We are the latest on the investigation the suspect, and the victims, today february 13th, 2018. From nbc news, this is a special edition of today Florida School shooting with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb live from pyeongchang, south korea. And welcome to today on this thursday morning. We are here in olympic park in pyeongchang, south korea, but it goes without saying that our hearts are definitely back home. Our hearts are heavy. Its hard to even imagine that this has happened again. Again. We want to get to the latest overnight the death toll, in a word, its staggering, 17 people were killed, making this one of the deadliest Mass Shootings in american history. At least 14 others were wounded. Some of them are in Critical Condition this morning. The suspected gunman is in custody. Officials identifying him as 19yearold Nicholas Cruz, a former studented a Marjory Stoneman high school who had been recently expelled. We see images recorded as students barricaded in classrooms. This is what kids and their teachers went through. This is how it looked, how it sounded and felt for them. We will show you. We should warn you, it is disturbing. [ gunshots ] oh my god no theres something about seeing that video that puts you exactly where those kids were. And we cannot become numb to this. We cant. We have complete coverage for you this morning. We will talk to one of the students who was wounded. We will begin, though, with nbc news Gabe Gutierrez. Reporter that shooting is so hard to watch the local gunman booked into the jail, surfacing 17 counts of premeditated murder. Authorities say he came to the school. Shot three people outside, went inside, shot and killed 12 others. Two people died at the hospital. Students and teachers huddled together. At first they didnt know what to make about this they had the fire drill earlier in the day. Unfortunately, there was no drill. Lets go reporter these are the unforgettable images of the horror inside the nations latest school massacre. Get down. Reporter Authorities Say the lone gunman 19yearold Nicholas Cruz was a former student at marnlry sto Marjory StonemanDouglas School in park authority. Just after about 2 00 in the afternoon, he stormed with with an ar15 rifle. We heard gunshots. Reporter he is 14, yet he saw the unthinkable. I saw two girls dead next to each other holding hands. There was another body in front of me. There was three on the bathroom door. Reporter s. W. A. T. Teams swarmed the building racing from one classroom of terrified children to the next. We have got the patient loaded, were getting out of here. Reporter from students barricaded inside came heart breaking messages to parents and loved ones. She was sending us texts like saying, i love you, im sorry. And all that because she didnt think she was going to make it. Reporter overnight the fbi interviewed eyewitnesses, including a senior, he and 15 other students crammed into a closet fearing for their lives. I cant run. I just had surgery. Shes like, you need to come now. Im hopping to her for dear lie. Within it get there i hear gunshots to my left. Reporter students were marched out of the building. We didnt know what was going on, once we saw the students running, i started to think, like whats happening . I heard the gunshots, oh my god i just ran. I just hope all the other kids are okay and oh my god. Reporter President Trump not speaking on camera, but tweeting, my prayers and condolences to the families of the victims. No child, teacher or anyone else should ever feel unsafe in an american school. Among the 17 killed, a football coach, 14 others were injured. Not all of the victims have been identified. Some of these children had no i. D. They had no they left their back papg backbacks, there was no cell phones to trace it back. Reporter Police Tracked him down to a neighboring city and took him into custody about an hour later. No parent should ever have to send their kids to school and have them not return. Reporter now, the School Superintendent says just before the rampage, the alleged gunman actually came to the school in an uber car. This high School Remains closed the rest of the week. Grief counsellors will be on hand at this community. Hoda, savannah, unfortunately we are seeing this over and over again. But this shooting is now among the list of the deadliest School Shootings in u. S. History. Back to you. That is heart breaking. Gabe, thank you. We turn now to a young woman samantha gradgrady. She was actually grazed by bullets during that shooting. Samantha, good morning. Its good to see your face. Thank you for being with us. Any time. Thank you for having me. Samantha, first i have i want to know how you are feeling. I know you did get some bullet wounds. I know your best trend was shot right next to you. Yeah. Do you know how shes doing . Have you been able to hear what happened to her . Yeah, unfortunately, she didnt make it. Oh. Samantha, we are so yeah. We are so sorry about that, samantha, so sorry. Are you okay, honey . Im okay. Thank you. Were sending love and prayers to you right now. Thank you. Tell us, if you can, who it was what it was like in that classroom during those moments . Did you hear the gunfire first . What happened . Well, i was doing an assignment for my holocaust class and we were leak i was typing and i took my phone out, because i wanted to show my friend something and i heard two shots. My friend pushed med and said, sam, and i ran to the left side of the classroom, thats where like there was a big book shelf and we all kind of huddled there together. We were all making, like we all clamped like really close tightly together and then students in front of me, there was this cabinet, they pushed it in front of them so that it would deter some of the bullets and the gunman, like there was two people in the hallway that i know and i believe, that were shot and after those two, after i heard those two fun shots, then we started running and then he came for our classroom. So he came after he shot those other two people. And samantha, as i understood it, the door to your classroom was actually shot, but he shot through the glass. Is that what happened . Yeah. Yeah. The door was locked, thankfully, but like he shot quite a few bullets into the glass and it hit a few people behind me and, yeah. Sometimes you put anything in front of you that can you to try protect yourself. And we were reading that your friends suggested to you, just get a book. Hold up a book. Can you tell me about that . Yeah. My friend, she was she was the one that pushed me. We were running, we were already situated in the, by the book shelf and shes like grab a book, grab a book, so i took a book. It was a tiny book. I held it up. I believe maybe the book kind of deterred some of the bullets. So it didnt hit me so badly. But she was the one who gave me the idea. Yeah. She definitely helped a lot. Samantha, i know you were able get out of the school. You went over to where it was safer by the ambulance and at some point you were able to calm your parents and see your parents. They must have been so happy to see you. What was that reunion like . Well, when i first left the school, they didnt know anything had happened. So i hid behind a truck and i called them and i made sure i was kind of calm because i didnt want them to go crazy. So after that, i after a long story short, i went to the ambulance and then while i was in the ambulance, they rushed down to the school, but their phone died. So tabor rowed someone elses phone. And then i told them, im in the ambulance, im on my way to north broward and i will, like if try and come there, and then ask for me. Ill tell them your names and thats what happened. So they rushed there, i was already taken care of. I was already in the hospital bed. They walked in. My dad was really worried. Like it was etched all over his face. My mom, she was like balling. As you can imagine, it was pretty scary for both of them. Well, you are such a brave young woman. Just the fact that you were in that classroom, you had the presence of mind to call 911 and you are worried about your parents feelings. Thats what you are thinking about. Tell us what happened when you got home. Were you able to talk it out with your family . Did you feel like discussing it . Well, we did have, i mean, a lot of people asked i was actually at the hospital. Someone came in and they told me talk about it as much as can you so you can get it out of your brain, so you dont have like nightmares about it. So whenever the opportunity came, whenever someone asked, i freely talked about it. Because i dont want nightmares. My family, we talked about it at the hospital. We came back, we had discussions. I told them details i didnt tell other people. I told them spec details. It was an intense moment. My whole family like, we came together. It was, it was pretty it was done. Yeah. The support was nice. Samantha, you have been through too much, way too much for a young woman your age, but what bravery you showed and our hearts are with you and were sending you our love. Thank you for being with us. Thank you any time. Thank you for having me. Thanks, samantha. And as we said, we are now learning more about the suspected shooter. This is new video of 19yearold Nicholas Cruz, he was arriving at jail this morning. Nbc news tom costello has that part of the story. Hi, tom. Reporter they say the picture is of a problem teenager. He had a fixation with guns, his parents died. He had been kicked out of school and on wednesday came to school with a semi automatic weapon. This morning it appears 19yearold Nicholas Cruz planned the attack on his high school. He had countless magazines, multiple magazines, at this point we believe he had one ar15 rifle. I dont know if he had a second weapon right now. Reporter his intention, Authorities Say is to cause chaos and cause as much hoff vac as well. He wore a gas mask. He set off the fire alarm so the kids would come out into the hallways. Reporter investigators say cruz had been expelled from the same school last year, tore behavioral issues and threatening other students. It contained images of cruz wielding knives and showing off a gun. Buzzby is reporting the fbi was warned last year about a youtube post from a user Nicholas Cruz, who wrote, im going to be a professional school shooter. According to buzzfeed, agents spoke with the person that alerted them in october and asked them to follow up after yesterdays shooting. Fellow students say cruz was a socially awkward kid with a pre occupation with guns. I was in the vocational school, an alternate school. He showed me his guns and how he shot them for fun. Hes always been a crazy kid. I heard people say one day he would have done this, unfortunately, today was the day. Reporter since his mother died in september, he was staying with a family friend. The lawyer of the friend says this all came as a shock. He was a very mild mannered kid. He was going through tough times with losing his mom. Reporter the question for investigators was anyone aware of what he was planning. Ti the fbi agents say the mo is all too common. A lot of times you have a disenfranchised young man who is really outside of the norm in the sense as a rupt of bullying, antisocial behavior, is it a romantic issue, just to make a name for himself . Theres multiple motivations. Reporter this morning, yet another mass murder at another american school, yet another heavily armed angry young man determined to kill. This is the 18th School Shooting this year alone. Since the sandy hook massacre in 2012 when 26 were killed, there have been 273 more School Shootings. Fbi profilers say there are signs of danger to look for among a potential shooter. Somebody who is brooding, depressed, disenfranchised from other students, making remarks about others online, maybe drawn to firearms and previous mass murders and almost always say investigators, there are warning signs on social media if anybody is paying attention. Savannah, who dark, back to yho. Thank you. The president tweeted about this, he offered his prayers and condolences, he is tweeting again this morning, lets go to National CorrespondentPeter Alexander, who is at the white house. Good morning. Reporter savannah, good morning. A very Administration Official telling me there is a strong chance President Trump will publicly address this tragedy at some point today. At the moment there are no Public Events on his schedule. On wednesday the president didnt make oncamera remarks. His advisers recommended he Say Something. You talked about him on twitter moments ago, tweeting, so many signs that the Florida Shooter was mentally disturbed, even expelled from school for bad and erratic behavior. Neighbors and class mights knew he was a big problem. Must always report such instances to authorities, again and again. With parkland three of the too much ten deadliest shootings in u. S. History have now happened during President Trumps time in office. Officials here this morning telling me since the shooting, the president and staff have been speaking directly with law any, fomt and governor rick scott. Connecticut senator chris murphy an outspoken advocate for gun reform, especially in the wake of the sandy hook massacre tweeted this. Dont tell me this isnt the appropriate team to debate gun violence. If you are a political leader doing nothing about this, you are an accomplice him an interesting note the school where the shooting occurred is 40 miles away from the president s maralago estate. This morning officials are discussing whether the president might visit the area when hes scheduled to be in florida this weekend. Savannah, hoda. Peter alexander at the white house, thank you. We will of course continue to cover this. 7 17. We should get our first check of the weather. Good morning. Well show you whats happening. First of all, we got foggy conditions stretching right now from the gulf coast into northern florida. A foggy and wet conditions through the upper ohio and Mississippi River valleys. Snowing through the northern rockies. Record highs in the Central Plains and heavy rain making its way into the southwest. Were going to get to your local forecast coming up in the next 30 seconds. Good morning, im meteorologist kari hall. As we take a live look outside in San Francisco an all clear and chilly start. Our highs today warmerian yesterday up to 62. 66 in san jose. 67 in concord as well as 67 in santa rosa. Ukiah up to 60 today. 65 in palo alto. Over the next few days a blast of some really cold air by the end of the weekend with some gusty winds and that stays with us into the beginning of next week. And that is your latest weather. And that is your latest weather. Hoda. Just ahead, we will have more on the investigation and the victims of that shooting in florida. Then we will talk to one of the teachers who is hailed as a hero. She hid her students in a closet as the gunfire rang out. 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