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Leaving, and heard a bunch of popping. and right on the pa, code red, an active shooter on campus, ask kids in my room. i looked up and down the hallway, to settle in, close the door, what we are trained to do three weeks ago during -- >> math teacher at the high school subject of this horrible tragedy, thank you so much for coming on this morning and talking to us. >> it is sad. rob: our hearts are with you. jillian: the shooter unloading an ar 15, social media revealing an obsession with guns....

You just spoke with said. and we all proceeded to follow our rules and we started to head out of the classroom. and our teacher was out and about two other students were out as well. and then all the sudden, we heard the type of gunshot noise, but it doesnt sound like a full gunshot. it sounded more muffled. my teacher assumed it was a drill. the teachers had been trained to go through these drills. so we were expecting a drill, actually, for an experience like this. so we immediately went back ...

Evacuating. making sure everything is secure and all the kids go out. all of a sudden we hear code red. i yell, get back in. by then, almost all the students were gone except for about four or five. so they came rushing in. i looked out the door for a couple extra seconds, 10 or 12 seconds. there was nobody around so i closed the door. i had six kids in there with me. five girls and a boy. and of course myself. and we just turned the lights off that youre supposed to do in a code red, which is a...

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...

To have a little bit more diversity on these issues, today by enlarge are all supportive of background checks. 90% of americans support background and 90% of congress and only 5% of republicans support background checks and that tells you where the problem is. >> connecticut senator chris murphy. thank you for being here and talking to us about this. we appreciate it. >> thanks for focusing on this today. >> and throughout the day weve been speaking to the survivors of the latest school shooting...

Walking. i walked down the stairs, and then there was people setaying o go back up the stairs. as i was going back to my class, they made us go us go into a re room. >> did you know they were gunshots? >> i kind of assumed because they kind of pushed us into the room. i was hearing gunshots and i didnt know like what was going on and i was just hearing on the walkie talkies like code red. >> you get trained for this. you have drills? >> yeah. >> when you hear code red, what are you supposed to d...

Building said, no, go back. its a code red. so, you know, i immediately called to the kids, the other teachers who were there, they called to the kids to turn around and come back. and so, you know, i went back to my room. i unlocked the door. i let the kids in. most of the students who were in my class at the time managed to make it back do me. some of them ended up in another classroom because it was closer. and then, you know, we sort of -- the teachers who were in the hallway were opening up...

Pop, pop, pop. at least three. i grabbed the door and i turned around and we start running and as were on the way up to the third floor you hear the guy open the back staircase door and started shooting and screaming. >> they escorted us out of the media center and we had to walk down the hallways by the stairs and at a point they told us to start running because we had to run past the freshman building which is where the shooting took place. >> as we were leaving the classroom i saw two bodies ...

Just cracked open the country and changed us fundamentally. columbine, those murderers killed 12 fellow students and a teacher. today, its at least 17 dead. marjory stoneman douglas high school has about 3,000 students, its big, a college-sized campus, one of the largest schools in broward county, florida. 30 minutes outside ft. lauderdale, 40 minutes outside of miami. there had today been a fire drill earlier in the day at the school. it now appears the shooter may have set off the fire alarm a...

Said evacuate the building. we all started evacuating. i make sure everything is secure and the kids are out. all of a sudden we hear code red. i yell, okay, lets get back in. by then, almost all the students were gone except for about four or five. so, they came rushing in. i looked out the door for a couple extra seconds, maybe another 10 or 12 seconds. there was nobody around so i closed the door. i had six kids in there with me. five girls and a boy. and, of course, myself. and we just turne...