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wanting to offer some type of solace, some type of comfort to the families who lost so many loved ones in that horrific massacre here at robb elementary school behind me earlier this week. now the president right now is privately meeting with survivors and the family members of victims. hes been meeting with them for almost two and a half hours. the white house really blocking off a significant amount of his time here on the ground in uvalde to hear directly from those family members w...

children and their two teachers who were slaughtered inside their schools. the first lady reaching out to the images of the innocent, smiling. fourth graders who were murdered. the president caressing the face of one childs photo. just 12 days ago, mr. and mrs. biden were in buffalo, new york, to honor the 12 people murdered in a wasteless attack on a supermarket. yesterday, vice president horizon attended a gruesome funeral and across the country this weekend, there was an explosion o...

texas. they will make a visitor robb elementary school, paying the respects of course to the elementary school, the memorial has been built up around that school there. theyll then move on to sacred heart. and a ten mass for an hour long service there. paying their respects to the community. and then it is the task that a president takes on every single time a mass shooting like this happens. and it is visiting with the victims and the victims families. paying their respects. this pres...

now they are waiting to head off to the robb elementary school. a scene that we have all witnessed over the last four or five days. the makeshift memorial, 21 crosses there. however, we should note, there are now 22, as of today, a 22nd cross was added to that memorial. the husband of teacher irma garcia. who, two days after her shocking death, died himself of a heart attack. in some cases people are calling it a broken heart. after laying flowers at his wifes memorial there. that seni...

encountered. texas governor here as well. the crowd shouting at him as he arrived in a plea for action. uvalde needs help, they yelled. hoping for something, anything. from either leader to give them hope. that things are going to change. after the mass, the president is going to meet with families of the victims of the shooting that killed 21 people, 19 of them children. he will face a community thieving with anger. after what they have learned about police mishandling of this situati...

even though he was firing shots outside for some 12 minutes, there are so many unanswered questions. here is what we do know. 11:28 a.m. central time the suspect crashed his truck into a ditch near the school. he exited the vehicle, fired at two witnesses across the street. at 11:40 a.m. the gunman entered the school through an unlocked door on the west side of the building. four minutes later, officers entered the school, received gunfire then retreated from the building as they calle...

uvalde, texas, community. theres no details here about the police response at robb elementary. police called and waited for back-up and tactical teams. those teams didnt arrive until an hour later. were now hearing from the shooters family. our correspondent spoke to the gunmans grandfather about the tragedy. [speaking foreign language] tragedy. [speaking foreign language >> the shooters grandfather sending blessings to the family and facts. he also criticized the gun laws that allowed...

neverending tide of gun violence. the annual convention of the nra kicked off today in houston. the keynote speaker is the arguably the most president voice of the republican party, the twice-impeached ex-president. greg abbot pulled out of an in-person appearance to return to uvalde. hell be holding a press conference there in a few minutes, but back at the nra stage there will also be a speech from senator ted cruz who recently stormed off when he was asked by a reporter why mass sho...

years since columbine. plus a debate on gun legislation in the age of partisan gridlock. and, anguish in america: we speak with angel garza, after the loss of his ten-year- old daughter, amerie. >> i just want my baby back. ♪ ♪ ♪ this is the "cbs evening news" with norah odonnell, reporting from the nations capital. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> dokoupil: good evening to our viewers in the west on what is really anything but a good evening. and thank you for joining us. im tony dokoupil, in for...

minutes of terror. officials say the gunman who murdered 19 children and two teachers was inside the uvalde, texas elementary school for 40 minutes if not longer. during that time, he murdered 21 innocent people. the families of the children you see on your screen, torn apart in a matter of seconds. their parents, brothers and sisters, friends, will never see them again. yesterdays attack has brought the number of shootings to four or more in the united states to 213 incidents this yea...