this. if you look behind me, you can see the 21 crosses with the names of 19 little kids and two teachers killed in their classroom. 2 place they were supposed to be safe. what we re learning about the police response raises some disturbing questions. police vealing nobody was there the try to stop the gunman when he got in through door that was apparently locked and he was inside for about an hour before he was killed. how can that happen? what happened? an hour when desperate parents were all crowded outside. they were pleading with police to go in and let them go in or let them go in themselves. that is so hard to watch. so hard to listen to listen to their screams. the father of one student says he pleaded with officers to give him their gear so he could go inside as the shooting was happening. his son did survive but 19 ore children, two teachers did not survive. also joining us, cn nrknn law enforcement analyst, anthony barksdale. it s good to see you. i wish it was und
you want to do, then sandy hook happened and i cared. high school was bad enough. now this. when students are shooting students, you know, that s not understandable, it s not forgivable, but how can somebody look at a nine-year-old and shoot them in the face? how can somebody do that? how can somebody have the capability to do that? it angers me beyond comprehension, and i have a lot of displaced anger right now, don, i really do. it s just displaced so i should shut up, but it s just going to keep happening unless we do something, and i mean we, because the guys and women we have elected aren t getting anywhere. we as a people have to stand up and say, okay, son, okay, daughter, you re not okay. you are not okay. thank you. thank you. are you okay? i will be. better than these parents, that s for damn sure. thank you. thank you. thanks, kim. appreciate that. so there are major questions tonight about the police response to the elementary school shooting here
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
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
out. our correspondents are covering every angle of the story, including our cnn teams on the ground in texas. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you are in the situation room. without anyone initially trying to stop him. cnn national correspondent jason carroll is on the scene for us. jason, police revealed alarming new details as you well know as they face very serious questions right now about their response to the massacre. reporter: yes, wolf. as you know, a lot of details that authorities still have to clarify out here, especially after they gave out that bad information about who had initially responded to the shooting. all of this as parents out here in this community are still frustrated, very, very angry, and looking for answers as to why it took more than an hour to take counsel the shooter. tonight cnn has obtained video showing frantic parents gathered beyond the police line while the shooter was inside