tonight at ten, police in texas admit failures in tackling the teenage gunman who killed 21 people in america s latest mass shooting. unbearable grief for relatives of the victims, after officers waited more than an hour before storming the classroom, where their loved ones died. for the benefit of hindsight, where i m sitting now, of course it was not the right decision. it was the wrong decision, period. there s no excuse for that. america s biggest gun lobby, the national rifle association, is to go ahead with its annual convention this weekend, in texas. also tonight. major failings in maternity services force the regulator to intervene at an nhs trust in nottinghamshire. hundreds trust in nottinghamshire. of thousands displaced a 1 hundreds of thousands displaced and 1 million children face malnutrition after severe drought in somalia. more pressure on the scottish government over ferries, as the head of the network says services are deteriorating. and the slice of merse
uvalde, texas, community. there s no details here about the police response at robb elementary. police called and waited for back-up and tactical teams. those teams didn t arrive until an hour later. we re now hearing from the shooter s family. our correspondent spoke to the gunman s grandfather about the tragedy. [speaking foreign language] tragedy. [speaking foreign language the shooter s grandfather sending blessings to the family and facts. he also criticized the gun laws that allowed his grandson at 18 to get a gun. we re also hearing from survivors, including the lengths one little girl went to. she had a friend next to her that she was pretty sure was already dead and laying on the ground bleeding out. she put her hands in her friend s blood and then smeared it, she said, all over her body. she wanted to look like she was dead. she was scared the gunman was going to come back through that adjoining door back to the classroom and she wanted to be able to play dead.
again you can see senator ted cruz there at the memorial. you can hear the emotion in that room and, obviously, right there you can see family members wee weeping. when we come tonight, we come with broken hearts. we come in disbelief and we come with pain and anguish. reporter: the pain here in uvalde being felt all over the country. 21 people killed in this attack. 19 of them young children. 17 others injured and it comes ten days after the max shooting in buffalo. cnn has been oak here more than 24 hours reporting this story. adrian, this has been so emotional, each as we learn more information about what took place here. reporter: certainly, john, when words escape us, sometimes music soothes, almost like we saw yesterday at the vigil when that violin just filled the silence as those parents and members of the community wept. you talked about this, two additional funerals were held yesterday for the buffalo shooting victim itself on the same day we learned about t
it s graduation season here. there are big photos of local graduates, on local science outside of city hall, outside of businesses. driving down main street in uvalde, texas, you wouldn t know something so terrible s happened just blocks away. two blocks away, life looks as a normally does. but something terrible did happen here. this community, this small community lost 21 of its people right here at this school, everything has changed forever, this will never be a normal spot again. this school, this town, becomes yet another name on a list that no one wants to be on. tonight, a vigil here in uvalde, texas is underway, it s paying tribute to yesterday s victims we will have much more throughout the show tonight, about the victims, the people who lost their lives. 19 children, and to teachers it s robb elementary, we re still learning the identity of some of the children who were killed. they were eight, nine, ten years old. all of them in the same fourth grade classroom, mu
two blocks away, life looks as it normally does. but something terrible did happen here. this community, this small community lost 21 of its people right here at this school, everything has changed forever, this will never be a normal spot again. this school, this town, becomes yet another name on a list that no one wants to be on. tonight, a vigil here in uvalde, texas is underway, it s paying tribute to yesterday s victims we will have much more throughout the show tonight, about the victims, the people who lost their lives. 19 children, and two teachers at robb elementary, we re still learning the identity of some of the children who were killed. they were eight, nine, ten years old. all of them in the same fourth grade classroom, murdered with their teachers. let me bring you up to speed with what we know at this point about how this massacre unfolded, as well as some of the things that we don t yet now. this is the series of events laid out for us by texas law enforcemen