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California. i'm jake tapper in washington. that tragic school shooting just north of los angeles in santa clarita has turned deadly. a female victim has been killed according to a hospital spokesperson. she was among six victims taken to the hospital after the school shooting. her identity has not yet been released. the gunman is believed to be a 15-year-old male student. the l.a. county sheriff's office se says the student is in custody and also in the hospital. a lockdown at all surrounding schools was just lifted a short time ago. we expect an update from authorities any moment now on the l...

Our people didn't understand, i think, and i didn't understand fully, that a poll is meaningless on this because intensity governs it and intensity tells you whether it's a voting issue. so basically, a lot of these things, the brady bill, the background check law has 70, 30 or more, but of the 30 against it, 20-some percent would vote against if you disagreed and only 10% or so are for you if you agreed with them. or would vote against you if you didn't agree with them, but that's all changed now. beginning with this last spate of shootings of kids in schools, and i think tohe passion and

Reached the parents yet of the dead student. that is, who is it? the motivation side and why might they have done it? and the second part is means. how did he do it? how does a 15-year-old get a gun, whose gun is it and the issue we talk about every two months about this, jake, what is the access? what kind of weapon it was. add one more issue. we talk a lot about school drills, school drilling, preparing or kids. it's a horrible thing to talk about. what we're finding now, saw if in virginia beach with workplace violence and seeing it now in the schools, these kids know perpetrators know the ...

Talk about sympathy and talk about mental health, although mental health in americans is no worse than other major countries, but this is an opportunity for us to do something responsible, and to do it together. >> and what are you saying to people who might argue, you know, with all due respect, president clinton, democrats supported the brady bill, democrats controlled the house and the senate in 1992 through '94 and then you lost control of it, because at least in part, because of your support for gun control. the argument being, you know, voters don't want it, even though obviously polling...

It doesn't affect that at all to have a good, comprehensive background check law and from my point of view it does nothing to man military-style assault weapons and ammunition clips over a certain size. when we did it, no one missed any time hunting or sport shooting and no one complained they couldn't really protect their homes if they didn't have, you know, an assault weapon. but if you continue to pretend that you can deal with all this by violations of existing law without trying to prevent it, you're going to continue to have these things happen. and we don't know what the facts are here ...