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Break over the deadly shooting at santa fe high school in texas that just took place moments ago. were closely monitoring the situation and federal authorities are coordinating with local officials. this has been going on too long in our country. too many years. too many decades now. we grieve for the terrible loss of life and send our support and love to everyone affected by this absolutely horrific attack to the students, families, teachers, and personnel at santa fe high. were with you in thi...

Where they were searched by officers. they also had their backpacks searched. that was video shot earlier this morning. the video youre seeing on the left side of your screen really speaks to the tremendous law enforcement presence that still exists in and around santa fe high school as the investigation continues to move forward at this hour. the situation still active, but police and school officials telling us earlier that the situation is contained. this is a live picture now once again of h...

Conference coming up? >> at 11:0045 central time. thank you for your time. three patients are being treated at his hospital. one was brought in at 8:12 to another hospital and tra transferred. one was brought in and being treated for gunshot wounds and another under 18 being treated for gunshot wounds. a total of three patients. were trying to get a handle on the number dead depending on sources youre listening to, there may be up to ten who are dead. i want to go down to kprc reporter brandon...

There was a fire or a fire drill and responding to that. to be clear, for some people who dont have young students, students in some parts of the country are trained by a combination of law enforcement and their schools about how to deal with fire drills. weve all learned that. but how to deal with an active shooter situation, a shelter in place type of warning. >> right. the requirement is for all schools national to conduct the drills. i believe this school just conducted one relatively recent...

Be trained to do is understand the distinctions between these things. right? if a fire alarm goes offer, youre taught to leave the building. code red, you seek shelter in place. now theres an easy way to confuse them. if theres a shooter, pull the fire alarm. how do police responding to a scene like this deal with it? we believe that nikolas cruz went out with the rest of the students in parkland. >> its a different approach based on the situations that you have. one of the things that we look a...

Contained or controlled indicates they believe theyve got the shooter or the totality of the number of shooters. >> i believe so. were speaking from a position of conjecture at this point. the one thing thats interesting to me, i see a common demom nay or the. look at nikolas cruz. he pulled the fire alarm. the same true is in this shooting in santa fe. so generally speaking from a law enforcement perspective, we want to be available with the possibility of either sheltering in place or evacuati...

Evaluated and treated. >> whats the rmessage to the community? >> were here for you. were ready to serve anybody that needs our services. >> reporter: thank you, doctors. well let you get back to it. >> thank you. >> another update at about 11 :45. >> reporter: okay. if youre still on with us right now, i want to let you know -- >> all right. youve been listening to a news conference from the hospital. we know they have three patients at the hospital right now. >> a profound moment. as the docto...

Stride student, they heard a fire alarm and followed the procedures youre supposed to follow when you hear a fire alarm. as they get out, they see students running from a direction from which shots were fired. a similar thing happened in parkland. were not sure who pulled the fire alarm or whether somebody understanding there was a shooter thought get out of the school or whether one of the shooter or multiple shooters, we dont know that. we dont know why that happened. it caused a potentially d...

Is rung. generally an announcement follows. but you didnt have an announcement. im not sure if an announcement followed or not. so it now focuses on how can the students get out effectively as quick as possible. it goes back to what we teach as law enforcement. this takes a germane component away from our ability to instruct the students leaving. thats the evacuation in place mode. we dont have the ability to evacuation -- shelter in place, because the fire alarm has been pulled. so now the shoo...

Direction, like, they were shooting from. and they were, like, run, run, theres gunshots, and so nobody believed them until the gunshots got closer and then they all started running, and everybody ran to the nearest gas station, and then waited for their parents there. >> are you trained to do different things when a fire alarm is rung versus when you get -- do you -- are you trained for a code red or active shooter? >> yes. were trained to go -- it was a fire drill, so we followed the procedure...