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classroom and opening fire. the suspect armed with an ar-15-style rifle, ultimately killed by police. and tonight, investigators say the suspect turned 18 just nine dys ago. and that he bought his ar-15-style rifle the next day. then another one just a few days later. and nine days after his birthday, he was here at this school. we are now learning more about the children tonight and their two teachers. some of the children getting end of the year awards the morning of the shooting. so...

Prevention programs. on top of that, officers were leaving the city faster and new officers could be hired, and in just a few minutes, the police chief will be holding a conference to talk about this recent spike in gun violence that in many cases has seemed so random and brazen, it has left some residents afraid to leave their homes. back to you. >> john: i cant blame them for that. no question. claudia cowan for us, thank you. >> sandra: thats coming out of the oakland county sheriffs office a...

Patient admitted three, four days ago, still, in the emergency department because there is no icu or floor beds for them. and so, what happens is when those ems units come to the hospital, they offload their patients and they are stuck there. and that leaves the system really depleted. on top of that, critical-access hospitals and prestanding emergency departments, some hospitals that i work at as well are in the same situation. they stabilize the patients but cant get them transferred to tertia...

Unvaccinated, that is true. if it youre in a car accident and all the ems units are tide up waiting at the hospital because they cant off load the patients because the hospital is so full, that ambulance may not come f youre having chest pain and youre at home and you might be having a heart attack and you call 911, that ambulance may not come. although the folks with covid-19, a majority of them run vaccinated in the hospitals, theyre affecting everyone. >> do you envision a point where you or ...

Thats why you see the legal actions taking place. >> i want to jump on that in a second since were talking about legal action and tools. were talking about mask mandates there. but just to follow-up what you told us about your ems units, 39 ems units yesterday all in use. youre getting record numbers of calls for covid. those arent the only calls coming in. are you concerned about the surge in covid cases impacting other emergencies and other medical needs as tom foreman just laid out? >> that i...

Youre based in houston. the city is seeing a significant strain on its medical services. i heard official theres say for 26 minutes on thursday all of san antonio is without any free ems units. meaning they had no available ambulances. >> were seeing rising cases. every person i see come into the emergency department is covid positive. i think back to the last four shift thats i worked, that fourth shift when leaving the emergency department, i still had a patient that admitted for covid pneumon...

By the calm winds now. we are looking at intense winds in the next hour or two as the storm comes on shore. we do know that a great many of 50 to 60,000 of our residents did heed the warnings and evacuated. we certainly appreciate that. that makes our job as first responders a little bit easier. right now our first responders are unable to respond to calls because of the high winds. we are going through a period where we wont be able to respond to 911 calls. its just too dangerous to put them ou...

This attack. and remember, these shots were being fired from above 32 stories above. it was a very, very difficult situation to defend. 22,000 people in an open area, essentially, pinned in. >> reporter: can we go back two photos? i dont know if this is technically possible, but the fire department medics were wearing vests as well and helmets. now, listen, they werent just handed out at the scene. unfortunately, in this country, mass casualty shooting situations have become so commonplace that ...

>> open the door! open the door! >> do you guys mind explaining why we have to put these masks on? >> the short answer is, if you breathe it in, you can die. >> you said you have a nickname for this street. >> morgue. morgue avenue. >> you literally walked in to cash a check. by the time your brother had got in an accident and told paramedic he was on fentanyl. whats it like to go through this? >> hell. hell every day it is hell. ♪ welcome to montgomery county, ohio, where thanks to a drug s...

Wreckage. we utilize our hydraulic tools to open up the train a little bit more so that we can reach the person, and were able to extra date that person and have them transported to the medical examiners office. once again, this was a great coordinated effort. the members of our department, the men and women of our department did a great job throughout this whole event. we continue to have an engine and a medic unit on scene just to make sure that everything is done safely as we finish this inve...