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happened here on tuesday, and i m here at a makeshift memorial in the town square in view yauld. it has just been teaming with people coming to pay their respects. people coming from all over texas, really, all over the country, to give gifts i saw a woman who was a teacher who brought a cart full of stuffed animals for the families coming to pay their respects to lay at each individual cross that was put here for each individual person murdered, and that is 21 people. 19 children, of course, and two teachers. and president biden is here as we speak in uvalde. he is playing his all-too familiar role, comforting families following an unspeakable tragedy. they visited the memorial site at robb elementary school before heading to a mass service. they re going to spend the afternoon meeting with families and first responders. it s a solemn task made even more difficult by what appear to be some serious failures of law enforcement and its response to tuesday s mass shootin ....
the bidens attended mass at sacred heart catholic church where an influx of funerals is imnenlt. they are meeting privately with the victims families this afternoon. so many of them want an answer to an excruciating question, would their loved ones be here today if police had acted sooner? the justice department is stepping in saying it will conduct a review of the law enforcement response as a top texas official admits the decision not to breech the classroom even as the children were calling 911 begging for help was wrong, period. cnn s arlette saenz is in uvalde. the president visited the site of that school memorial today. reporter: yes, jim, certainly an incredibly emotional day for president biden and first lady jill biden as they are here on the ground in the community of uvalde, texas, grieving with the community in the wake of that horrific massacre at the elementary school right behind me. at this moment president biden is meeting privately with survivors a ....
wanting to offer some type of solace, some type of comfort to the families who lost so many loved ones in that horrific massacre here at robb elementary school behind me earlier this week. now the president right now is privately meeting with survivors and the family members of victims. he s been meeting with them for almost two and a half hours. the white house really blocking off a significant amount of his time here on the ground in uvalde to hear directly from those family members who lost loved ones. but first president biden stopped here at the memorial site at robb elementary. he and first lady jill biden took about 20 minutes reading each of the names, seeing and taking in the life-sized photos of these 19 children and two teachers who were gunned down during the school day on tuesday. the president, while he s also been here in uvalde, has also been hearing really from the local community members issuing calls to action both here at the elementary school and as ....
children and their two teachers who were slaughtered inside their schools. the first lady reaching out to the images of the innocent, smiling. fourth graders who were murdered. the president caressing the face of one child s photo. just 12 days ago, mr. and mrs. biden were in buffalo, new york, to honor the 12 people murdered in a wasteless attack on a supermarket. yesterday, vice president horizon attended a gruesome funeral and across the country this weekend, there was an explosion of more gun violence. we need change! president biden accompanied by the republican governor of texas also faced frustration from people demanding gun reforms. one man explains why he was heckling. at a certain point in time it s going to be on us. because we vote these people in to represent us. they re not representing us. it s heart breaking. because things leak this happen. something needs to be done. we need change. we need help and my biggest fear is nothing is going to change. ....
elementary school in uvalde, texas at 12:03 8 pm and 12:51 pm, when police finally stormed an and shot the shooter. during a stunning press conference this week, police admitted to a string of failures. at the heart of the matter, the incident commander on the scene said that he made the wrong decision by not breaching sooner the classrooms where the gunmen was with students and the teachers. texas congressman, joaquin castro, is not calling on the fbi to investigate the response into the shooting. we are left with a series a question, some that we will never know the answer to, how many kids could have been saved? medical experts stress the importance of evacuating it took days to get a clear picture, and there are still gaps and what we do know. how do we prevent the next mass shooting in this country because democrats have sensible answers to that question? republicans, on the other hand, all they have is insulted nonsense. one of the things that everyone agreed ....