good evening, jeff. yeah, bret. after days of growing frustration within this community here in uvalde, texas, law enforcement now says mistakes were made. for the first time on the record, texas dps investigators admitting that there were kids inside the classroom with the shooter as the clock was ticking that might have been helped. people hindsight now that of course it was not the right decision. a wrong decision. there is no excuse for that. but, again, i wasn t there. i m just telling you from what we know we believe this should have been an entry as soon as you can. hey, when there is an active shooter the rules change. it s no longer, okay, it s no longer a barricaded. you don t have time. you don t worry about outer perimeters. we are also learning today the shooter entered through open door that had been propped open by a teacher. investigators also say most of the shots being fired in the first few minutes the local incident commander at the time of the shoot
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Class today. They hoping the added security might ease the anxiety by students and parents. Reporter first graders at District Heights lamar start the morning discussing a story like any other day. Then, something different. At this time, were going have a moment of silence. Reporter silence to remember school kids just like themselves who never made it out of sandy hook elementary on december 14th. Its a tough day for parents and staff. A moment of silence is our way of honoring the people that have lost their lives. This is a horrible event. This is our way of joining our nation and grieving for their loss. Reporter what happened in connecticut is something every school hopes not to confront and has to prepare for. In Prince Georges County and across the nation, you saw a paradigm shift in the way we handle active threat mitigations after columbine. Our goal was to come and stabilize the situation. Now, we understand that our roll error very to go in and mitigate that threat. Reporte
Up next on a second look, Mass Shootings in the united states. Over the past quarter century. What do so many have in common. High capacity magazine rifles. Thats our story on a second look. Today we revisit the question of high capacity magazine use. In a number of Mass Shootings the gunmen followed high capacity magazines. At newtown connecticut, adam lanza had several magazines holding 30 round a piece. At aurora colorado, james holmes used a drum holding 100 rounds and shot 72 people in a movie theater, 12 of them died. In tucson arizona, Jared Laughner used a high capacity magazine. A gunman with an ak47 rifle opened fire at a schoolyard in stockton. Here are our reports at the time from Randy Shandobil and lloyd lacuesta. It was lunchtime. First second and third graders out in the schoolyard eating, jumping rope, playing ball. No warning whatever. Just, pow, pow, pow, pow. Did the man say anything or was he just shooting . Just shooting. Not a word from him, just shooting. What d
Much a fight for the majority whip still in the hospital this morning in Critical Condition. Overnight we learned that he had received multiple blood transfusions and will still need additional surgery to recover from that single gunshot wound that went into his hip and then through his pelvis. The president returned about 10 00 p. M. Last night here to the white house from visiting scalise and his family at the hospital. There you can see the president walking out, shaking hands with doctors. The president tweeting just left hospital left Steve Scalise is in very tough shape but he is a real fighter. Pray for steve. Earlier the president said this. Congressman scalise is a very good friend. Sea patriot, and he is a fighter. He will recover from this assault. America is praying for you. And america is praying for all of the victims of this terrible shooting. And of the others injured, in addition to scalise, four others of the two Capital Police officers. One has been treated and relea