hour. now we know the police were what they were doing inside the school for scholder hasht that video forced of the entire video of seventy seven minutes . it was obtained by kvi tv and the austin american statesman who cut it to four minutes and removed some sound . but the context remains very much the same, meaning that for more than an hour, heavily armed police officers stood in a school hallway during an active shooting and did nothing. here's the timeline. eleventh thirty three a.m. the gunman enters the school through a propped open doorrth and starts shooting into rooms 111 and 112 . two minutes later, police enter through the same propped open door. three officers go toward the classroom. but when the gunman opened fire , they retreat to where t the other officers are positioned. >> watch. and by now there are 19 officers on campus. nowim at the same time, a girl calls 911 and whispers that
30 minutes past the hour. a frightening scene at a north carolina little league game when gunshots rang out during the tournament. >> get down! get down! . everybody get down! >> the coaches and kids hit the dirt in the chaotic scene. the good news is nobody was hurt. they are searching for the gunmen as well as the motive behind the shooting. meanwhile and you faulty mac taxes, amounting dispute over the release of the 77 minute video from the hallway camera from robb elementary school on the day of the shooting. according to the austin american statesman, the video shows the moment the gunman enters the school hallway and highlights the mistakes made
city council to minimize further distractions. an upcoming report by the house investigative committee is expected to answer some remaining questions about the response to the uvalde school shooting. it is said to include a list of all the agencies that responded and then waited in the school hallway while the gunman was inside the classrooms. 19 children and two teachers were killed. chaos at a mall in copenhagen, denmark, sunday. a gunman attacked shoppers and they ran for their lives. three people were killed, four were taken to the hospital. crowds were running from the mall as police responded. the suspect is in custody. let's bring in cnn's nada bashir. we are learning more about the victims. two of the victims just teenagers. what can you tell us? >> reporter: we are learning more details about this tragic and terrifying incident which took place yesterday at a busy shopping mall in copenhagen. the chief inspector giving a
uvalde school shooting last month was a "abject failure" accusing the school police chief of placing the lives of officers with bullet-proof vests, guns and shields ahead of the lives of unprotected children during the siege that left 19 children and two teachers dead. chief breaking news correspondent trace gallagher has details for us tonight. good evening, trace. >> reporter: using security video and body camera transcripts, investigators put together a police response they now call ridiculous and an abject failure and here is why. the shooter entered the school at 11:33 a.m. seven minutes later, 11 police officers entered the school hallway outside of the class but instead of going in, they retreat in the face of gunfire and stay there for the rest of the standoff without firing a shot. here's the director of the texas department of public safety. >> the only thing stopping the hallway of dedicated officers from entering room 111 and 112 was the on-scene commander who
and the school district police chief pete arredondo told dispatchers that they didn't have the firepower to confront the gunman. but at that point there were 11 officers, two with rifles at the school. >> all of those officers are trained in an active shooter situation. and from the very beginning, everyone the ones that didn't have the ballistic shields, they should have just gone in. that is what their protocol suggests. children were left in a room scared to death, calling 911 and yet no one went in. >> let's bring in law enforcement analyst jonathan wackrow, former secret service agent to president obama. i want to get your reaction to the new images of officers standing in the school hallway with rifles and ballistic shields, just 19 minutes after the gunman entered. their protocol was to rush and take out that threat and that
the chilling new details tonight on the school shooting in uvalde, texas. authority rls now say armed officers inside the school could have stopped it all three minutes after it started. the new surveillance tonight showing officers in the school hallway with weapons and at least one shield. and a new image obtained by "the new york times" showing officers in the hallway. they were waiting for a key for a classroom door that apparently they did not need. authorities revealing today the door was unlocked. and tonight, the head of the texas department of public safety calling it an abject failure by police. abc's mireya villarreal hfrom texas tonight. >> reporter: tonight, with the first surveillance images from inside robb elementary, a searing indictment of the police response. >> there's compelling evidence that the law enforcement response to the attack at robb elementary was an abject failure. >> reporter: in fact, the director of the texas department of public safety, steven mccraw, testifying that police had the weapons and the equipment to storm the classroom three minutes after the gunman entered
new information that tonight has parents of those 19 children who were killed in uvalde, texas, wondering could their child have been saved? that's because the head of the texas department of public safety blasted the police response, detailing how there were enough armed officers in the school hallway three minutes after the attack began, but instead, officers waited 74 minutes before breaching what we learned today was an unlocked door. texas' top cop, steven mccraw, testified today in austin that officers had the manpower. they had the equipment and the time to "neutralize the suspect." mccraw placed the blame squarely on police chief pete arredondo, who was inside the school but did not act. cbs' omar villafranca is going to start us off tonight from uvalde, texas. good evening, omar. >> reporter: good evening. the head of d.p.s., said the fact that officers waited so long to react goes against everything they are taught and
is polluting the water with bacteria and making people in that city very sick. the uk minister of defense says that the city is at risk for a major malaria outbreak. back to you. >> alison, thank you so much for show sharing with us. we have new information today on the law enforcement response to last month a school shooting in uvalde. the new york times is reporting that heavily armed officers in the school hallway we're aware that more than a dozen students remained alive, some in need of medical treatment, for over an hour before they entered the classroom. the time, citing video footage and law enforcement documents said that they waited for a key to enter the room in protective gear to reduce the risk to officers. msnbc has not reviewed or verified the materials. in his first extended comment since the shooting, police chief for the school district, pete arredondo, told the texas tribune about a consequential decision that he left his
campus. >> reporter: we know that parents rushed to the scene anyway and it created a chaotic scene as they were held back by officers. we know that shooter was inside for more than an hour. and there was at least 19 officers inside the school hallway. but was, again, were given orders by the controversial figure we just talked about, pete arredondo to not breach that door, that classroom door, where the gunman was barricaded inside. jim, poppy? >> nick valencia on the ground there, thank you for that reporting. joining us now to discuss is former deputy director of the fbi andrew mccabe. where do we start? just back to the parents, can you imagine being a parent and having all of these narratives, contradicting narratives consistently? >> well, poppy, like you and jim, i am a parent and the idea that you could not trust the law enforcement officials who you rely upon to protect your children because you would be