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speak louder than words can that on tuesday at rob elementary school in uvalde texas, this first priority for every single law enforcement officer in the state did not come first. the awful truth which was confirmed today is that police officers waited to storm a classroom while children were hiding inside and calling 911 for help that would not come. for as long as an hour. now we often here police officers talk about split second decisions. this time, the decision to go into a classroom and confront the shooter took 3,600 of those seconds. a full hour. a bit of hindsight from where i m sitting now, of course it s not a right decision. it was a wrong decision. very. no excuse for that. but again, i wasn t there. i m just telling you from what we know, we believe there should have been an entry there as soon as you can. that s steven mcgraw, director of the texas department public safety with the bottom line, different from what we ve been hearing all week long, dif ....
reporter: in that crucial time, survivors inside both classrooms made desperate calls to 9-1-1. she identified herself and whispered she is in room 112. at 12:10, she called back and room 12 guised multiple are dead. 12:13, she called again on the phone. at 12:16, she called back and said there is eight to nine students alive. minutes later, a student called. reporter: student/child called back, was told to stay on the line and be very quiet. told 911 he shot the door. approximately 12:43 and 12:47, he she asked police to come now. something s got to be done now. where do we go from here, you know? you were wrong. what dwe do now? you know, it s my question. what are we gonna do now? the countability, you are talking about. right. accountability. somebody s got to be responsible. reporter: warning signs missed. ramos asked his sister to help him buy a gun. she flatly refused. that was in september of 21. reporter: with social media group chats and p ....
want answers. i was misled. i am livid about what happened. reporter: texas governor greg abbott aiming his ire at law enforcement. my expectation is that the law enforcement leaders that are leading the investigations, which includes the texas rangers and the fbi, they get to the bottom of every fact with absolute certainty. reporter: after damning new admissions from texas authorities. it was the wrong decision. period. reporter: the incident commander making the decision not to immediately enter the classroom the gunman was in. a decision was made that this was a barricaded subject situation, there was time to retrieve the keys and wait for a tactical team with the equipment to go ahead and breach the door and take on the subject at that point. reporter: officials explained how the shooter got into the school. where we knew the shooter entered, ramos, was propped open by a teacher. reporter: investigators clarifying the timeline as police arrived. ....
heart wrenching details, specific momentus in the time line of this massacre, decisions by law enforcement that officials now acknowledge were mistakes including 80 minutes. that s how much time passed between the gunman entering the school and the time a tactical unit entered the class room where he was holed up. for an hour and 20 minutes, as many as 19 officers were in a hallway outside the classroom as terrified students called 911 pleading for police to come inside, and yet, officers waited to breach the room. officials admit that delayed response was a mistake as cnn s shimon prokupecz pushed for answers. listen to this. why was this decision made not to go in and rescue these children? again, you know, the on scene commander considered a barricaded subject and that there was time and no more children at risk. of course it was not the right decision, it was the wrong decision, period. reporter: that wrong decision is adding to the anguish of grief stricken p ....
president biden is calling on americans to make america safer as he prepares to travel to uvalde to honor the victims tomorrow. authorities are facing scrutiny over conflicting information as well as the response time. we now know the gunman was not confronted by police before entering the school. and more than an hour past between the first 911 call and when that shooter was killed. cnn s shimon prokupecz pressed authorities for answers on friday. you say there were 19 officers gathered in the hallway or somewhere, what efforts were made to try and break through that door, you say it was locked. what efforts were the officers making to try to break through that door or another door to get inside of that classroom. none at that time. why? the on scene commander at the time believed that it had transitioned from an active shooter to a barricaded subject. sir, you have people who are alive, children who are calling 911 saying please, send the police. they are al ....