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The report you put out shows school shootings, 44 since newtown and nothing on the national level. that is precisely what is coming to fruition. >> that's exactly right. apparently lockdown drills are the new fire drills. somewhere along the way we decided it's okay to have lockdown drills and they're manmade crises we're going to ignore and not pass laws to fix. what we're saying is they're not the same thing. that acts of nature are not the same things as acts of man. we can actually pass laws to stop having to have all of these lockdown drills. security is important. absolutely. but what's ...

Brother at the school and you had a little trouble reaching him at first. tell us about that. and tell us about when you were able to be reunited with him. >> that was probably hands down the scareyest time i've ever been in my entire life over all. i was with, i was in the corner with my classmates and all of a sudden i go, wait, my brother is not on lunch. he's in the school. i text him. i go, austin, are you doing okay? because i just assumed he knows that he is in lockdown. he doesn't apply. i go, austin, where are you? then he doesn't reply. where are you? are you okay? still no reply. th...

>> what could you hear if anything while you were in lockdown in this room with the door locked and the lights out? >> well, right away we got in our corner. none of us really, we weren't serious about it. we've always had lockdown drills but none of them have been, they've all been drills. we weren't sure what would happen. and so we were all kind of like talking until our teacher was like, you need to be quiet. this is not a drill. okay. and then all of a sudden we just heard a lot of rumbling. like a ton of rumbling. it sounded like desks were hitting everything and there was so much. and t...

The school? >> one of our teachers, our science teacher named mr. wallace came in and let us know. >> what did he say exactly? >> he ran into the room. he just yelled. he goes, lock down. do what you would do in a lockdown drill. this is not a drill. >> how often do you do lockdown drills? >> i would say once every three months. i've done quite a bit. so i knew exactly what to do. arapahoe prepares really well. what did it entail? >> we all went into a corner. i was upstairs in a room so we all went into a corner and turned off the lights and locked the door. >> and how long were you there? ...

At anyone, just moving at a quick pace. >> we've been told there are lockdown drills for this mall and that people may have known what to do in a situation like this. do you know anything like that, being an employee there? >> no, do i not. the mall does a good job of protecting everyone that works there. i've been here for four years. everything has been fine up to this point. i'm sure everyone is working hard to make sure everything turns out better for everyone. >> how did you hide in that situation? >> well, actually, conveniently, i went to the nearest store and they let me station in the...