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hello, everyone, and good morning. welcome to cnn this morning. i m amara walker. i m victor blackwell. it s happened again. we are waking up to the tragic realities of gun violence in this country. eight people are dead, seven injured over a mass shooting at an outlet mall in allen, texas. some of the scenes we saw captured on video, we warn you they are hard to watch. . you can hear the rapid fire there and see shoppers and employees scrambling into storage areas, they hid when they heard the gunshots. witnesses say some people sheltered in place for up to two hours as law enforcement cleared the sprawling area. my mom and i were in johnson and murphy s shopping and heard about ten pops go off. i look at the customer next to me. i was like, was that gunshots? and he was like, no, it s probably just construction or something and heard 10, 15 more shots go off. so i ran to the front of the store. we are like, no, that s shooting. we see the guy. he is dressed in al ....
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he shared with so many. you are live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin this hour with a warning from law enforcement. we do not know where he is. those chilling words minutes ago from the top fbi agent in san jacinto county, texas, about this man, 38-year-old francisco orapeza. he has been the focus of a desperate manhunt since friday night. that s when neighbors asked him to stop firing his rifle in his front yard because they were trying to get a baby to go to sleep. police say orapeza entered their home and began shooting. an 8-year-old boy was among the five neighbors slaughtered almost execution-style in the words of the sheriff. cnn s ed lavandera is in cleveland, texas. the sheriff and fbi just held a news briefing. what did you learn there? reporter: well, we learned that clearly investigators here, what they are saying publicly is they essentially have no idea where this 38-year-old murder suspect is, francisco orapeza, not seen ....
the police were summonedded lee years ago by a family member who said the high school dropout had lettenned to kill everyone. threatened to kill everyone. the officers seized 16 knives, a cager and a sword, and that s about it. how is that possible? they could have arrested them for the threat, they can have slapped his name on a no-gun purchase list. instead, he was able to to legally buy 5 guns, a glock pistol and without that failure those seven people in a parade on independence day would still be alived today. what s more, the mass shooter posted violent rhetoric and images online that apparently went undetected by the cops and social media companies. look, the police have a tough job. no law is going to stop is every crazed shooter, but combined with what smells like an unraveling police cover-up of the school massacre in you value uvalde uvalde, everyone s got to do a better job of spotting these potentially heinous killers. i m howard kurtz, and this is med ....
police officials now say, i was a mistake to not engage the shooter earlier. i was misled. i m livid about what happened. texas governor, aiming his iron 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. after a damning new admissions from texas authorities they incident commander making the decision not to immediately enter the classroom the gunman was in. this was a barricaded subject there was time to retrieve the keys and wait for a tactical team with the equipment to go ahead and reach the door and take on the officials explained how the shooter got into the school. was propped open by a teacher. investigators clarified the timeline as police arrived. they went directly to the door and two received grazing wounds at that time from the suspect. while the door was closed. 11:37, there ....