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magazines, firing at least 100 rounds in the opening moments. border patrol agents taking down the shooter ending the terror inside classrooms 111 and 112 about 77 minutes after it began. governor greg abbott late today claiming he was misled, and he s absolutely livid. new images tonight of children escaping out windows, powerful reactions coming in from the families of the victims. the community saying they are sick and angry. learning police were outside the classroom but didn t go in. mireya villarreal with the chilling story from a child about playing dead so he wouldn t get shot, saying the gunman told the students, you re all going to die. new details about missed warning signs, authorities say the suspect, 17 at the time, asking his sister to buy him a gun last september. alarming instagram chats about buying guns, someone asking, are you going to shoot up a school, and how he responded. massive protests outside today s nra convention in houston. former presid ....
it was not the right decision. it was the wrong decision, period. there s no excuse for that. again, i wasn t there, but i m just telling you from what we know, we believe there should have been an entry as soon as you can. hey, when there s an active shooter the rules change. it s no longer okay, it s no longer barricaded. you don t have time. and, by the way, texas embraces active shooter training, active shooter certification, and that doctrine requires officers, we don t care what agency you re from, you don t have to have a leader on the scene. every officer lines up, stacks up, goes and finds where the rounds are being fired and keep shooting until the subject is dead, period. but that s not what happened. let s get to cnn s shimon prokupecz. you have been there on the scene trying to get answers for days and this afternoon we got them and they re devastating. reporter: they are truly devastating. and you just feel for these families, to hear the police, the ....
world, i am jim acosta, wolf blitzer is off, you are in the situation room. the fallout is just beginning after the stunning admission by police in texas that a wrong decision was made in response of the school s massacre. governor abbott saying he was misled. our correspondent has our report from uvalde, texas. i was misled. i tonight, greg abbott aiming his anger 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 damming new admissions from texas authorities surrounding the commander who made the decision not to immediately enter the classroom the gunman was in. the decision was made this was a barricaded subject. there was time to retrieve the key to wait for a tactical team to breach the door to take on the subject at that point. that was a wrong decision. reporter: officia ....
border patrol agents taking down the shooter ending the terror inside classrooms 111 and 112 about 77 minutes after it began. governor greg abbott late today claiming he was misled and he s absolutely livid. new images tonight of children escaping out windows, powerful reactions coming in from the families of the victims. the community saying they are sick and angry. learning police were outside the classroom but didn t go in. those 911 calls from inside the room that were not passed on to officers at the scene. mireya villarreal with the c chilling story from a child about playing dead so he wouldn t get shot saying the gunman told the students, you re all going to die. new details about missed warning signs, authorities say the suspect, 17 at the time, asking his sister to buy him a gun last september. alarming instagram chats about buying guns, someone asking, are you going to shoot up a school and how he responded. massive protests outside today s nra convention in ....
neverending tide of gun violence. the annual convention of the nra kicked off today in houston. the keynote speaker is the arguably the most president voice of the republican party, the twice-impeached ex-president. greg abbot pulled out of an in-person appearance to return to uvalde. he ll be holding a press conference there in a few minutes, but back at the nra stage there will also be a speech from senator ted cruz who recently stormed off when he was asked by a reporter why mass shootings only seemed to happen in this country. cruz s decision to appear at the nra convention just days after 19 of his youngest constituents and two other teachers were murdered, chose how the hard line stance on guns has become so deeply embedded in the gop. even as the nra is weaker than ever consumed by scandals and lawsuits. as the washington post quotes, nearly a decade ago the massacre of 20 children and six adults through the politics of gun violence into a state of suspension f ....