reform gun laws. deadly crash on the water. two boats collide, killing the five people on board. the dramatic rescue of one survivor the summer travel season off to a bumpy start with flight cancellations and delays piling up i just want to get home one of the biggest airlines announcing it s already canceled 100 flights every day for the entire season. tom cruise soaring into the record books. the new top gun movie is his biggest opening ever and ahead of memorial day, the emotional salute between a proud father and his heroic daughter announcer: this i nbc nightly news with kate snow good evening i m kristen welker in for kate snow. as families across the country prepare to mark memorial day, there is only deepening grief in uvalde, texas. and tonight, the justice department is weighing in, saying it will open a review into why it took officers nearly an hour to take out the gunman, as children were repeatedly calling 911. joe biden was in uvalde today, me
responders. we re also talking about the justice department this morning announcing, in fact, it will conduct a review of the law enforcement response to the school shooting in uvalde. it is coming at the request of uvalde s mayor after authorities admitted to a string of failures in their response to the shooting. a justice department spokesperson said in part this, the goal of the review is to provide an independent account of law enforcement actions and responses that day, and to identify lessons learned and best practices to help first responders prepare for and respond to active shooter events. the doj saying after its review, it will publish a report with all of its findings. we are learning more about that chaotic scene that unfolded when agents did finally move in on the shooter. a u.s. customs and border protection official, who spoke to the washington post, describing a chaotic scene, with no one really sure who was in charge. quote this, the agent saw bullet ho
psychopath, which is what senator cruz called him, was able to legally buy an assault rifle more than 1600 rounds of ammunition, and then walk freely into an elementary school because he wanted to kill kids. there are two small funeral homes not enough to handle a massacre. that means funeral directors, morticians and volunteers from across texas are now there to help. among them are facial reconstructionists, because, yes, it was that bad. and making it even worse, just how long the cops waited to go in. they waited an hour outside that classroom before they finally confronted the gunman. more than an hour while some of those kids were still fighting for their lives. including the daughter of one family who spoke with state senator roland gutierrez. their little girl had been shot in the back with one bullet. through the kidney area, she likely bled out, according to the first responder. who should know what would have happened had officers showed up timely? had they gone
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