good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle, and for the eighth consecutive night we start this evening s broadcast covering a, shooting another one. in a nation still reeling from massacres in buffalo and texas, it is happened yet again. this time on a hospital campus in tulsa, oklahoma. authorities say the suspect carried a rifle and a handgun into a medical building next to the hospital, and opened fire. the officers that did arrive, were hearing shots in the building, and that s what directed them to the second floor. right now we have four civilians that are dead, we have one shooter that is dead, and right now we believe that is self inflicted. officers have not been interviewed, but we are certain that say south inflicted gunshot wound on his part. this latest bloodshed comes after the school shooting in uvalde, texas, where 19 children and two teachers were brutally killed last tuesday, newly-obtained video shows that attack unfolding. we can see officers m
left 19 students and 2 teachers dead. in uvalde families continue the excruciating task of burying their loved ones, their children. today three little girls murdered in robb elementary will be laid to rest. all between just 10 and 11 years old. during the shooting, 17 others suffered life-threatening injuries. the tribune reported five of the wounded are still being treated in the hospital, including a 10-year-old girl who remains in serious condition. the gunman s own grandmother shot in the face before the school rampage, now slowly recovering. meanwhile, rear hearing from the uvalde mother who ran into the school to rescue her two children, her sons, after being handcuffed by law enforcement. nothing was being done. if anything, they were being more aggressive on us parents that were willing to go in there. as i told the officer, i don t need your protection. i need you to go in there with me to go protect my kids. if anything, they were being more aggressive on us. the
possible way forward on gun safety legislation. the senator leading those talks, chris murphy of connecticut, will join me a little later, but after yet another community has been devastated by yet another mass shoot, we twin the reidout tonight with a hard conversation about the gun because we need to understand how we got here, and we can in the avoid talking about the ar-15 and the industry that gives murderers the tools to success. former prosecutor ryan busy explained how the ar-15 conquered the american market. prior to about 2010 or 2012 there was never a gun sold in the united states commercial market that was desert tan color. now a significant percentage of guns are sold in desert tan color. why? iraq and afghanistan? adding about 1999 in the columbine shooting, the nra set its political course. we re in the culture war business. then you have these you have these wars happening, ar-15s, patriotism, islamophobia all of that in the culture at the same time. busy
chief of police for the uvalde school district who was incident commander that day, meaning the person authorities said made the decision to not have officers immediately go into that classroom and stop the shooter even though he knew it was an active shooter situation, he, according to our reports, has not responded to state investigators for two days. so keep that in mind as you listen to this recording obtained by kate, at ksat, went out 12:20 local time, in other words, as the shooting was happening and as police were standing nearby in a texas town for a tactical team to arrive, assemble, gear up, and then go in. no one was confronting the shooter during that time. police were standing outside. adjoining classrooms where kids were wounded, possibly dying still, and some hiding, smearing themselves with blood in order to appear dead as one girl did or calling 911 for help. those police officers were not going in. with uvalde ciac, uvalde ciac parents, there is an active
the funeral of 10-year-old rodriguez her classmates said she was brave and she was grabbing all the other student and telling them to hide before the gunman turned on her. she was so brave and courageous to tell the kids to hide. reporter: a heartbroken community attending five funerals today, four children and one teacher among the 21 killed. it s unclear during what point this video was taken. it was videotaped by a man who told cnn he heard the dispatch from a radio controlled border and customs control vehicle outside the school, adding new concerns about what law enforcement knew during that hour they were still waiting to enter the classroom. one border a patrol agent ran to the school when he heard about shots fired. the kids were jumping out through the window. reporter: at least two children called 911 multiple times begging police to come while the gunman was still inside their classroom. the information is flowing in, why doesn t dps have that informati