buy beer and cigarettes, but they can walk into a gun store and buy an ar-15. announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom with isa soares. welcome to the show, everyone. it is monday, may 30th. memorial day in the u.s., when americans remember and honor the men as well as women who died serving the nation. but today in the city of uvalde in texas, families will be gagagaerg toemem lives lost in last week s mass shooting at robb elementary school. some services are set to begin in the coming hours with funeral homes committed to cover the costs of the families of the 21 victims, 19 students and two teachers. a choir paying their respects through song as the community of uvalde reels from the tragic shooting. u.s. president joe biden and the first lady traveled to texas to meet with grieving families, and also attended a mass as well met with first responders. there has also been an outpouring of support from the community as crowds brought flowers to a growing me
than those students. we ve seen a lot of tears, stuffed animals, candles left. there are crosses surrounding the fountain. we re in front of a church. you might hear church music behind me. the crosses have photos of each of the victims. people, again, paying respects, writing signs. one of the signs we saw says choose hope over fear. lucy cavanaugh there. there is growing outrage in texas as more details of the police response to the shooting emerge. we have learned children who were trapped called 911 several times for help. law enforcement officers waited inside the school for nearly an hour before confronting the shooter. one state senator says the delay may have cost lives. so many things went wrong here. i m asking a lot of questions. i am told that i m going to be getting a ballistics report next week, along with many other issues that need to be addressed. reporter: did that delay cost lives, cost children s lives?
today i m going to fly a sign. flying signs you just grab a piece of cardboard and write on it like, mine is pregnant, homeless and hungry. the pregnant part on my sign is, in fact, a lie. like, i ve tried writing signs that are honest. and they work to an extent in certain places. but here, that is not what works. you have to fly the right sign for where you are. niki and her friend brian take the bus to get here three to four times a week, ten miles inland from where they squat. they do this to get away from the competition on the beach, and away from the people who know that she s lying about being pregnant. when i was really little, before i ever thought of running away, i wanted to be a ballerina. not very many people know that because i was about 9 years old when i wanted to be a ballerina. i learned the harsh reality before i turned 10 that there is no way i could ever be a ballerina because my body type just wasn t right.
town, was walking around, was talking to people again with his very small security detail. and got a great reception. people were waving american flags, a small girl came up, gave him a bracelet. when word got out he was in town, more american flags came out, people started writing signs in english saying thank you, president obama, thank you to the people of the land of the brave and the free. and then he gave a press conference not very long ago, again, in the hotel, where i am right now. and was basically saying that the rebels need a lot more support, that the united states should help get them weapons to topple and push out the soviets, facilitate the rebels the rebels getting weapons and including anti-armor and much more significant kind of firepower than they have right now. it is very interesting, also the timing because this is part of what john mccain was saying to you and the other reporters