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This is simply shocking. what hor do we know about what led up to the incident? >> reporter: shocking, disturbing news out of newport news, virginia. this happened 2:00 yesterday afternoon while school was in session. police tell us, as you said, that this was during an altercation between this female teacher and they are student, a 6-year-old. that means that this was a class of first graders. that 6-year-old pulled out a gun and fired a shot into that teacher. the teacher immediately rushed to the hospital, as you said, with life-threatening injuries, and at that moment the school also began...

It was causing. there's a lot in this report. of course, family members are getting a chance to review this and ask questions here later today. it's going to be a particularly difficult day for them as they hear some of this information. we're expected to hear from officials later today, and i can tell you there's a lot more to come certainly about the training that perhaps the police department here is going to need to make changes to and other concerns involving the uvalde police department and also changes at the school, fredericka. >> i wonder, shimon, many of the things you had mentioned,...

Tullahoma High School underwent lockdown procedures after police received reports of a possible threat.

How would these plans improve safety in emergency situations and have you received any response from the department as to how they're going to implement them? >> they are in the process of implementing or updating the policies and procedures, in that they have started conducting training, making sure that not only the officers on post, but also as well as the officials around have knowledge of the lockdown procedures. you need to have that coordinated effort, if we, indeed, need to have another lockdown, everybody knows how to do those procedures in a quick, and timely manner, so that we can l...

Of different ways. first, they have hired from the outside, subject matter expert for operational planning, as you probably saw the difference in september 18th demonstrations that we had up here just recently. second, they have started attending roll calls, providing briefings to the officers. and as well as to the command staff, whether it be the sergeants and above, the lieutenants, and inspectors, so they are now receiving daily briefings and red flag the appropriate threat assessments. every officer has been provided a government cell phone to be provided for any alerts on campus and/or r...