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evacuating students and teachers from other parts of the school. even negotiating with the suspect. but they didn't have enough information on his exact location for an immediate take down. video from the school from outside the school meantime shows parents screaming at police to storm the school. the "wall street journal" talked to one parent who says she was put in handcuffs. police tackled another parent and threw them to the ground. and a third was pepper sprayed. police insist their actions inside the school did save lives. >> the american people need to understand that officer...

case and some directly contradict the story that authorities first told, this is the time line of the attack as we understand it now. authorities now say at 11:28 a.m. tuesday, the gunman crashed his truck and fired his rifle at two people across the street. at 11:40, 12 minutes later, the gun than fired toward the school building and then walked in through an unlocked door. he was not confronted by a school resource officer which is directly contradictory to what officials had been telling us. >> not accurate. he walked in unobstructed initially. so from the grandmother's house to t...

why officers failed to enter the school while the attacker was still firing. those shots audible from the outside. here's what we do know at 11:8 a.m. central time, the suspect crashed into a ditch near the school. there is a picture there. he exited the vehicle and fired at two witnesses across the street. at 11:40 a.m., he entered through the west side of the building. there is the video there. two minutes later a teacher sent a text message saying there was an active shooter at the school. it was not until 11:43 that school officials announced they were under lockdown, one minute ...

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...

world, i am jim acosta, wolf blitzer is off, you are in "the situation room." >> the fallout is just beginning after the stunning admission by police in texas that a wrong decision was made in response of the school's massacre. governor abbott saying he was misled. our correspondent has our report from uvalde, texas. >> i was misled. i >> tonight, greg abbott aiming his anger at law enforcement. >> my expectation is that the law enforcement leaders that are leading the investigations which includes the texas rangers and the fbi, they get to the bottom of every fact with absolute cert...