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feels hotter due to the humidity. ive seen long lines before when people wait for hours to get concert ticket or to receive free food or something free. that is not the case here. people are waiting in line, quietly to pay their respects. they are here because they want to show love and support. we have also heard from parents, including parents of some of the children who were killed on that tuesday. the shooting is still sijnking n but the parent we spoke to are upset and stunned. >>...

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...

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...

with the states top law-enforcement official cult that delay quote the wrong decision. meantime present biden first lady jill biden will visit the devastated community tomorrow to console families and mourn the victims. jeff paul is live in uvalde with more. >> days of sadness now turning into anger for this community after law enforcement is admitting mistakes were made. one of those being the local on-site incident commander who was in charge at the time change the response from a ma...

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...

with gunshots going off. >> and the trauma this entire ordeal is leaving on such young children. their parents and a nation wishing to wipe away the pain. >> welcome to "the lead." im pamela brown in for jake tapper. we start today with an absolutely devastating admission about the school shooting in uvalde, texas. >> for the benefit of hindsight, where im sitting now, of course, it was not the right decision. it was the wrong decision, period. >> that statement coming from the thead o...

good evening, jeff. >> yeah, bret. after days of growing frustration within this community here in uvalde, texas, law enforcement now says mistakes were made. for the first time on the record, texas dps investigators admitting that there were kids inside the classroom with the shooter as the clock was ticking that might have been helped. >> people hindsight now that of course it was not the right decision. a wrong decision. there is no excuse for that. but, again, i wasnt there. im jus...

he was preparing for the funeral of his wife of 24 years. they were college sweethearts. they were high school sweethearts. his death leaves their four children paralyzed. it is a reminder, as if this town needed one, the tuesdays tragedy is not over. the shockwaves will reverberate across this community in, countless ways, for countless weeks, months, and years. the raw grief among the residents here, of course, is no less than it was on tuesday. increasingly, the sadness is mingled w...

timeline of attack is, frankly, confounding. initial reports suggested, when the shooter approached the school, an armed resource officer, a school resource officer, exchanged fire with him. but, the gunmen was able to get past him, and into the school. then, yesterday, the director of the texas department of public safety said in a briefing, the school resource officer had, quote, engaged the shooter in some way, but not fired his weapon, and the shooter then entered the school. today...

wounding several more. 11-year-old survivor says shes terrified of men after what she went through. she didnt want to speak on camera. were going to play for you what the child explained what happened that day. were going to tell you, its going to be hard to hear. its real, its important. >> the 11-year-old miah was in the 4th grade classroom that was in the room, she said they were watching lilo and stitch. the end of the school year. they finished lessons and one of the teachers got ...