happened here on tuesday, and i m here at a makeshift memorial in the town square in view yauld. it has just been teaming with people coming to pay their respects. people coming from all over texas, really, all over the country, to give gifts i saw a woman who was a teacher who brought a cart full of stuffed animals for the families coming to pay their respects to lay at each individual cross that was put here for each individual person murdered, and that is 21 people. 19 children, of course, and two teachers. and president biden is here as we speak in uvalde. he is playing his all-too familiar role, comforting families following an unspeakable tragedy. they visited the memorial site at robb elementary school before heading to a mass service. they re going to spend the afternoon meeting with families and first responders. it s a solemn task made even more difficult by what appear to be some serious failures of law enforcement and its response to tuesday s mass shooting. the
hi, thank you for joining me. i m jessica dean in for fredricka whitfield. i m joined by dana bash in uvalde, texas. president biden there to meet with the grieving community. dana, tell us what you re seeing there. reporter: well, president biden and first lady jill biden are here today. he s playing a role that he has played so many times before, comforting families following an unspeakable tragedy. right now the president and first lady are meeting with families at a community center in uvalde. this morning the bidens visited a memorial site at robb elementary that, of course, is the site of the shootings on tuesday. and then they attended a catholic mass service where he was greeted by an archibishop here. these events taking on an even more solemn tone as questions continue to grow over apparent failures of law enforcement s response to tuesday s mass shooting. the visit also comes less than two weeks after they both visited a site of a different kind of massacre, a ra
for documents. how the panel could respond to his defiance. a near total abortion ban. looser gun laws and political stands that cost millions of dollars to taxpayers. why republican policies are failing taxpayers. all of this and more is coming up. a good saturday morning to all of you. i am katie fang. let s start with a fact. i hope none of you will have to put this to use. caskets for children come in four different sizes and 11 different paint colors for the exterior. there s only one company that makes them in the united states. sadly, they have had a busy week. the company knee, cherokee caskets of georgia, is covering the cost of the cascades for all of the uvalde shooting victims. it is 30 $400 each. the ceo told the daily beast quote, when we have sandy hook, that was a crazy day. we are tired. we are tired of doing these things. i am beyond tired. i am exhausted and overwhelmed by the death and tragedy of lives lost. as the days tick by in uvalde, there seems to be
it was not the right decision. it was the wrong decision, period. there s no excuse for that. again, i wasn t there, but i m just telling you from what we know, we believe there should have been an entry as soon as you can. hey, when there s an active shooter the rules change. it s no longer okay, it s no longer barricaded. you don t have time. and, by the way, texas embraces active shooter training, active shooter certification, and that doctrine requires officers, we don t care what agency you re from, you don t have to have a leader on the scene. every officer lines up, stacks up, goes and finds where the rounds are being fired and keep shooting until the subject is dead, period. but that s not what happened. let s get to cnn s shimon prokupecz. you have been there on the scene trying to get answers for days and this afternoon we got them and they re devastating. reporter: they are truly devastating. and you just feel for these families, to hear the police, the leadi
friends. i know everybody has been hearing from loved ones. just shock. i got a note this morning from a friend in mississippi. his pastor wrote the congregation yesterday and said, as i write these words, the sun is rising on may 25th, 2022. another day of mourning in america after another mass shooting at another elementary school. as we pray yet again for those whose lives have been torn us under by a troubled soul wielding a deadly weapon, it seems important and necessary to me to say as a christian pastor that we try to find reasonable ways to reduce gun violence, and that is not political. it is moral. the church needs to have a moral compass which can tell the difference between that which is politically partisan and that which is moral. otherwise, our fear of being political may, at times, make us fall silent concerning matters which we should not be silent. as martin luther king jr. once widely said, the day we fall silent about the things that matter is the day our