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table and told them to act like they were going to sleep, is about the time when i turned around and saw him standing there. for more i want to bring in rosa flores who is live in uvalde, texas. what a horrifying glimpse into that classroom on that day, rosa. . brianna, these details are chilling. let me take you through these details. now the man you saw and heard, he is a teacher at robb elementary school, and he spoke to abc news, and he says that on that ill-fated day, he was in his classroom with his 11 students. they were all watching a movie when gunshots rang out. his students turned to the teacher and asked him what was going on. he said that he told the students to go under the table and pretend that they were sleeping. that s when he says that he turned around and saw the gunman. he saw the gunman right there and that gunman opened fire. reyes says he was shot multiple times. the gunman hit his arm, his lungs and also his back. this teacher says at that p ....
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 a ....
heart wrenching details, specific momentus in the time line of this massacre, decisions by law enforcement that officials now acknowledge were mistakes including 80 minutes. that s how much time passed between the gunman entering the school and the time a tactical unit entered the class room where he was holed up. for an hour and 20 minutes, as many as 19 officers were in a hallway outside the classroom as terrified students called 911 pleading for police to come inside, and yet, officers waited to breach the room. officials admit that delayed response was a mistake as cnn s shimon prokupecz pushed for answers. listen to this. why was this decision made not to go in and rescue these children? again, you know, the on scene commander considered a barricaded subject and that there was time and no more children at risk. of course it was not the right decision, it was the wrong decision, period. reporter: that wrong decision is adding to the anguish of grief stricken p ....
buenos dias, good morning, and welcome to your new day. it is saturday, may 28th. i m boris sanchez live in uvalde, texas. and i m christi paul, boris, i look at what s behind you and i cannot imagine the atmosphere there in uvalde, and i feel like, i think a lot of people i talk to feel like the more information we get the more disturbed we are. reporter: that s right, christi, the anguish in this community has been exacerbated by the discrepancies that we ve gotten from law enforcement, different angles of different stories and ultimately learning that mistakes were made in the law enforcement response here, and this morning we are learning new heart wrenching, minute by minute details of the tragedy that unfolded at robb elementary school with 21 dead, two te teachers and 19 children, most of them no older than 10. investigators admitting that officers made mistakes including that delay. they waited to confront the gunman who opened fire inside a fourth grade cla ....
good morning and welcome to your new day. we appreciate you starting your weekend with us. it is saturday, may 28th. i m boris sanchez, joining you this morning live from uvalde, texas. and i m christi paul. and boris, i cannot get over the scene behind you and the conversations you are having with people as we just try to reconcile what s happened in the last ten days. it is incredibly heart breaking, christi. yet at this point, utterly predictable. we begin with the nation reeling from two mass shootings in just ten days. the nation coping with dual, senseless tragedies that defy reason and infuriate those pleadings with lawmakers to do anything to prevent them. today vice president kamala harris attending memorial service for one of the victims in the mass shooting in buffalo, new york. ruth whitfield was one of ten people gunned down at a supermarket. authorities say the gunman in that shooting was motivated by racial hatred. and just two weeks after visiting th ....