welcome to the whole story. i m anderson cooper. on may 24th, 2002, a gunman walked into robb elementary school in uvalde, texas, and killed 19 children and two teachers before he was finally killed by police 77 minutes later. it s one of the worst school shootings in u.s. history. what makes it even harder to understand is that 376 law enforcement personnel responded to the scene, but it took them more than an hour before they actually moved to breach the classroom and confront the shooter. they waited while children inside lay injured and dying. over the past year, cnn s shimon prokupecz and his team have been digging for answers, and through sources they have obtained the entire investigative case file which includes thousands of documents, hundreds of hours of footage, and multiple audio recordings. uvalde city officials haven t seen all this evidence. neither have the families of the victims until now. in this next hour, we re going to show you new video from the after
teachers weave he was finally killed by police 77 minutes later. it s one of the worst school shootings in u.s. history. 376 law enforcement personnel responded to the scene, but it took them more than an hour before they actually moved to breach the classroom and confront the shooter. they waited while children inside lay injured and dying. over the past year, cnn s shimon prokupecz and his team have been digging for answers and through sources they have obtained the entire investigative case file which includes thousands of documents, hundreds of hours of footage and multiple audio recordings. uvalde city officials haven t seen all of the evidence, neither have the families of the victims until now. in this next hour, we re going to show you knew video from the aftermath. it s tough to watch and sometimes shocking. the only images and sound from children are those who survived that day, and the only gunfire you ll hear is from police and the shooter. we have shown the foota
universally accepted active shooter protocols. they allowed the gunman to remain in the classroom for more than 70 minutes. there were children still alive inside, one of whom repeatedly called 911 for help. there were wounded teachers fighting for their lives. tonight we take a close look at the false and at times misleading information initially provided by texas law enforcement and public officials to families and reporters about the police response. throughout this hour, we are being careful about what body camera and surveillance videos we show you there will be no images of violence or sounds of gunfire. we want to be respectful of all those grieving in uvalde. some of the videos, though are, difficult to watch given what we know is happening elsewhere offscreen. there is still a lot to learn, but it s worth mentioning had parents and families, reporters and others not demanded answers from law enforcement officials in the hours, in the days and months after this massac
nationwide calling for tighter gun laws. march for your life rallies are scheduled for today. some locations underway right now like in d.c. rally-goers reknewing cries for addressing the gun violence epidemic after a series of mass shootings and cnn is covering events across the country and i want to begin with brian todd at the capitol. hi, brian. things are just kicking off where you are? reporter: that is right, amara. the crowd gathering, several hundred strong with the riser and with the white house in the background. we ve talked to several people in the crowd about the general mood as we come out of the horrible shootings in uvalde and buffalo, and it is the mood of being fed up with the gun violence taking place in the country. especially lately. four years after parkland, a lot of them feel like enough is not being done. rackon brown is about to get up here and speak in a few minutes. and he s a survivor of gun violence in d.c. we should add. what is the message t
eight or nine children. help is on the way. they re inside of the building. okay? you need to stay quiet. they re inside the building. we just need to stay quiet. knowing the police didn t do anything, it s just crazy. it doesn t make any sense. does she ever ask you why the police took so long? she does. she s like, mom, why did it take police so long to come in here? i don t even know what to say to her. she don t trust any police now. can you go get a breaching tool? they let everybody in those conjoined rooms down. families have changed forever because they were too weak to go in the room. but my 10-year-old sitting across the door was offering to open it, and they still didn t want to go in.