trils because every school prepares for this moment. this moment is so envisionable by people it s part of the schools procedure. to prepare for it. that s nuts. thank you, frank. 17 lives lost. for the people who are still alive mourning them. i m sorry. that we as americans did not take better care of these students. of the peep who were there. we ll be right back. . . .
nicholas cruise tried to blend in with the students. so that was a reason probably said keep your hands above your head. they weren t sure who was necessarily involved in the situation, correct? yeah. did you see him at all trying to blend in? either of you guys? no. anyone at the school do they recall that? not that i have spoken to. most of the people go ahead. most of the people that were presumably running with him made it too far away to see anybody. some people went to walmart and starbucks. have you spoken to anyone anywhere near him or any of the people who were either injured or sadly killed? nobody i have spoken to personally was injured. you are a freshman as i
that ruse did not work. and he was arrive. in most of the mass shootings we have seen. especially mass school shooltings. usually the gun person kills themselves. that was not the case today. taken into custody. a time of reckoning is yet to come. i want to get to the hospitals now. that have been troeting the victims. what are you learning? it s the broward health system that we re getting the latest information from right now. there are two primary hospitals. i m at the hospital that s closest to the school. a total of 17 patients were transported from the high school to the two hospitals. and what we re learning from the hospital this evening is that there is some good news. we don t know how many of them were students, how many were
not really. did he have you said he was a loner. did he have any friends? he spoke to you. did you consider yourself a friend or just knew him? as far as i know he didn t have any friend. i wasn t really friend with him. i tried to avoid him. when i got assigned to work with him he started talking. how long have you been at the school? he got kick out of two other schools. and aspirations to be in the military. do you know how long he had been at the particular school? from what i belief it was his first year. how long was that? last year. and got expelled. two years ago. he was there. two years ago and there last year. he was there for two years? yeah. he was expelled last year for possession of weapons. possession of weapons. that s what i was hearing over the news today. you heard that. i didn t see him after.
lock down drills. knowing there might be a mass shooter that comes into the school. a generation of teachers taught this way. and there s a fear. from some folks and this isn t about the politics or partisan. there s a fear that having the reasonable conversation that the reality is guns are the factor here. will lead to policy changes that those folks maybe do not want. it was eluded to earlier, you talk to policing groups. they are often the most vocal advocates f advocates for stricter gun laws. if you want to cut down on crime or officers being killed. and things that a lot of folks who support gun rights talk about supporting. if you want to support the police the police are first to say there should be tighter restrictions. there should be tighter restrictions on widely available they are. for whatever reason the political conversation goes to