Outfront next, the breaking news, a deadly school shooting. Police say 14yearold killed four people and injured nine student who was sitting next to the alleged gunman just before he started shooting is with us tonight plus new polls showing momentum for harris in key states but also a very important edge for trump. What is that? john king is at the magic wall? the deep dive on all these new numbers tonight. And more breaking news. Abc just announcing important new details about their presidential debate. Who speaking first, where the podiums will be and whether those mics we'll be muted or not. The rules. Let's go outfront and good evening. I'm erin burnett, outfront tonight. The breaking news pure evil those are the words from the sheriff tonight, investigating a deadly school shooting that left two students and two teachers dead, nine others hospitalized. Now recovering from gunshot wound the shooting for many, the second day of school back across this country in a school that had been back for a few weeks, taking place just about an hour outside of atlanta. According to police, the 14yearold gunman is male. This is a new video from inside the school that we've just gotten a student who was sitting next to the alleged let's gunman in the classroom using an algebra class said they were in that class together when he left the classroom, she thought to go to the bathroom a short time later, he tried to return to the classroom but didn't here's why we're about to open the door until the girl who isn't open it kind of steps back and it's like, oh, wait. And then you just kind of see him through the little window, turn almost and you just hear shots you're going to hear more from lejla, say wrath the young woman you just saw in a moment now, according to police, after that shooting, that she just described started he was very quickly confronted by a very courageous school resource officer. And that is when he surrendered. And so many of these cases, shooter's dead here in custody the shooting taking place as most kids across the united states are heading back to school. And today, both vice president kamala harris and former president trump responding this is just a senseless tragedy on top of so many senseless tragedies. And it's just outrageous that every day in our country in the united states of america that parents have to send their children to school worried about whether or not their child will come home alive it's senseless. It is. We've got to stop it former president trump also responding online, writing, our hearts are with the victims and loved ones of those affected by the tragic event and winter, georgia, these chairs children were taken from us far too soon by a sick and deranged monster. Isabel rosales is outfront, live in winder, georgia to begin our coverage. And isabel, you've been on the ground there. You've been talking thank to students. What more can you tell us erin, they've been telling us just unbelievable story, something no teeny journal person should ever witness, including one girl who saw classmate shot but in the shoulder, another who shot a teacher, shot another student who is writing to her mother saying, i know i'm not a perfect daughter, but i love you thinking that those might be her final moments. And then another student that you mentioned, laila, who was in the same class as that shooter who does she believes they only survive because the door automatically locked. These accounts, horrifying high school students evacuating and winder, georgia, one by one out to safety, your head up on the wall some joined a prayer circle after reviving the deadliest school shooting in the u. S. Since march of last year according to the director of the georgia bureau of investigation to students and two teachers were killed at apalachee high school. Nine others were injured and hospitalized for with gunshot wound the shooter who opened fire wednesday morning shortly after 10:00 a. M. Identified as 14yearold student cold gray, who surrendered after being confronted by school resource officers within minutes, law enforcement was on scene as well as two school resource officers assigned here to the school, who immediately encountered the subject within just minutes of this report going out once they encountered the subject, the subject immediately surrender to these officers. And he was taken into custody. Multiple law enforcement officials tell cnn, the school received a phone call this morning morning that there would be shootings at five schools starting with there's the call is now being investigated. The sheriff meanwhile, says he wasn't aware of any calls. A massive law enforcement response, including the fbi and atf were on the scene working with state, local, and federal rowe officers, junior leyla foreman was in the bathroom when the school alarm went off. I was scared. I was going to die to be honest. And when i heard hard lock down and i knew it wasn't drew i immediately texted my dad and i was just like, i don't know if this is a drill. I'm really scared and i just kept my feet up and i cried. Many parents rushed to the school like aaron clark and for receiving these text messages from her 17yearold son, ethan school shooting. I'm scared, please. I'm not joking i'm leaving work. Says the mom. I love you, love you too, baby others in disbelief. I tried to get here soon as possible. I mean, it's just it's crazy, something like this happens in such a small town let's small county. You just never know what's going to happen. I was just grateful that she was still good sheriff jack smith vowed to stay strong for his community i went to school in the school system my kids go to school system i'm proud of their school system my heart hurts for these kids my heart hurts for our community but i want to make it very clear that hate will not prevail in this county and just in the last hour here, this flag right here in apple lashing high school has been lowered to halfstaff a sign that something horrible has happened here, a mark of respect for the two teachers that have been gone down and two students nine others also injured this community. Erin is going through something horrendous here schools have been closed for the remainder of the week and we also have been told by investigators that the alleged shooter will be charged with murder, and it is their time to try him as an adult. All right. Isabel, thank you very much i want to go now to leylah, say wrath, she's 16yearsold. She's a junior at apalachee high school and was sitting next to the suspected gunman moments before the deadly shooting occurred. And leyla, thank you so much for being willing to do this, for sharing this how are you even doing right now i'm doing okay. It hasn't really affected me too much just yet but i think when i reconnect with some of my friends, that's what i kind of hit me i mean, you you were there, you were sitting next to the alleged shooter right before this. All happened, moments before it happened? when you and he were sitting next to each other, i guess. I guess you sort of call it you elbow partner as you were kind of elbow to elbow at your at your desks how did he seem to you? nothing to off he was just another quiet kid that didn't really speak too much and i know you've been in here for a few weeks. Has you've been sitting next to him all the way through. Did anything anything different today about him? no he wasn't here when i first one school for started. I think he transferred in but nothing really seemed to trough about him. Then this morning, he leaves your classroom and i know initially leyla, you thought maybe he need to go to the bathroom, but he didn't actually take the bathroom pass, so then what happened he was gone for a little while. Not unusual. He usually skips class, but a little bit later in minister came walking into find him and at that 0. 1 of my other friends was also in the bathroom when he was actually in the bathroom. And he came in looking for them and they said the wrong name. They said my friend's name because they have similar names. But they asked if his bag was there. They said yes and i gave him my friends bag a little bit later. My friend came back in from the bathroom with his bag and i had asked him what happened and he said he didn't know anything and so class just continue like normal. And then a little bit later, my teachers teaching she gets a call on the intercom that she's a checker email. So she goes to check it and then she comes back and she's gotten backandforth valuable, but he's still not in the classroom and soon he comes back to the door would end. I see him the window and he tries to come in, but the students like because all the doors are automatically locked, so you have to be let into classrooms yeah. But he tried to khamenei, but when he comes back, they will door, you actually saw his face? yes, i saw it through the window. Yes. And did it did anything strike you in that moment of oh, my goodness, something is horribly wrong or did he look normal? no, he looked normal so then what happened? he looks normal. Someone goes to open the door someone else to open it, and then they back away and they don't open it and then you see him turn to what was my right at the time. And then you just hear shots and those shots, leyla so we understand stand. That's the classroom essentially next to yours. That was the door was open for some reason yes. I think that was open and then what did you hear a lot of shots kind of back to back and then you hear you're like the people next door throughout it. You kind of heard them moving things inside the room, whether it was desks or other things like that but you hear them but moving, yelling, things like that ensures what were you even thinking in that moment leyla, when you hear the shots and it could have been your classroom and you hear people i'm trying to stay alive in the room next door we it didn't feel real like just it wasn't necessarily something was horribly wrong, like i didn't cry it and freak out. I stayed pretty calm. I was i was shaking a little bit, but i never i never cry and i never like panic because it just nothing felt like real in that moment i know you had like normal in a way. They know, as you said, you're going to have time with your friends and think about to realize what happened you did have a friend in that classroom where people were shot. And i know you've had a chance to speak with him what did he tell you? he saw in that classroom he didn't speak much. I didn't try and push him or ask him anything. I just comforted him, letting him know that i was there asked if he had talked to his sister, his brother, and i walked with him and i stayed with him until he found his brother and then i went to look for my friends but i i didn't want to talk to him about it. Are ask him about it too much. Just because he just seemed really shaken up obviously, it was a school resource officer who stopped him. I know people you you see every single day when you go to school do you know those sros? well, the school resource officers know. I don't know that i know you're in your classroom and all this is happening i leyla, did you do hear any of the exchange when that confrontation happened and they were able to stop him and obviously save what could have been so many lives i heard yelling. I'm not sure exactly if they stopped him on my hallway or if he was more throughout the school or where they stopped him but i did hear like the cops or officers yelling in the hallways in live. I know you mentioned that he may have transferred in recently that he wasn't there at the beginning of the year and i know you guys have been back for pretty much a month, so you're well into school at this point, but you mentioned something in a moment ago. You said that he would often skip school is there anything else that you think? it's important for people to know about him just from your observations over these past week sitting next to him not really. I mean, he was he never talked. It's like i didn't know him very well. He never released spoke i couldn't tell you what his voice sounded like. Or really even describe his face to you he was just there i know that you're going to a vigil now, leyla with your friends how are you all going to manage this? just even tonight in these next hours? i think talking about what each of us went through piecing together the story is trying to figure out exactly what happened then just being there and comforting each other when he left to go to the bathroom, did you did he take anything with him that there could have had a gun in it or does it seem from what you observed that he would have had to get the gun from outside the classroom i don't think he got the gun from inside the classroom. I think he had it on him i never first saw him. I don't remember what don't remember seeing him leave, but i don't think his bag was in the classroom at the time of the shooting. So i think when he did leave, he took it with him you think? somehow like under his shirt or something on his body while they live very much appreciate it. We all do. Thank you so much for talking. To us and sharing with us what you know. I know it's got to be unbelievably hard, so thank you of course alright. As we continue to get more information on that, if we are anything from law enforcement, we're going to bring that to you next. We do have some new poll information coming out and it's from a whole lot of places. It shows kamala harris with a lot of momentum in kyiv he swing swingstate. There are also though warning assigned warning signs ahead for her. What exactly are they? john king going to do a deep dive for us tonight at his magic wall. Plus our kfile scouring through years of harris's comments and tweets on an issue that is not going away and what they found it is coming back now to haunt kamala harris is important to know. You'll see that exclusive report here first outfront, the trump playbook of 20 2016. Sounds a lot like the trump playbook of 2024 she's raising your taxes really high. 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