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The youtube video. and i was like, im guessing they investigated that. if they didnt tell proper people in miami, im thinking, i dont know what goes on. and an fbi interviewer, an investigation, i dont know what goes on in that situation. i have no knowledge of something like that so i can only assume, i know that everybody in the positions are feeling awful about it. i cant state for the record that i hate the fbi or i -- >> reporter: no one is asking you for that. you guys run these drills. th...

I was closing up my door and as i was moving the doorstop out from my door i heard two pops and two senior boys started running at me with white faces screaming theres a shooter, theres a shooter. after that i heard a multitude of other pops. we had just gone through a drill training and everything to go along with that. after previously being through a live action shooter my previous school i immediately went to the first door that i went to, my first point of entry, which was the door that fac...

>> the coaches and the students who were in your office, they actually saw the shooter walk out? >> yeah, we -- i locked em in my office when the code red and the two coaches and the players. to be honest with you, i went out because i wanted to see what was happening. and when i went in the hawley -- in the hall i heard the gunshots go off. i went back to go into my office and when i went in they go, coach, i just seen him because i had another radio in there and they heard the administration i...

An active shooter drill. and i was very much taken aback by that because we had drills as teachers, but i was not aware that the district implements them with students. and so -- >> youre a teacher. >> yes. so i was confused that stoneman douglas would have an active shooter drill with students. but i actually -- thats something that i would support, but i was still kind of confused. a minute later, he texted me and said, it is not a drill. this is real. and my heart just sank because i knew imm...

Direction i was yelling at them, keep running. dont stop. keep running. >> thank you, by the way, for even being a teacher. my mom was a teacher. im still could gnizant that soy people dont have the resources but you had run through the drills, code red and code yellow. you had run through the piece and get political. i want to ask you about that. we were standing here. you said ive been a registered republican since i was 16 years of age. dont take away my guns. >> pretty much. i spent the majo...

We didnt have a teacher with us, she lets us go out on our own, shes in the classroom helping teach. we heard the second alarm which was alarming because we usually never have two fire alarms that day. it must be a real fire. then the assistant principal came on the intercom saying evacuate now. supposedly our codeword for code red which means there is a shooter on campus but all of us walk outside and we hear people screaming get inside now, code red. we go to a shelter, the band hallway. and 7...

>> reporter: a school employee immediately calling a code red. students were supposed to be going home. instead, some would stay huddled together on lockdown for hours. >> shh. >> reporter: authorities tonight say nikolas cruz has confessed to being the gunman, and the former student arrived in an uber, carrying an ar-15 rifle inside a soft black case. >> the suspect exited the stairwell, pulled the rifle out of the case. >> reporter: then, he began shooting into at least five different classroo...

When it goes off, we have to evacuate -- >> and i am sorry, you had a fire alarm drill this morning. >> this morning. at 9:00, the fire alarm went off this morning and we had our drill and it is unusual for a second one to go off a second time. >> and we now understand it was the shooter who pulled the fire alarm. >> right. that is what we suspected as the situation unfolded. so we make it out, you know, of my room, out in the hallway and starting to go down the stairs and the security guard who...

We had to evacuate a couple times. we followed the protocol. which is we were supposed to -- we have to evacuate. >> im sorry, you had a fire alarm drill this morning? >> this morning. at 9:00. the fire alarm went off this morning. we did the drill. and so its unusual for a second one to go off in the same di. >> we understand it was the shooter who according to to the latest reporting pulled it. >> right. right. so thats what we suspected. as the situation sort of unfolded. we make it out of my...

Mean an active shooter. >> an active shooter, yeah. >> you have drilled for that? >> yes. we had a training recently. we could not have been more prepared for this situation which is what make it is frustrating. because we had trained for this. we trained the kids for this. we did everything we were supposed to do. we were prepared for this situation. and still to have so many casualties, at least for me, it is very emotional. i feel today like our government, our country has failed us and faile...