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♪ >> 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 cnn's ed. >> i'm going to shoot an elementary school. that was one of the chilling text messages the uvalde gunman sent to a 15-y...

And 2 teachers. one of the teachers is irma garcia, a wife and mother of four children. garcia's nephew told "the washington post" she was shielding students from gunfire. she was just 10 years old. he learned that his little girl was never coming home from school. >> so i got confirmation from two of the students in her classroom that she was just trying to call authorities, and i guess he just shot her. how do you look at this girl and shoot her? oh, my baby. how can you shoot my baby? >> all of the dead were in the same 4th grade class. all 19 lives described as precious. the teachers said ...

>> and they say they want to maintain the focus of sharing student knowledge of the u.s. states and we will not include any songs. >> it has been there for years and years and years, and i don't have a problem with the song. if someone else does that is their business, but it is on our currency. >> the assembly is next week focusing on what the 4th grade class has been learning in social studies. the principal tells us the format has changed to an invitation into the kids' classroom to view their work. >> and this statement was issued in response "the most important word not whole piece of mus...

Diversity. learning there is more than one way to be a boy or girl. claudia has went in classroom. what was it like? >> reporter: first we saw a group of inner kindergarteners it's okay for boys to like girls things and girls to like boys things. 30s was story time and the children read this bookb called my princess boy about a little boy who expresses himself by dressing up like a girl. then the 4th grade class got a biology lesson. these kids were told some animals in nature actually change their gender, and people can do. and if they do, that's something to be respected. >> when someone is ...