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day. the district police chief made the decision to hold officers back from the robb elementary classroom. the shooter locked himself inside. now we know those officers waited for nearly 80 minutes. it was a terrifying nearly hour and a half for the entire school. here is what one teacher told her students to do when she heard the gunfire. she spoke with our ore morgan chesky. >> i just kept hearing boom, boom, boom. it kept going off for what felt like an eternity. >> reporter: as the...

texas with the latest. hello jeff. >> mike, present joe biden first lady joe biden are doing something many people this community and probably throughout this country are doing today. especially given what just happened a few days ago. they are going to church, theyre going to mass as they pray. and trying to make sense of an unthinkable thing that happened. they are greeted by governor greg abbott is a bipartisan group of politicians. went over too robb elementary school where they pa...

tenth grade biology class, co2, co2, hmm, dont trees consume co2 for photosynthesis? quick google check. how about we plant a whole lot more trees across the country and across the world? that seems like a natural solution with lots of upside, trees are beautiful, and might help fight global warming. oh, but no, there is a problem with that idea. planting more trees might help solve climate change, but it definitely will not enrich your donors. trees are cheap. it is hard to make money...

with the states top law-enforcement official cult that delay quote the wrong decision. meantime present biden first lady jill biden will visit the devastated community tomorrow to console families and mourn the victims. jeff paul is live in uvalde with more. >> days of sadness now turning into anger for this community after law enforcement is admitting mistakes were made. one of those being the local on-site incident commander who was in charge at the time change the response from a ma...

to have captured a strategic town. tributes are paid to the 19 children and two teachers killed in the texas school shooting, as parents criticise the police for not taking faster action against the gunman. excuse me, sir. i supposed to move? how one man is taking a supermarket to court for refusing entry to his assistance cat. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc�*s lunchtime news. nottingham university hospitals nhs trust has been ordered to make significant and immediate improvem...

teachers were slaughtered. they took no action to get into those classrooms as they waited for more equipment. we pressed for more of an explanation, and the response was devastating. listen. >> reporter: sir, you have people who are alive, children who are calling 9-1-1 saying please, send the please. they are alive in that classroom. there are lives that are at risk. thats not protocol, is it? >> were well aware of that. >> reporter: right, but why was this decision made not to go in...

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 ...

welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. ukraine produces enough grain every year to feed 400 million people. along with russia, it exports one third of the worlds entire wheat harvest. or at least it should. but russias blockade of ukrainian ports means millions of tonnes of grain are going nowhere, prompting the head of the uns world food programme to call it a "declaration of war on global food security", that could push tens of millions of people into severe f...

bringing the total to 15. scientists say they are still unsure whats causing the outbreak but they believe it can be transmitted between humans, as well as from animals to humans. now on bbc news, dateline london. hello and welcome to the programme that brings together leading uk columnists, bbc specialists and the foreign correspondents who write, blog and broadcast to audiences back home from the dateline — london. its been a week either of sequels — or of re—runs. in the uk, w...

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