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Isn't over. >> she's an inspiration. she shows that you can get involved and that you should get involved and you shouldn't lay back and be a victim. carley: it's horrible. police are still investigating. todd: she's a friend o friend e show. we had her on the show many times. it's a horrible story. the demand for highly specialized bomb technicians has never been greater following recent terror plots and mass shootings in america. carley: we take a look at a bomb training school that certified more than 20,000 first responders. >> reporter: from car bombs to high risk hostage rescues, and ope...

Highly-skilled bomb technicians has never been greater. katherine herridge has that story >> from car bombs to high risk hostage rescues, an operating robot, the demand for highly-skilled bomb techs has never been greater. >> there's remote control bombs. there's command bombs. there's victim initiated bombs. all of that we have to practice and train on here because we don't know what we're going to encounter. >> john stewart is the director of the fbi hazardous devices school in huntsville, alabama. >> right now there's about 2900 that protect us across america, and they all come here for the...

Again, if it is an explosive device, a tiny bit of when's going on in the suspect's mind. if he snapped in the course of an hour or two hours or an afternoon and picked up a weapon, that's one story. if he thought far enough ahead to not only acquire a weapon but acquire a device or build a device, he was thinking about this for sometime and i think it also increases the likelihood that somebody knew at least a clue about what he was up to, he spoke to somebody. >> those are important points indeed. josh campbell, the explosive device if, in fact, it was an explosive device, local law enforcem...

Are outside. we see the tactical command post vehicles arriving. each one will have certain level of expertise in them. we heard earlier from the press conference that there was some type of device that was rendered safe. one of those vehicles would be the bomb technicians who bring that level of expertise. everyone will have something to bring to the table. there will be -- they will tap into resources from other agencies. we talked about the long gun. our partners in the atf are skilled at quickly looking at a weapon, finding the serial number, finding the different characteristics of it and...

Explosive devices, that's an element that occurred from time to time in these events but unfortunately it just is a reminder that that we are entering new territory worrying about these incidents. the people who commit them are learning and watching also and stimulating new ideas in that population. the good news is there's a suspect in custody. hopefully we learn what his motivation was, what he was planning to do. >> and now we're going to cut back to kprc to our coverage of our affiliate for an update. >> we're about three miles northwest of where the school is and you can see down the road...