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Dangerous. did you have a sense of you knew who to do to get to safety? >> we didn't know it was a school shooting. we thought it was a drill or somebody fired blanks which was the resuumor. so a herd of us were running towards walmart not knowing what went on, honestly. >> sarah, i know you must be getting in touch with friends and family. >> thank you. >> my guests are back with me tonight and we are going to show this video one more time. just be aware, it is shocking but it gives you a sense of how serious and how harrowing a situation this was earlier today for these young students, have ...

Lockdown drill to our school. i texted back and said it's real. you know follow the directions. >> um-hum and it wasn't until then. i want to get it straight, will, that you and the other students got into the closet right after the ten minutes? >> yeah. that was correct. we were -- and we were in a computer lab so the teacher turned off the computers to make -- so there was no light. and she turned off the closet light and we just sat in the closet for i would say an hour probably until the police came. >> take us through. i imagine what's going through your head as you guys were in the close...

Red, which is gun on campus, we went over that about a month ago, and there were rumors going around the school there would be a fake shooting to see how the students would prepare for it and stuff like that. so when we first heard the two gunshots nobody did anything because we thought that was a drill, you know. >> yeah. >> and then i just saw people running, then i heard it again. and got louder and louder. and that's when i just ran downstairs. and i could tell he was like right around the corner because it was very loud and i heard shooting and ran opposite. >> i know it has to be confusi...

Was no longer a drill. and things were getting serious. at 2:40 we knew it was real serious. >> so how long were you holed up in the classroom then there fearing for your lives, i imagine? >> well, you know, the kids are great. six kids i had were really good. we were extremely calm. basically put out an email what kids i had. which kids are missing. we figured out where they all were through text messages so i knew all the kids i had in class and they were safe which is a drill that we have gone through to make sure of that. so we were i guess correct that way. we were there i want to say 4:4...

Rural colorado in the theater, they thought it was a drill. but going back to this particular story, what happens here with schools, schools are a place of peace, they are not ha police of war. so how do we properly fortify our schools but at the same token not line the perimeter with tanks? one of the things we have to take into consideration, this was a person that had a known problem, a known history with that school. therefore, this should have addressed a harbinger for violence with this particular person. generally speaking, when i look at school security, it should be internal and exter...