasions right now. this is common at this stage. we are about two and a half hours into this incident. in buffalo new york as you described we have a tops supermarket where this incident happened. and from what you described and what we are learning, yes the suspect from what we are hearing right now, walking and wearing a military style gear. we don t know whether that is pants, whether it s a