there for the kids and to tell them it was going to be okay. it doesn't help if i'm sitting there crying, too. so, you know, i just kept telling them it was going to be okay and they were okay and everything was going to be okay and, you know, that helped i guess for them to get through it. >> you guys had your phones with you, you and presumably the students as well. you described receiving text messages as part of how you knew that this wasn't a drill, that this was a real-life situation. what kind of information were you guys getting while you were locked in that closet together in those tight quarters? were you able to follow anything that seemed like real information to you in terms of what kind of risk you were at or how the situation might be unfolding? >> i have a colleague and a close friend who works in the building where the shooting occurred and her and a few of us have, you know, kind of a group chat that we talk in sometimes. she told us that there was a