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Procedures. these planes are tested for their certificate in evacuation. they have to be evacuated within 90 seconds in a test evacuation. and if all the people got out of this from what we see now, this was an heroic effort where everybody did the right thing after the consequence. >> you just alluded to it. walk us through what protocol would be. let's say again, pilot's approaching. something goes wrong in the cockpit. what does the pilot then do? we know according to sources that he did not make a distress call. does he at that point alert the flight attendants to get the cockpit, or the g...

That a lot was done. that there were evacuation procedures, the teachers knew how to lock down. they knew how to evacuation wait and they knew how to take these young children to places of safety. and i think what we actually did see is probably preventing something that could have been a lot worse. one of the keys to this into school security is to run exercises and training and ensure that everybody involved in these situations are educated and educated on how to respond in a crisis. and certainly when you are dealing with children who are young, it is up to the teachers, faculty and staff t...

Procedures so that you are not making subjective decisions in a state of panic. the key is to understand we don't need to be living in a state of fear but we immediate to be -- reliving in a state of awareness and preparation. >> you know, yesterday, any time anything like this happens, in a school especially, there are folks that start calling for metal detectors. would that make a tremendous difference? >> i think you have to look at every school and look at the idiosyncrasies, unique virnlt of every school and trust it to the school to know what their greatest risks and challenges are. beca...

Mayors from the neighboring town, mayor bowden, joined us and said the schools in the area really practice this. has your daughter been in the school since kindergarten? had they practiced the drills, evacuation procedures? >> i believe so. it's a safe school, and i can't say enough good things about teachers and the staff. um, you know, if anybody -- it would be sandy hook school that has it down right because, again, it's the best school that you can -- i'm grateful for my kids to go there. jenna: have the teachers or authorities given you any guidance of what to do next? >> no. jenna: have ...

Levee system has been improved. this is not an event where it ever destroyed levees but this is an event, significant rain and wind. when it comes to low lying areas, they don't have the pumping facilities to liquidatity water out of the parrish remember. if there's a significant rain event, two feet to three feet, then that population is still exposed and those groups should have implemented their evacuation procedures. they chose not to. that's something the legislature has to look into, why did they do that. >> let me ask you, is there a need to relook and re-examine then when you have indi...