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several private messages on facebook in the 30 minutes leading up to the massacre. one message referred to shooting his own grandmother. another about attacking an elementary school. >> julie: a short time later he entered the school through a back door and went into a fourth grade classroom, barricaded himself and opened fire. a border patrol agent from an elite unit rushed into the shooter killing the student. >> bill: we have heard from many anguished parents waiting for news of the...

the video shows frantic and frustrated parents demanding they be let into the school. police keeping the distraught family members behind a perimeter as the shooting unfolds inside. its still unclear when in the whole event cycle this video was shot. >> sandra: texas officials have yet to deliver a clear timeline of what exactly happened and when. we do know the gunman got into that school through an unlocked entrance, responding officers were met by heavy gunfire and the suspect barri...

school. while there is an overwhelming sense of sorrow, there is a hunger for answers. there are new questions this morning as investigators piece together what happened. centering on the timeline of events. the texas department of public safety says the suspect was on the premises for about 40 minutes. a school resource officer, they say, confronted him, but the suspect kept going, entered the school, walked into a double classroom, locked the door, and began shooting. video has emerg...

>> im going to go into the gate and get them! >> [ bleep ] [ bleep ] >> you know that there are kids, right? they dont know how to defend themselves! >> we should note its unclear exactly at what point this video occurred, and what actions that law enforcement was taking at this moment. we have reached out to the department of safety and the director previously said the government was engaged immediately, and two officers were wounded, meanwhile, the suspects neighbor is sharing new de...

their pain. today, big questions about the delayed police response. why didnt the school guard fire a shot? why was the schools door unlocked? why did it take an hour for a tactical team to break in? this new video shows parents outside the school while the gunman was still barricaded with the children and their teachers inside. the associated press reporting one parent who lost his daughter said authorities were unprepared and not moving quickly enough. law enforcement officials say t...

what, if anything, will they do? will anything actually change in this moment as weve asked every single time before. the parents of these 19 children, the loved ones of all 21 deserve answers to these questions and they deserve action. were talking about people like stephen garcia and jennifer lugo. their daughter ellie was killed in gold blood, a little girl so excited about the pool party she was going to have for her tenth birthday next week. >> sweetest girl youve ever had the cha...

tuesday, but the gunman was not killed until just after 1 p.m. initially the texas department of public safety said the resource officer at the school fired at the gunman but steve mcgraw, director of the texas dps said he did not. >> it was a brave, independent school district resource officer that approached him, engaged him. at that time gun fire was not, changed. confronted him. he followed him right in immediately. >> so if this version of events is accurate, that means an armed s...

desperation and anguish as families are dealing with enormous emotions. 19 children at least are dead and two adults as well. good morning. dana has time off. im bill hemmer live in new york. julie, welcome back to our program. >> good morning. im julie banderas and youre watching "americas newsroom." >> this scene a horrific scene at the robb elementary school. about 80 miles west of san antonio, officials saying the shooter barricaded himself inside a classroom. officials say the vic...

small tight knit community about 18,000 people. it describes itself as the cross roads to hill country. now, now the people here nearly 80% latino, many stretching back for generations reeling from the horrors of one of the worst school shootings in u.s. history. at least 19 children and two teachers were murdered. in the wake of horror like this, we often hear the word unimaginable but here its almost as this is becoming easier and easier to imagine tragedies like this although ive go...

know needs to be done? >> this is "andrea mitchell reports" in washington. its devastating. another school shooting. 19 children, two teachers, 21 families suffering unspeakable losses. the worst school shooting in texas history and the nations deadliest mass shooting since the sandy hook tragedy a decade ago. the victims, teachers and four of the 19 children identified as fourth graders. a devastating loss for their families, their community. 10-year-old xavier lopezs mother told "the...