as much as we do about what really happened in uvalde. breaking news out of texas for you now. police on the scene of a deadly shooting at an elementary school in texas. the awful images coming in from robb elementary school, about 80 miles from san antonio. for hours after the shootings in uvalde, there was chaos around the school and few details released to the public about the police response. we have not been given or heard any reporting on an exact timeline. is it clear to you how quickly police were able to get on the scene? it sounds like it was relatively quickly, but obviously not fast enough to prevent what has happened here. i don t want to go beyond that really. sure. because we haven t really gotten any indication as to exactly how quickly agents were able to respond to that scene. there is a lot of facts that we just don t know here. i think right now it s important that we wait until we start getting official comments being made so that we really are
department of public safety, which has been running this entire investigation, which was the initial law enforcement agency that did all the press conferences, it was all of their spokespeople who spoke about what happened here, admitted that yeah, the fact is that this teacher actually did close the door. and then for some reason, it didn t close. it didn t lock. again, this took days to find out. this wasn t something that the police came forward and admitted immediately. get we got to get in there. and perhaps most significantly in this last briefing, colonel mccraw offers a new explanation as to why no one stormed into the classroom to stop the gunman for 77 minutes. what efforts were made to try and break through that door you say was locked. what efforts were the officers making to try and break through either that door or another door to get inside that classroom? none at that time. why? the onscene commander at the time believed that it had
transitioned from an active shooter to a barricaded subject. mccraw says the onscene commander was uvalde school district police chief pete arredondo. the chief of police of the consolidated independent school district is the incident commander. it s his school. he is the chief of police, okay. where is the police chief? and why isn t he here to take our questions? well, because i m here to address the latest timeline and the facts that we know. you re certainly welcome to reach out to reach out to them. the decision was made on the scene. i wasn t there. but at the same point and time, the decision was made this is a barricaded subject situation. there was time to retrieve the keys and wait for a tactical team with equipment to go ahead and breach the door and take on the subject at that point that was the decision. that was the thought process at that particular point in time. what are you telling parents
apologize for missing people off. moving forward is the only option. i m cautiously optimistic. that s big for you. that s big for me, asterisk pending results of climate change. okay, yes. there we go. that s the guy, though. [ laughter ] good evening. i m anderson cooper. it s been two and a half months since a gunman murdered 19 children and two teachers in robb elementary school and wounded many others. the families of the dead and survivors of the massacre are still waiting for answers about what really happened in uvalde. it took dps, the texas department of public safety, which is responsible for statewide law enforcement nearly a month after the shootings to finally release a detailed timeline of the attack and the police response. and in mid-july, the texas house investigative committee released their preliminary report revealing a number of law enforcement failures. police failed to follow
trying to argue that these officers were, you know, taking gunfire and they had to protect themselves and they didn t exactly know what they were dealing with and they needed more firepower and they needed more help and that s why it took so long and, again, trying to give us this kind of glowing picture of the initial response that police did everything right here, that they were the heroes. many parents who stood outside robb elementary urging law enforcement to do more. if they have got a shot, shoot them or something. don t see the police waiting in the hallway for 70 minutes as heroes. they are fall there. the cops ant doing [ bleep ]. javier was outside the school desperately waiting to hear about his daughter jacqueline. you said law enforcement students doesn t their jobs, they should have gone in faster. do you still believe that? 100%.