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good evening. with funerals under wade of the victims of last week s school shooting in uvalde, texas. we have another mass shooting to report tonight. police say at least three people are dead plus the shooter in tulsa, oklahoma. cnn s joe johns is working the story and joins us now. what do we know so far, joe? reporter: anderson, what we do know, at least according to the authorities so far is that three people have been reported dead as a result of this shooting, a fourth if you include the shooter himself. and we re also told by authorities that one person was taken from the hospital in critical condition. this initially went out, according to authorities, as a report of a man with a rifle, and escalated into an active shooter situation at the st. francis hospital campus, in what is referred to as the natalie building, apparently a very large building. authorities having to go door-to-door there in that building and remove people in what they re referring to as a ....
Of time breaking windows and getting other kids out, which is great and important, but 19 officers i reread what, you know, what mcgraw s statement was on friday, i mean, the details are sickening. 19 officers standing in a hallway, minute by minute as 911 calls are coming in and they are listening to more shots as they re being told, i guess by their incident commander that, oh, no, this is not everybody s dead, i guess that s what the incident commander thought or claimed, because i don t know how he would know that, because no one had actually checked on the bodies because they couldn t get in the classroom or they wouldn t get in the classroom. the chief said he would explain himself to the parents after qu they, quote, quit grieving. have you ever heard that. reporter: no, anderson. any police chief at any scene, especially after something like this, where so many children were victims, dead, injured, is out there explaining things to ....
Mcgraw, the incident commander believed they needed to wait for a tactical team to come in, believing that it was no lo longer that it was a situation of a person now barricaded in a classroom and that there was no reason to rush in and try to stop that shooter, as the shots continued to fire. at that point, there were 19 police officers in the hall listening as shots went off minute after minute and 911 calls were also coming in from the classroom. one at 12:10, another 12:13, a child calling for help. she called again at 12:16 according to police and more calls after that. a full hour went by before that tactical team finally acted and killed the gunman. that incident commander is pete arredondo, chief of the uvalde school district s police force at the time. he s also now a freshly minted member of uvalde s city council. he s the one who texas state law enforcement officials say has not responded to requests for a followup interview about the ....
Local authorities at 8:15. appreciate it, kauns lor. we ll give you more information as we learn it. turn, now to uvalde, texas, and cnn s continued attempts to try and get answers about what actually happened. after more than a week of various lay enforcement officials giving out evasive answers to direct questions and now trying to hide from reporters. as you may know, colonel stephen mcgraw, director of the texas department of public safety finally gave out some hard facts, days after the shooting, revealing, finally, how police on the scene in the school were ordered to stand by and had to listen as a gunman continued to shoot inside that classroom. not just when the gunman first entered, but again, at 11:37 and then at 11:38 and then at 11:40 a.m. and then at again at 11:44 a.m. as the minutes ticked by, we now know police were in the hallway outside the classroom, listening. waiting. because, according to colonel ....