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Save them. but there have been more and more questions about what happened. omar jimenez joins me with the latest on that. good evening, omar. >> reporter: hi there, don. for starters, the city has now announced they have requested a review from the department of justice into the investigation of the response at robb elementary school, according to the mayor, as he also admitted there were missteps in the release of information. as we all know at this point. separately, the uvalde county distric...

We learned the horrible news two weeks ago, the horrible news that 19 little kids and 2 of their teachers had been shot to death in their classroom in uvalde, texas. 19 children who should have been beginning their lives. two teachers who died trying to save them. but in those two weeks in have been more and more questions about exactly what happened. cnns omar jimenez joins me now with the very latest on that. good evening, omar. >> reporter: hi there, don. so for starters, the city has now ann...

That this act occurred. >> why are we still waiting for answers? i know everyone always wants to play -- on issues that are benign, let alone as tragic as this. why do you think theyre still waiting for answers? is it about a union, is it about lawyer-ing up, is it about trying to get all the information before they have the whole picture? what is the delay about? >> well, its hard to say, not being on the ground there in uvalde. i expect some of it is wanting to take enough time to get it right...

Academy type organizations to tell the officers when a shooting is underway, when shooting is active, when live rounds are going off. your primary purpose is to go to the shooter and to neutralize the shooter. everything else goes to the wayside, people who are injured, barricades that are in your way, doors that are unlocked, windows that need to be broken. you go to the shooter to neutralize the shooter. thats your job. and thats what theyve been trained to do. thats really what prompted the f...

Hill at least, the reaction to the point you just made there, that this is a complicated problem, with multiple solutions, if we as a country are going to get at it, the response youll hear on capitol hill is no one thing is going to change this, therefore we do nothing. we saw that after sandy hook, we saw that after parkland, we saw that after el paso, and dayton. republicans often run saying they back people in uniform, like yourself, but then when we hear from people like yourself, who say, ...

Robb elementary school, that announcement to come today, he says, as he also admitted there were missteps in the initial release of information as we now know. but to use his words, were told one thing, one day, then the next day the story and narrative changed. it has been a difficult dynamic to deal with as families continue to bury their children. matthew mcconaughey who is from here, in uvalde, was out here last week, visiting the memorial at robb elementary, but this week using washington, ...

As he admitted, there were missteps in regards to the initial release of information, which we now know at this point. the justice department, though, was quick to say what this investigation would be and what it wouldnt be saying that there is no way that they can go back and erase the pain that this shooting has caused this community and subsequent aftermath has caused this community. but what they can do is look at where things went wrong and offer recommendations so that this type of inciden...

Uvalde mayor, usdoj expected to name the leader of that investigation tomorrow. kate. >> reporter: rosa thank you so much for that. "outfront" now, charles ramsey, former dc police chief, of course, and remember foer inspector general at department of justice spent years investigating law enforcement agencies. thank you for being here. you know, chief, the uvalde mayor as we is were just showing you there, he says today he continues to have confidence in the citys police department and says they...

Investigation. this is part of what the major said when he was in that meeting. >> well, we were told one thing one day, and the next day the narrative changed. we were told for a week that a teacher propped the door open with a rock, and at the end of the week that story was gone too. thats the missteps im talking about. look, im not here to try this. we want facts and answers just like everybody else. >> reporter: the mayor added that because he is not law enforcement, he was asked to stay out...

Question and answer session after that, the mayor did answer some questions. what we learned is that the investigation here is ongoing. he says that he has full confidence in the investigation of the texas rangers, but that he did ask the u.s. doj to investigate because there have been missteps. take a listen. >> well, we were told one thing one day, and the next day, the story -- the narrative changed. you were told for a week that a teacher propped the door open with a rock, and at the end of ...