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at the government for delaying the windfall tax on oil and gas giants to fund payments. this governments dither and delay has cost our country dearly. prayers and vigils for the 19 children and two teachers killed in a school shooting in texas as the debate about gun control in the us continues. the cps charges actor and director kevin spacey with five counts of sexual assault against men. a review criticises "weak decision making" in child protection services in england saying they ne...

♪ >> vigils are underway in uvalde, texas for the 19 children and 2 teachers gunned down inside robb elementary school by an 18-year-old high school drop-out. memorials outside the school from the community not far from the border with mexico. a friend of the gunman says he had a history of fighting as we see here in video obtained by cnn. texas authorities report he had no criminal record, no history of mental illness. more now on the investigation from cnns ed. >> im going to shoot...

he was in the building 40 minutes for an hour barricaded in two classrooms before he was shot and killed by border patrol agent. were learning about the li lives of the 19 children and 2 teachers one is a wife and mother of four and. died shielding students from gunfire. irma garcia. garza was just 10 years old he talked about how he learned was never going to come home from school >> i got confirmation that she was trying to call authorities and i guess he just shot her. how do you lo...

in mourning. ♪ vigils are under way and families are making funeral arrangements. a makeshift memorial with flowers and balloons is growing outside robb elementary school. u.s. president joe biden will travel to texas soon to visit the families of the victims. >> we must ask when in gods name will we do what needs to be done to if not completely stop, fundamentally change the amount of carnage that goes on in this country? to state the obvious like a lot of other people here im sick ...

happened and keeps happening in the united states and law enforcement responded. before we get to the investigation, we are learning the names of some of the victims, mostly nine and ten-year-olds, really. the justice of the peace around the body, some are being released to homes as families make their arrangements. ♪ >> vigils are under way for the 19 children gunned down by an 18-year-old high school dropout. others have been leaving flowers and balloons by the school in the mostly...

>> she was a good girl? >> she was. >> shannon: parents and family members in shock and grieving over lives cut way too short including 8-year-old garcia who loved playing football with his grandpa and 9-year-old ellie garcia who danced along to tiktok videos. well tell what you were learning about the victims who are being remembered tonight at vigils all across country. new details about the investigation into what law enforcement believes was a preplanned attack, what the shooter po...

several private messages on facebook in the 30 minutes leading up to the massacre. one message referred to shooting his own grandmother. another about attacking an elementary school. >> julie: a short time later he entered the school through a back door and went into a fourth grade classroom, barricaded himself and opened fire. a border patrol agent from an elite unit rushed into the shooter killing the student. >> bill: we have heard from many anguished parents waiting for news of the...

chaos that erupted outside of the school between frantic parents and police. now, we dont know when during that time period this video was shot. but it shows distraught parents growing more and more frustrated with police and frantic outside of the building. as we learned that an agonizing 90 minutes passed between the first 911 call and the stand-offs deadly end. some are shouting at law enforcement. do something. watch. >> why? why? >> emily: lieutenant christopher oliverez told our ...

the video shows frantic and frustrated parents demanding they be let into the school. police keeping the distraught family members behind a perimeter as the shooting unfolds inside. its still unclear when in the whole event cycle this video was shot. >> sandra: texas officials have yet to deliver a clear timeline of what exactly happened and when. we do know the gunman got into that school through an unlocked entrance, responding officers were met by heavy gunfire and the suspect barri...

thats what beto overwork said today when he provided the only unpredictable moment in the unfolding story of mass murder at a texas elementary school. the mass murder that occurred yesterday was predictable. we just could not tell you the exact location that it was going to occur or the exact day that it was going to occur. it is now predictable that a virtually identical shooting will occur again in texas and in other states. what has been said in the aftermath has also been totally p...