in uvalde, texas where president biden will be tomorrow, jeff to you. and the more we learn about the shooting, the more difficult it gets for in community to grasp what exactly happened at robb elementary school. despite what investigators had initially told the public. we learned the shooter was not confronted by anyone from the time he crashed his pickup truck and began shooting at the school. a minute before the suspected shooter crashed that truck, a teacher at the school had walked outside, propped open a door and then went back inside, and left that door propped open. we re learning that 19 officers stood in the hallway of the school for nearly an hour before a border patrol agent showed up with a master key he had found to open up the door to enter and then kill the suspect. and while the clock was ticking for that to happen. investigators disclosed children were calling 911 begging for operators to send in police to help. texas dps say the local incident commander
three dozen people at more than just this store. we have all the new details tonight. and the city in mourning. vigils, prayers, our interview with a survivor. america s deadly weekend. the church shooting in california, and the man being hailed as a hero. baby formula shortage, our exclusive interview with the president of one to have the largest baby formula companies in the u.s. and what he says his company is doing to ease the nationwide shortage. tonight s other top headlines, severe storms. tens of millions of americans in the path of dangerous weather. russia s latest defeat. and tonight we end with a prayer for peace and justice. o donnell: good evening and thank you for joining us for a special edition of the cbs evening news. we re here in buffalo, new york, where we re learning new details about what happened inside this supermarket behind me, and we have new reporting tonight about what led up to saturday s deadly shooting. new tonight authorities tell cbs new
situation. and he took fire, he got wounded, and what they were telling me because i m asking, hey, why didn t you get in sooner? walk me through that and he goes, look, here is the deal, tony. it was a steel door and it was locked and it would go outward, not inward, meaning i d have to pry it open like a can. we didn t have those tools. we were scrambling and looking for it. there was actually a not a border patrol come in, but a game warden. there was a game warden that had a crowbar and a hammer they ended up going, eventually they find a key what i m getting at, these folks wanted to get in there as fast as they possibly could, they were their friend and neighbors, after they cleared the room, there were copy cat threats out there and there were folks that were injured, that had been part of this, that went to other schools. lieutenant javier martinez, one of the first on the scene after the event he goes to the uvalde
and he s just not going to get to do that, not here. o donnell: our interview with ms. stanfield. and this just in, local authorities are investigating copy cat threats made to other businesses here in buffalo. at least one arrest. late this afternoon the f.b.i. director chris wray called the shootings at the top racially motivated swlie lent extremism, this as we re learning more about the suspect s radicalization. jeff pegues. reporter: tonight the 28-year-old s online radicalization is becoming clear. the authorities are combing through a easy of online posts in which he allegedly called the tops supermarket attack area one and said he was indoctrinated by racist propaganda he saw on extremist web sites during the covid lockdown. last year f.b.i. director christopher wray called such individuals the greatest terrorist threat in the country. because they act alone and move quickly from radicalization
out of time. thank you so much for your time tonight. thank you for joining us. i ll see you right back here tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on msnbc where i ll kick off another week of in-depth interviews with key newsmakers. you can catch me monday through thursday at 7:00 p.m. eastern on peacock on the choice on msnbc. first up on msnbc, police in michigan zeroing in on who may have helped the parents of the school shooting suspect allegedly hide from police, as more copy cat threats pour in. we re inundated with threats right now. we had threats against the candlelight vigil last night. it s absolutely absurd that after a tragedy, we see a huge spike in threats, but that s what we re seeing. plus, a u.s. congressman posts this holiday picture with