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camera. she did agree to speak with my partner cnn producer nora. you were in with mia and her mother, i want to make clear her mother was there the whole time. what did she tell you? >> the 11-year-old mia was in that fourth grade classroom that we have heard so much about with ms. garcia and ms. morales. they were watching lilo and stitch, it was the end of the school year, and she said one of her teachers got the email that there was a shooter in the building and went to the door and he was right there. they made eye contact. >> the shooter made eye contact with the teacher. >> wi...

still chief among the questions out there and why is the police department now backtracking on some of their basic findings? officials are going to be holding a briefing in texas in the next hour. let's begin though at this hour with cnn's rosa flores live in uvalde. rosa, what are you hearing from some of these children who managed to survive? >> reporter: well, kate, we are hearing about those intense moments when the shooter was inside the classroom, those intense moments when children were trying to do everything they could to survive. they describe the gunfire at first. they tho...

teachers were slaughtered. they took no action to get into those classrooms as they waited for more equipment. we pressed for more of an explanation, and the response was devastating. listen. >> reporter: sir, you have people who are alive, children who are calling 9-1-1 saying please, send the please. they are alive in that classroom. there are lives that are at risk. that's not protocol, is it? >> we're well aware of that. >> reporter: right, but why was this decision made not to go in and rescue these children? >> again, the on scene commander considered a barricaded subject, that...

Go on camera, but she did want to get that out. we're told she didn't want to speak to a male because of fear. she would only talk with a female, and after that we're also learning mia's family says they're planning to get her into the therapy. joining us is joel, a clinical and forensic psychologist and professor at the university of arizona. thank you for being here. i think you have an important role in helping all of us through the trauma, especially the families that are impacted firsthand. that little girl and the other kids, so many experienced just incredible trauma inside that school....

>> what did mia do then? >> she had a friend next to her that she was pretty sure was already dead, and was laying on the ground bleeding out, and she put her hands in her friend's blood and then smeared it she said all over her body. she wanted to seem like -- she wanted to look like she was dead. she was scared the gunman was going to come back through the adjoining door back into the classroom, and she wanted to be able to play dead. >> she also told you that she called 9-1-1. >> yeah y. after she smeared the blood on her body, she and a friend were able to take the phone off of one of the ...