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Anderson Cooper 360

Uvalde Shooting: Audio of School Message to Parents Obtained

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

News

3.7 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Audio obtained by KSAT raises new questions about law enforcement’s response to last week’s Uvalde school massacre. It’s the phone message to parents when they are told of an “active shooter” incident at Robb Elementary School, even though in a detailed timeline released by the Texas Department of Public Safety last week, it was revealed the chief of police for the school district had labeled it a barricaded subject. Plus, Anderson Cooper talks to the father of one of the students killed. And, President Biden announces in an op-ed that the U.S. is providing Ukraine with "more advanced rocket systems and munitions.” This comes as heavy fighting continues in eastern Ukraine. CNN’s Matthew Chance has the latest developments on the war.  To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Good evening. A week ago today a government took 21 lives at Rob Elementary School in

0:05.0

Newvalde, Texas. He murdered 21 people. Starting today and for the next two weeks people in

0:10.5

Newvalde will be attending phenols for the 19 children and the two teachers that he murdered

0:15.5

two weeks of mourning followed by a lifetime of absence. Tonight for the first time we have

0:20.6

a phone message sent to parents by the school district while the shooter was still in the

0:25.8

school. We've also just learned that this man Pedro P. Arandondo, chief of police for

0:31.0

Yvall de School District, who was the incident commander that day. Meaning the person authorities

0:35.7

have said made the decision not to have his officers immediately go into that classroom

0:40.6

and stop the shooter, even though he knew it was an active shooter situation. He, according

0:45.8

to reports, has not responded to state investigators for two days. So keep that in mind as you listen

0:51.4

to this recording obtained by a Philly K, K, K, S, A T. It went out at 12, 20 local time.

0:57.2

In other words, as the shooting was happening and as police were standing by waiting in

1:02.8

a small Texas town for a tactical team to arrive and then assemble, gear up and then go

1:08.7

in. No one was confronting the shooter during that time. Police were standing outside the

1:14.1

adjoining classrooms where some kids were wounded, some possibly dying still and others

1:18.4

were hiding, smearing themselves with blood in order to appear dead as one girl did or

1:24.2

calling 911 for help. And those police officers were not going in.

1:28.8

The data is in the address of Yvall de School District. Yvall de School District is

1:34.0

parent. There is an active shooter at Rob Elementary. Law enforcement is on site. Your

1:42.2

cooperation is needed at this time by not visiting the campus. As soon as more information

1:48.4

is gathered, it will be shared. The rest of the school district is under a secure status

1:55.4

of a precautionary measure to keep our students and staff safe. We appreciate your cooperation

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