ukraine as fears grow about retaliation. back-to-school spending skyrockets. cbs janet shamlian talks to a single mom struggling to check off their preschooler s supply list. i would probably put it around $50 to $75. reporter: and it s not complete. it s not complete, no. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, rank tonight from new york city. o donnell: good evening, and thank you for joining us as we start a new week together. tonight, millions of americans in the southwest are under flood warnings after monsoon rains drenched communities across parts of six states, north texas getting worst of it. the dallas-forth worth area suffering from a months-long drought was pummeled with more than nine inches. that is the second heaviest rainfall in the city s history. it was the equivalent of a summer s worth of rain in one 24-hour period. floodwaters rushed through the streets, submerging vehicles, and we re learning tonight, a woman was swept off a bridg
called 911. jason carroll now reports top police officials say it was a mistake to not engage the shooter earlier. i was misled. i am livid about what happened. 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 new damming n new admissions 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 the breach the door. take on the subject at that point. reporter: explained how the shooter got into the school. shooter entered, ramos, was propped up by a teacher. the three initial police officers that arrived went directly to the door and to
means. but officers resisted as the massacre played out. meantime, vigils and memorials are giving families and the community a chance to grieve and of course, begin healing. but nothing will bring back the 21 people they ve lost. and we re now hearing for the first time from the mother of the gunman, salvador ramos. 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 did he 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 in. 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 ed lavandera begins our coverage. reporter: two days after the mass shooting at robb elementary, the story of what happened when the gunman arrived on the campus has fundame
Mr. Speaker mr. Speaker, you may agree with this, but we are back here 22 days into this republican manufactured chaos and House Republicans have brought us to the exact same position that we were back then. All of the infighting, all of the disarray, just to end up where we were three weeks ago. These past few weeks we have been left wondering if republicans were truly intent on solving our issues, reopening the house of representatives and rallying around someone to lead this chamber, or has this been about Something Else . Has this been about a focus of House Republicans to find the person who can pass their extreme litmus test to oppose marriage equality, enact a nationwide abortion ban without exceptions, gut Social Security and medicare, and support overturning a free and fair election. Its a fair question. Its a fair question. [ applause ] nowhere nowhere in that Candidate Questionnaire is it about growing the middle class, helping our communities, keeping the cost of Health Car