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do something about it. i beg you. >> show it to the world. when he died, i died with him. >> you cannot out law tragedy but we can make america safer. we can do what we have to do to protect the lives of our people and our children. >> im pamela brown in washington. youre live in the cnn newsroom. ch its memorial day weekend, a time to honor men and women who died served in military. this year the nation approaches this holiday in grief and shock after two horrific mass shootings ove...

tenth grade biology class, co2, co2, hmm, dont trees consume co2 for photosynthesis? quick google check. how about we plant a whole lot more trees across the country and across the world? that seems like a natural solution with lots of upside, trees are beautiful, and might help fight global warming. oh, but no, there is a problem with that idea. planting more trees might help solve climate change, but it definitely will not enrich your donors. trees are cheap. it is hard to make money...

>> we dont understand exactly what happened, but i think that they should have gone in and secured that -- >> are you saying that your brother went inside when he first arrived at the school and stayed inside and did not retreat as some have suggested? >> right. they did not retreat, and so the shooter was down. they were in there that entire time. >> a bit of hindsight where im sitting now, of course it was not the right decision, it was the wrong decision. there is no excuse for that...

in uvalde, texas where president biden will be tomorrow, jeff to you. >> and the more we learn about the shooting, the more difficult it gets for in community to grasp what exactly happened at robb elementary school. despite what investigators had initially told the public. we learned the shooter was not confronted by anyone from the time he crashed his pickup truck and began shooting at the school. a minute before the suspected shooter crashed that truck, a teacher at the school had w...

off. we have two other major stories we are following. as the nation mourns those killed in texas more victims of the mass shooting in buffalo, new york are laid to rest. vice president kamala harris attending a funeral for one of the 10 people killed in a racist attack at a supermarket earlier this month. memorial day weekend kicking off the summer travel season but sky high gas prices have many people thinking twice about hitting the road. wait until you see the prices, christina col...

tomorrow to meet with victims of this weeks mass school shooting part however along with the morning and anguish there are now angry mounting calls for action people want to know what in the world happened in the small community after we all learned that 19 police officers waited more than 45 minutes in a hallway outside the classroom. leaving students and teachers trapped inside with a gunman armed with an assault rifle. arthel: so many questions, jeff paul is live with more questions...

made shocking errors during their response. the school district police department held active shooter training at the high school just two months ago. lieutenant governor of texas is calling out mistakes of the school districts police chief earlier. >> he will live with us the rest of his life but he was in charge, the incident commander, he made that decision to hold and hell have to live with that the rest of his life but make no mistake, no police man ran out, they stayed and in the...

yes, i was misled. >> tonight, what we know about the police failure, and the policy failure that allowed mass murder in a texas school. plus, pandering and a protest at the air on a convention in houston, and with you and i can do to break this uniquely american ritual of violence. all in starts right now. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> good evening from new york. im chris hayes. today, wayne lapierre, head of the national rifle association, hosted a number of republican politicians, including the ex...

i was telling my friend to not talk. >> [speaking spanish] >> she cried a lot. according to the cdc, guns are now the leading cause of death among children than adolescents in america. it jumps a 30% between 2019 and 2020. according to the washington post, more than 311,000 students have experienced gun violence at school since columbine, in 1999. of course, republicans are suggesting to keep the schools as virtual prisons to deal with this problem. >> we need serious funding to upgrad...

talk. >> [speaking spanish] >> joining me now is sam brock in uvalde with the latest on the shooting. also -- hes in houston where the show must go on for the nra. first use them, its very hard to watch, to hear, and process what happened there. then we learned of the injured children calling 9-1-1 for help. didnt get there in time. it all feels impossible and we are not even there. here in the studio. but you there on scene? what are you learning sam? >> well certainly its gut wrenchi...