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baltimore police commissioner. nice to have you with us. i know you have been following this from the very beginning. i want to start with d.o.j. said. quote, the goal of the review is to provide an independent account of law enforcement actions and responses that day and to identify lessons learned and best practices to help first responders prepare and to respond to active shooter events. weve seen these types of reviews before in pulse, in san bernardino. where do they ultimately le...

do something. >> president biden responding to the shouts of "do something" with quote, we will, we will. of course, we are covering all the angles, lucy cavanaugh is focusing on a country seeking answers. lets begin with you, lucy, at that memorial, uvaldes town square so many families are suffering with trauma and heart break. how did the community respond to the president and governor? >> reporter: well, the focus, people la, is really on the victims, the 19 little boys and girls wh...

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...

happened here on tuesday, and im here at a makeshift memorial in the town square in view yauld. it has just been teaming with people coming to pay their respects. people coming from all over texas, really, all over the country, to give gifts -- i saw a woman who was a teacher who brought a cart full of stuffed animals for the families coming to pay their respects to lay at each individual cross that was put here for each individual person murdered, and that is 21 people. 19 children, o...

Beings and parents themselves, its taking a toll, and like you said, its not their first mass shooting. lets watch. >> get the glide scope in there, please. >> reporter: at san antonios university health hospital. >> all of us would be in a level one if one came out. >> blood bank is on their way. >> reporter: doctors and nurses prepare to receive the most critically wounded. its one of the busiest trauma centers in the nation. and cnn got exclusive access inside as pediatric trauma medical dire...

An emotional interview. a doctor opening up about the impact, but not one, but two mass shootings have had on her staff, on herself and her family. cnns lucy kafanov got access to san antonio university hospital, where several victims were taken. >> get the glide scope in there, please. >> reporter: at san antonios university health hospital , doctors and nurses prepare to receive the most critically wounded. it is one of the busiest trauma centers in the nation. as cnn got exclusive access insi...

Landing system on the runway may be key, called the glide scope, the gps system that glides planes in. right before that runway theres a hill and seconds before the crash the cockpit alarm went off saying sink rate, meaning the plane is descending too fast, seven seconds later hit trees and struck the hill. for context youll remember back in san francisco, at tasiana aircraft in july that airport did not have the glide working. >> do we know how long it was before they got the big main runway op...

Flight as mike indicates, started earlier. what were they doing? well listen to it. there are checklists, approach plans to review. they should review the notams that are out. notice to airmans that say the glide slope it off. we will find out, i think, that these pilots didnt do a very thorough approach and got behind the plane. and by the time the stick shaker goes off, its too late. >> the glide scope, a radio beam that shows you how the approach should take place. ive read, and im not a pilo...

777 a number of years ago and he said to me you almost have to purposely try to crash this thing because its built with so many redundant systems, such a great aircraft, its really built to try to, you know, ensure that even if you make a mistake it compensates for you. what happened in this crash? nobody knows yet for sure. >> nbcs tom costello, thank you. steve ratner, the redundant systems that tom was talking about, not only on the plane but on the ground as well. there were issues on the gr...

Brain so we can learn from it. >> are there not redundant systems that would have flashed -- if everything were working well that would have flashed and said too steep, too slow? wouldnt that have been in place? >> well, you know, there are a lot of systems that help support the pilots as they come into airports especially busy ones like this one at san francisco. theres been a discussion about the glide scope being out of service. but there are a number of other tools available to the pilots, s...