footage the statesman writes, arrendondo is trying to find keys to open the classroom doors even though officials say they do not believe officers tried to open either door. the texas tribune reports, officers held their positions outside adjoining classrooms as the gunman fired aft least three more times. the tribune released a surveillance picture, 12:04 p.m., that shows multiple officers with at least two ballistic shields. police would not enter the classroom for another 46 minutes. in transcripts reviewed by the tribune, officers were growing impatient. one agent asks, are there still kids in the classroom? to which another agent answers, it is unknown at this time. the agent replies, you all don t know if there s kids in there? if there s kids in there, we need to go in there. the other agent responds, whoever is in charge will determine that. all of those officers are trained in an active shooter situation. and from the very beginning, even the ones that didn t hav
first glimpse. with regard to the responding officers, as you mentioned, this deepens the question about the total police response and why they did not act sooner to try to take down the gunman. according to investigators and other people who have looked at this photograph, they are baffled as to why police did not act sooner, knowing that they had in their minds, in the minds of people who have reviewed this evidence, that they had not only the sufficient equipment but sufficient firepower to try to breach that classroom door. because it wasn t a pistol of theirs versus an ar-15-style rifle of his, right? they were matching him on firepower. well, brianna, that s actually a very good point. initially i think the public, to some extent, was led to believe that those early responding officers and while it may be true for the earliest responding officers, but i think the public was led to believe that officers and those early minutes only had pistols, as a matter of fact i
More than 800 days into the covid pandemic american children under the age of 5 can finally receive their vaccination, some as early as today. president biden will be visiting a vaccine clinic alongside the first lady this afternoon. and cnn s suzanne malveaux is joining us from a clinic in washington, d.c. where i hope some parents there have some ideas about how they re going to manage minimizing the tears with the vaccines for this very momentous occasion, suzanne. reporter: well, brianna, you and i both have little ones so we want to tell you might hear a little cry in the background as some of these folks are getting their vaccines for the very first time. but, yes, it is a big deal here. this is at children s national, and this is the very first time that those under 5 will be able to be vaccinated. we know the need is tremendous. 17 million children in that age category who have not been vaccinated for covid-19. couple of challenges here they
It s here. from this moment on, tony, there is 58 minutes until they breach the door. what else have you learned about that period? well, not only were there 58 minutes, john, but at the same time there was even more equipment arriving. it wasn t as though this was all they had and they waited 58 minutes. during that nearly one-hour period, additional ballistic shields were arriving, additional officers with rifles, and high powered weapons were arriving. i do want to say that initially a group of responding officers in the earliest minutes of what transponded did try to breach the door according to video. they were blown back. but then after that, you truly don t see much of an organized concerted effort among law enforcement you see in the security video then try to take other action. we know that they were talking
Questioned the plan, as confusion delayed the breaching of the classroom with kids still inside. joining us now is tony puletski, an investigative reporter at the austin statesman. i want to put the photo up on the screen. you see 11:52 a.m., you see a ballistic shield, two rifles there, explain exactly what we re looking at, the significance of it, and place it in the overall timeline. well, it is hugely significant for a number of reasons. for the first time we are now seeing inside that hallway and inside that school where this all happened, of course. if you re like me, we have all kind of been picturing what it might have looked like inside that school, but i think these new images are giving us now our