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As the U.S. Justice Department investigates why it took police responding to a school shooting at Uvalde nearly 90 minutes to get inside the school and bring down the gunman,
Reading and following that sticks out to you most. >> i thought of the parkland kids first. and i thought about how this must retraumatize them. i think it's been maybe not quite 100 days since that tragedy. and they burst onto the scene as these activists that gave grown ups hope for the first time in a really long time. you were on set with me during that, we were all on tv together. i wonder how they feel today. they are now in a club, a sad and horrific club to be in, where they have been on the receiving end of gunfire at their school the place whereas a mom i leave my child every day. i ...
We don't want to tell them what law enforcement is doing right now. obviously, it's still a very active scene. we have heard various fire agencies say they're going to be transporting people from the scene so it does appear we have some additional confirmation that there are some injuries that are associated with this. let's just take kind of a brief idea of what we might be looking at and in what we would be seeing here on the ground. the first priority for law enforcement is to be able to enter to that building and the modern teaching and we saw where we had a bit of a failure of this in flo...
Have active shooting training. >> superintendent, the broward county sheriff, scott israel, is speaking right now and i want to listen in. >> sad to say that 17 people lost their lives. 12 people within the building, 2 people just outside the building, 1 person on pine island road and 2 people lost their lives in the hospital. there are people that are still undergoing surgery and just pray for this city, pray for this school, the parents, the folks that lost their lives. it's a horrific, horrific day. as i said before, my triplets graduated from stoneman douglas high school and it's just horr...
Cross hairs here and said they need the money for the resources. talking about surveillance cameras around the city, dogs that can sense vapors in the air. active shooting training for its new police officers in enormous force here. police department called this critical money. here's more what the commissioner said today. >> this funding is absolutely critical. it is the backbone of our entire counterterrorism apparatus, cornerstone of effective preparedness and -- against terrorist threats. we need to keep the city secure. to cut this funding affects keeping the city safe. >> reporter: sayin...