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April 18, 2018
The woman sadly did not make it. the one fatality involved here. we have heard many of these stories. people essentially reaching out to their loved ones, thinking that those would be their final moments. the task now for the national transportation safety board is trying to find out exactly what went wrong. >> all right. paolo sandoval, thank you very much for that. so frightening. marty martinez was a passenger on southwest flight 1380. he tells cnn he did not expect to survive. he fired up ...
April 18, 2018
When youve got only the thrust of one engine, you have 144 passengers, and various degrees of panic or concern. tell us about landing a plane in that sort of situation. >> the airplanes are designed to be able to fly sifly with the loss of one engine and pilots are routinely trained in loss of the engine in take off, landing, all parts of flight. im sure the pilots were well trained to handle this situation regarding loss of an engine even if its lost not just because the engine quit or oil pres...
March 26, 2018
>> one week later, pratt receives an ominous message over the intercom in her cell. >> pratt, start packing up. youll be riding out today. >> will you tell me what that was? >> what that was? them telling me im leaving today. im going to need some time. i got to brush my teeth. i got to get a bag. oh, that sucks. >> for security reasons, inmates are never told when their transfer to prison will occur until the transport van is ready to take them. for pratt, that time is now. >> im packing up thi...
March 15, 2018
I know youre working on legislation in florida which is moving in a fairly strong direction. i dont know what your take on that is, but what do you think we learn from this that helps you and what you want to accomplish to learn for next time? >> theres a lot of failures and incompetence in this whole horrific act. one of the things that im going to tell everybody and broward that the code red as a failed system and every school in broward. anyone that knows anything about firebombs knows that w...
February 16, 2018
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...
February 15, 2018
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 into the classroom, made s...
February 15, 2018
Phones trying to get as much information as we could. so i think quickly we realized that there is a shooting and that something is going on. but we did remain there until the swat team came to get us, which did take a little while longer. and that was also pretty intimida intimidating. we didnt know who they were. but we also did hear multiple sets of gunshots. and then through our communications over our phone, we realized that it was not a simulation gunshot, as we had thought originally. we ...
February 15, 2018
So we were just sitting on our phones trying to get as much information as we could. so i think quickly we realized that there is a shooting and that something is going on. but we did remain there until the swat team came to get us, which did take a little while longer. and that was also pretty intimida intimidating. we didnt know who they were. but we also did hear multiple sets of gunshots. and then through our communications over our phone, we realized that it was not a simulation gunshot, as...
February 15, 2018
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 ...
February 14, 2018
>> what did you see? >> well, obviously, i wasnt in the building where the shooting happened. we were very close, literally one building away. a stairwell away. so we were first told to evacuate over the intercom so we were leaving the building and we came upon a stairwell that led to the other building over a bit of concrete pavement. and i heard two gunshots. and a lot of people were running out of that building and the intercom spoke again code red, which is a lockdown. >> what did you do the...