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Was taken into custody as a possible person of interest. the police are calling him. could have been a witness. i could change. we don't know. we don't know if the person was part of it. but you look at the pattern here with the explosives, dana, and you look at all the other things. it really is kind of an amazing, amazing symmetry of something happened in columbine some 19 years ago. i want to bring in leila james, sophomore at santa fe high school. i want to know, you were in chemistry class when the whole thing started. apparently one of your favorite substitute teachers was shot in the le...

>> well, are we seeing a repeat again? unfortunately shooters are not real original thinkers but they learn from those that came before them. if, in fact, this shooter went in and intentionally pulled the fire alarm so he or she would have students running in the hall creating a target-rich environment, that, unfortunately, speaks to a new level of evolution in the mind of these mass shooters that we're seeing. they're learning how to get more targets in front of them, and it becomes more of a challenge for a school when their normal reaction -- >> all right. stand by for me, clint, and darren...

Val v val vest galveston, and joining me, angie, her daughter at the school. a ninth grader. i understand your daughter is fine. tell me what happened, how you got the call. how you found her on campus? >> yes, ma'am. this morning she called me early saying, mom we have a fire drill, and then she started screaming, mom, there's gunshots. there's gunshots, and she heard four single gunshots and i told her is there anywhere to hide? she said, there are bushes. i said, run. run to the gas station. me and dad are on our way. we're going to come get you. we're on our way an then we get towards the ...

Direction, like, they were shooting from. and they were, like, run, run, there's gunshots, and so nobody believed them until the gunshots got closer and then they all started running, and everybody ran to the nearest gas station, and then waited for their parents there. >> are you trained to do different things when a fire alarm is rung versus when you get -- do you -- are you trained for a code red or active shooter? >> yes. we're trained to go -- it was a fire drill, so we followed the procedures. we didn't know it was going to be an entrintruder. >> if you thought it was an intruder, how wo...

Started following the same procedure. nobody thought it it would be this. nobody thought it was a student. everybody thought it was a normal procedure practice fire drill. and next thing we know, we hear three gunshots, explosions, run, run, go. >> tough and scary morning for the kids there. santa fe just to give you geographic marker here, 13,000 people, about 30 miles southeast of houston. our teams are on the ground following this. we'll bring you more when we get it. we also want to talk about what's happening on capitol hill because of less than six months go until the midterms there ar...