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walked into robb elementary school in uvalde, texas, and killed 19 children and two teachers before he was finally killed by police 77 minutes later. it s one of the worst school shootings in u.s. history, and what makes it even harder to understand is that 376 law enforcement personnel responded to the scene, but it took them more than an hour before they actually moved to breach the classroom and confront the shooter. they waited while children inside lay injured and dying. over the past year, cnn s shimon prokupecz and his team have been digging for answers and thou sources they have obtained the entire investigative case file which includes thousands of documents, hundreds of hours of footage and multiple audio recordings. uvalde city officials haven t seen all of the evidence, neither have the families of the victims until now. we ll show you new video from the aftermath. it s tough to watch and sometimes shocking. the only images and sound are from children you survived
us. we are learning the names of some of the top republicans who have testified in multiple investigations involving the former president both in the federal case involving the misuse of classified documents and also the investigation in georgia into the former president s attempt to overturn the election results there. cnn s sara murray joins us now with details. let s start with the fulton county, georgia investigation. who is testifying? well, anderson, we have learned that there are two prominent witnesses who have testified before fulton county grand jury. one of them is former georgia senator kelly loeffler. the other is former white house lawyer pat cipollone. both of these are big gets for the district attorney down in georgia, fawnee willis. it gives you an idea how long-ranging her investigation. what news to the federal grand jury investigating the documents at mar-a-lago? we are learning this evening, that kash patel, a top adviser to former president donald
much for the latest. it s the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. i m alisyn camerota. i m victor blackwell. we start this hour with the tears and the grief and the stories of terror from capitol hill today as people who have been deeply impacted by america s latest mass shootings testify to the house oversight committee. the youngest voice, just 11 years old, a 4th grader who survived the massacre in uvalde, texas. recounting the worst moments that she endured 77 minutes of living hell. she had to play dead. she had to smear her best friend s blood on her to hide from a gunman. there s a door between our classrooms, and he went there and shot my teacher and told my teacher good night, and shot her in the head. and then he shot some of my classmates when i went back to the back. he i thought he was going to come back to the room so i got blood and i put it all over me. do you feel safe at school? why not? because i don t want it to happen again. and you think it s
i had to protect my children. pete: a local hospital says it has discharged or transferred all those injured in the shooting. continuing search for a motive. and governor greg act praising law enforcement s, quote, amazing courage without which he says the death toll would have been higher. abbott also revealing the gunman wrote a series of messages online before his killing spree. one saying, quote: i m going to shoot my grandmother. another saying, quote: i have shot my grandmother and i m going to shoot up an elementary school. ainsley: we are also learning the heroic cbp special agent killed the gunman barely made it out with his life. the picture of the hat he was wearing shows it was grazed by a bullet. authorities say he was able to walk away safely. let s bring in lawrence jones, is he live on the ground in uvalde, texas. lawrence? good morning, family. i attended that vigil last night. i have got to tell you whenever you see grown men cry because their loved on