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the family members the heartbreaking hallway surveillance video of the school shooting, which this surveillance video was leaked to a texas newspaper and published earlier in the week last week. cnns shimon propose pez and rosa flores joining us now from uvalde, texas. shimon, you have obtained a copy of this report. tell us what you can so far. >> reporter: well, right off the top its very clear that this committee found -- and i think this is significant -- that the blame as to what ...

shimon, youve obtained the report and read it. tell us what youve learned. >> reporter: the lackadaisical response, they talk about how there was no command, no control, no leadership essentially on the scene of the shooting. it was just truly chaos, every officer doing their own thing. were also learning what the police chief, the school police chief, pete arredondo, told the committee. he appeared before the committee. he explained his thinking. he said at one point he didnt believe ...

Even criminality, and at the sam same time, does it also absolve this school police chief pete arredondo because there were multiple agencies, multiple leaders who this report says failed? >> well, i doubt if it absolves anybody of anything at this point and whether or not anything rises to a criminal level, im not an attorney and i cant really comment on that, and i havent really read the report. but obviously it raises a lot of questions that have to be addressed and fixed. whether its crimina...

Its never going to happen to them, what i always say is anyone whos ever been a victim, when they woke up that day, they didnt think they were going to be a victim. we have to empower ourselves, step up, be proactive with our police department and city and state leaders and say how are you going to help us help ourselves. >> and, chief, theres shared blame, right, and this new report underscores that. but of all these 300 law enforcement people who responded, whether it be the local level, uvald...

Decisions. while this report does not find that to necessarily be the case, they say there was no leadership on site during the shooting. they say there was lackadaisical approach by authorities. they say that there were shortcomings and failures on the school. theyre also putting some of the blame on the school, and ill get into that in just a minute. they also talk a lot obviously about the different law enforcement agencies responding, and in total, there were probably over 300, perhaps close...

Different law enforcement agencies that responded. they did not respond among the 356 law enforcement officers there. the report also places some blame on the school for the lack of a lockdown. so much was learned in 1999 from columbine. you underscored that point earlier. you dont wait. you go in. what do you suppose will be learned from this debacle that every school, every jurisdiction is likely to adopt or would need to adopt? >> well, again, you know, i think the lessons have to go beyond j...

Videos. so hearing this information now, does this only heighten the outrage? does it answer questions? what are you finding and hearing from family members, people in the community? >> re ricardo rossello you know, fred, these families are still going through the report. in talking to some of the family members prior to the release of the report, there was outrage over the leak of the video specifically because these families didnt want the world to see the last moments of their loved ones befo...

The family members the heartbreaking hallway surveillance video of the school shooting, which this surveillance video was leaked to a texas newspaper and published earlier in the week last week. cnns shimon propose pez and rosa flores joining us now from uvalde, texas. shimon, you have obtained a copy of this report. tell us what you can so far. >> reporter: well, right off the top its very clear that this committee found -- and i think this is significant -- that the blame as to what happened h...

Point in time at a local level, if anythings going to happen in terms of accountability, thats where its going to to happen. its going to be at the local level. >> bill, how you do see the community of uvalde finding faith in the leadership, whether it be law enforcement or, you know, city leadership? i mean, what do you see? >>. >> unfortunately i see the city and town leaders reacting the same way the shooting happened. unorganized, disenfranchised, no ones stepping up and taking responsibilit...