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To school. lets protect barron and all the other kids in parkland, in florida, everywhere else, in the united states of america, because we earned it, just like how you earned the right to protect barron. you need to help us now. we need security now for all these children that have to go to school. we need action. action! action! >> reporter: it is a sad irony that about nine months ago, lori posted on her facebook page, she refly a petition to increase security in schools because of all of the...

A real program in place where you actually intake threats. there is a way to report suspicious activity known to everybody. somebody is looking at that information, analyzing it, and assessing it. and then a team has to decide, okay, does this really present a threat. this will be a multidisciplinary team of the security people, administrators, somebody notice medical field, especially in the counselor or psychiatry field, and they would have to decide what kind of action to take. now, suppose t...

Miami field office. >> the potential of the fbi to miss something is always there. we do our best. we have protocols to prevent these things. well be looking into where and how, if something, the protocol broke down. >> this in addition to a separate notice regarding disturbing social media posts predicting a massacre, including these, saying i want to shoot people with my ar 15. i want to die fighting. killing a ton of people. saying that faculty received an e-mail in 2016 prompting to be on th...

We have breaking news to bring you. a teacher at the high school where the deadly shooting took place tells our brian todd that he got a warning e-mail about the shooter back in 2016. math keateacher jim guard says got the e-mail in november or december of 2016. the administrators wanted to be notified if that student, if the shooter showed up on campus with a backpack. guard says he wasnt given any explanation for the e-mail, but the kids with a student in his class at that time. joining me now...

When i saw one of his classmates say i heard the school shot up in a heard who did it i wasnt surprised. that means people knew in that area that this potential existe existed. whether we need to give the schools more tools like an expanded version of the baker act, put them into a psychiatric facility for 72 hour evaluation, i dont know. thats where the conversation needs to take place. the fbi was working one small angle of this, there were many videos online that his friends or classmates kne...

>> [question inaudible] was there guy on your radar? >> the school knew about him. our school resource deputies knew about him. as soon as they came on to the campus, i understand the guards tried to contact him. i wont go into that more now. were trying to look at videos and piece that together. its quite possible they knew who he was. >> what happened at the school when administrators said that they needed to assess -- threat assess, whatever the word is, the school district didnt follow up on...

That he didnt mention guns or rifles specifically in his remarks as a lot of people pointed out. interestingly, the things he said also align with where gun rights groups are. when he says he wants to look into school safety, one of the measures he supports is a repeal of the gun-free school zones act. a lot of folks including one i spoke to yesterday at the gun owners america said these zones are murder magnets. thats the issue. there should be more people able to carry guns on school property ...

Can we make it more difficult for people to purchase that kind of weapon? instead of looking at it as all firearms. look at the different types of firearms. assault weapons being one. more thorough background check. something that would make it a little more difficult or a lot more difficult for someone like that to get their hands on it. what is an 18-year-old or 19-year-old need with an assault rifle? >> it is difficult to imagine what they need that weapon for today. is this a call to action ...

Talking to us tonight. trying to talk to as many people who experienced and trying to see it from as many angles. joining us on the phone is a student from the high school. first of all, i am so glad you are okay and you are safe. how are you doing right now? >> hello. i am okay. for all of those who are lost during this, i want to say to the families, we stand with you. and were sorry. because these administrators and students are humans too and they didnt deserve to go out like this. >> if you...

And she said, yeah, maybe. >> about how far away were they? >> it sounded in the distance, but we could still hear that they were shots. >> and then what happened? >> about three or four minutes later, some administrators told us to go towards the volleyball fields, which are on the other side of the school closest to the middle school. at that point an armed deputy pulled up with a rifle drawn, and they told us to keep moving back towards the middle school. we were going -- walking along the ga...