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. i m 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 i m sitting now, of course, it was not the right decision. it was the wrong decision, period. that statement coming from the thead of the texas departmet of safety. he said officers on the scene should have breached the classroom door immediately. he said the commander on scene decided no more children were at risk. and they allowed the shooter to stay inside the classroom for more than an hour, despite the fact that kids inside the room were calling 911 and begging for police to help. what efforts were the officers making to try and break through either that door or another door to get inside that classroom? none at that
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 i m sitting now, another it was a right decision. there s no ex-use for that. again, i wasn t there. i m telling you from what we know, we believe there should have been an entry as soon as you can. when there s an active shooter, the rules change. neil: the rules didn t change that fateful day this week when 19 students were gunned down and two adults with them. welcome. i m neil cavuto, this is your world. piecing together these days after a school attack. growing questions as to what authorities could have done. even the top most of those authorities acknowledging mistakes were made and in the heat of the moment, they lost the opportunity to seize and correct the moment. now questions from families w
happened. let s listen in. those behind me happened. let s listen in. those behind me and happened. let s listen in. those behind me and i ll happened. let s listen in. those behind me and i ll be happened. let s listen in. those behind me and i ll be talking - happened. let s listen in. those i behind me and i ll be talking about here shortly. to begin with, let me point out the obvious. evil swept across uvalde yesterday. anyone who shoots his grandmother in the face has to have evil in his heart. but it is far more evil for someone to gun down little kids. it is intolerable and it is unacceptable for us to have in the state anyone who would kill little kids in our schools! children are a blessing. god teaches us that. they are filled with laughter, innocence and joy. their love is a gift that parents get to unwrap every single day. parents and uvalde had that gift taken away from them. stolen by a demented person. days before, days before yesterday, when these child
so again, the onestarfoundation.org/uvalde. you can do your part to help out the people in this community that are suffering in incalculable ways. in addition to that, we have set up a central headquarters for victim assistance services at the family assistance center, located at the uvalde county fair plex, as we ll discuss momentarily, there may be a relocation of that site and we ll keep everybody fully informed about where the relocation site will be. every family impacted by the shooting has been assigned an advocate to help them with their needs. among other things, there will be air fare, for example, whether it be through united airlines or jetblue airlines that will provide victims families with flights free of charge so they can get here and be with their family members. the family assistance center will cover the travel and lodging costs of families who
has reached out to us in uvalde from across the state, from across the country and across this world. we greatly appreciate all of the support and kind words and prayers and assistance that has been sent to us. like the mayor said, here in uvalde county, we re down to earth people. we re the salt of the earth people. we re a family. like a family, we re going to get through this together with each other and for each other and we re asking ever across the world to continue to support us. so i with the district attorney, the dps victims assistance people, the attorney general s office, we have set up a family assistance center at the uvalde county fair plex here in uvalde. at that center it s a one stop shop for all of the victims and we say victims, everybody that was associated with robb elementary school. when you come there, you ll meet with a counselor, with off of the services the state has to offer, funeral services, blue