still chief among the questions out there and why is the police department now backtracking on some of their basic findings? officials are going to be holding a briefing in texas in the next hour. let s begin though at this hour with cnn s rosa flores live in uvalde. rosa, what are you hearing from some of these children who managed to survive? reporter: well, kate, we are hearing about those intense moments when the shooter was inside the classroom, those intense moments when children were trying to do everything they could to survive. they describe the gunfire at first. they thought it was fireworks. you mentioned a little girl who covered herself in blood and played dead to try to survive, to make sure that she could do what she could do at that point in time to survive this terrible tragedy. but here they are, children describing what they lived through in their own words. take a listen. it was very terrifying. that didn t stop one of my friends getting hurt. i got
it was very terrifying. that didn t stop one of my friends getting hurt. i got really scared and i didn t know who hurt or dead. we started looking around on facebook and then i realized that all the people i knew were dead now. so we just ran out of the room whenever the cops told us to run. i have the fear of guns now because i m scared someone might shoot me. reporter: and then there s a story of mia. she is an 11-year-old girl who felt very compelled to speak out to share her story. she says that on this ill-fated day they were watching a movie inside the classroom with her