captions by vitac www.vitac.com it is just after 9:00 p.m. eastern time, 8:00 here in uvalde, texas, outside robb elementary school. the community held a prayer vigil tonight. i want to play you video that occurred a moment ago as people there listened to amazing grace. [ crying ] a community in mourning. we ve spoken with parents of some of the young children killed here. most of them ten years old. and told some of their stories. there s so much we still don t know. we don t know the names of all the 19 children who were murdered here. we ll try to bring them to you as we learn them. there is still so much we don t know about what happened behind me inside this school and outside, as the shooter first got on the scene. we don t know, we re not going to speculate. so, we begin the hour with what we do know and cnn s ed lavandera. ed, so, there is, as i said, a lot we don t know. talk a little bit about where the investigation is. one of the key things we l
he was in the building 40 minutes for an hour barricaded in two classrooms before he was shot and killed by border patrol agent. we re learning about the li lives of the 19 children and 2 teachers one is a wife and mother of four and. died shielding students from gunfire. irma garcia. garza was just 10 years old he talked about how he learned was never going to come home from school i got confirmation that she was trying to call authorities and i guess he just shot her. how do you look at this girl and shoot her? oh, my baby. i miss my baby. all of the dead were in the same fourth grade classroom all 19 young lives described as precious, their teachers dedicated and carrying. more now reporter: 21 lives brutally cut short and 21 family shattered by act of violence all too common in the united states. 19 thank gone just days before the start of the summer break, none yet out of 4th grade, like 10-year-old uzia garcia who s uncle called him a great kid and full of life
residents of uvalde, texas, are holding vigils for the 19 children and two teachers gunned down inside robb elementary school by an 18-year-old high school dropout. and people are leaving flowers and balloons at a makeshift memorial outside the school in the largely latino community not far from the border with mexico. and we are learning the names of some of the victims, mostly 9 and 10-year-old children. the justice of the peace in uvalde says some of the bodies are being released to funeral homes as families make their arrangements. more now on the investigation from cnn s jason carol. reporter: 11:21 a.m., the time stamp from a text message the gunman sent saying he s just shot his grandmother. the gunman was 18 years old and reportedly a high school dropout. reportedly there has been no criminal history identified yet. there was no known mental health history of the gunman. reporter: soon after that text message to a girl ramos met online, another one saying he w
Everybody. Breaking out this hour you have 75,000 Healthcare Workers going on strike. Seems the thing to do in america today. It is happening at dozens of hospitals across five states that include virginia, california. Among those on strike are the nurses and technicians they say they are understaffed and underpaid. More on this story as we get it right now. A live look in los angeles. Meanwhile you have a country in crisis at least in washington, d. C. , anyway. In a fight in Congress Puts us at a stand still. A group of house republicans, small group, siding with democrats to rip the gavel out of Kevin Mccarthys hands. He is no longer speaker. The country plunged into uncharted territory and puts the issues Americans Care about the most on hold. Good morning. Dana is off today. Im bill hemmer and this is martha maccallum. Martha were in uncharted territory to be sure. We didnt get on the air yesterday. I was watching this untold. I havent seen a debate like that in a long time. Well
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