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Everyone absolutely everyone in the douglas community was forever altered. everyone whos there understands. everyone who has been touched by the cold grip of gun violence understands. for us, long, tearful, chaotic hours in the scorching afternoon sun were spent not knowing. no one understood the extent of what had happened. no one could believe that there were bodies in that building waiting to be identified for over a day. no one knew that the people who were missing had stopped breathing long...

>> six minutes and about 20 seconds, and a little over 6:00 and 17 of our friends were taken from us, and everyone, and absolutely everyone in the douglas community was forever altered and everyone who was there understands, and everyone who has been touched by the cold grip of gun violence understands. for us, long tearful chaotic hours in the scorch iing afternn sun were spent not knowing. no one understood the extent of what had happened and no one could believe that there were bo bodies in t...

Your cloass. >> right, we dont go to college, when we become teachers i should say. none of this is in the training of what we receive how to ma move a gun and do those things. we are taught code red protocol which we followed and you know your first instinct is to protect the kids. i am a mom and you just kind of go into mom mode. most of my kids call me mom. you kind of go in crisis mode and everybody in, lock the door and you stay in a safe place and you wait. having a gun would not have kept...

One understood the extent of what happened and no one could believe there were bodies this that building waiting to be identified for over a day. no one knew that the people who were miss handgun stopped breathing long before any of us had known that a code red had been called. no one could comprehend the devastating aftermath or how far this would reach or where this would go. for those who still cant comprehend because they refuse to, im tell you where it went. right into the ground, six feet ...

>> six minutes and about 20 seconds. in a little over six minutes, 17 of our friends were taken from us, 15 were injured and everyone, absolutely everyone in the douglas community was forever altered. everyone who was there understands. everyone who has been touched by the cold grip of gun violence understands. for us, long, tearful, chaotic hours in the scorching afternoon sun were spent not knowing. no one understood the extent of what had happened. no one could believe that there were bodies ...

Fact. just 20 minutes before the bell rang, the fire alarm started to go off, which was unusual as we had had a drill just earlier that day. we started moving out, following the protocol. we even lined up in the field and stayed still. we were all vulnerable to attack. >> now, you didnt know at that moment? >> we had no idea. we thought it was a drill. we lined up in front of our teacher. then all of a sudden everyone started moving farther downfield, which was abnormal. then we proceeded to fol...

I know youre working on legislation in florida which is moving in a fairly strong direction. i dont know what your take on that is, but what do you think we learn from this that helps you and what you want to accomplish to learn for next time? >> theres a lot of failures and incompetence in this whole horrific act. one of the things that im going to tell everybody and broward that the code red as a failed system and every school in broward. anyone that knows anything about firebombs knows that w...

>> i was home. i had texted him like i normally would do, do you need a pickup at 4:00 or after band, hes in the band. he texted me, dad, we have a code red, im hiding in a closet in the banner room. i said, what? i thought it was just another drill. but they already had a drill this morning. we kept on texting back and forth. he said, this is serious, they said someones shooting, can you call 911. i called 911 to confirm. they said theres an active shooter, the paramedics are on their way, and ...

I am. in 2014, i was at my office and i got a text message from my daughter jeannie, she said, theres a code red at my school. i tried to call her back, she said i cant talk dad, everyone in the cafeteria. i said im heading there. i think i broke every traffic law to get there. she says you cant come here, you wont wibe allowed anywhere near the campus. she said theres shooting, gadi, gadi, -- daddy. i came up to the scene we have seen too often, helicopters overhead, dozens of emergency vehicle...

Sheriffs performing this weekend. they were not exactly medal of honor winners. the way they performed was, frankly, disgusting. >> the attorney for scot peterson says the attacks were unwarranted. the allegations that mr. peterson was a coward and failed to meet the standards of police officers are patently untrue. mr. peterson is confident his actions on that day were appropriate. >> he has a detailed explanation of why he was outside of the building. he said he was the first to call for the c...