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good morning. and welcome to your "new day." it is sunday, may 29th. were grateful that youre starting your week with us. im boris sanchez, live from uvalde, texas. >> im christi paul. boris, there in uvalde, youve seen people just even last hour at 5:00 a.m. where you are come out to that memorial that is behind you. and youre probably standing in a place where youre soon going to see at some point today president biden. >> potentially, yeah. youre right. president biden headed to uva...

can the press help get to the truth? and a dismissive response to senator chuck schumers plea for change. and, later, why afghanistan needs to stay in the news. two afghan news anchors are going to join us live from kabul with another oppressive taliban ruling. breaking news this hour. president biden about to land in texas. it is his second trip to the site of a mass killing in as many weeks. the president and first lady will be landing in san antonio this hour. then theyre goin...

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inaccurate. and i am absolutely livid about that. >> and gun owners, lawmakers and former president trump gather at an nra event in nearby houston with protesters outside. washington begins yet another conversation about elusive gun reform legislation. >> we are going to try to work through this and see if we can find a common ground for chris west republican congressman mo brooks has an a rating from the nra and is a roma for the republican nomination for senate and alabama the divide...

texas. they will make a visitor robb elementary school, paying the respects of course to the elementary school, the memorial has been built up around that school there. theyll then move on to sacred heart. and a ten mass for an hour long service there. paying their respects to the community. and then it is the task that a president takes on every single time a mass shooting like this happens. and it is visiting with the victims and the victims families. paying their respects. this pres...

shooter. they ran past. went back inside. >> what were you thinking as you were hiding in that bathroom for so long? >> i think i was just like, trying to be still. not like, -- just crying in my head, saying, dont make any noise. >> in the span of ten days, to 18 year old man allegedly killed 31 people 19 of them children, in two separate mass shootings on opposite ends of the country. the shooters in both massacres, a lot and they won in uvalde, texas uvalde, texas, legally purchased...

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>> we dont understand exactly what happened, but i think that they should have gone in and secured that -- >> are you saying that your brother went inside when he first arrived at the school and stayed inside and did not retreat as some have suggested? >> right. they did not retreat, and so the shooter was down. they were in there that entire time. >> a bit of hindsight where im sitting now, of course it was not the right decision, it was the wrong decision. there is no excuse for that...

people outside 12 minutes before he went inside. we also have extremely emotional video of parents gathered outside robb elementary while the shooting was happening. some were screaming as you can hear at police to storm the building and save their children. vigils and memorials are giving families and the community a chance to grieve, but nothing will bring back the 21 people that they have lost. and were hearing now fror the first time from the mother of the gun man. >> translator: i...

case and some directly contradict the story that authorities first told, this is the time line of the attack as we understand it now. authorities now say at 11:28 a.m. tuesday, the gunman crashed his truck and fired his rifle at two people across the street. at 11:40, 12 minutes later, the gun than fired toward the school building and then walked in through an unlocked door. he was not confronted by a school resource officer which is directly contradictory to what officials had been te...