earlier they paid respect at a memorial in front of a school and attended mass. the justice department did announce it is officially investigated the law enforcement response to the shooting in uvalde. that is where we find jeff paul tonight. hi, jeff. this community is very much in the beginning stages of morning after this unthinkable loss. a big part of the reason why joe biden and first lady jill biden are here today to try to comfort the community after losing 19 kids into teachers. the president made his first stop that robb elementary school, the scene of this mass shooting. they were met with a bipartisan group of politicians including governor greg abbott in the city s mayor. while at the school, some protesters shouted at governor abbott telling them to do something that may prevent such a tragedy from occurring again. motorcades then made it to a nearby catholic church for mass. afterwards a crowd caught chanting at the president do something over and over. presi
for the victims of the deadly mass shooting at robb elementary school. they also met with families as well as community and faith leaders. in the meantime the u.s. justice department announces it will conduct an independent review of the law enforcement response to the shooting. the d.o.j. says that review comes at the request of you alls mayor. jeff has the latest there. in this community, there very much in the beginning stages of grieving. they have come to terms with the unthinkable loss, that is a big reason why president joe biden first lady jill biden are here to comfort the city that just lost 19 kids into teachers. the president make his first stop at robb elementary school, that is the scene of the mass shooting, they were joined by a bipartisan group of politicians. that included texas governor greg abbott and uvalde s mayor. some protesters shouted at greg abbott to do something with legislation that might prevent a tragedy from occurring again. the motorcade ma
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