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to purchase tobacco in texas to 21. and in 2021, the texas legislature lowered the able to purchase guns to 18. this individual who killed 19 of our children a day ago was 18 when he went and purchased those weapons. and thats because the legislature lowered the age in the state of texas. and so if we dont stand up for our kids, it happened in uvalde, but these are our children. if we dont protect them, who will? and the legislature passed house bill 1927, talking about the texas legis...

>> residents of uvalde, texas, are holding vigils for the 19 children and two teachers gunned down inside robb elementary school by an 18-year-old high school dropout. and people are leaving flowers and balloons at a makeshift memorial outside the school in the largely latino community not far from the border with mexico. and we are learning the names of some of the victims, mostly 9 and 10-year-old children. the justice of the peace in uvalde says some of the bodies are being released...

♪ again you can see senator ted cruz there at the memorial. you can hear the emotion in that room and, obviously, right there you can see family members wee weeping. >> when we come tonight, we come with broken hearts. we come in disbelief and we come with pain and anguish. >> reporter: the pain here in uvalde being felt all over the country. 21 people killed in this attack. 19 of them young children. 17 others injured and it comes ten days after the max shooting in buffalo. cnn has ...

overnight, the cross. one for each of the 19 children and two teachers who died here. >> this was the digital community last night. everyone came together. you can see the pain and the tears, which really does feel like a small town, 15,000 people. its hard to find anyone that does not have a direct connection to one of the victims. she was 10-years-old. she want wanted go to disney world. maria bravo is remembered for a young girl who put a smile on everyones face. we are telling thei...

everyone. >> this morning, there are now hard questions for authorities about the timeline of events and the police response, specifically why did they wait so long to go into the school? officials say the gunman was on school grounds for up to an hour before police were able to breach the classroom, stop the killing and neutralize, kill, the gunman. >> according to "the washington post," parents who rushed to the scene heard gunfire inside the school, they begged officers to charge in...

debilityable. >> laura: texas lieutenant governor dan patrick was grabbing the microphone to speak at the same time beto orourke went on an unhinged rant. dan patrick will join us in moments. but first we go straight to uvalde texas where lieutenant chris with the department of public safety is standing by. lieutenant, theres one witness i know that you desperately want to speak with and thats the gunmans grandmother who he shot in the face. it was a dispute, apparently, over wifi. she...

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...

children and two teachers. and this evening, adding to the tragedy, we have now learned the husband of teacher irma garcia who was killed at that school, that husband has now died of a heart attack. married for nearly 25 years. and what the family is saying tonight about what they say was a broken heart. and the children here tonight, what their families want the country to know about them. mireya villarreal on the scene for us again. tonight, the call for action across this country....

its graduation season here. there are big photos of local graduates, on local science outside of city hall, outside of businesses. driving down main street in uvalde, texas, you wouldnt know something so terribles happened just blocks away. two blocks away, life looks as a normally does. but something terrible did happen here. this community, this small community lost 21 of its people right here at this school, everything has changed forever, this will never be a normal spot again. thi...

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...