and more about your life than many of your friends, why can t they detect online chatter about potential school shootings that could theoretically prevent another tragedy? plus, a disturbing new find. hundreds of thousands of ukrainians forced into brutal camps in russia. sources say it s happening at a much larger scale than originally feared. today should have been a day of celebration for the children of robb elementary school in texas. the last day of classes before summer vacation. for the second graders, third and fourth graders in uvalde, texas. 21 families today are, instead, planning funeral services for 19 students and two teachers. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. amidst the grief, the heartbreak, the shock and despair, are also serious new questions today about how that 18-year-old with a rifle got inside that school and stayed for more than an hour before police entered the classroom and killed him. this afternoon, the texas department of public safety
school. reporter: lexi rubio loved sports, and at 10 years old, she dreamed of traveling the world. she wanted to go to australia. and she wanted to go to law school. at st. mary s. reporter: jackie s father called her a firecracker. posting his range of emotion. first at the freaking cowardly way his daughter was killed, it hurts to our souls. then a note to his daughter. be in peace with the rest of the angels, sweet heart. baby girl, we love you with all our hearts. at a community vigil last night in uvalde, the dead are mourned. they include teacher you remembera garcia, who was in her fifth year. both teachers died shielding students from gunfire. not lost here, the children still being treated in the hospital. a pediatric trauma director describes hem as critical but stable, wishing there were more lives she could save. i think that s what hit us the most, not of the patients that we did receive, but we are honored to treat them. but the patients we did no
years since columbine. plus a debate on gun legislation in the age of partisan gridlock. and, anguish in america: we speak with angel garza, after the loss of his ten-year- old daughter, amerie. i just want my baby back. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. dokoupil: good evening to our viewers in the west on what is really anything but a good evening. and thank you for joining us. i m tony dokoupil, in for norah, who is recovering from covid. and tonight, we are here in uvalde, texas, a community shattered by one of the deadliest school shootings in american history. 21 victims, 19 of them innocent children. they ranged in age from ten, down to as young as eight. one victim described by family as the sweetest little boy i ve ever known, so full of life. others loved baseball, they loved swimming, loved dancing to tiktok videos in other words, these are your everyday american kids: extraordinarily loved,
for more gun control. protecting america s schools: what s being done nationwide to keep our children safe? fighting the rise of gun violence. could a program in atlanta be the key to stopping teens from picking up a weapon and instead walking away from a fight? remembering ray liota, the legendary goodfellas actor dies at 67. and finally, the community here in uvalde, texas, planning to celebrate graduation, instead planning funerals. this is the cbs evening this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting tonight from uvalde, texas. dokoupil: good evening, and thank you for joining us. i m tony dokoupil in for norah who is recovering from covid. and tonight we are here in uvalde, texas, once again, where a community s grief is turning to anger and frustration because of new questions of the official timeline of tuesday s school shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers. a spokesperson for the texas department of public safety said the gunman wal
my hands and knees and begged my colleagues, find a path forward, here. by doing something, we at least stop sending this quiet message of endorsement, to these killers whose brains are breaking, who see the highest levels of government doing nothing. shooting after shooting, what are we doing? why are we here? what are we doing? i yield the floor. with us tonight, connecticut senator chris murphy. senator, i turn that question to you. it has been 24 hours, what are we doing? i was presiding over the senate last night or yesterday afternoon, when i look down at my phone and saw that another sandy hook had happened, 19 kids in texas. i went straight to my desk, and that was the question that i kept on asking myself. it was the question that i spontaneously asked my colleagues. what are we doing? why are we here? why do you care so much about being a united states senator, if in the face of this evil and carnage, with all these parents who are just so frightened for their k