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Watch live: Abbott, other officials hold press briefing on Uvalde school shooting

Kladys Castellón prays during a vigil for the victims of a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday, May 24, 2022. (Billy Calzada/The San Antonio Express-News via AP)

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) will speak Wednesday afternoon about Tuesday’s elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, that claimed the lives of 19 children and two adults and wounded others.

The press conference is scheduled to start at 1:30 p.m. ET.

Watch the live video above.