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hi, thank you for joining me. im jessica dean in for fredricka whitfield. im joined by dana bash in uvalde, texas. president biden there to meet with the grieving community. dana, tell us what youre seeing there. >> reporter: well, president biden and first lady jill biden are here today. hes 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...

♪ >> 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...

♪ 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 ...

In another building and sitting there. no way. >> in texas, armed sros traded shots with a gunman and helped force him to surrender, but ten people were killed. at red lake high in minnesota, an unarmed guard confronted a shooter only to be shot and killed himself. nine died there. so in texas the attorney general wants more than just officers. >> we can potentially arm and prepare and train teachers and other administrators to respond quickly because the reality is we dont have the resources to...

Train teachers and administrators to respond quickly because the reality is we dont have the resources to have law enforcement in every school. >> but the national association of rsos is what is need ed more mental health care for students and realistic expectations how officers can and do reduce violence. >> if you have a person with a weapon bent on killing people youre probably going to lose people on the front end. i just hate to say that. our job becomes trying to contain that to stop furth...

Needed is more mental healthcare for students, more realistic expectations how officers can and do reduce violence? >> you got a person with a weapon bent on killing people. you are probably going to lose some people on the front ends. i hate to say that our job becomes trying to contine that and stop further killings. >> tom berman, thank you for that peels. lets bring in a news writer for an independent, non-partisan, non-profit newsroom on americas gun violence crisis. so had in to have you. ...