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>> so let me ask about that. you bring up two points that are important. one is about the decision to describe this, or consider this a barricaded situation. and police have still not explained why they made that determination, or why the incident commander made that determination, and certainly, that may emerge in the next couple of days. but we learned today something important and, that 78 minutes, morgan, passed between the time this shooting began, and the time police approached the gunman. you confronted the director of texas public department of safety, or the department of public safet...

Did that contribute to the fact that these officers were forced to wait, because we do know according to dps today, the gunman fire arm was so powerful, he's shooting through metal doors, attempting to--. and police injured one officer that way during this time period as well. so those are just two of the questions that we hope to ask in the days ahead, as for whether or not we will find out what remains to be seen. ayman? >> not to mention whether or not any of those classrooms had windows that the police could've entered through, as well. nbc news correspondent morgan chesky, live from uvald...

Dps today. he said something like, he asked the same question i just asked and then he said it was reviewed. it was reviewed, and a decision was made that we're not going in. so it sounds like they had that active information, but yet it's not clear to me. >> yes, and you've been on the story all day and you've been asking questions of the decision makers. tell us what you've learned? >> so first let me start with this. we're talking about the on-scene commander? did he, in fact, know that the 911 calls were coming in? that people were alive inside these classrooms? there was no on-going negot...