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than an hour passed between the first 911 call and when the shooter was killed. cnn's shimon prokupecz pressed authorities for answers divergent a press conference friday. >> you say there were 19 officers gathered in the hallway or somewhere. what efforts were made to try and break through that door you say was locked? what effort were the officers making to try and break through either that door or another door to get inside that classroom? >> none at that time. >> why? >> the on-scene commander at the time believed it had transitioned from an active shooter to a barricaded subject...

president biden is calling on americans to make america safer as he prepares to travel to uvalde to honor the victims tomorrow. authorities are facing scrutiny over conflicting information as well as the response time. we now know the gunman was not confronted by police before entering the school. and more than an hour past between the first 911 call and when that shooter was killed. cnn's shimon prokupecz pressed authorities for answers on friday. >> you say there were 19 officers gathered in the hallway or somewhere, what efforts were made to try and break through that door, you sa...

entering the elementary school. and we know more than an hour passed between the first 911 call and when the shooter was killed. police now acknowledge that tragic mistakes were made. >> the decision was made that this is barricade the subject situation, there was time to retrieve the keys and wait for a tactical team with the equipment to go ahead and breach the door and take on the subject at that point. that was the decision. it was the wrong decision, period. >> the incident commander has been identified as uvalde school district police chief pedro pete arredondo. he made two bri...

911 call and the moment that shooter was killed. cnn's shimon prokupecz pushed for straight answers during a press conference on friday. >> reporter: you say there were 19 officers gathered in the hallway or somewhere. what efforts were made to try and break through that door you say was locked? what efforts were the officers making to try and break through either that door or another door, to get inside that classroom? >> none at that time. >> reporter: why? >> the on-scene commander at the time believed it had transitioned from an active shooter to a barricaded subject. >> reporter...

we know what works on this. it includes let's have an assault weapons ban. >> vice president made the remarks before attending the funeral for one of the mass shooting victims in buffalo just a day before president biden travels to texas to mourn the lives of 19 children and two teachers in uvalde, texas. there's growing outrage in that town about the police response at the shooting. that the police chief chose to wait to confront the gunman, a devastating explanation that shatters the narrative of a quick response. >> i was misled. i am livlivid. those who deserve explanations are t...