there were vehicles minivans and suvs. and the people coming in were parents man a woman checking in with the police guard outside the emergency room and then being directed somewhere else. these are parents in those chaotic hours after a shooting are still trying to track down their children. and they re trying to understand exactly what was happening. and so from having covered so many unfortunately so many of these shootings that sort of panic is not isolated to this one. this is a fear and confusion carried over until they have the answer of whether or not their child is dead or alive or being treated at one of the local hospitals, don. kyung i want to get to shimon. you have new details about the shooter s weapon. what do you know. that s right, don. we talked about this ar-15 style weapon throughout the day. we have explained that the atf has the possession of the firearm have been running traces on the weapon we learned according to u.s. officials the
whether or not that speaks to what happened here today, what some of the motive was still unclear at this point. randi kaye reported are the rowing parkland florida. stand buy i want to get to kyung law now. you re at one of the hospitals treating one of the victims from the shooting. talk to me about what you have been see tlg. well, the first thing we noticed when we arrived here is that this sort of panic that you married randi talking about, that expanded and carried over to some of the local hospitals. the hospital that i m at it is the hospital that is closest to the school. when we arrived here and this is a couple hours after the shooting. this is a parking lot that the that the hospital asked to us park in to give the families a bit of privacy as they started to walk in and out of the emergency rooms. the doors are a bit of a distance behind my right shoulder. and what we noticed is that even from our vantage point some vehicles were tearing into here.
think would be are reasonable precautions. 3,000 students thp they had a armed resource officer a single point entry with security check to to get in the school. a large school 3,000 students is a lot of students. another thing to tom s point, the more you make it difficult for somebody to get in the classroom, if something happens in the classroom, you now make it difficult for us to come in and get you because essentially the most difficult hostage rescue is conducted in prisons. because in prisons we design them to keep people in. and we design enemy to keep people from the outside trying to get in to get the people out. when the hostage rescue folks have to try to come in or the s.w.a.t. folks, makes it difficult. yes. really difficult. thank you. i appreciate it. thanks, don. imagine this. you are in high school. and you hear there is a gunman. you hear shooting, people screaming. your fellow calamities are being gunned down. the only refuge is in a closet. that happened
suspect s name it was a familiar name to enemy. yes. so parkland was named florida s safest city last year, mayor. what does it say about americana a mass shooting can happen in your city which was named florida s safest city? well for anybody who has been paying attention over the last couple of years i think if we have learned nothing else we learned that this can happen anywhere. and that we cannot be complacent. we need to pay attention to what s going on around us. and i m hoping at some point that we ll see some courage in leadership in our legislative leadership and people will roll up sleeves and do the hard work to find out the answers to these problems. because if they were simple solutions or answers i m sure we d have them by now. mayor, we heard from investigators there. the sheriff is saying there were signs. red flags in terms of the alleged shooter. do you think anything could have been done differently?
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 identifying victims. around 2:30 p the broward county sheriff s office responds to reports of a shooting with multiple injuries at marjory stoneman douglas high school. the student population close to 3,000. at first those inside the school didn t realize what was happening. kids were freaking out. some kids froze.