being careful about what body camera and surveillance video w ws we show you. we want to be respectful of the grieving families. some videos are difficult to watch given knowing what is happening off screen. there is a lot to learn but worth mentioning had parents and families, reporters and others not demanded answers from law enforcement officials in the hours and days and months after this massacre, it s likely we wouldn t know as much as we do about what really happened in uvalde:breaking news out of texas police on the scene of a deadly shooting at an elementariry school. difficult images. for hours after the shootings in uvalde, there is chaos around the school and few details. we ve not been give b or heard reporting on a timeline. is it clear how quickly police were able to get on the scene. relatively quickly but not fast enough. i don t want to go beyond that because we don t know how quickly agents were able to respond to the scene. there s a lot of fac
universally accepted active shooter protocols. they allowed the gunman to remain in the classroom for more than 70 minutes. there were children still alive inside, one of whom repeatedly called 911 for help. there were wounded teachers fighting for their lives. tonight we take a close look at the false and at times misleading information initially provided by texas law enforcement and public officials to families and reporters about the police response. throughout this hour, we are being careful about what body camera and surveillance videos we show you. there will be no images of violence or sounds of gunfire. we want to be respectful of all those grieving in uvalde. some of the videos though are difficult to watch given what we know was happening elsewhere on screen. there s still a lot to learn, but it s worth mentioning had parents and families, reporters and others not demanded answered from law enforcement officials in the hours and the days and months after this massac
people outside 12 minutes before he went inside. we also have extremely emotional video of parents gathered outside robb elementary while the shooting was happening. some were screaming as you can hear at police to storm the building and save their children. vigils and memorials are giving families and the community a chance to grieve, but nothing will bring back the 21 people that they have lost. and we re hearing now fror the first time from the mother of the gun man. translator: i have no words. i have no words to say. i don t know what he was thinking. he had his reasons for doing what he did, and please don t judge him. i only want the innocent children who died to forgive me. what do you tell their families? translator: forgive me. forgive my son. i know he had his reasons. what reasons could he have had? translator: to get closer to those children instead of paying attention to the other bad things. i have no words. i don t know. cnn s jason carroll has mor
case and some directly contradict the story that authorities first told, this is the time line of the attack as we understand it now. authorities now say at 11:28 a.m. tuesday, the gunman crashed his truck and fired his rifle at two people across the street. at 11:40, 12 minutes later, the gun than fired toward the school building and then walked in through an unlocked door. he was not confronted by a school resource officer which is directly contradictory to what officials had been telling us. not accurate. he walked in unobstructed initially. so from the grandmother s house to the wreck into the school, he was not confronted by anybody. to clear the record on that. reporter: at 11:44 a.m. officers arrived at the school, the shooter fired at them, they took cover and called for more backup. authorities say officers did evacuate students and teachers from other parts of the school and at some point began negotiations with the gunman. meantime as the minutes tick by, famil
compounded for one family. a husband dies from a heart attack days after his wife, a teacher, was killed in the attack. good morning, welcome to way too early. on this friday may 27th. i m jonathan lemere, thank you for joining us. we begin with the latest from uvalda. some of the key details provided by the texas officials in the first 48 hours of the attack have turned out to be an accurate. here is what has changed. texas officials first said that the attacker exchanged gunfire with a school resource officer before entering the school and then later said that the school resource officer engaged with the attacker, did not exchange gunfire. and yesterday officials changed the story. saying in fact that there was no school resource officer at all and that the killer walked into the school through an unlocked door, on obstructed, and simply began firing. the amount of time that the gunman spent outside before entering the building is also changed. we were initially told that