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Expected to be a wet and possibly wild night. norah. >> o'donnell: david begnaud, hunkering down as well, thank you, david. more than two million floridians are under mandatory evacuation tonight. ahead of the storm, officials had urged residents to go to higher ground. and for thousands, that meant going to a shelter. we visited two schools now housing families just before hurricane ian hit. evacuating was an easy decision for anita goff. she's taking shelter at this high school with her son, jafin, who turned two months old today. were you worried about him? >> i really was. that's why i rea...

We have it contained. he's going to be on the building on the west side of the property. careful with the windows facing east. >> reporter: minutes later coronado tells dispatch what he believes is happening, that the gunman is in one of the school's offices, not a classroom. >> subject in the school on the west side of the building. he's contained -- we got multiple officers inside the building at this time. we believe he's barricaded in one of the offices. >> reporter: but as the minutes continue to tick by, the urgency first seen by the initial response fades away. instead uvalde police off...

And luhansk, which is a major atrocity in this war. the direct hit leveled the building to burning and smouldering ruins, burying those who sought shelter in a desperate belief that hunkering down in the basement of a school would provide some sort of sanctuary from the relentless bomb. the governor said 90 were inside, and in his words all 60 who remained under the rubble are now dead. with ukraine's troops resisting the ground offensive, the russian military has gone to the air with long-range artillery and airstrikes with devastating effects. like the russian rocket attacks on holmes here i...

Hundreds are still dying from covid every day. so should americans keep masking up? mandate or not? you're going to hear president biden's answer to that ahead. but first let's turn back to this last stand of sorts for mariupol. jim, what else do we know about how long ukrainian forces can really hold up and hold on to that steel plant? >> you know, the steel plant has become an unlikely lifeboat for these people here. and it is soldiers, the last defenders of this city, but it's civilians, perhaps 1,000 civilians. and we've seen pictures of them there. taking refuge in the basement of the ste...

Those people have withstood months without clean water, really without food, a lot of them we have been hearing stories of them taking snow and melting it for drinking water. no electricity, no heat. hunkering down with each other, trying to keep warm. and so they have withstood the worst, and they will probably continue to press on because they have seen hell and they're passing through it, as the saying goes. so i mean, i think if mariupol were to fall to the russians, that would be such a major blow to the russians themselves because the ukrainians would see that as a symbolic loss and one ...