Theyve come into here live at the msnbc newsroom, i personally have not seen anybody taken away in an ambulance. Ali velshi, it is all yours. Thanks. Ill pick it up from here. Might need help. So we are looking at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School. This is in parkland, florida. This is in broward count for county and it is north of miamidade county. This is west of boca. North of Coral Springs. If you know the area around there, it is northwest of pompano beach. What we are looking at are there is Police Activity at this high school. We know of reporting that there was an active shooter nearby and then other reporting of an active shooter on the property. Now what were hearing from the Broward County Sheriffs Office is to avoid the area of Stoneman Douglas high school while police try and figure out what is going on. Now there is a weve unfortunately covered too many of these active shootings. You are looking at a combination of live footage and footage that we bring back. But what
flat bed. could have been fbi, could be atf, holding that blue tarp down. clearly, the federal prosecutors did not want to have the television helicopter aerials getting details because that is evidence in what has been the nation s biggest crime case over the past 72 hours. last night in opa-locka, the mail processing facility, that is where the fbi, as well as the miami dade police department bomb team, including some bomb sniffing dogs showed up as a precautionary measure. clearly federal investigators either on wednesday or thursday suspected there could have been a strong reason to believe several of these packages went through that south florida facility. throughout this facility, which is enormous, five football fields large, that is where all mail coming into south florida and all mail going out from south florida goes through, gets
you are looking at a combination of live footage and footage that we bring back. but what we re looking at here is a number of tactical officers around an armored vehicle. could you see that they are staying to one side of the armors vehicle. we do not see other activity. we don t see anybody being taken out. we don t see anybody who has been arrested. we don t even see students. so we re trying to get information from the broward county sheriff s office. you will see you have images coming from a television helicopter. we were seeing people earlier there are reports of people who were being taken on gurneys into rescue ambulances but again, we don t see that right now. so we re not quite sure where this is. for people where the situation stands. we do know where it is. in fact, there you see a fire rescue vehicle and some more police officers around here. this is a local television helicopter pulling back a little bit taking a look at the situation. they re approaching a car.
bodies are being recovered. homes, schools, hospitals, all leveled in that twister. it had wind speeds up to 200 miles an hour. abc s ginger zee reports from moore. this is turning into a very destructive tornado and it s getting bigger. reporter: a local television helicopter capturing the pictures up in the sky, catching this tornado, ranked a preliminary ef-4. look closely and you can see the flashes as the power lines and transformers are ripped apart. there is a huge flash, right there. it is just ripping up everything in its path. reporter: from the ground, darkness overwhelming moore, oklahoma. you can see the tornado bearing down on these streets. unbelievable destruction. entire neighborhoods gone. houses and cars piled on top of each other. as we know today, we ve had a massive tornado, a huge one, and it passed through this community. we do know there are fatalities. reporter: in some parts, everything leveled, cars tossed.