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Minute something happens our technology will pick up an incident has occurred and we'll be responding immediately and the children and teachers know what to do in that instance. their communicated with. we need to identify where there is mental health issues among the student population. the kids at the school knew this person and knew he was an issue. the fbi knew and we need to close some of the loopholes in the background check system where we're not integrating the mental health knowledge that exists at the state and local level into the federal background checks. so fix the nix system and...

Kyung law. and shimon prokupecz is in washington for us. randi down at the scene in florida, painful day for so many. what can you tell us? >> absolutely, don. it was really an afternoon and evening of terror for so many here in parkland. any other day this affluent community outside ft. lauderdale would be quiet and peaceful. but one shooter changed all of that. and tonight we are told by investigators that that shooter pulled that fire drill in order to draw out the students so he could shoot them. and tonight, don, investigators are combing through the high school a looking for clues and id...

About what happened. >> i can tell you that for sure it was an afternoon filled with terror for so many. any other day this community outside fort lauder dale would be considered the safest in florida. today as you know a shooter changed that. a sheriff this evening told us that the shooting began outside the building. sdp entered inside the high school building. that is what we're told the shooter actually followed the students inside and tonight investigators have the gruesome task of going through the high school building, and identifying the victims. >> reporter: around 2:30 p.m. the browa...

Florida, where the superintendant closed their schools last week to essentially clean up their campuses from top to bottom. at least 20% of their student population was home sick. also some of their staff, at least one-third of them, was home either sick or taking care of a sick child. so that is just one example of what we have seen across the country. we have seen officials at the local state and of course federal level to try to gain the upper hand with this issue here. this fierce flu. season that's being reported across the country. this is not the map you want to see especially when acco...

And a guest speaker series. they claim his appearance is disrespected to women, people of color, and the lgbtq community. here's what some students there have to say about this. >> it's kind of nice to have someone that's republican to come and speak. >> with some of the things that his father has said about african-americans, women, and other minorities, a lot of our student population is a part of, it doesn't seem like it's a great idea to bring him out here to speak for our series. >> gillian: this is an issue that has been rattling college campuses for well over a year now. i want to ask y...