Thank Yu.
William: The nation's recurring
nightmare has happen again.
Texas governor Greg Abbott says
a gunman killed 14 children at a
teacher at an elementary school
today.
It appears the 18-year-old
shooter was killed by police.
Gunfire broke out this afternoon
in the city of uvalde, about 85
miles west of San Antonio.
Police stormed the school with
ambulances following close
behind.
The governor spoke in Abilene,
Texas.
>> When parents drop their kids
off at school, they have every
expectation to know that they
will be able to pick their child
up when that school day ends,
and there are families who are
in morning right now in the
state of Texas -- families who
are in mourning right now, and
the state of Texas is mourning
with them.
William: For more, I'm joined by
a reporter with "The Austin
statesman" who is headed to the
scene now.
I'm sorry we have had to trouble
you on this horrible day.
I know you're en route to the
scene but have been talking with
law enforcement.
Can you give us the latest of
what you have been hearing from
them?
>> One of the think they are
trying to fully and broadly
understand is what precipitated
this violence.
We are told that this gunman,
who is an 18-year-old man, shot
and injured his grandmother.
One thing that is clear to me as
if that happened at a separate
location or if she was shot and
injured at the school, but
authorities are confirming now
that the gunman shot and killed
14 students as well as a teacher
fatally.
In addition to that, authorities
are trying to ascertain the
extent of the other children who
were injured.
They have been taken to
hospitals both in uvalde as well
as 80 miles away to San Antonio
where there are, of course, more
major medical facilities.
William: When we are talking
about an elementary school being
the side of a massacre like
this, we are talking about
children who are 8, 9, perhaps
10 years old.
Have officials said anything
more about specifically who the
victims actually are?
>> Not exactly.
I think that is one of the
things that they are trying to
-- as you can imagine, and this
is very reminiscent of my time
reporting in Sutherland springs,
Texas, the site of a mass
shooting in 2017 because uvalde
is such a small town -- keep in
mind, 16,000 people -- word is
flowing throughout the community
this evening.
I'm getting reports from the
people who lived there that the
names of the children are
beginning to circulate
throughout the community, a
community that as you can
imagine is just ripped apart
tonight.
William: I cannot imagine being
a parent and waiting for that
kind of word out of your
children's school to becoming
out.
Is there anything else we know
about what law enforcement might
have said about this young man?
He was a local resident, and the
fact that his grandmother was in
town, so he is not a stranger to
this town, it sounds like.
>> Not a stranger to this town.
He has been described as a
local.
Authorities have said very
little about him, although they
do say that he apparently
entered the school with
obviously at least one handgun
but also possibly a rifle.
That is one of the things that
they are continuing to study
right now.
I do also want to tell you that
it is my understanding that
authorities may in fact be
establishing a mobile morgue
outside the school so they can
begin the process tonight and
tomorrow of removing the dead
from this very tragic scene.
William: I know you have covered
mass shootings in your state
many, many times over the past,
and obviously, the grief and the
sorrow that is coursing through
this community and the shock, no
doubt, has got to be tremendous,
but I imagine even for you, the
sense of deja Vu that we are
going through this yet again in
the United States.
You are rushing to go cover yet
another mass tragedy.
>> One of the things that is so
profound to me is that very
often when we think of gun
violence, we think of this
unfolding in major cities or
even suburbs, but when you look
at two of the more recent mass
shootings that have unfolded in
Texas, we are talking about
pretty rural areas.
Uvalde, really, a small town,
60,000 people, really not even
in the shadow of San Antonio.
80 miles from San Antonio.
And thinking about the church
shooting in 2017.
It underscores in my mind that
this gun violence is not just a
city or urban epidemic but is
unfolding in small communities
across America as well.
William: Tony is an