y el dÍa comenzÓ oscuro para el jefe de policÍa de uvalde, pete arredondo, que fue suspendido de sus funciones luego de lo ocurrido en la masacre de uvalde. todo el mundo se pregunta si le seguirÁn pagando y cuÁl serÁ su futuro en la policÍa. vamos a buscar respuestas. reportero: saludos. pete arredondo, jefe de la policÍa del distrito escolar de uvalde, texas, se encuentra en el ojo del huracÁn en esta investigaciÓn que trata de deslindar responsabilidades sobre la tragedia ocurrida en uvalde. pete arredondo es seÑalado como la persona que fallÓ en no dar Órdenes para que los oficiales entraran en acciÓn y eliminar la amenaza de salvador ramos. un senador estatal, roland gutiÉrrez, dice que tal vez toda culpa no la tiene pete arredondo. >> hoy demandamos al departamento de seguridad pÚblica de texas para que publiquen la informaciÓn de lo que sucediÓ ese dÍa. reportero: en este momento, un grupo de personas de uvalde estÁn llevando a cabo una especie de movimiento para pedir su destituciÓn. borja: gracias. en estas horribles condiciones vivÍa una niÑa de siete a�

hablamos del jefe de la policÍa escolar, el seÑor pete arredondo. paulina: en las primeras imÁgenes que se revelaron este martes de la cÁmaras internas de la escuela se puede ver al menos a 11 oficiales, incluido al jefe de la policÍa del distrito escolar, pete arredondo. a todos ellos se les ve con armas de largo alcance y un escudo antibalas, ingresando 19 minutos despuÉs de que llegÓ al escuela el atacante. carolina: la respuesta de la partera policial habrÍa sido una hora despuÉs de que este hombre empezara a matarlos a todos. como nos cuenta nuestra colega elyangÉlica gonzÁlez. elyangÉlica: 77 minutos pasaron antes de frenar a salvador ramos, es una cifra que a casi un mes de la masacre, no deja de dar vueltas en la cabeza de las familias siento una gran impotencia de no poder hacer nada. contra ese bastardo ni contra la policÍa, ni contra el gobierno. elyangÉlica: el comitÉ que investiga los hechos celebra hoy por primera vez una audiencia pÚblica, aunque sin oyentes ni familia, fue que analicen nueva informaciÓn que no cuenta d

pete arredondo. los padres pidieron que fuera despedido. por quÉ arredondo no tenÍa una llave maestra si es el jefe de la policÍa y por quÉ las autoridades tardaron tanto tiempo sin tomar acciÓn chl el comitÉ los escuchÓ sin dar declaraciones. el testimonio mÁs impactante una empleada de la fun Área frente a la primaria, muchos se refugiados en el tiroteo. >>> no tenÍan donde ir no habÍa un plan. fueron ella y otros empleados de la funeraria que los resguardaron hasta que llegaron sus padres. acciÓn que para ellos, solo reitera que ninguna de las autoridades de uvalde ni la escuela estaban preparados para manejar una emergencia de esta magnitud. dentro de este salÓn, los sobrevivientes esperaron una hora con 14 minutos antes de ser rescatados y en los pasillos, el comandante en la escena pete arredondo esperÓ que llegaran rifles, radios, ku dos, esperÓ un grupo especializado de swap y esperÓ por una llave que quizÁs nunca fue necesaria. felicidad. >>> es inevitable sentir esta rabia y deja muchas cosas que pensar lourdes gr

school police chief pete arredondo on administrative leave this after the state's top cop blamed uvalde to the slow response to the deadly school shooting sam brock joining me now. sam, why now >> reporter: yeah. lester, initially the school district said they were waiting for the investigation to finish before making personnel decisions. however, the superintendent of school said because of the lack of clarity and ongoing timing for what's to come they have decided to put pete arredondo right now on administrative leave as the city's mayor is bristling at the blame. after a withering critique of the police response in uvalde the mayor of the small texas city is pushing back. >> i wonder who the hell is in charge of this investigation because you can't get a straight answer. >> reporter: the mayor demanding accountability and rejecting the notion that uvalde school and police department deserve did brunt of the blame for the slow response >> it pisses me off i can't give you answers or get you answers. >> reporter: fiery words after details emerge after what happened in the 74 minutes o

colonel steven mccraw said that pete arredondo made terrible decisions and revealed police would have discovered the door to the classroom where the shooter was holed up was unlocked but never checked. instead they wasted precious time searching for a key. trinity chavez is in new york with more. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, anne-marie. the director of the texas department of public safety says police wasted crucial time looking for a classroom door key that was actually never needed. in a blistering testimony, the colonel told the senate committee there is no indication officers even tried to open the door while the gunman was holed up. the head of the texas department of public safety is blasting the police response to the uvalde mass shooting. colonel steven mccraw testified there were enough armed officers in the school hallway three minutes after the gunman walked into the school. police waited 74 minutes before breaching what is now said to be an unlocked door. >> i don't believe based on the information that we have now that that door was ever secured. in fact, i ha

i know you have been taking a closer look at chief pete arredondo and his record. what are you learning? >> we have, and we have new information. details on the chief's background and on the training he's received to deal with active shooters in schools. the embattled police chief of the uvalde school district telling cnn that contrary to what the texas department of public safety has said, he's communicating with investigators. >> we have been respectful to the family. >> you have an opportunity -- >> we're going to -- just so you know, we're going do do that eventually. >> when? >> whenever this is done, the families quit grieving, we'll do that. >> pete arredondo, a 50-year-old native of uvalde began his law enforcement career nearly 30 years ago, working up from modest positions in the uvalde police department. >> i started there and worked my way up to the ranks of assistant chief of police. >> after spending nearly 16 years with the uvalde city police, he moved south to webb county, texas, where among his jobs with the sheriff's department, he worked as a jai

the mayor in the city council were doing everything they possibly could to protect pete arredondo. last night, they were going to grant the arradondo especially of absence from his job as a city counselor so that he can then hold on to his job as a city counselor, because, the rule is, you are not allowed to miss three meetings of the city council, which pierre nano is on the verge of doing. if they granted him a leave of absence, then he would not be recorded as missing three meetings. the plan did not work, because -- rose to speak to the city council. >> you said that we don't have the power to fire him, let me give you a simple out. you can remove him because he's going to vacate his seat. you're agenda number six is a decision on whether or not to give him a leave of absence, why would you? let him miss. three meetings, he is my councilman, let him miss three. the investigation is going to come in and tell us why and what we can do better, what you can do right now is not give him, if he requested it, a leave of absence. don't give him an out. we don't want him. we want him ou

ilia: el distrito escolar de valdÉs suspendiÓ al jefe de la policÍa pete arredondo por la decisiÓn que tomÓ en la masacre donde asesinaron a 19 niÑos y dos maestras. se conociÓ tambiÉn que la puerta del aula a la que entrÓ el atacante no se podÍa asegurar desde adentro, marlene guzmÁn nos habla de la audiencia de hoy. [habla en inglÉs] marlene: son las fuertes declaraciones de yasmin cÁceres frente a los miembros de la cÁmara de representantes de texas en una audiencia sobre salud y seguridad juvenil yasmin comenzÓ diciendo que esta maÑana se sentÓ en la cama de su hermana jackie cÁceres, manejo inconsolable y manejÓ cuatro horas hasta el capitolio tejano. yasmin tambiÉn es prima de anabel rodrÍguez, cuyo padre estÁ inconforme con que sÓlo hayan suspendido el jefe de la policÍa, pete arredondo. >> no estoy contento con esa decisiÓn. marlene: determinaciÓn anunciada este miÉrcoles por el superintendente del distrito escolar argumentando la falta de claridad ya no saber cuÁnto tiempo van a tardar en proporcionar detalles de la investigaciÓn. tambiÉn le piden a l

cbs news has learned the uvalde school police chief, pete arredondo, has not responded to a followup interview with the texas rangers that was made three days ago. under his direction, as many as 19 officers remained outside the classroom for nearly an hour before a border patrol team shot and killed the gunman. bradley blackburn is in new york with the latest. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the justice department has promised an independent review of the police response at robb elementary to get to the bottom of what happened. in uvalde yesterday, the focus was also on honoring the victims as the first funerals began. amerie jo garza and maite rodriguez were laid to rest yesterday. the funerals for the 10-year-old fourth graders were the first for the 21 killed in last week's school shooting. >> i would tell them i love them, and i'm going to miss them. >> reporter: khloe torres was their classmate. she recently dyed her hair purple, amerie's favorite color. torres remembers how teachers irma garcia and eva mireles tried to protect the students from the 18-year-old gunman.

this is why pete arredondo has been silent for more than a week, because he's being respectful. respectful would have been to make the right decisions. decisions based on training that any law enforcement officer in this country should have had by now, that would have been respectful. also, not letting false information linger out there for days. false information that just covered for what appears to be this man's own inept response. remember, all that talk about the gunman barricaded in the classroom as if he had somehow built some sort of fortification, he wasn't barricaded, he locked the door. there were 19 officers with guns outside that door. it was locked. they finally got a key from the janitor, we now know that. so, pete arredondo apparently thinks it is respectful to let false information that portrays him and his decisions in a positive light remain in parents' minds, but correcting that and keeping parents informed, that is somehow disrespectful. as for his statement that he'll reveal the truth once the families, quote, quit grieving, i think he might want to underst

. >> the uvalde texas city council has voted to deny pete arredondo a leave of absence. >> and make a motion we do not grant a leave of absence. >> the crowd cheering the decision. pete arredondo, in addition to his or on the city council, is the uvalde school police chief under scrutiny for the delay police response to the shooting. he has not attended any city council meetings in the 4 weeks since the massacre. he also had no comment yesterday after testifying for five hours in a closed-door hearing about the massacre investigation. during public testimony in the texas senate, steven mccraw, the state's director of public safety, blamed pr donda for the delayed response that it -- blamed pete arredondo for the delayed response that day. mike ross says are a donda -- mccraw says pete arredondo ordered officers not to breach the door. >> the officers had weapons, the children had none. the officers had body armor, the children had none. >> a>> surveillance image shows police officers in the hallway with rifles and ballistic shields. according to investigators, no officer breach the cl

the chief, pete arredondo, has avoided any questions from reporters. there has not been a public press conference by police or state officials about the investigation since last week. texas state senator roland gutierrez, whose district includes uvalda, says that the district attorney, the latest official to run away from reporters who have been asking questions, has ordered the head of the texas department of public safety to keep him in the dark. >> the district attorney basically put a stop to any further recording unless it goes out of her office. so, my communications with colonel mccraw, at least on these issues on this investigation, they have stopped. he has been ordered by the district attorney. >> it makes no sense. another issue that has made the lack of communication with authorities even harder to contend with is that none of the information during the press conferences is being given in spanish. that community and uvalde is over 80% latino. this week, axios reported that texas authorities dealing with uvalde school shootings aftermath of

one on the house side, the state house, and that is where pete arredondo is expected to testify. that testimony will be behind closed doors. we won't know what he tells committee members until a report is issued. that report is expected in mid-july. the other hearing is going on in the texas state senate. that hearing just started. it started with the moment of silence, and we have colleagues in there, and they have been telling us that a timeline has been posted. we already knew from sources that texas dps director steven mccraw was scheduled to testify and that he was going to be bringing in diagrams and going through the timeline. we have a picture of that timeline, jim and poppy. we'll be going through it to get specific details. >> can only imagine the parents' reaction seeing all this play out. rose a flores, thanks so much. >>> speak now to cnn security correspondent and former fbi special agent josh campbell. josh, it strikes me that the revelations today really greater detail about what we already knew, but that the police were armed, heavily armed, they had protective g

is still employed. >> everything is done behind closed doors when it comes to pete arredondo. which is one of the main factors in this mass shooting, that he did not do his job. do you feel that somebody of this caliber should be responsible for city council if he couldn't do his job as a police officer? >> they failed us. they felt our kids, they felt our city, they felt our community. >> reporter: brett cross, who lost his nephew uziah garcia, has been pressing for answers. >> he and the other children aren't here to fight for themselves, so i will. i'm going to be here every time. i'm not going away. >> reporter: 10-year-old lexi rubio's mother, kimberly, inviting us inside her room. >> this is her bed, her blanket. i give her several options to wear in the morning, and what she didn't wear, she kept on the bed so it's still there. >> reporter: she's advocating for stricter gun laws while still waiting for the final medical examiner's report to find out exactly when lexi died. >> we don't have any answers. i guess i'm scared that i might not never get them. >> why is that o

pete arredondo. he failed teachers, kids and the city. by keeping him on your staff, you are all continuing to fail us. >> we all know that they messed up. we all know that this wasn't handled right. you know what we want, accountability. >> several texas news outlets are reporting documents show that multiple officers armed with rifles and at least one ballistic shield were in the school within 19 minutes of the gunman arriving on campus. that's earlier than previously known. law enforcement waited over an hour before entering the classroom and killing the gunman. >>> three people are in the hospital with critical injuries after the cab jumped a sidewalk. police say the cab driver hit a bicyclist and then struck several people outside a bagel shop where they were sitting. bystanders rushed to help, lifting the cab off some victims. a total of six people were hurt. meg oliver has the latest. >> mass casualty incident. >> reporter: in just seconds a bustling sidewalk in the city's popular flat iron di

i'm wondering what you make of the comments from school district police chief pete arredondo telling the "texas tribune" that he never considered himself the incident commander. does that square with what you've heard from others? >> well, it's directly in contrast with what dps has said. so now you have these two competing narratives, none of which makes sense. dps has suggested directly, they leaked out that this man didn't have a radio, he acknowledges he doesn't have a radio. so then how is he then the incident commander if he can't communicate commands to other people? i think that what mccraw said early on in this stage is this was a law enforcement failure throughout. i think that every entity that was there failed. from my own perspective, i want to know where dps was in that hallway, where they were stationed outside. i've asked for that information both orally and in writing. i have yet to get that information. and it is now hidden behind a so-called criminal investigation. it's of deep concern to me, boris. >> i imagine it's got to be extremely frustrating because you repr

. >> reporter: some demanding that pete arredondo resign after learning that he entered the school just minutes after the ghaun. for more than an hour, he and his officers delayed entry into the classroom where 19 students and two teachers were killed. arredondo has said he did not consider himself in charge at the time the massacre was unfolding. multiple agencies responded including the uvalde police department, the texas department of public safety, u.s. border patrol and the u.s. marshal service. now state senator roenld gutierrez is suing the department of that be safety after the agency denied his request for records related to the shooting. >> i want to know where the officers were, where they situated themselves, who they were listening to, which orders they were taking, body cam information if necessary. >> reporter: on monday, the director testified in front of state lawmakers. >> they had weapons. the children had none. >> reporter: they found the response led by arredondo was an abject failure. they want to know why the troopers failed to act sooner. >> we found out that the

this will always haunt me and should always haunt all of you. >> as for police chief pete arredondo, he's previously said, quote, not a single responding officer ever hesitated to put themselves at risk to save the children. the families may get some answers today when the head of the texas department of public safety testifies at a hearing. >>> the other big story this morning is the january 6th committee. that hearing is today. it will focus on former president trump's pressure campaign to get state officials to overturn results of the 2020 election. it comes as we're also hearing from former vice president mike pence about his current relationship with trump. abc's faith abubey is here with the details. faith, good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you, rhiannon. the committee says it has new evidence showing former president trump corruptly pressured state legislators and officials to change election results. today a new chapter in the january 6th committee's effort to show that former president donald trump knowingly pushed election fraud lies that ultimately led to this vio

that incident commander was pete arredondo, he's now a member of uvalde city council. he's the one who texas state law enforcement official says responded for request of follow up interview. chief arredondo did not answer questions and no details of what happened and has he said anything since? well, today, shimon prokupecz did an amazing job. listen to why he didn't give out any facts and why he chose not to follow active shooter protocols. >> reporter: how is it going? >> we have people in the community being buried. >> reporter: you were responsible for the decision to going into that room. how do you explain yourself? >> we are respectful to the family. >> reporter: you have an opportunity to explain yourself to the parents. >> we'll do that eventually. and when ever this is done, the families could breathe. >> reporter: do you understand how the family -- >> we have been in contact with dps everyday. >> reporter: they said that you are not cooperating. >> i have been on the phone with them everyday. >> reporter: they say you were not cooperating. what is your reac

pete arredondo told the tribune that some of the shooter's bullets had injured officers and hit adjacent walls and they started breaking windows and evacuating teachers elsewhere in the school and lockdown measures were working against them that all of the lights in the classrooms, which made it difficult to pinpoint the gunman's exact location and the door was reinforced with a steel jamb designed to keep outside attackers from getting in and preventing them from immediately kicking the door in and confronting this particular shooter and he also told the tribune as you mentioned, he never considered himself the incident commander which is significant because that is in direct contrast to what state investigators had set up until this point. another portion of their conversation with the tribune, arredondo assumed that some other officer official had taken control of the larger response and he took on the line of a front line responder. he never considered the scene's incident commander and did not give any instruction that police should not attempt to breach the building. as far as inst

. >> school chief of police pete arredondo has been put on administrative leave. tonight, cbs' omar villafranca reports it comes as the uvalde mayor is blasting one of the probes. >> reporter: almost one month after the uvalde massacre, there is anger and confusion. texas state troopers are leading the investigation, and state senator roland gutierrez is now suing them. he says they're not sharing information with the public, while pointing the finger solely at uvalde school police. >> they want to give us snippets of body cam footage from the local police, but they want to hold on to their own body cam footage. we found out yesterday there was 91 officers on site from the department of public safety. >> reporter: while angry reads continue to fall for the firing of pete arredondo's for his department's lack of response,es mayor don mclaughlin is slamming state authorities mayor, when was the last time you were actually briefed by d.p.s. on the latest on the investigation? >> may the 25th at about 9:20 in the morning. >> reporter: have they contacted you? >> i con

but according to state authorities, pete arredondo, the onsite incident commander, stopped 19 officers from immediately breaching the classroom, while the children desperately called 911 for help. there are reports that 911 operators were able to relay this information to officers at the scene, but operators themselves are now receiving death threats. >> we were getting calls from all over the country-- i'm sorry, all over the world. >> reporter: this 911 dispatcher asked us not to reveal her identity. >> i do understand that they're grieving, and they want to vent, but dispatchers have gone through enough. >> reporter: residents continued paying their respects at the growing memorial today, including oscar-winning actor matthew mcconaughey, who grew up here, and local border patrol agents, laying a wreath after risking their lives to stop the rampage. and tonight, governor greg abbott has issued a disaster declaration for the city of uvalde that would streamline access to any resources this community will need to cope with the aftermath of this horrific tragedy. norah. >> o'donnell: h

cnn's shimon prokupecz caught up with the police chief pete arredondo this morning. he insisted he's been in contact with the texas department of public safety every day, he says, but just last night, dps officials said arredondo had not responded to the request for a follow-up interview about his actions or lack thereof during last tuesday's massacre. today, uvalde is saying its final good-byes 2 too more victims, irma garcia, and jose manuel flores, jr. and in the state capital, texas governor greg abbott requested a special legislative session which his office says should focus on school safety, mental health, social media, police training, firearm safety, and more. cnn's shimon prokupecz starts off our coverage from uvalde. what else did chief arredondo tell you when you caught up with him earlier today? >> well, jake, as you know, we have been trying to make kakz with him for days. certainly after friday, when the state investigators revealed that he was the boss. he was the man that was running the show on the day of the shooting and made that wrong decision no

mccraw placed the blame squarely on police chief pete arredondo, who was inside the school but did not act. cbs' omar villafranca is going to start us off tonight from uvalde, texas. good evening, omar. >> reporter: good evening. the head of d.p.s., said the fact that officers waited so long to react goes against everything they are taught and said that inaction set the profession back a decade. he also said the school police chief put lives of officers over children. texas' top trooper was blunt. >> there's compelling evidence that the law enforcement response to the attack at robb elementary was an abject failure. >> reporter: colonel steven mccraw, head of the texas department of public safety, placed that blame solely at the boots of the uvalde school police chief, pete arredondo. >> the only thing stopping the hallway of dedicated officers from entering room 111 and 112 1 minutes in, the first bal was the on-scene commander, who decided to place the lives of officers before the lives of children. >> reporter: mccraw laid out multiple times police failed to engage sooner. three min

"the new york times" reporting chief pete arredondo was one of the first officers to enter the school. according to the report, two uvalde police officers, a lieutenant and sergeant, were shot trying to look inside the xlasz room doors. an official telling abc news arredondo allegedly held back from confronting the suspect, concerned about how long it was taking to get safety shields to "the times"re than a dozen of t children and three teachers originally in the two classrooms remained alive during the 1 hour and 17 minutes from when the rampage began to when officers officially entered. uvalde's school district superintendant, silent for nearly two weeks, speaking briefly today, refusing to answer questions about the investigation and job status of chief pete arredondo. >> we have in our security worked with an outside agency to collect information and put that information together as a working list, so, we are currently working with an outside agency at this time. >> reporter: was there an agency in place before the incident happened? >> we have worked with a firm, i wouldn't reall

i know that colonel mccraw wants to point the finger at pete arredondo. pete arredondo, i don't know him, has all the responsibility in the world. so does dps and every other agency on the ground. >> the uvalde mayor, don mclaughlin, as he laid out the timeline of events, he accused texas department of public safety colonel steven mccraw about lying about what happened that day. beyond that accusation, we had so many false stories presented and then knocked down by the facts. do you believe the public can be confident that at the end of the this investigation they will have the truth, they will have the facts? >> that's the real problem here. from steve mccraw's first press conference, he points the finger at one guy, immediately, three days after. then he points the finger at a teacher. for a week this poor teacher thinks she left this door open, knows she didn't, has to hire a lawyer to say she removed this rock that was impeding the door. we heard various other excuses and finger pointing from the department of public safety, and certainly the mayor is

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. >>> pete arredondo speaks. the man in charge of keeping uvalde schools safe. the man whose decisions and actions are being called into question why did it take so long to respond? why couldn't police get in the room in his first extensive interview since the day 19 children and 2 teachers died, he gives some answers. >>> plus, as far as some lawmakers are concerned, an outright ban on assault weapons is off the table so now one congressman from virginia is offering an alternate idea >>> and tesla makes a big move that will dramatically change its stock price. >>> for more than two weeks, the school district police chief in uvalde, texas, refused to explain himself. but now he's breaking his silence about the robb elementary school massacre, and he's defending the hour-long delay in confronting the gunman as children were dying and trapped inside a clasroom with the killer, desperately calling 911 for help in an interview with the texas tribune newspaper, chief pete arredondo says the classroom door was impossible to kick down because it was sturdily built with

and now the embattled school district police chief pete arredondo, he's out. and nbc news correspondent sam brock has the details. >> reporter: a bombshell development. in grief-stricken uvalde. last night the superintendent revealing the school police chief pete arredondo is being placed on administrative leave. in part because of the lack of clarity that remains and the unknown timing of when they will receive the results of the investigation. as frustration has reached a boiling point. >> i have to answer to a bunch of bureaucrats up there that haven't been doing their damn job. that is why we're calling them out today. >> the city's mayor blasting the state for calling the police response to the school shooting an abject failure. without also highlighting their own wrongs. >> everybody in that hall needs to answer what went on in that hall. not just pete arredondo, not just local uvalde police department. >> roll land guiterrez has filed a lawsuit against dps requesting 911 audio recordings police body cameras and surveillance footage. >> nbc's sam brock w

we know pete arredondo who is testifying right now has said he didn't consider himself in charge. we also know he was looking for keys to the classroom. now according to the texas tribune there are several law enforcement officials who are sceptical that the doors were even locked. how could that fit into the big picture? >> you know, following the chain of command, following protocol is important for law enforcement agencies, for the military when i was in the army. but when we're in an active shooter scenario and our children, elementary schoolchildren are at risk, it's really hard to hear reporting like people are standing around wondering when the chain of command might make a decision about whether they should act to try to save lives. that is, it's difficult to hear. it's something that has to be investigated. it certainly sounds like it blows out of the water the notion that lots of good people with guns -- and i use the words good people somewhat liberally under these circumstances. good people with assault rifles are the only way to stop bad people with assault rifles. we

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there is the investigation taking place, a lot of news regarding pete arredondo and that investigation, but you also have a lot of people that are coming into town just behind me at this memorial, the town square, we've been talking to people that came from all different parts of texas, a family came from kansas. and most of the people told me they weren't expecting others to come down, but they felt like they needed to see this with their own eyes. a lot of them feel helpless, most talking about the idea that they want to do something to help with these mass shootings, but they don't know how they can help. meanwhile you have all these services happening today, as you mentioned, the mass today, the service for the teacher, irma and joe garcia, that is happening down the street, that started just minutes ago. and if you look at the list, i have it in front of me, 11:00 a.m., service for -- at 2:00 p.m., service for flores and the list just continues. and all of these services happening. the families have said that they want to spend this time alone. the media has been here for a week,

uvalde school district has also placed the police chief pete arredondo on administrative leave. that's effective immediately. cnn's rosa flores joins us now from antonio. i wonder, rosa, what the school district is saying about why now, right? there have been calls for his removal, suspension for some time. what changed? >> reporter: you know, jim, here we are nearly a month after 19 children and two teachers were massacred, and the school district issuing a statement late yesterday saying that pete arredondo, the police chief, is now on administrative leave. what stands out here, though, is not just what that statement says, it is what that statement doesn't say. that statement does not reference the latest timeline presented by texas dps before the texas senate where texas dps calls the law enforcement response here an abject failure, where it outlines that within three minutes of this shooting there were 11 police officers, including the police chief, in those hallways. and that two of those officers had long guns and texas dps making it very clear that that that was enough f

of course, the one person who could clear up so much of this confusion, josÉ, would be pete arredondo and we have not heard from him nor seen him now in at least a week. >> and, morgan, i mean, so -- so when that mother decided to break free of the police officials that were outside that school while the gunman was still inside and still inside shooting, there were very heavily armed officers, morgan, i saw an m-4, i saw a couple of ar-15s and fully vested. so the people that were outside had the wherewithal to confront that shooter no doubt about it and they were doing crowd control. so now the mother says that she has been called by police, threatened to charge her, but police won't answer your calls, right? >> reporter: josÉ, just two quick clarifications. the district attorney overseeing this investigation has not returned our calls for comment. and i want to make sure that it was just -- she said a call from authorities, she did not specify which agency contacted her regarding her story. again, you do have multiple agencies here and i think that has created some of the confusion

. >> there are more calls now for uvalde school district police chief, pete arredondo, to resign, his city council seat. >> just yesterday, texas public safety chief called the police response to the elementary school mass shooting, a abject failure. and said armed officers just outside of the classroom could have stopped the shooting three minutes after it started. rosa has been in uvalde covering this. the chief requested to take a leave of absence. from the council, and then what happened? >> reporter: this is a tough one for this community. pete arredondo is not only the chief of police at the school district, he is also a newly elected city council member and he requested for a leave of absence. and here is the thing. a lot of people in this community don't want just him to have permission to miss these meetings, they want him out altogether. take a listen. >> please, we are begging, get this mountain -- get this man out of our lives. >> we may not be able to amend it but we can remove you. >> i have heard you guys. this bothers me but i don't need to talk a whole lot more. i mak

the dps needs to answer. >> meanwhile, the uvalde school district has put pete arredondo on leave arredondo said he did not consider himself to be the officer in charge at the scene in a statement, the district's superintendent said it would wait until the investigation into the may 24th massacre was completed before making personnel decisions. >>> president biden is aiming to ease the pain at the pump by calling on congress to suspend the federal gas tax for three months with gas about $4.95, the president admit it is would be a drop in the bucket >> it will proved families some immediate relief, just a little bit of breathing room as we continue to work to bring down prices for the long haul >> the plan has drawn mixed reaction a top economist warns that it would add to inflation while mitch mcconnell called it an ineffective stunt >> reporter: historically-high gas prices, with record numbers of americans set to hit the road over the july 4 holiday. >> it's going to be my birthday. so we're going to drive there, actually even with the gas prices being so high. we're still going to make t

and that pete arredondo is among them. so tony, just to tell you what i'm seeing from this distance, at what you are reporting. the mayor, and everyone involved in this, including the outside p are representative who the taxpayers of your ball they are paying for. all those people, and arredondo engage in a cover-up yesterday, publicly issuing the lie that the city council meeting would be canceled. and then in effect suggesting, that nobody would be sworn in today. and the lie was that nobody would be sworn in. they didn't want anyone to know that this was happening until after the fact. and what you are reporting now is, it was not publicly revealed until they had already done it. that's exactly right, and let's face, it had pete our john doe gone to any sort of public gathering, one of the reasons that there was so much interest, and one if this was going to happen. >> is because the hope is that we would have the opportunity to ask him in the moment to please walk us through and put us in your shoes, walk us through wh

yesterday dps told us pete arredondo hasn't responded to the texas rangers' request for an interview. well today arredondo told houston he was communicating every day. >> thank you. >>> overseas where ukraine's president zelenskyy says his forces are getting a significant weapons upgrade. the advanced rocket systems are included in president biden's $700 million aid package. as cbs' imtiaz tyab reports, the help can't come soon enough. >> reporter: after days of intense fighting, the heart of severodonetsk is now in russian hands. kremlin-backed forces have occupied the center of the eastern city where around 15,000 civilians remain trapped amid brutal street battles. but help is on the way. the aid package for ukraine, crucially includes four high mobility artillery rocket systems which can hit targets up to 50 miles away. that's more than double the range of the american-supplied howitzer, which the ukrainian commander told us was a game-changer. president biden said the u.s. is, quote, not enabling ukraine to strike beyond its borders over fears kyiv could launch long-range weapons

what this statement says for the reasoning for placing pete arredondo on administrative leave is the following, quote, because of the lack of clarity that remains and the unknown timing of when i will receive the results of the investigation. now, will this be enough action for the families of the victims? john, most likely not. they have been asking for his ouster. they want him fired. i should mention that i've reached out to arredondo's attorney about this new development and i have not heard back. >> that is very interesting what's in that statement and what is not. rosa flores, thank you very much. >>> the senate is on the verge of passing the most significant legislation on guns since the now expired assault weapons ban passed in 1994. this new deal would close the boyfriend loophole, fund environmental health programs and school safety, incentivize states to pass red flag laws and enhanced background checks for people between the age of 18 and 21. joining us now democrat chris murphy of connecticut. senator murphy, thank you for joining us this morning. i wonder, first, was th

pete arredondo estaba angustiado por la llegada de los escudos que protegerÍan a sus oficiales en lugar de entrar, segÚn documentos recopilados en la investigaciÓn. esta madre de familia irrumpiÓ en una conferencia de prensa del distrito escolar de uvalde para exigir mÁs informaciÓn. >> estoy enojada porque no recibimos respuestas. todos los policÍas fueron cobardes. reportero: el superintendente habÍa afirmado que no podÍa revelar datos de una investigaciÓn en curso. " a partir de la prÓxima semana daremos actualizaciones semanales para compartir informaciÓn". reportero: pero alberto rodrÍguez viviÓ en carne propia la angustiosa espera para saber la suerte de su nieta, que sobreviviÓ al ataque le contÓ a su abuelo cÓmo se salvÓ de la matanza. >> estaba a un lado de la maestra, a quien le pegaron dos tiros y cayÓ. ella solo sintiÓ... le pregunto a la maestra si estaba bien y ella... sintiÓ un zumbido en los oÍdos y empezÓ a sangrar. reportero: varios fragmentos de bala le entraron por la nariz y tuvo que ser sometida a cirugÍas. se estÁ recuperando, pero necesita

but according to state authorities, pete arredondo, the onsite incident commander stopped 19 officers from immediately breaching the classroom while the children desperately called 911 for help. there are reports that 911 operators were able to relay this information to officers at the scene, but operators themselves are now receiving death threats. >> we were getting calls from all over the country, or i'm sorry, all over the world. >> reporter: this 911 dispatcher asked us not to reveal her identity. >> i do understand that they're grieving and they want to vent. but dispatchers have gone through enough. >> reporter: residents continued paying their respects at the growing memorial today, including oscar winning actor matthew mcconaughey, who grew up here, and local border patrol agents, laying a wreath after risking their lives to stop the rampage. and tonight governor greg abbott has issued a disaster declaration for the city of uvalde that would streamline access to any resources this community will need to cope with the aftermath of this horrific tragedy. norah? >> horrific inde

chief pete arredondo, who was in command on the school that day, will not be forced to answer a single question from merrick garland's justice department review, not one. no one can make him answer a single question in that review. and so the cover-up continues. joining us now is tony plohetski, investigative reporter for the austin american-statesman. tony, we have heard people, the district attorney, others in uvalde saying, no, we can't possibly answer any questions while the investigations are going on, including what they call the federal investigation, which is not actually an investigation. >> i think people are really torn about this whole thing, that yes, they want to see your point as well. but on the other side, there is also the belief among many people in uvalde and, frankly, across the state, that if they are ever going to get any real answers, that those answers are going to have to come from an independent investigative agency, like the department of justice, doing this work there. there have been efforts, as we have been talking about, for two weeks, since this happene

. >> reporter: tonight, pete arredondo defending his response. the police chief and his attorney telling the texas tribune, he was committed to stop the shooter or die trying. running into robb elementary on with the service pistol and no body armor. but the police veteran left not one, but two police radios, outside the school. telling reporters that he thoughtthey would slow him down. >> he said that was a conscious was told that that was the most accurate way to attack the shooter. we have now learned the gunmen walked in through an unlocked door. >> i redondo and another person here. they ran towards gunfire where both doors were locked. >> reporter: the chief says after bullets pierced the door i will, grazing one officer, he called tactical gear, a sniper, and keys to get inside the classroom. the first ring of six keys did not work. he said he was later given another with 20 to 30 keys. precious time ticked by. but she said, is try i try to keep i was just praying. 77 minutes after the massacre began, the classroom door was finally unlocke

chief pete arredondo gave an initial statement after the deadly elementary school shooting, but three days ago he was asked for a follow-up interview by texas rangers. as of this morning, dps says arredondo has not responded. he was the incident commander at robb elementary who chose to have officers wait. arredondo was sworn into the city council position without a ceremony, the mayor said, out of respect for families burying their children. but facts surrounding the shooting yet again, saying a teacher left a door propped open. now saying that the teacher closed the door when she learned a shooter was on campus, but the door didn't lock. amerie jo garza called 911 during the attack. her father sharing his unimaginable loss. >> i just want her to be remembered as the type of person she was. >> she did all she could to save the lives of her classmates and teachers. texas governor greg abbott declaring a state of disaster in uvalde to speed up state and local resources to help the community. >> i'm thinking about the parents, how painful it is. if it was my grandchild, i would be devas

reportera: suspenden de las funciones a pete arredondo, decisiÓn que tomÓ el superintendente del distrito. >> no tenÍa el audio. no tenÍa comunicaciones. cÓmo es que estaba encargada esta persona? nadie tomÓ la iniciativa para entrar al salÓn. reportera: un ex jefe de policÍa de miami dice que el deber moral de los agentes es hacer lo necesario. >> es un fallo muy grande. reportera: el alcalde de uvalde, don mclaughlin, arremetiÓ contra el jefe de seguridad de texas en una declaraciÓn pÚblica. >> todos dan respuestas de las que no tienen hechos. no estÁn en la verdad. reportera: el senador gutiÉrrez criticÓ las sesiones especiales en el capÍtulo tejano, diciendo que estas han dejado mÁs preguntas que respuestas. y las familias creen saber porque no actuaron. [habla en inglÉs] reportera: este hombre tambiÉn intentÓ entrar en la escuela pero le quitaron el arma. este martes se confirmÓ que la escuela robb serÁ derrumbada. >> no le puedes decir a un niÑo o un maestro que regresen a esta escuela, jamÁs. ilia: en nueva york, una mujer secuestrada por un hombre al que conoc