dispatch audio about a child trapped in the middle of the massacre in uvalde, texas. cnn has not been able to confirm this audio clip. it was first reported by abc news. it s unclear when the message was relayed, but according to the texas public safety director there were at least eight 911 calls from at least two callers inside robb elementary. we have a child on the line. he is in a room full of victims. at least 19 officers were just on the other side of the door of that classroom where the student was calling from. texas public safety officials reported the first call from a child came at 12:03 p.m. not until 12:50, 47 minutes later, would officers finally break in and kill the gunman. so the justice department will now investigate the local law enforcement response. one critic called it one of the worst police failures in modern u.s. history. in the meantime, democrats are trying to seize whatever momentum there is on capitol hill for gun reform. here is presi
tomorrow to meet with victims of this week s mass school shooting part however along with the morning and anguish there are now angry mounting calls for action people want to know what in the world happened in the small community after we all learned that 19 police officers waited more than 45 minutes in a hallway outside the classroom. leaving students and teachers trapped inside with a gunman armed with an assault rifle. arthel: so many questions, jeff paul is live with more questions were. days of sadness and frustration are now turning into anger for many people here in this community and uvalde texas after law enforcement community admit mistakes were made for texas investigators saying they now know there are children in the classroom with the shooter for nearly an hour who might have been helped. this all goes back to investigators saying the local incident commander at the time about the situation has shifted from an active shooter investigation into a barricaded su
even as those parents, moms, dads, sisters, brothers, outside pleading for action. even as the kids, the heroes, the warriors inside, called 9-1-1, over and over and over again, one of them calling 9-1-1 flex after time, begging for help. time wasted. that may have saved some of the 19 children into teachers that are now dead. the anger is palpable. i talked to the brother of ten-year-old victim xavier lopez, as well as his girlfriend. take a listen. are you guys frustrated at all by the way the police handle? this very. which frustrates you the most? they didn t do anything. they just standing around the whole time. they didn t do anything. that is much of what s the community is saying. they did not do anything. they were standing around the whole time. why did they not act? could babies be alive today had they acted sooner? while officials released a new timeline of events, there are still so many unanswered questions. in fact there are more. questions they still
live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news it s newsday. welcome to the programme. the police in texas are facing criticism for how they responded to the mass school shooting in uvalde on tuesday. some parents say officers appeared hesitant to confront the teenage gunman after he barricaded himself inside a classroom and that led to a delay in tackling the shooter. but at a news conference a texas police official said special equipment and negotiators were required and officers also had to evacuate the rest of the school. the attacker killed 19 children and two teachers in the space of up to an hour, before he was himself shot dead. our north america editor sarah smith sent us this report. all of the 19 children who were killed in the same school class. this boy s family had to wait 12 hours before they were told he was dead. this girl had been given a phone for her tenth birthday and she used it to try to call the police. jackie had just celebrated herfirst commun
good fellas. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. police in texas are being criticised for the way they responded to the mass shooting at a school in uvalde on tuesday. some parents say officers were too slow to confront the gunman, after he barricaded himself inside a classroom and killed 19 children and two teachers. he was eventually shot dead by police. our north america editor, sarah smith, reports from the scene. all of the 19 children and two teachers who were killed were in the same school class. this boys family had to wait 12 hours before they were told he was dead. this girl had been given a phone for her tenth birthday and she used it to try to call the police. jackie had just celebrated her first communion and she died alongside her cousin, annabel. these pictures show the scene outside the school on tuesday. they had four children. what were you thinking as you waited in the classroom? firm were you thinking as you waited in the cla