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Theres a myth about mass shootings the shooters snap. they think about doing this for long periods of time and carry them out. there are things that can be done to intervene. >> what are those things? >> well, you be know you hear people making threats or behaving erratically. often, especially in a school setting, teachers, administrators other kids are often really important in terms of speaking up when they hear something or see thing that makes them feel uncomfortable. theres a lot more awar...

Apparently jumped in front of the students to protect them. he was thought to have lived. he had died. israel did not name the coach, though. >> were also learning new details this morning about the suspected gunman, nikolas cruz after a massive police maunlt. cruz was taken into custody about an hour after shooting took place. he was believed to be armed with an ar 15 style semi-automatic rifle and multiple magazines. the superintendent of the school said he had been expelled from the school fo...

We dove in the back of the room in the corner and waited. we just covered our ears. it was insane. >> alicia, there was a conflict because there was an active shooter warning that went out and then a fire drill. those two things would cause you to behave differently with your students, about locking doors and evacuating versus staying in place. >> absolutely. what happened first, there was the fire alarm, which was a little bit odd because we had had a drill earlier on in the day. i thought it w...

Reach out for help. theres a myth about mass shootings the shooters snap. they think about doing this for long periods of time and carry them out. there are things that can be done to intervene. >> what are those things? >> well, you be know you hear people making threats or behaving erratically. often, especially in a school setting, teachers, administrators other kids are often really important in terms of speaking up when they hear something or see thing that makes them feel uncomfortable. th...

Warning signs, tom, you have the miami herald reporting that administrators considered this student enough of a potential threat that one teacher said a warning was e-mailed last year against allowing him on to school grounds with a backpack here. so how does something like this fall through the cracks? >> halle, there are a number of red flags in this case. hes obviously a sociopath. he made statements to fellow students, neighbors knew of his actions. he was shooting animals around his home. h...

Administrators and the families and the students all are trained as to how to protect themselves in a situation like this. >> it seemed in this instance, tom, from the reports that weve been getting from eyewitnesses on the ground that the teachers did do everything right. these kids have practiced the lockdown drills, they had just done drills a couple weeks before this shooting happened. the students knew what to do and they executed on that. the teachers, the administrators, the staffer knew ...

Advocates saying i want an update, we need to get that information to family members. they work each and every day for that. although this is a very tragic situation, if theres one sense of solace, i think that its youre going to have an army of people that are going to support these families. >> i feel like this is going to go on for a while. the search thats under way right now, this is a huge complex, this campus, this high school with 3,000 students, teachers, administrators, others who work...

Families, that gives us a signal about whether we can save another child in the future. i dont know but im going to predict that he speaks overnight and his social media speaks and at least we have the beginning of answers by the time we wake up tomorrow morning, wolf. i think we will. >> heres another clip from another student talking about how he realizes how precious life is. >> life is really precious. anything can happen within seconds. and we all have to treat each other with love and resp...

Was a safe place, said as soon as the police began showing up in bullet-proof vests and long guns, people started to panic. they started to run. he climbed fence and ran to a near by walmart, and he was able to get to a place where his mom could pick him up. at this point as im talking to the students, theyre saying a few of them are trying on get to a place where they can find their family. >> and you can imagine, sara, how terrifying the 3,000 students in the high school and the hundreds of te...

There are some injuries out there. the exact number i dont recall. >> scott israel said 14 individuals were transported to local hospitals. what kind of security measures does this very large high school have? >> we actually have two squad cars and an officer at the high school at all times when the high school is in session. they were on site today. >> do you go through drills? do the students, the teachers -- >> yes. >> the administrators go through regular drills to prepare for, god forbid, s...