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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...

jeff. >> a very frustrating community, and it all goes back to a video thats been making its rounds were about the last 12 hours or so showing parents understandably frustrated, standing outside the school at some point outside the mesh should have, held back by police officers. many parents wanting to go inside and do something and check on their kids. and now texas dps is responding. they tell us really right now they dont have too many details but they started filling in some of the...

jeff,je wit yeah, tammy, a very frustrated community and this v all goes back to a video thats been making its rounds for about the last 12 hours or so showing parents, you know, understandably frustrated standing outside the school at some point during the mass shootingng sutsi being held bacy police officers and then any parents wanting to go inside and do something and check on their kids and now texas dps is responding. they tell us really d righton nw they dont have too many i det...

for instance, officials initially said an officer had engaged the gunman before he entered the school. but now were being told that is not true. in fact, the shooter was outside the school for about 12 minutes before entering through an unlocked door. >> bill: all that adding to the confusion after police waited for about an hour before entering the classroom and killing the shooter. texas dps on the front lines of the investigation. the shifting timelines, the shifting facts were the ...

11:27 a.m. before the suspect entered the school, he immediately unleashed more than 100 rounds, shortly after that, three officers entered the school and two of them were immediately grazed by the gunmans bullets. >> john: according to texas dps, as many as 19 officer gathered in the hallway as of 12:03:00 p.m. no effort was made to breach the door of the classroom until 40 minutes later. law enforcement facing questions and criticism over the amount of time that passed before they st...

now, it was the wrong decision. theres no excuse for that. i wasnt there. im telling you from what we know, we believe there should have been an entry as soon as you can. >> prior to that, he laid out a new timeline of events. if you havent seen this, you need to watch. 11:27, the store is propped up by a teacher, a minute later, the gunman crashes his car. that teacher runs to get a phone and comes back to the open door. it remains propped open. at 11:30, the teacher calls 911 reporti...

i think that they should have secured that door. >> are you saying your brother went inside and stayed inside and did not retreat as some have suggested? >> right. they did not retreat until the shooter was down. they were in there the entire time. >> a bit of hindsight where im sitting now, another it was a right decision. theres no ex-use for that. again, i wasnt there. im telling you from what we know, we believe there should have been an entry as soon as you can. when theres an act...

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...

realistic hope right now, as we sit here, that this time will be different? >> greg abbott would like us all to think that this is a mental health problem, every expert will tell you that these people -- that there are no indicators of mental health. that theyre rational people, that they plan these things out. theyre psychopaths, sure. but youre never going to really truly isolate them and identify them beforehand. and the experts around the country suggest that. theres mental health ...