sean, i can t even begin to express what an enormous loss this community has suffered here today and here at this vigil at the fair play here in valge county and the families that came here to honor the 19 children that died came here. they said a broken heart with just a need to be together in a time off mourning. you can see everybody leaving right now. we ve got t a lot of crowd behid us . but i got to tell you, sean, earlier today it didn t matter where i went in this town. people were hugging each other. they were saying, youay know,ha i knew a childt that went toad that school and it made sense. this is a population just over 16000 people. so everybody knew somebodyne everybody was connected to somebody i did know somebody in this town. i knew i knew a family here that i lived only about maybe a an hour and 40 minutes from uvalda here in texas and the family was shocked and stunned to discover that a number of people on their daughter s softball team had been killed in
family, you know, because it s such a small community. and what had happened wasity. wn she found out that there was ann active shooter atac the school, she said, you know, none of the parents believed that there wasly a actually an active shoor at the school until they were told by authoritieses what was o going on .n they believe that the school l was on lockdown, that the kids wereve safe. everybody was concerned. her husband actually coaches, you know, the baseball teamm out here knew valde and his daughter was on that d team with a lot of the girls that were in the classroom that was targeted. so t for her it was it was impossible for for the family that wanted to come. they wanted to speak. but ser at the very last minute, both her husband and her asked . ne they just said they needed time.. and i get that you know, i meanh ,this is this is something that i think like for many people it comes in a state of. shock. there s some anger here. ng i think t people are going y