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and we do begin in uvalde, texas, a community still very much in mourning beset by grief after a massacre that left 19 students and two teachers dead. you see them there, a long line of mourners laying flowers at a memorial set up outside robb elementary school. outrage is growing over why a group of law enforcement officers waited so long to rush the gunman. >> we have seen a mix of emotions, anger, frustration and disappointment after that 911 call timeline became more clear. but folks have wrapped their arms around the folks of uvalde and its community. i've seen long lines like t...

hallway. and the haunting questions that are now presented by these it tails, by these revelations by law enforcement. could more children have been saved? two teachers and 19 children were killed in all. most no older than 10 years old. as the horror played out inside the school, frantic parents were rushing to the scene desperate to get to their children. watch this . investigators now admit it was the wrong decision for those 19 officers to stay waiting in that hallway and not breach the door of the classroom where the shooter was holed up immediately. meantime we're learning dist...

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...

do something about it. i beg you. >> show it to the world. when he died, i died with him. >> you cannot out law tragedy but we can make america safer. we can do what we have to do to protect the lives of our people and our children. >> i'm pamela brown in washington. you're live in the cnn newsroom. ch it's memorial day weekend, a time to honor men and women who died served in military. this year the nation approaches this holiday in grief and shock after two horrific mass shootings over the last two weeks. tomorrow, president biden will travel to uvalde, texas to mourn with the co...

Have a detailed report, including ballistics by next week. i want to know when each agency was here. moving forward. never, he assured me that never again will dps stand down for any law enforcement agency. i hope that that's true. >> that is in fact him talking about mr. mcgraw, who is the head of the public security department in texas. guns are now the leading cause of death for children in the united states. they've eclipsed, in fact, auto accidents, which were the leading cause of death for more than 60 years. for 2020, the most recent year with complete records, the centers for disease c...