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I'm seeing these kids do just these gut-wrenching testimonials. trust me, this is hitting me like a gut punch. but i appreciate and respect director wray getting out in front of this and acknowledging and admitting that the fault was ours, we have to find out was it a person or a processor protocol, get to the bottom of it and fix, it don. it's not going to bring back those 17 precious lives, but maybe it helps us prevent the next one. >> listen, juliet, i have the utmost respect for the men and women of the fbi. they do a great job. but as the author of "security mom," the mother of teenagers...

Conversation. i spoke to my six-year-old son about this last night. i also texted my daughter about this. how do you explain this whether you live in parkland, florida or anywhere in the country? >> i've been in this field a long time. i have three children. i wrote a book called "security mom." the fact is your kids know what's going on. there is no way to protect them from this if they're over the age of five or six. you don't need to explain it. this may be inexplicable. it's the parent's job to provide their child with the tools and knowledge of what might be out there. so things like, you...

Family unification area where they'll take the kids and get the family members there. of course, as we know, some family members are also then going to have to be taken elsewhere for -- to find their child or brief or get to a hospital. and the hospitals are taking an inventory of who is coming in so that notification can go to the parents. a school this size, i'm pretty confident they know how to reach people pretty quickly. your going to want to get the parents to the hospitals if they need to. and it's just -- it's sad and unfortunate but this is what these emergency protocols are like. bro...

They were trying to get in contact with the kids. it was awful. awful thing to witness. >> reporter: an awful thing to witness. in some cases for mothers and daughters alike. out for what had promised to be a memorable night together. for sure now they will never forget it. >> she's been crying. she's saying, why do these things happen to people? why do they keep doing this to people? >> reporter: some too young, too innocent to likely even understand this new reality their parents know all too well. >> i feel sad that concerts have to be ruined by people so mean. ariana grande can't do a conc...

Daughters alike. out for what had promised to be a memorable night together. for sure now they'll never forget it. >> she's just been crying. she's just saying why do these things happen to people? why do they keep doing this to people? >> reporter: some too young, too innocent to likely even understand this new reality their parents know all too well. >> i feel sad that concerts have to be ruined by people that are so mean and that ariana grande can't do a concert. >> reporter: randi kaye, cnn, new york. our national security analyst juliet kayyem is author of "security mom: an unclassified...