and moved and pushed forward immediately and continuously toward the threat until the room was entered and the threat was eliminated. that did not occur. cnn has been leading the way on the story, exposing details the authorities tried very hard to keep quiet. that is all thanks to cnn s shimon prokupecz and his team, who spent well over a year reporting on so many of the failures that are laid out now in this very government report. shimon, you are there, back in uvalde at this news conference, waiting for merrick garland to begin. this is all shocking to once again read. but again, it is all information that you pried out of officials right there on the ground in uvalde. reporter: yeah, it s different when you get to see it in such, as you say, a government report way. and the way it s laid out. and just how disturbing everything was here on that day. just from top to bottom, the mistakes from the response to the communication to the way they treated the victims who were
direct .com. good morning, everyone we do begin with breaking news this morning. alright you are looking at live pictures. there was breaking news out of louisville, kentucky . you see a huge police presence there. there are quote multiple casualties, according to police as they respond to an active aggressor officials, including the f are telling everyone to stay away from the area of 300 block of east main street. the mayor also urging the public to stay away from the area. we have now learned that this is a shooting that there are multiple people who are down, including a police officer. our cnn correspondent omar jimenez is following the developments as we watch them there live from our affiliate. w e. we are seeing a lot of police down there, and we re hearing that the governor may be on his way. what can you tell us? omar? that s right, sara. for starters, they are describing this as an active or as a shooting incident in downtown louisville. they had been describing it
thank you. it is time to die. that is what the murderer told children his before they started shooting them in their classrooms. it is time to die. with the official dispensers of information, by governor greg abbott, told us at. they didn t tell us that. there it is going to go with an eyewitness. an unnamed, nine-year-old boy. his parents didn t want him to be identified, but allowed him to be interviewed. the boy hid under a table that was covered with a tablecloth. that is why he s alive. a tablecloth. it had blocked the murderer from seeing this nine year old boy with under the table we. there was a door in the middle, he opened it, and he came in and, he crouch a little bit he said, it s time to die. when he shot, it was very loud, and it hurt my ears. when i saw the bullets on the floor, it was real. it is time to die. we it was real. the boy was hiding under the table with a friend, and he saw his teacher get shot, and killed. he saw another classmate getting
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identified him publicly. that will probably tell them a lot, which we will learn later as to the motive, but you also saw important steps. they tweeted out to the public. this is going on. stay away from that area. they tweeted out to the public when it was under control and still to stay away from the area. and for our standpoint within a very short time. they did a preliminary press conference. here s what we know. here s what we don t know. here s when we re coming back, and they re coming back again. within the next few minutes public this is ongoing and there s an ongoing threat or to alleviate what obviously is going to be quick and widespread anxiety that you know if it has , if it has come to a conclusion , but i mean, i think what we saw here is they used all the tools, you know that they had, whether they were social media director, mass media the immediate action rapid deployment response. um, this is unfortunately something that is well trained for, but really, unfortunatel