pacific. i am jose diaz-balart and president biden commemorates the historic gun safety law , the first of its kind in years. members of congress who voted for the bill and people who have been impacted by gun violence will be attending the ceremony. there are bipartisan measures for states to implement their own red flag laws and enhance background checks and mental health and cracking down on purchases. joining us with the latest, what is the message from the white house this morning? there was urgency with this important bipartisan legislation and that led to the president signing it into law without the ceremony we will see here today. there was the effort on the part of the white house to mark this moment as the most significant piece of gun safety legislation to be passed since president biden was senator. he wanted to mark this moment to celebrate with members of congress for getting this over the finish line but also families whose lives are impacted by this as well
the judiciary committee will examine one of the more serious threats facing america today, domesticy terrorism. this hearing comes just three weeks after one of the worst domestic attacks in recent memory, the shooting in buffalo new york. a white supremacist entered tops grocery store and massacred ten black americans in cold blood wounding three others. i want to read into the hearing record names we shouldn t forget. andre mcneil, aaron salter, geraldine, celestin cheney, heywood patterson catherine massey, pearl young and ruth whitfield. behind each of those names is a story. a loving grandmother of six, a sister caring for her six brother. every one of the victims that are left behind are grieving the loss. it is a lesson of courage and love. please know that you are not alone. and houses of worship we have enthe responsibility to do something. nearly nine in ten americans agree we need sensible gun laws reform in the country and we need it now. we often hear the questio
in uvalde, texas where president biden will be tomorrow, jeff to you. and the more we learn about the shooting, the more difficult it gets for in community to grasp what exactly happened at robb elementary school. despite what investigators had initially told the public. we learned the shooter was not confronted by anyone from the time he crashed his pickup truck and began shooting at the school. a minute before the suspected shooter crashed that truck, a teacher at the school had walked outside, propped open a door and then went back inside, and left that door propped open. we re learning that 19 officers stood in the hallway of the school for nearly an hour before a border patrol agent showed up with a master key he had found to open up the door to enter and then kill the suspect. and while the clock was ticking for that to happen. investigators disclosed children were calling 911 begging for operators to send in police to help. texas dps say the local incident commander
off. we have two other major stories we are following. as the nation mourns those killed in texas more victims of the mass shooting in buffalo, new york are laid to rest. vice president kamala harris attending a funeral for one of the 10 people killed in a racist attack at a supermarket earlier this month. memorial day weekend kicking off the summer travel season but sky high gas prices have many people thinking twice about hitting the road. wait until you see the prices, christina coleman, we begin with jeff paul who has the latest from texas. reporter: the more we learn about this mass shooting the harder it gets for this community to understand what happens, despite prior reporting by investigators we are learning the suspect was not confronted by anyone as he entered this school. texas dps investigators are saying a teacher a minute before the suspect crashed his truck into a ditch near the school went outside, propped open the door and went back inside the school. we a
tomorrow to meet with victims of this week s mass school shooting part however along with the morning and anguish there are now angry mounting calls for action people want to know what in the world happened in the small community after we all learned that 19 police officers waited more than 45 minutes in a hallway outside the classroom. leaving students and teachers trapped inside with a gunman armed with an assault rifle. arthel: so many questions, jeff paul is live with more questions were. days of sadness and frustration are now turning into anger for many people here in this community and uvalde texas after law enforcement community admit mistakes were made for texas investigators saying they now know there are children in the classroom with the shooter for nearly an hour who might have been helped. this all goes back to investigators saying the local incident commander at the time about the situation has shifted from an active shooter investigation into a barricaded su