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hi, thank you for joining me. i'm jessica dean in for fredricka whitfield. i'm joined by dana bash in uvalde, texas. president biden there to meet with the grieving community. dana, tell us what you're seeing there. >> reporter: well, president biden and first lady jill biden are here today. he's 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 in uvalde. this morning the bidens visited a memorial site at robb elementary that, of course, ...

♪ 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 been oak here more than 24 hours reporting this story. adrian, this has been so emotional, each as w...

minutes of terror. officials say the gunman who murdered 19 children and two teachers was inside the uvalde, texas elementary school for 40 minutes if not longer. during that time, he murdered 21 innocent people. the families of the children you see on your screen, torn apart in a matter of seconds. their parents, brothers and sisters, friends, will never see them again. yesterday's attack has brought the number of shootings to four or more in the united states to 213 incidents this year alone. 213 incident where is four or more people have been shot. to put that into perspective, to...

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 don't have the resources to have law enforcement at every school. >> reporter: but the national association of sros says what'...

>> the only thupg that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. >> reporter: now up to an estimated 20,000 armed school resource officers, sros, are on duarte, paid for by close to $1 billion from state and local governments, hoping to stop violent attacks. but the justice policy institute's mark schindler says, there is a problem. >> listen, i'm a parent of high school kids. if there was evidence to show that school police officers would make their schools safer, i would be all for it. but at the end of the day, there is literally no evidence to show that police in schools makes s...