Thank you.
Judy: Today was supposed to be
the first day of summer break
for students in uvalde, Texas
but instead the community is
still reeling from the shooting
that left 19 children and two
schoolteachers dead.
Day's after the attack, there
are more questions than answers
that we are learning new details
about the law enforcement
response and the terror inside
classrooms at Robb elementary
school.
We are in you all the tonight.
Tell us what you have learned.
Reporter: Uvalde here in -- here
in uvalde, the worse it gets.
Detailing the 78 minutes that
passed before a authorities are
finally confronted the gunman
even as children trapped inside
the classroom called 911 begging
for help.
Three days after the deadly
rampage that left 19 of the
youngest dad, grief and anger
co-mingle in this tiny
community.
>> I will never hold my baby
again.
And I need to do something about
it.
I need to not forget the babies,
the kids.
Reporter: Jaclyn was killed on
Tuesday.
He was outside the school going
the shooting in disbelief over
the police response.
>> They came with their shields
15 minutes later.
They should not have been
waiting 45 minutes.
Reporter: Vincent Salazar's
daughter was one of the victims.
>> How fast can you act?
I mean, I don't know.
I don't know how much of a
difference it would have made --
maybe they could have acted
faster.
That remains to be seen.
Reporter: Today, the director of
tactless -- of Texas public
safety offered the most detailed
timeline to date.
Just before 11:30 A.M., the
gunman crashes his truck near
the school and a teacher calls
911.
The gunman begins shooting into
the windows.
The gunman entered through a
door official say was propped
open by a teacher.
At 11: 35, police officers enter
by the same door taking fire
from the gunman.
Ultimo rounds are fired for the
next several minutes.
More officers continue to arrive
and bike 12:03, there are 19
officers in the hallway.
Getting at 12: 03, a student
begins calling 91 one.
Official say she whispers as she
talks making several calls.
She shares how many are dead and
how many alive and the gunman
shot at the door.
During one call more than 30
minutes after her first she
bags, please send the police
now.
>> They breached the door using
keys they were able to get from
the janitor because both doors
were locked.
Both of the classrooms he shot
into were locked when officers
arrived.
They killed the suspect.
Reporter: It is still unclear if
the 19 officers in the hallway
knew at the time there were
children alive inside the
classroom.
>> The on scene commander
considered a barricaded subject
and thought there were no more
children at risk.
Based on the information we
have, there were children who
were at risk and it was in fact
still an active shooter
situation.
From the benefit of hindsight,
where I am sitting down, it was
the wrong decision.
Reporter: The news in downtown
uvalde was met with frustration
and anger and confusion.
>> An hour's worth of time that
nobody went in?
What happened?
I don't know but I know one
thing, my husband is a retired
former officer and 1911
happened, firefighters were
running in and they knew that
when they were going in, they
would not be coming back out.
What happened?
Why did it take so long for them
to get in?
As a parent I think I would've
rushed in there without thinking
twice.
I don't care if they would have
tased me or taken me down.
I would've done whatever to get
my children.
I am still really confused about
that, why they waited so long.
Reporter: Latest -- later this
afternoon Greg Abbott had this
response.
>> I was misled.
I am livid about what happened.
I expectation is that the law
enforcement leaders that are
leading the investigations which
include the Texas rangers and
the FBI -- they get to the
bottom.
Of every fact with absolute
certainty.
There are people who deserve
answers the most and those are
the families whose lives have
been destroyed.
They need answers that are
accurate and it is inexcusable
that they may have suffered from
any inaccurate information.
Reporter: Uvalde's collective
grief has manifested here.
Hearts heavy and arms for, they
are offering flowers at the foot
of each cross.
Flowers and stuffed animals.
Tess Motta was 10-year-old, a
fourth-grader and some of her
soccer teammates came together
last evening to play flowers,
scribble notes and remember
their friend.
For days as a community has
mourned, the question looms,
could more have been done?
With today's revelations and the
massive failures, the answer is
a heartbreaking yes.
Judy: It is impossible to
imagine what these families,
these parents of these children
who were inside the school are
thinking, feeling right now.
I know you have been talking to
several of them.
What are they telling you?
Reporter: The parents who lost
children are left to wonder what
if police had acted sooner or
what if Moore had been done,
what my children be alive today?
We can also now share that an el
Paso funeral home has offered to
donate and truck in caskets or
those children because uvalde
will need so many more of those
smaller caskets.
I spoke to our mother whose
student survived the shooting.
She survived and mentioned to
her mother that her teacher had
been shot and her friends had
been shot and her mother says
she dipped her hands in their
blood and smeared it on herself
so the admin would not know she
was still alive.
She was one of this dunes also
that was calling 911 asking for
help.
She said she could hear the
police officers outside her
classroom and did not understand
why they were not coming inside
to help Yuri her mother is very
angry.
She does not know why the people
who they tell their children to
trust and ask for help were not
there to help.
Judy: It is just impossible to
comprehend this.
As you talk to them, where does
this frustration, this anger go?
Are they telling you now what
they want to see happen?
Reporter: As we reported, there
will be some level of
accountability and there will be
investigations to the police
level -- to the police response.
The parents know that nothing
will bring back their children
and now uvalde as many
communities are will forever be
changed.
It does raise questions asked,
more can be done to protect
students?
How much more can be done to
harden schools?
The gunman had two assault
rifles and more than 1600 rounds
of ammunition.
The steps put in place here and
at schools across the country
did not work.
There was no police officer on
site.
The door was not locked.
And when the police arrived,
they did not do what they were
trained to do which was confront
the gunman and neutralize him
until many children were dead.
This is what children are
trained to do.
Over the last three days it has
been striking to seize how -- to
see how much of that safety
burden has been left to
children.
Many children are taught on how
to go through locked down.
When you talk to the kids here,
that is what they did.
Even though the adults did not
do what they were trained to do,
the kids did.
I spoke to a third grader
yesterday and he said he was in
the cafeteria during the
shooting and he knew he had to
run and hide.
I asked him -- how did you know
to do that?
He said no one told me I just
knew I had to.
Judy: The heartbreak, the anger,
again, it is incomprehensible.