kids and two teachers taken from this town far too soon. live stolen from senseless violence. the daycares honors, like most uvalde, you many the students and watch them grow up over the years. we are learning more about their lives, their unforgettable personalities behind each face, big plans for the future. rodriguez had big dreams of becoming a marine biologist. she planned to study at texas a&m. her mom said that she was carrying and cold driven. her classmate lexi rubio wanted to become a lawyer. her family said that she loved learning about feminism and played volleyball in middle school. as we honor the victims, we are struggling to understand how a gun man was able to get inside or school in the first place, and why the gunman was allowed to stay inside for as long as he did. it is a question at the forefront in today s new york times. the editorial board examining the police response, writing, quote, 17 minutes elapsed after the gunmen walk inside before police, bel
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
than an hour while children inside were calling 9-1-1, begging for help. waiting because they apparently believed it was a barricaded subject situation. the police, not an active shooter. that was the wrong decision. texas officials say. a bit of hindsight, where i m sitting now, of course it was not the right decision. it was the wrong decision. very wrong. there s no excuse for that. there are so many unanswered questions tonight. but let s not lose sight about what this is all about. 19 children shot to death in their classroom, to teachers losing their lives as they try to save their students. and a country demanding to know how we stop this. cnn s 11 errors in uvalde tonight. ed, this is absolutely horrifying, this admission. what is the latest? one thing you need to remember is that for officers to work on school campuses, they go through a training mission. part of that, essentially outlines that if officers in these situations are not willing to go into these ro
president biden is calling on americans to make america safer as he prepares to travel to uvalde to honor the victims tomorrow. authorities are facing scrutiny over conflicting information as well as the response time. we now know the gunman was not confronted by police before entering the school. and more than an hour past between the first 911 call and when that shooter was killed. cnn s shimon prokupecz pressed authorities for answers on friday. 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 it was locked. what efforts were the officers making to try to break through that door or another door to get inside of that classroom. none at that time. why? the on scene commander at the time believed that it had transitioned from an active shooter to a barricaded subject. sir, you have people who are alive, children who are calling 911 saying please, send the police. they are alive. i
we know what works on this. it includes let s have an assault weapons ban. vice president made the remarks before attending the funeral for one of the mass shooting victims in buffalo just a day before president biden travels to texas to mourn the lives of 19 children and two teachers in uvalde, texas. there s growing outrage in that town about the police response at the shooting. that the police chief chose to wait to confront the gunman, a devastating explanation that shatters the narrative of a quick response. i was misled. i am livlivid. those who deserve explanations are the families whose lives have been destroyed. they need answers that are accurate, and it is inexcusable that they may have suffered from any inaccurate information whatsoever. for about 80 minutes, students and teachers in two classrooms sat helpless, tewhil the gunman was telling them they were going to die. calls were from young children begging to send the police now. the entire time the police