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Sources: Video footage, law enforcement officials and a former student familiar with the school layout. Graphic: The New York Times.

Sources: Video footage, law enforcement officials and a former student familiar with the school layout. Graphic: The New York Times. Licensed by Axios  

At least eight 911 calls were made from classrooms at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, between 12:03 p.m.  — half an hour after the 18-year-old gunman entered the building Tuesday — and around 12:50 p.m., when Border Patrol agents and police finally stormed in and shot him dead.

Why it matters: Local and state law enforcement officials in Texas are facing intense criticism for why it took so long for officers to confront and stop the Uvalde shooter inside two connected fourth-grade classrooms.

The on-site commander, chief of the Uvalde school district's police department, believed that the gunman was barricaded inside the classrooms and that children were no longer at immediate risk. 

"It was the wrong decision, period," Steven McCraw, head of the Texas Department of Public Safety, said at a briefing Friday.

Standard law enforcement protocols call for police to confront an active school shooter without delay, rather than waiting for backup or more firepower. McCraw, whose voice choked with emotion at times, said: "We're here to report the facts, not to defend what was done," according to Reuters.

Most of the kids trapped with the gunman were 9- or 10-years-old.

In a call a minute-long call at 12:03 p.m., a girl whispered that she was in Room 112 — more than 45 minutes before a Border Patrol tactical team used a janitor's key to open on of the locked classroom doors.

Videos showed anguished parents outside the school, urging police to storm the building during the attack, with some having to be restrained by police.

How many kids could have been saved, as medical experts stress that critically wounded gunshot victims must be evacuated to a trauma center within 60 minutes — a time period that emergency physicians call "the golden hour," according to Reuters.

Why a more experienced commander from a bigger agency didn't take over. Police are stationed outside the home of Uvalde School District police chief Pete Arredondo, who is said to have made the fateful decision to wait, AP reports.

What's next: The delay in confronting the shooter could lead to discipline, lawsuits and even criminal charges against police, according to AP. 

Go deeper: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says he was "misled" on Uvalde timeline

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The Supreme Court is prepared to overturn Roe v. Wade, according to a leaked draft document first published by Politico. 

Driving the news: Chief Justice John Roberts confirmed the authenticity of the leaked Supreme Court draft document on the end of Roe v. Wade, but said it did not represent the court's final decision.

Roberts said the court will open an investigation into the leak.  

The document was authored by Justice Samuel Alito in February and according to Politico, Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett all voted with Alito.

“Roe was egregiously wrong from the start,” the draft states.

"We can only do our job, which is to interpret the law, apply longstanding principles of stare decisis, and decide this case accordingly. We therefore hold that the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion. Roe and Casey must be overruled, and the authority to regulate abortion must be returned to the people and their elected representatives," per the draft.

These draft documents don't reflect final vote tallies, but Republican-appointed justices have a 6-3 advantage on the court.

The decision should be released sometime within the next two months and Roe is still currently the law though many red states have pushed ahead with abortion bans, confident the new measures will stand.

The big picture: If the Supreme Court were to overturn its precedents, abortion access would no longer be federally protected and instead a patchwork of state laws would govern the procedure, writes Axios' Oriana Gonzalez.

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The crisis in eastern Ukraine escalated drastically on Feb. 21 when Putin recognized two pro-Russian separatist "republics" and sent Russian "peacekeepers" to the territories.

Ukraine has been battling Russian-backed separatists in the east since 2014, when Russia also occupied and annexed the Crimean Peninsula. U.S. officials began warning in November that Putin could be planning another incursion, possibly to topple the pro-Western government in Kyiv.

The U.S. and its European allies had met with Russian officials in a variety of settings to try to build a diplomatic off-ramp, while also warning that an invasion could be imminent.

Russia had issued a series of demands, including a legal guarantee that Ukraine will never join NATO. At the same time, Putin amassed more than 150,000 troops along Ukraine's borders and conducted unprecedented military drills — preparing the option to take military action if Russia didn't secure the concessions it was seeking.

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The ongoing baby formula shortage in the U.S. is highlighting historic economic and racial disparities around breastfeeding, according to AP.

Why it matters: Black and Hispanic mothers rely on and may struggle to find formula more often than white women, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The CDC estimates that 20% of Black women and 23% of Hispanic women exclusively breastfeed through six months, compared to 29% of white women, according to AP.

The CDC also estimates that breast feeding centers are less prevalent in Black neighborhoods. 

Low-income families in general buy the majority of formula in the U.S. Experts fear that small neighborhood grocery stores, which vulnerable populations rely on for formula, may be less likely to replenish their stock as quickly as larger retail stores with more buying power.

The big picture: Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Robert Califf told Congress this week that the baby formula shortage likely won't subside until July.

The shortage is the culmination of supply chain issues from the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as a recent recall that temporarily shut down a major formula plant in Michigan.

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