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from msnbc world headquarters in new york. welcome everybody to alex witt reports. welcome to breaking news from uvalde, texas. this is what it looks like outside robb elementary school today. 21 crosses, one for each person killed and the deadliest school shooting in a decade. -- also, growing outrage to the police response to the shooting in the heartbreaking details of children calling 9-1-1 begging them to police and the police now. grief stricken parents and state officials are an...

said today. the admission of a string of police failures including driving right by the gunman, ever how one girl cowering inside the cool called 911 five times. 20 officers stood in the hallway outside of the classrooms but it wasnt until 12:50 that the classroom was breached using keys from a janitor. mcgraw said the on-seen commander believed that this was a barricaded subject situation and did not think that there were more children at risk. he was then overwhelmed with reporters d...

anyone, it never happened. it took up to an hour for the gunman killed during that time police were negotiating with the suspect keeping his pinned but later said they didnt know his exact location for immediate take down and video outside the school show parents pleading with police to enter and save the kids and one woman put in handcuffs and another tackled by police and thrown to a ground and a third pepper sprayed. >> as a father i would have just went in. i dont need nobody tell ...

here is what we are told so far. it was 11:28 a.m. with the crash happen appear at the shooter exited the vehicle and began firing his gun at onlookers across the street. he also fired at the outside of the school as he approached the unlocked backdoor. >> todd: he walked in without any resistance 11:40 a.m. and made his way to the classroom to carry out his attack. 40 minutes later, the officers arrived on the scene and then we are told they took cover to wait for backup and ordered t...

11:27 a.m. before the suspect entered the school, he immediately unleashed more than 100 rounds, shortly after that, three officers entered the school and two of them were immediately grazed by the gunmans bullets. >> john: according to texas dps, as many as 19 officer gathered in the hallway as of 12:03:00 p.m. no effort was made to breach the door of the classroom until 40 minutes later. law enforcement facing questions and criticism over the amount of time that passed before they st...

school. with us, we have the host of "way too early" and white house bureau chief at "politico," jonathan lemire. special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay. and special contributor mike barnicle. we begin this morning with the questions about the police response to the shooting in uvalde. some of the key details provided by texas officials in the first 48 hours after the attack have turned out to be inaccurate. here is what has changed. texas officials first said the attacker exc...

uvalde, texas, community. theres no details here about the police response at robb elementary. police called and waited for back-up and tactical teams. those teams didnt arrive until an hour later. were now hearing from the shooters family. our correspondent spoke to the gunmans grandfather about the tragedy. [speaking foreign language] tragedy. [speaking foreign language >> the shooters grandfather sending blessings to the family and facts. he also criticized the gun laws that allowed...

realistic hope right now, as we sit here, that this time will be different? >> greg abbott would like us all to think that this is a mental health problem, every expert will tell you that these people -- that there are no indicators of mental health. that theyre rational people, that they plan these things out. theyre psychopaths, sure. but youre never going to really truly isolate them and identify them beforehand. and the experts around the country suggest that. theres mental health ...

many as 19 officers were in the school hallway. a student inside the class with the shooter calls 911, whispering on the phone. the tactical unit requested by those officers arrived. thats when the student called back and said there are kids still alive. 12:16, 911 operators know there are kids alive in the room. the shooter fires again. at one point 19 officers in the building according to dps. 20 minutes later, another 911 call begging police to get there now. 12:50, a tactical team ...

sean, i cant even begin to express what an enormous loss this community has suffered here today and here at this vigil at the fair play here in valge county and the families that came here to honor the 19 children that died came here. they said a broken heart with just a need to be together in a time off mourning. you can see everybody leaving right now. weve got t a lot of crowd behid us . but i got to tell you, sean, earlier today it didnt matter where i went in this town. people wer...