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this memorial day we know the memory is still painful of all the fallen who lost their lives during the last few decades in combat. each of them leave behind a family, a community. lives will never be the same. the same could be said of the decades of combat that american children have faced in their classrooms where hundreds of them have been shot and killed by mass murders. yesterday the president and first lady brought flowers to the memorial site outside of robb elementary school in uvalde, texas. they touched the photos of the 19 dead children and two teachers who lost their lives trying to save lives. president biden and the first lady attended sunday mass, as is his custom, but this time it was in uvalde, at the catholic church filled with mourners, including some of the family members of the victims. as the president was leaving, some in the crowd pleaded with him to do something. president biden responded by saying i will. president biden s justice depa ....
the mass shooting at robb elementary school earlier this afternoon. this comes as a justice department announces it will conduct an independent review of the law enforcement response to the shooting with the d.o.j. says the mayor of uvalde requested that review after we learned police waited nearly an hour to storm the classroom where the shooter was holed up despite multiple 911 calls from the children still trapped inside. arthel: let s go live to uvalde, texas and our jeff paul is standing by, jeff. arthel what would normally be a day full of excitement that comes along the presidential visit is instead full of sadness as people continue to come here to the city center to pay their respects to the 19 students in two teachers who died. first lady jill biden and president joe biden are now trying to do their best to help this community that continues to grieve. now after landing in san antonio the first family made their way to uvalde their first stop was at robb ele ....
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 comm ....
with the state s top law-enforcement official cult that delay quote the wrong decision. meantime present biden first lady jill biden will visit the devastated community tomorrow to console families and mourn the victims. jeff paul is live in uvalde with more. days of sadness now turning into anger for this community after law enforcement is admitting mistakes were made. one of those being the local on-site incident commander who was in charge at the time change the response from a mass shooting to a man who is barricaded inside the classroom for it as a result you had up to 19 officers for several minutes up to 45 minutes and beyond standing in the hallway trying to figure out a way to get into the classroom. authorities believe as the clock was ticking children were inside the school is that shooting was unfolding calling 911 their begging operators to police and police send police now. eventually border patrol agents showed up and got a master key to open up a class ....
be an artist. and this was 10-year-old jayce identified this evening. and another 10-year-old, makenna lee elrod. her family confirmed she too died in the attack. for them and for all the victims, we now must ask some very tough questions after what we heard today. i know i m an anchor. but i m also angered in the fact that i m a mother of a second grader, of a third grader, an 8-year-old and a 9-year-old, who sends my children, just like you, to school every single day. and i want to know, did the texas school gunman effectively have total freedom to walk in and start killing those 19 children and two teachers? and despite the massive law enforcement response, when you hear me say words tonight like, or you hear the words said like, police say, over the course of this hour, i want you to keep those words in mind more than you might otherwise. because the official version of what happened is changing. and we re going to now examine all the new questions that are coming ....