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with gunshots going off. >> and the trauma this entire ordeal is leaving on such young children. their parents and a nation wishing to wipe away the pain. >> welcome to "the lead." i'm pamela brown in for jake tapper. we start today with an absolutely devastating admission about the school shooting in uvalde, texas. >> for the benefit of hindsight, where i'm sitting now, of course, it was not the right decision. it was the wrong decision, period. >> that statement coming from the thead of the texas departmet of safety. he said officers on the scene should have breached the classroom ...

neverending tide of gun violence. the annual convention of the nra kicked off today in houston. the keynote speaker is the arguably the most president voice of the republican party, the twice-impeached ex-president. greg abbot pulled out of an in-person appearance to return to uvalde. he'll be holding a press conference there in a few minutes, but back at the nra stage there will also be a speech from senator ted cruz who recently stormed off when he was asked by a reporter why mass shootings only seemed to happen in this country. cruz's decision to appear at the nra convention just ...

here in uvalde. they are heroes. they did heroic things yesterday, and they are always very humble, but they are truly humbled heroes. yesterday we lost two teachers. these two teachers i would say are the corner stone of that campus to some great degree. they were two beautiful souls. they had taught on that campus for many years. they have kids in our district, and they poured their heart and soul into what they did in educating our kids in uvalde. 19 students, 19 precious students who came to school yesterday to enjoy the day, to enjoy the awards assembly, and as i look at their p...

>> john: fox team coverage from across the country. >> bill will begin things for us on the ground in uvalde, texas for us. our coverage continues. bill. >> bill: sandra, a lot of conflicting reporting whether or not there was a school police officer on campus when the shooting took place. texas d.p.s. tells me there was a school officer on campus who exchanged gunfire with this gunman. i'm told that the officer was shot and injured and that is when the shooter ran inside the school, got into a classroom, barricaded himself and started shooting in discrimnatly, shows the 18-year-old ...

Killeen ISD high schools saw a slight decline in most of their standardized test results this year and failed to meet statewide averages in four out of five test categories,