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this. if you look behind me, you can see the 21 crosses with the names of 19 little kids and two teachers killed in their classroom. 2 place they were supposed to be safe. what were learning about the police response raises some disturbing questions. police vealing nobody was there the try to stop the gunman when he got in through door that was apparently locked and he was inside for about an hour before he was killed. how can that happen? what happened? an hour when desperate parents ...

you want to do, then sandy hook happened and i cared. high school was bad enough. >> now this. >> when students are shooting students, you know, thats not understandable, its not forgivable, but how can somebody look at a nine-year-old and shoot them in the face? how can somebody do that? how can somebody have the capability to do that? it angers me beyond comprehension, and i have a lot of displaced anger right now, don, i really do. its just displaced so i should shut up, but its jus...

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 theyve lost. and were 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 dont know what he was thinking. he had his reasons for doing what did he and please dont judge him. i only want the...

challenges that are now surfacing that this killer had in his life. that lead to someone doing what he did. and then there will be all other kinds of issues, but there will be committees formed. there will be meetings held. there will be proposals that will be derived, many of which will lead to laws which will be passed in the state of texas, because let me make one thing perfectly clear. the status quo is unacceptable. this crime is unacceptable. were not going to be here talking abo...

happened. he fired at people across the street and as he approached the school as he approached the unlocked wack door. >> carley: he walked in 11:40 a.m. and made his way toward the classroom and carried out his attack. four minutes later, officers arrived on the scene and were met with gunfire inside the school. they took cover to wait for backup and evacuate other rooms. an hour later a special unit entered by force and shot the suspect dead. ashley strohmier has more. ashley. >> as...

to speak today in the senate in michigan. so, she will speak here, tonight, about her feelings on this. >> we need to give voice to the people who want solutions, that are prepared to do something. i look forward to seeing the interview, lawrence. have a good show. >> thank you. we >> it is time to die. that is what the murderer told children his before they started shooting them in their classrooms. it is time to die. with the official dispensers of information, by governor greg abbot...

>> thank you. >> it is time to die. that is what the murderer told children his before they started shooting them in their classrooms. it is time to die. with the official dispensers of information, by governor greg abbott, told us at. they didnt tell us that. there it is going to go with an eyewitness. an unnamed, nine-year-old boy. his parents didnt want him to be identified, but allowed him to be interviewed. the boy hid under a table that was covered with a tablecloth. that is why ...

the kids who lived and died there, the distraught parents and community trying to rally around them. a lot we havent learned yet, maybe we never will about motive behind this senseless killing and the police response and time line of what happened in small town on awards day at the end of the school year. all those families that will never be the same again. >> she was the sweetest little girl who did nothing wrong. she listened to her mom and dad. she always brushed her teeth. she was...

to purchase tobacco in texas to 21. and in 2021, the texas legislature lowered the able to purchase guns to 18. this individual who killed 19 of our children a day ago was 18 when he went and purchased those weapons. and thats because the legislature lowered the age in the state of texas. and so if we dont stand up for our kids, it happened in uvalde, but these are our children. if we dont protect them, who will? and the legislature passed house bill 1927, talking about the texas legis...

>> residents of uvalde, texas, are holding vigils for the 19 children and two teachers gunned down inside robb elementary school by an 18-year-old high school dropout. and people are leaving flowers and balloons at a makeshift memorial outside the school in the largely latino community not far from the border with mexico. and we are learning the names of some of the victims, mostly 9 and 10-year-old children. the justice of the peace in uvalde says some of the bodies are being released...