talk. [speaking spanish] joining me now is sam brock in uvalde with the latest on the shooting. also he s in houston where the show must go on for the nra. first use them, it s very hard to watch, to hear, and process what happened there. then we learned of the injured children calling 9-1-1 for help. didn t get there in time. it all feels impossible and we are not even there. here in the studio. but you there on scene? what are you learning sam? well certainly it s gut wrenching alex. you talk to parents here, and they say it feels like the floor falls from underneath them every time they hear these press conferences. the changing narratives. also that the help was there on. time there were 90 law enforcement officers inside at 12:03, that s the same time the 9-1-1 calls were coming from the classroom. the incident commander based on the volume of shots, and initially they re 100 shots fired in the first few minutes, and then slowed down, that incident commander made
hello and welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. live from cnn world headquarters in atlanta, i m john vause, and this is cnn newsroom. texas officials are facing a growing number of questions as well as increasing criticism of law enforcement s response to the mass shooting at robb elementary. for two days now, the official count has been inconsistent, contradictory, and outright confusing at times with some major changes to some important details. did police exchange gunfire with the shooter as he entered the school? on tuesday and wednesday, the answer was yes. by thursday, no. the shooter was never confronted by a school resource officer or anyone for that matter. it just never happened. authorities say it took up to an hour before the gunman was killed, and during that time, police were calling for backup and evacuating students and teachers from other parts of the school, negotiating with the suspect himself, pinning him down in a classroo
anyone, it never happened. it took up to an hour for the gunman killed during that time police were negotiating with the suspect keeping his pinned but later said they didn t know his exact location for immediate take down and video outside the school show parents pleading with police to enter and save the kids and one woman put in handcuffs and another tackled by police and thrown to a ground and a third pepper sprayed. as a father i would have just went in. i don t need nobody tell me to go in defend harmless children, why wait? cnn jason carol begins our coverage timeline how the massacre unfolded. 11:21 tuesday i just shot my grandma in her head he wrote to a girl online. it was the start of a shooting spree that would leave 19 students 25and 2 teachers dead. seconds later wrote i m going to go shoot up an elementary school right now and took off in his 66-year-old grandmother truck and crashed into a ditch and two minutes later a 911 call reported the wreck and gun
means. but officers resisted as the massacre played out. meantime, vigils and memorials are giving families and the community a chance to grieve and of course, begin healing. but nothing will bring back the 21 people they ve lost. and we re now hearing for the first time from the mother of the gunman, salvador ramos. translator: i have no words. i have no words to say. i don t know what he was thinking. he had his reasons for doing what did he and please don t judge him. i only want the innocent children who died to forgive me. what do you tell their families? translator: forgive me. forgive my son. i know he had his reasons. what reasons could he have had in. translator: to get closer to those children instead of paying attention to the other bad things. i have no words. i don t know. cnn s ed lavandera begins our coverage. reporter: two days after the mass shooting at robb elementary, the story of what happened when the gunman arrived on the campus has fundame
realistic hope right now, as we sit here, that this time will be different? greg abbott would like us all to think that this is a mental health problem, every expert will tell you that these people that there are no indicators of mental health. that they re rational people, that they plan these things out. they re psychopaths, sure. but you re never going to really truly isolate them and identify them beforehand. and the experts around the country suggest that. there s mental health problems all over the world, but you don t have incidents like this happening all over the world. just here in these united states. i m in this business, because i have to find solutions to problems. and i hope and i have hope, that we can change things. so, let s see what greg abbott does. because i m calling on him right now to call a special session to bring us back in. we are seven states that meet every other year. we re a part-time legislature. we need to get back in there. because the