Watch Recap: Gov. Greg Abbott gives update on Uvalde school shooting

At least 19 students and two adults, including a teacher, died in a shooting at a South Texas elementary school Tuesday. Gov. Greg Abbott and other officials are scheduled to gave an update at 12:30 p.m. CT. He spoke for nearly an hour.

The gunman walked into Robb Elementary School in Uvalde and opened fire with a handgun and possibly a rifle before officers reportedly killed the 18-year-old, Gov. Abbott said Tuesday.

Abbott and several officials, including Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, Senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, along with other state and local leaders, spoke at Uvalde High School located at 1 Coyote Trail. They plan on providing an update on the state’s coordinated response to the Robb Elementary School shooting.

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This marks the deadliest school shooting in the state's history and the deadliest shooting at a U.S. grade school since the 2012 attack at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. The shooting comes less than two weeks after a mass shooting in a Buffalo, New York grocery store.

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Waldy Diez is a producer for the New England Digital Optimization Team. Contact her at wdiez@gannett.com. Follow her on Twitter @_waldy.

This article originally appeared on Austin American-Statesman: Texas school shooting: Livestream of Gov. Greg Abbott press conference