Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today, Florida School shooting, with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb, live from pyeongchang, south korea. Welcome to today on this thursday morning. We are here in olympic park in pyeongchang, south korea, but it goes without saying that our hearts are definitely back home. Theyre back home and our hearts are heavy. Its hard to even imagine that this has happened again. Again. Its happened again. And we want to get right to the latest overnight. The death toll, in a word, is st shootings in american history. At least 14 others were wounded, some of them are in Critical Condition this morning. The suspected gunman is in custody. Officials identifying him as 19yearold nikolas cruz, a former student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School who had recently been expelled. We are also seeing disturbing images recorded and shared by frightened students as they barricaded themselves in classrooms. Thache went through. This is how it looked,
Live where you live, this is abc7 news. Home is where the heart is, and yesterday my heart was broken. Tears and togetherness for a small Florida Community reeling from tragedy. Thousands united in grief, try to understand and to cope. Good evening, im daschle. And im al alma daetz. Maggie ruhle where thousands gathered in solidarity tonight. Maggie . Reporter dan and kristen, its been one day since one of the worst Mass Shootings in modern history. The entire community of parkland is leaning on each other for support. This is our home and this is where we will not be intimidated by evil. Reporter a community in mourning, 17 lives lost, many of them steteenage students. I can imagine going to biology class and not seeing her next to me. Its craze iz. Reporter she survived the attack. Im in shock. An emotional wreck. I dont know how to take this and im just im thankful to be here, but at the same time im so hurt to know that a lot of people i know are gone. Reporter the alleged gunman n
Anxiously outside for their loved ones. This morning what were learning about the victims and the hero teachers and football coach. The suspect now in custody after slipping out of the school blending in with evacuate whack separating students. New details about his past, the disturbing social media posts. Why he was expelled and what he said before the shooting about valentines day. Roh now another American Community devastated mourning the victims of this latest shooting. We are live on the scene with the survivors and the math teacher who helped keep his students safe right here on gma. Good morning, america. As you can imagine it is a challenging, difficult morning. George is on the scene in florida where another community is in disbelief shocked by devastating violence. This time at that Florida High School on valentines day. This image, one that has become all too familiar. Students evacuating with hands up and suspect in that shooting is in custody. New images this morning showi
Supervisors the small children didnt even know what the banknotes were soldiers describe them as green bits of paper. And also be sure the bags piece was. Going to sleep to get a decent good enough to study it. And believe it and assure their great the charge there those kids theyre talking about it open it stays here until the night and listen for yourself what they are talking about at their school. To be. Saying he was framed they were accusing him of something he didnt do the director of the orphanage let former inmates into the school they stayed overnight theyre the ones who did all of this with the kids and now theyre just protecting each other. So you cant complain about wrongdoing at the orphanage about abuse he was so naive to do this he filed complaints about the orphanages directed to kids are taken for a walk in winter without proper clothing to the older kids a beating of younger residents that theyre not giving them food sometimes. Even more far reaching investigation ca
A disturbing social media threat has parents and students on edge in south jersey. And a former aide to the president is expected to plead guilty. But the big story on action news is the inferno that destroyed or damages dozens of school buses in the lehigh valley. It tore through a bus garage and forced the entire Parkland School district to cancel class. Bob brooks is live with the lightest. Reporter hey there rick, officials up here think this has caused quite a few dollars in damage and in excess of 20 million in damage behind me. We are up next to it. You can see how charred the buses are. 16 damages and totally destroyed and 14 others around here badly damaged bought of the heat coming off the fire. But the good news is no injuries. Let take a look. Officials say within minutes the bus garage on Stadium Drive was fully engulfed. 16 buses and plenty of fuel for a fire to burn and our crews captured the sounds of explosions inside. The end result 16 buses destroyed burned to the fr