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a-plus. still got it. (whistle blows) your money never stops working for you with merrill, a bank of america company. top of the hour on cnn newsroom, im victor blackwell. >> and im alisyn camerota. there was a gut wrenching admission from texas officials about the police response to the massacre of 19 children and two teachers in uvalde. >> in the benefit of hindsight, where im sitting now, of course it was not the right decision. it was the wrong decision, period. theres no excuse ...

with gunshots going off. >> and the trauma this entire ordeal is leaving on such young children. their parents and a nation wishing to wipe away the pain. >> welcome to "the lead." im pamela brown in for jake tapper. we start today with an absolutely devastating admission about the school shooting in uvalde, texas. >> for the benefit of hindsight, where im sitting now, of course, it was not the right decision. it was the wrong decision, period. >> that statement coming from the thead o...

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...

world, i am jim acosta, wolf blitzer is off, you are in "the situation room." >> the fallout is just beginning after the stunning admission by police in texas that a wrong decision was made in response of the schools massacre. governor abbott saying he was misled. our correspondent has our report from uvalde, texas. >> i was misled. i >> tonight, greg abbott aiming his anger at law enforcement. >> my expectation is that the law enforcement leaders that are leading the investigations wh...

for instance, officials initially said an officer had engaged the gunman before he entered the school. but now were being told that is not true. in fact, the shooter was outside the school for about 12 minutes before entering through an unlocked door. >> bill: all that adding to the confusion after police waited for about an hour before entering the classroom and killing the shooter. texas dps on the front lines of the investigation. the shifting timelines, the shifting facts were the ...

11:27 a.m. before the suspect entered the school, he immediately unleashed more than 100 rounds, shortly after that, three officers entered the school and two of them were immediately grazed by the gunmans bullets. >> john: according to texas dps, as many as 19 officer gathered in the hallway as of 12:03:00 p.m. no effort was made to breach the door of the classroom until 40 minutes later. law enforcement facing questions and criticism over the amount of time that passed before they st...

wounding several more. 11-year-old survivor says shes terrified of men after what she went through. she didnt want to speak on camera. were going to play for you what the child explained what happened that day. were going to tell you, its going to be hard to hear. its real, its important. >> the 11-year-old miah was in the 4th grade classroom that was in the room, she said they were watching lilo and stitch. the end of the school year. they finished lessons and one of the teachers got ...

uvalde, texas, community. theres no details here about the police response at robb elementary. police called and waited for back-up and tactical teams. those teams didnt arrive until an hour later. were now hearing from the shooters family. our correspondent spoke to the gunmans grandfather about the tragedy. [speaking foreign language] tragedy. [speaking foreign language >> the shooters grandfather sending blessings to the family and facts. he also criticized the gun laws that allowed...

realistic hope right now, as we sit here, that this time will be different? >> greg abbott would like us all to think that this is a mental health problem, every expert will tell you that these people -- that there are no indicators of mental health. that theyre rational people, that they plan these things out. theyre psychopaths, sure. but youre never going to really truly isolate them and identify them beforehand. and the experts around the country suggest that. theres mental health ...

many as 19 officers were in the school hallway. a student inside the class with the shooter calls 911, whispering on the phone. the tactical unit requested by those officers arrived. thats when the student called back and said there are kids still alive. 12:16, 911 operators know there are kids alive in the room. the shooter fires again. at one point 19 officers in the building according to dps. 20 minutes later, another 911 call begging police to get there now. 12:50, a tactical team ...