good morning and welcome to your new day. we appreciate you starting your weekend with us. it is saturday, may 28th. i m boris sanchez, joining you this morning live from uvalde, texas. and i m christi paul. and boris, i cannot get over the scene behind you and the conversations you are having with people as we just try to reconcile what s happened in the last ten days. it is incredibly heart breaking, christi. yet at this point, utterly predictable. we begin with the nation reeling from two mass shootings in just ten days. the nation coping with dual, senseless tragedies that defy reason and infuriate those pleadings with lawmakers to do anything to prevent them. today vice president kamala harris attending memorial service for one of the victims in the mass shooting in buffalo, new york. ruth whitfield was one of ten people gunned down at a supermarket. authorities say the gunman in that shooting was motivated by racial hatred. and just two weeks after visiting the site
texas attacked an elementary school and killed 21 people. 19 of them, children. and while it is common for new details to emerge after the so-called fog of war lifts, the basic facts of the police response to this particular shooting have changed. and then, they changed again. and today, officials try yet again, to lay out a timeline of the response to this attack, to an increasingly skeptical press corps and public. and this version, the one we heard today, painted a shocking picture of what now looks to be an extraordinarily inept police response, that allowed the government to be locked in a classroom with children, who were still alive for more than an hour! here s today s version of what happened on tuesday, may 24th. at 11:27 am, central time, a teacher at robb elementary school in uvalde, texas, walks out of the building, and props the door open. and that teacher sees a truck crash behind the school. by 11:28 am, she is rushed back into the school to get her phone, lea
tragedy. ask the questions. those politicians don t want to answer. the running the clock. don t let them do it. love has to be the answer. decency must rule. nicole hawk lay, matthew dowd, thank you for joining me on this important friday night, at the end of a very heavy week. and from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late with us. i will see you at the end of monday. be good. us i will see you and while it is common for new details to emerge after the so-called fog of war lifts, the basic facts of the police response to this particular shooting have changed. and then, they changed again. and today, officials try yet again, to lay out a timeline of the response to this attack, to an increasingly skeptical press corps and public. and this version, the one we heard today, painted a shocking picture of what now looks to be an extraordinarily inept police response, that allowed the government to be locked in a classroom with children,
from msnbc world headquarters in new york. welcome everybody to alex witt reports. welcome to breaking news from uvalde, texas. this is what it looks like outside robb elementary school today. 21 crosses, one for each person killed and the deadliest school shooting in a decade. also, growing outrage to the police response to the shooting in the heartbreaking details of children calling 9-1-1 begging them to police and the police now. grief stricken parents and state officials are angry over the decision from preventing federal tax to to from taking immediate action. you know every officer lines up, stacks, up goes and finds where the grounds are being fired, and keeps shooting until the subject is dead. joining us now from uvalde is nbc s liz also and then from houston shaquille brewster. liz, delays by police have grabbed the nations attention. what more are we learning about the timeline today? alex, after days of confusion and conflicting reports, we are hearin
19 babies and two teachers were murdered on tuesday and yet another mass shooting in america. this time it was at robb elementary school in uvalde, texas. the latest accounts of law enforcement s response pain to woeful portrait of a potentially deadly inuktitut. in the days since the massacre, we learned that officers waited for 45 minutes just outside the classroom where the shooter was barricaded. this despite active shooting trainer that these officers were trained to engage with the shooter immediately. now they said that it had evolved from an active shooter situation tour barricaded should ve situation, despite the number a number of 9-1-1 calls. it wasn t for 30 more minutes that the team opted themselves to lead the officers waiting in the hall to stop the shooting. now texas department of public safety director col. steven mccraw acknowledged a knowledge finally that it was the quote unquote wrong decision. community leaders are outraged along forsman s response