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more enraging it is great its becoming clearer by the second that lives eichler could have been saved. i can tell you is a father and grandfather, my heart breaks fo the parents of these victims. i cant even imagine. the ones who will never see their children again. the ones wondering if their son or daughter could have been saved. the ones bleeding outside the school for someone, anyone, to do something. then there are the kids that di survive, like the ones who covered herself in her...

crimes against humanity. cnn is at the scene of one of his alleged warcrimes. lets go "outfront." good evening, im erica hill in for erin burnett. "outfront" tonight, it was the wrong decision. that admission from the texas department of public safety who said today, the officers on the scene made major mistakes in their response to the mass shooting at rob elementary school, waiting more than an hour to enter the classroom where 18-year-old gunman was holed up with children and two ...

elementary school. she saw her teacher killed. for the first time we learn what the killer said before he fired his gun in that classroom. we hear new details about what he did, this witness says he played music during the massacre. and we learn what this brave 11-year-old did to stay alive while it was all happening. all of this at the top of the next hour. in the meantime, the police response to the tragedy that took place here is facing intense scrutiny and there are new questions...

camera. she did agree to speak with my partner cnn producer nora. you were in with mia and her mother, i want to make clear her mother was there the whole time. what did she tell you? >> the 11-year-old mia was in that fourth grade classroom that we have heard so much about with ms. garcia and ms. morales. they were watching lilo and stitch, it was the end of the school year, and she said one of her teachers got the email that there was a shooter in the building and went to the door an...

>> officials say they had to hold the parents back because of the volatile nature of the situation. and this morning, we are learning the identities of more young victims. leyla salazar, who was 11-years-old, she loved to run, film tiktok videos and dance and ten-year-old alicia maam rez wanted to draw. she wanted on the an artist. for many of the young survivors, it left them shaken and scarred. heres how a 2nd grader described his ordeal. >> i was praying thinking what is this happen...

why officers failed to enter the school while the attacker was still firing. those shots audible from the outside. heres what we do know at 11:8 a.m. central time, the suspect crashed into a ditch near the school. there is a picture there. he exited the vehicle and fired at two witnesses across the street. at 11:40 a.m., he entered through the west side of the building. there is the video there. two minutes later a teacher sent a text message saying there was an active shooter at the s...

even though he was firing shots outside for some 12 minutes, there are so many unanswered questions. here is what we do know. 11:28 a.m. central time the suspect crashed his truck into a ditch near the school. he exited the vehicle, fired at two witnesses across the street. at 11:40 a.m. the gunman entered the school through an unlocked door on the west side of the building. four minutes later, officers entered the school, received gunfire then retreated from the building as they calle...

teachers were slaughtered. they took no action to get into those classrooms as they waited for more equipment. we pressed for more of an explanation, and the response was devastating. listen. >> reporter: sir, you have people who are alive, children who are calling 9-1-1 saying please, send the please. they are alive in that classroom. there are lives that are at risk. thats not protocol, is it? >> were well aware of that. >> reporter: right, but why was this decision made not to go in...

it was not the right decision. it was the wrong decision, period. theres no excuse for that. again, i wasnt there, but im just telling you from what we know, we believe there should have been an entry as soon as you can. hey, when theres an active shooter the rules change. its no longer -- okay, its no longer barricaded. you dont have time. and, by the way, texas embraces active shooter training, active shooter certification, and that doctrine requires officers, we dont care what agenc...

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...