Well, turning now to the Uvalda
shooting investigation and the new
information we are getting this
morning about the police response
and body Cam footage from that day.
This has been a long and
very difficult process.
We hadn't even seen any video of
what happened inside the school
until seven weeks after it happened.
And now for the first time,
we're seeing that body camera
video from officers at the scene.
The city of Uvalde showing it to the
victims families over the weekend.
Then last night the city releasing
those videos to the public and
we do want to give you a heads
up some of what you may see.
This morning is a lot of disturbing,
yeah, so much of it has been now before
we do get to that, we do wanna remind
you why all of this is happening.
21 lives the folks you're
looking at right here.
They were lost at the hands of a
gunman who entered the school.
So many of them children.
He was not taken out until 77 minutes later.
Not this is after he killed
those 19 kids and two teachers.
Chris Atagi is with us this morning.
He's been following the story from
the beginning. The new report.
Chris blames a lot of different folks
from a lot of different agencies.
Really, it is a pretty aggressive
in in its condemnation. Yeah,
Mark, you know, up until this point,
most of the criticism focused heavily on
the district police Chief Pete Arradondo,
but the House committee 77 page report
says the failures extend far beyond
him and was released the same day.
New body camera video reveals
even more. Could
you tell me your name?
Anything I could know? Please,
please put your firearm down, Sir.
We don't want anybody else heard.
Now that's the voice of Arredondo
trying to negotiate with the shooter.
Much of the new video shows US
officers doing a lot of standing
and waiting like what we saw
from the hallway surveillance,
but there are some new revelations.
The body camera video released by
the city of Ivaldi shows officers
helping children escape a classroom
through a window at 11:59 AM.
That's about 26 minutes after the
shooter entered the building and 23
minutes after the first officers arrived.
There's also a moment where you hear
a radio dispatcher give officers this
information that came nearly 40 minutes.
After the shooting began.
You have a higher end on the line
is in a room full of exams.
Now, some of the other findings
released in the House committee report.
They say there were systemic
failures and poor decision
making not only by local police,
but by the 91 state police and 149
federal US Border Patrol officers as well.
It found that in total there were
376 law officers that responded,
yet there was no clear or
obvious incident commander,
even though he received much of the blame,
Arredondo told media he did not consider
himself to be the commander on scene.
And it wasn't just a
critique of law enforcement.
The report also has some criticisms
of these shooters family for failing
to recognize many warning signs that
we're going to talk about in 30 minutes
after this report after the shooting.
Actually, we've seen many school districts,
you know, look at their safety plans.
Really consider what they're doing,
and if those are best practices.
The report condemns what happened
at you've all the IC but says,
you know what a lot of school districts
across the state of Texas are
not following best protocol.
Definitely a moment for these
districts to reevaluate.
And things, and in this case
there was some criticisms in the
report about the school district,
not necessarily that they didn't have a plan,
but they didn't stick to the plan
they had in place despite the
training that they received on it.
The report, called it a culture of non
compliance with things like unlock doors,
propped open doors and also points
out that some faculty got the alerts
but did not take them seriously.
I know a lot of times you go through
drills and when you do so many drills
without the real thing happening,
you begin to think,
oh just a drill but.
Not this time.
God Chris so 77 pages of
just one fail after another.
Yeah it really is a tough read and yeah
just a lot of things that went wrong
that probably should not have. You can
see why families are just so
upset right now we have the full
77 page report if you'd like to
read it on our website at wfa.com.
Gives you some more perspective
and insight that Chris was
talking about and more from him.
We're going to hear from him
talking again about the shooters
family in about 30 minutes.