hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me this sunday. i m fredricka whitfield. we re following breaking news on a damning new report with heartbreaking details into the massacre at robb elementary school in uvalde, texas. the report just released by the texas house investigative committee found systemic failures and egregious poor decision making by multiple entities including law enforcement, the school and the shooter s family. the report also says the attacker likely murdered most of the victims before responders were able to get to the school. 19 children and two teachers were killed in may when an 18-year-old gunman broke into the school and opened fire. we are joined now from uvalde, texas. this is the first we re hearing now in this report that in this fact-finding report that the committee believes that most of those 18 children and two teachers killed were killed before the first responders got there even though in the surveillance video you can hear r
lives? reporter: ryan, in the report it does mention a few lines about why officer waited. it states they were waiting for the keys. they were waiting for more equipment. but let me take you through it because there are very telling details we did not know before reading this report. according to this report chief pete arredondo actually wrote the active shooter policy. he wrote in himself as the incident commander but, according to this report, he didn t take on that role on that ill-fated day. it says that he not only didn t take the role, he didn t transfer command of the scene to any other officer which, according to this report, could have been done in this case in this jurisdiction. now the report is much broader than this. it does not just point the finger at arredondo. it also says that there were hundreds of police officers who responded to the scene, and it points out those trained police officers then did not question that command. they didn t question that there
Hello, everyone. you re live in the cnn newsroom. we begin this hour with a torrent new details about the botched law enforcement response to the uvalde school shooting. 19 children and 2 children were killed in that massacre on may 24. the texas house investigative committee s preliminary report released today lays out the, quote, systemic failures and egregious poor decision making in the law enforcement response. we are ux inspeexpecting a pres conference any moment now. we ll bring it to you live as soon as it starts. but we begin this hour with cnn s rosa flores. she has been reading through the report. does the report cover why authorities waited more than an hour in a hallway before confronting and killing the gunman, and did that delay cost