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welcome to the whole story. i m anderson cooper. on may 24th, 2002, a gunman walked into robb elementary school in uvalde, texas, and killed 19 children and two teachers before he was finally killed by police 77 minutes later. it s one of the worst school shootings in u.s. history. what makes it even harder to understand is that 376 law enforcement personnel responded to the scene, but it took them more than an hour before they actually moved to breach the classroom and confront the shooter. they waited while children inside lay injured and dying. over the past year, cnn s shimon prokupecz and his team have been digging for answers, and through sources they have obtained the entire investigative case file which includes thousands of documents, hundreds of hours of footage, and multiple audio recordings. uvalde city officials haven t seen all this evidence. neither have the families of the victims until now. in this next hour, we re going to show you new video from the ....
walked into robb elementary school in uvalde, texas, and killed 19 children and two teachers before he was finally killed by police 77 minutes later. it s one of the worst school shootings in u.s. history, and what makes it even harder to understand is that 376 law enforcement personnel responded to the scene, but it took them more than an hour before they actually moved to breach the classroom and confront the shooter. they waited while children inside lay injured and dying. over the past year, cnn s shimon prokupecz and his team have been digging for answers and thou sources they have obtained the entire investigative case file which includes thousands of documents, hundreds of hours of footage and multiple audio recordings. uvalde city officials haven t seen all of the evidence, neither have the families of the victims until now. we ll show you new video from the aftermath. it s tough to watch and sometimes shocking. the only images and sound are from children you su ....
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teachers weave he was finally killed by police 77 minutes later. it s one of the worst school shootings in u.s. history. 376 law enforcement personnel responded to the scene, but it took them more than an hour before they actually moved to breach the classroom and confront the shooter. they waited while children inside lay injured and dying. over the past year, cnn s shimon prokupecz and his team have been digging for answers and through sources they have obtained the entire investigative case file which includes thousands of documents, hundreds of hours of footage and multiple audio recordings. uvalde city officials haven t seen all of the evidence, neither have the families of the victims until now. in this next hour, we re going to show you knew video from the aftermath. it s tough to watch and sometimes shocking. the only images and sound from children are those who survived that day, and the only gunfire you ll hear is from police and the shooter. we have shown the ....
as well as a new video showing the police response to that massacre. a texas house committee investigating this may 24th shooting at robb elementary released a preliminary report on what it has learned so far. saying it found, quote, systemic failures and egregiously poor decision making. those systemic failures including three exterior doors that were unlocked, a classroom door with a faulty lock that nobody dealt with, wi-fi that was not working properly, and a force of nearly 400 law enforcement officers larger than the garrison that defended the alamo that did not have clear leadership, basic communication, significant urgency to take down this gunman. uvalde s mayor responding to the report by putting the city s acting police chief on administrative leave and releasing body cam footage showing the horror in the hallways and outside the school as well. i want to warn you, some of these images you re about to see, they are incredibly disturbing. [ gunshots ] am i g ....