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Well, this new body camera footage, what it shows is an officer walking towards the west entrance, thats the same entrance that the shooter entered, and there is a texas dps officer, and the time code is 11:37:51 that morning. thats four minutes and 51 seconds after the shooter entered and that trooper was already there. it is unclear exactly when he actually arrived on scene, but i did go back to the testimony by colonel mccraw that he gave the senate last month and he stated that that particul...

Days after launch. those are "5 things" to know for your "new day." dont forget to download the "5 things" podcast every morning, go to cnn.com/5things and find it wherever you get your podcasts. this morning, new police body cam video reveals a texas state trooper was on the scene of the elementary school shooting in uvalde five minutes earlier than previously known. cnns rosa flores live in san antonio with the latest on this. what is going on here, rosa? >> reporter: well, you know, john,...

Texas DPS Director McCraw revealed critical school safety violations that contributed to the shooter's access to Robb Elementary School.

Save my daughter or any of the other kids. >> rosa flores joins us again this morning. rosa, did we learn anything about why higher ranking officers, right, we learned there were eight law enforcement agencies represented that day outside that school, and inside, do we know why higher ranking officers from other units did not at some point assume command? >> reporter: you know, senators asked colonel -- excuse me. sorry. were having technical difficulties, poppy. senators asked colonel steven mc...

And control group. so what were those guys doing? those are the guys that are accountable to the legislature. and thats where my concern lies. i know that colonel mccraw wants to point the finger at pete arredondo. pete arredondo, i dont know him, has all the responsibility in the world. so does dps and every other agency on the ground. >> the uvalde mayor, don mclaughlin, as he laid out the timeline of events, he accused texas department of public safety colonel steven mccraw about lying about ...

We know the classroom door was not locked. it was open. this is relevant because the cops say they had been waiting for a key, colonel steve mccraw acknowledged there was effectively no lockdown at all in the school. do we know how responding law enforcement got this basic fact so wrong? do we know? >> no. unfortunately, jim, there is still a whole lot we dont know. yesterdays hearing left probably more unanswered questions. were focusing a lot on these doors. i think thats what some people in t...

Scene, why did those members did not -- do no -- did not take control of the scene. why if they saw that this was such a debacle, why these other law enforcement officers didnt take control, rush into this classroom, and save these children. what colonel mccraw said was that it is practice and protocol for the highest ranking officer of the jurisdiction, in this case, the school district, for that individual to be the commander of the incident, to take command, to take control. and i checked on ...

The texas department of public safety colonel steve mccraw. and i think you can describe it as disgust, right? you can hear it in his voice. in his words he said the on scene commander chose to put the lives of officers before the lives of children. >> yeah. yeah, you could hear when he said one hour, 14 minutes, 8 seconds, those children in the room, 111, essentially said had nothing and then as we bring our rosa flores in here who has been digging and digging for weeks for answers, rosa, the f...

Right now the texas state senate is listening to testimony from the uvalde school shooting, moments ago colonel steve mccraw, the director of the texas department of public safety, gave a compelling statement. listen to what he had to say. >> senators, steve mccraw, director of texas department of public safety. as senator gutierrez noted, it has been 28 days since the senseless massacre at robb elementary school. much has been done, but much more needs to be done before this investigation is co...

Columbine. and, of course, we all have learned this, because we have been covering the stories, and that is when there is an active shooter, law enforcement go and stop the threat. period. and that is exactly what didnt happen here in uvalde. thats why the anger, the heart break is pal posspable in this community because they have been getting drips and drabs of information. the story has changed multiple times and now this is the latest episode in this story, with colonel mccraw delivering this...