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Several victims of the latest shooting were taken. this same place where victims of the 2017 church shooting were taken. yesterday i took this picture right here at this memorial. it's a teddy bear with a message from sutherland springs. lucy, it is unimaginable the first time. the second time for doctors? >> reporter: the team that i spoke to there described this sickening sense of deja vu, and i can't help but think about these concentric circles of trauma that take place after a mass shooting like this. not just for the community and families of the loved ones, but for the first responders,...

Case it becomes a difficult air way. >> reporter: today, it is a drill. >> this is one of the teams that we formed. and the day of the mass casualty event we formed multiple teams such as this. >> reporter: but it wasn't a drill on tuesday. when a teenage gunman burst inside robb elementary school in uvalde, texas. murdering 19 children and two teachers, injuring at least 17 others, officials say. >> it is devastating. i think the same thing that every other person in this country is thinking, you know, how horrible their last moments were, right, and what that scene looks like. >> reporter: t...

Gunman burst inside murdering 19 children and two teachers, injuring at least 17 others, officials say. >> it's devastating. i think the same thing that every other person in this country is thinking, you know, how horrible their last moments were. right? and what that scene looks like. >> reporter: the trauma unit prepared to receive dozens of uvalde's wounded. nurse davis described the agonizing wait for patients and the grim reality. >> you start realizing more aren't coming and realize why, and the weight sets in and stays with you for the rest of the day and all the days after. >> reporte...

At least four people are still in the hospital, including the 66-year-old grandmother of the 18-year-old shooter. for those of you who may not know or don't remember, investigators say that teen shot his grandmother in the face before she was able to escape to a neighbor's home and call 911. we're also learning about the surviving victims, some of them who were treated at the hospital, and released on the same day endured what was referred to as shrapnel wounds. meanwhile, earlier this morning we spoke with the university health medical director, she's over at the pediatric trauma unit, she de...

Been having a holiday, coming straight here today. he's also forged a friendship with paul harvey, the paramedic who realised martin needed to be treated at a trauma unit. obviously, we didn't know to what extent your injuries were, and how specific they were, but my impression at that time, even the few minutes were spent with you, is, he is seriously injured, he is very poorly, i think we should go to the nearest a&e which was here and it would have been a big difference in the time it took us to get here. and fortunately, they agreed with that and we brought you here and the rest is pleasan...