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Staff that were inside the classroom or the multi-purpose room, wherever this incident occurred. yes, there have been some students, a handful being detained for questioning, as far as the others and the process, we dont know the specifics, we talked earlier in the hour, whether they are going through everyones backpack individually before they are released to their parents, were not sure, back to you. >> sandra: casey, grand prairie, where they recover this weapon, they believe to be the weapon...

Long-term and the arlington police department will be the lead on the criminal side. the f.b.i. is helping us here and will process the crime scene. we have atf, we have a weapon that was recovered. it was recovered in the street in grand prairie, grand prairie police department recovered that, it is going to be turned over to atf to run ballistics. more to come on that. also want to talk about social media. weve been having a lot of social media comments about threats to our schools from young ...

Outside of it is suv, outside of the suspects home. darren can you tell us what that scene tells you about whether they know if anyone is inside and why the person has task force written on his vest outside of the suv outside of the suspects home with the weapon drawn, what that tells you as you look at that? >> well, we have to take into consideration, still a suspect at large. law enforcement will hold a lot of details close to the vest because they dont want to expose this information and all...

Interest got ark way. you have that active manhunt that has come to a close. a weapon, 45-caliber gun recovered that is being sent to the atf for investigation. here is now where the reunification process is weve been talking about is going to be playing out for a long time. all of the kids are bussed through here, every once in a while, you hear police you sirens and you will have a stream of about five or six school buses that will skrip down this road here, police escorted. those are school b...

School. they are thanking everyone for their help. trace, a focus on social media and ongoing threats from students at the high school that police said diverted police to the threats taking away resources for the manhunt for the suspect. he is now in custody. >> trace: weve been hearing about threats online diverting police forces, i dont know what the threats were aimed at, they were false threats. when you have a scoot shooting, any other threat is high priority, you can imagine that police we...

This. >> casey: trace, you took the words out of my mouth, that weapon that was recovered, in fact, he said was being sent to the bureau of alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives and it will undergo extensive ballistics testing and depending what kind of evidence was 4r69s -- left at the scene, they can pinpoint an exact match and help in potential prosecution here. not to be trite, but a collective sigh of relief for this typically quiet dallas suburb where people got up this morning like an...

They believe he could still have the weapon. they are asking anyone who sees him or knows where he is to call 911, do not approach him, that could be a dangerous situation 6789 tim and lauren. brandon and lauren, excuse me. >> sandra: trace that was fox news afollowiate shannon murray reporting. she is reporting similarly to us there is limited information about the ongoing manhunt for the suspect on the screen, timothy george simpkins. pointing out there is a van in the driveway of the suspects...

The early going and naturally reports start surfacing on social media, it spread like wildfire and parents started showing up at the high school. that led to some issues and panic. then they decided this was going to clearly be a very large, long drawn-out process, so they decided to stage over here at the performing arts district. again, the suspects home, im going to have to do more research on that and then i can get back to you -- >> sandra: as you are saying that, we got the live pictures b...

In the future. ill tell you this, the fact that they will be doing background checks on him. the fact, why is the f.b.i. involved? you need to bring every unit in, maybe they have a piece of information about the weapon, about him, maybe he has a background we need to know about local law enforcement know about. >> sandra: joe, this is continued live video of the unbelievable amount of school buses, a very large school in arlington, texas, that are taking students from the high school to the reu...

Collaborative effort with arlington police department, grand prairie police department, marshal, fugitive task force and others, mansfield, mansfield isd worked well together to get the suspect into custody quickly. no danger to the public, the public is safe and the suspect is in custody. relates to weapon mentioned by the chief, our officer transported a weapon, that was located in the street. we cannot confirm it is the weapon, we believe it may be the weapon. it is being transported to alcoh...