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being careful about what body camera and surveillance video w ws we show you. we want to be respectful of the grieving families. some videos are difficult to watch given knowing what is happening off screen. there is a lot to learn but worth mentioning had parents and families, reporters and others not demanded answers from law enforcement officials in the hours and days and months after this massacre, it s likely we wouldn t know as much as we do about what really happened in uvalde:breaking news out of texas police on the scene of a deadly shooting at an elementariry school. difficult images. for hours after the shootings in uvalde, there is chaos around the school and few details. we ve not been give b or heard reporting on a timeline. is it clear how quickly police were able to get on the scene. relatively quickly but not fast enough. i don t want to go beyond that because we don t know how quickly agents were able to respond to the scene. there s a lot ....
universally accepted active shooter protocols. they allowed the gunman to remain in the classroom for more than 70 minutes. there were children still alive inside, one of whom repeatedly called 911 for help. there were wounded teachers fighting for their lives. tonight we take a close look at the false and at times misleading information initially provided by texas law enforcement and public officials to families and reporters about the police response. throughout this hour, we are being careful about what body camera and surveillance videos we show you there will be no images of violence or sounds of gunfire. we want to be respectful of all those grieving in uvalde. some of the videos, though are, difficult to watch given what we know is happening elsewhere offscreen. there is still a lot to learn, but it s worth mentioning had parents and families, reporters and others not demanded answers from law enforcement officials in the hours, in the days and months after this ....
think about, the idea that we ve got the fear of thinking about the place that used to be just a school, a place where we re just looking for refuge for our children to learn. the role of a school is no longer the same. the idea of looking at teachers and parent-teacher conferences and wondering what s on the mind, what s in the heart is so terrifying as a mother, as a human being. i honestly remember when my daughter was in kindergarten and she was so excited to show me her desk and i remember thinking, no, it s right in front of the door. no. these are things you think about and not wanting to move my child because that meant that someone else s kid might be in harm s way and wonder what you do with it. this is what parents are thinking about in these days and since sandy hook and columbine and beyond, will my child be safe from a school shooter. the children and the teachers. of course. the teachers have had such a hard time lately and everyone s complaining, t ....
had the chief of the local police department on scene here, and what role did they play and why didn t they step up and say, listen, we need to go in, we need to stop this gunman. the fact that he s been singled out by the director of the dps certainly made him unhappy, has ruffled some feathers here, but there are so many more questions and then yesterday, john, you know, we were told here that the swearing in for chief arredondo who was elected on the city council seat was not going to happen, and then we get word here late last night that, you know what, it did happen. they did not invite the media to witness any of this, it was supposed to be a public event, that did not happen, what they did was they had every new city council member come in, on their own, just so that they wouldn t have to call a public meeting for this swearing in, john. shows you their state of mind about maybe what they think of the visuals there. shimon, this door, the door that the killer u ....
about the path inflation would take when she downplayed the risk a year ago. stand by for the full exclusive interview. and ukraine says russia now controls most of the key eastern city, kremlin forces gaining more ground, and blasting homes and communities into rubble. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with the texas school massacre, one week after the attack. tonight, we re getting new clues about what police knew about the threat posed by the gunman and when they knew it. cnn s ed lavendera is on the scene for us in uvalde. tonight, as questions mount around the law enforcement response to the deadly school shooting in uvalde, texas, we re hearing chilling new accounts from what was happening on the inside. are you injured? i got shot. where? that audio was taken by a man who spoke to cnn but didn t want to be publicly identified. a facebook live video inc ....