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rest. as the city grieves over an unthinkable act and the questions still unanswered, we're looking to the country's elected leadership to finally take a stand, do anything, to help curb this endless cycle of senseless loss. in just the past week since the uvalde, massacre, there have been 18 more mass shootings across this country according to the gun violence archive in places like fresno, california, chattanooga, tennessee, benton harbor, michigan and taft, oklahoma. we just had the funerals for the victims in buffalo, houston and laguna woods, california. now, many more burials a...

ago and now a week later more and more criticism and more and more questions over the police response and the decision to wait an hour before storming the classroom. we're waiting for updates from the department of justice on their review of thattins spo. we're also live in uvalde and in washington where president biden is saying this afternoon he plans to meet with lawmakers on gun reforms. the reality check on where those stocks stand with an emergency hill meeting on thursday with some new proposals. i'm hallie jackson in washington among with our nbc news team. liz mclaughlin is ...

murder for 78 minutes, has not yet explained that decision. three weeks ago arredondo was elected to a second job as a member of the uvalde city council. he intended to continue to serve of as the chief of police for the uvalde school district while serving on the city council. peter arredondo was scheduled to be sworn in tomorrow as a member of the city council at a meeting of the uvalde city council. earlier today, that uvalde city council meeting is scheduled tomorrow was cancelled. yesterday the president and first lady brought flowers to the memorial site outside robb elementary...

this as officials are investigating what went wrong in this response. we have learned now that up to 19 officers stood in the hallway of robb elementary school for more than 457 exdrushating minutes as the gunman killed children inside of those two classrooms. the justice department has announced it is launching its own revancouver all of this response at the request of the mayor. they will provide an independent account of law enforcement actions and responses that day and look into why it took so long to take that gunman down. president biden vowing once again to do something about...

>> this memorial day we know the memory is still painful of all the fallen who lost their lives during the last few decades in combat. each of them leave behind a family, a community. lives will never be the same. >> the same could be said of the decades of combat that american children have faced in their classrooms where hundreds of them have been shot and killed by mass murders. yesterday the president and first lady brought flowers to the memorial site outside of robb elementary school in uvalde, texas. they touched the photos of the 19 dead children and two teachers who lost the...