anything that they shot on the phone. we want to show you a short video taken inside a classroom. during the shooting. it really just gives you sense of the terror of the situation. better than words could. it s tough to watch. tough to hear. we have blurred out the students faces. just one classroom. again. we won t say the shooting suspects name or show photographs of him. we don t want to give him publicity that he s desperate to have. investigators are learning about him. we want to give you as much as information as we can. a former student at the school. he was expelled for disciplinary reasons. what do we know? as we waited for absolute confirmation that the suspect matches the online profile. we have been gathering that information. it paints a dark picture. the sheriff eluded to that.
saying what he wants to do with the weapon. thank you. the congressman for the district where the shooting took place is representative ted deutsche. i spoke with him by phone. i m so sorry for what the community is going through. what s the latest you re hearing from law enforcement? well, the latest from law enforcement is that the number of fatalities is up to 17. they re learning more information about the shooter. about the kind of weapon he used. and that s the update on the numbers. the difficulty is the 17 fatalities all have family members and the community is really going to struggle over the coming days and weeks. just the horrific. the amount of preparation which went into this, senator was on the phone and just learning from law enforcement
about what happened. i can tell you that for sure it was an afternoon filled with terror for so many. any other day this community outside fort lauder dale would be considered the safest in florida. today as you know a shooter changed that. a sheriff this evening told us that the shooting began outside the building. sdp entered inside the high school building. that is what we re told the shooter actually followed the students inside and tonight investigators have the gruesome task of going through the high school building, and identifying the victims. reporter: around 2:30 p.m. the broward county sheriff office responds to reports of a shooting with multiple injuries. the student population close to 3,000. at first those inside the school didn t realize what was happening. kids were flereaking out. a lot were on their phones
not terrorism, that s insanity. you guys are focused on why it s done and how can you make that manifest in terms of agenda. james, let me bounce it back to you for a final point. you re the professor on the panel. this is happening more. when you look at the list of these, yes, they re a small, small percentage of overall gun violence but they re happening more and the most deadly ones in modern history have happened over the last decade? do you believe that is an existence or do you believe there is a trend that we have to examine? chris, if you look at this statistically, we look at august 1st, 19 66, the charles whitman clock tower shooting where i believe 15 people died from the texas clock tower shooter. we look at that from a law enforcement perspective as a first of the active shooter
heard more gunfire above them. the last shots were fired at 10:15. that wounded security guard that i had been talking about, at 10:18, he is able to give the police the shooter s actual location, what room he s in. they start clearing the rooms of other people. of course they did not know if the guy planted explosives or if he was still alive or was going to continue to shoot, and the first breach we have heard the audio of, that doesn t happen until 11:20. they had to get all of their ducks in a row. what do you see, jim, when you look at this timeline? alisyn, in studying active shootings from 1966, the university of texas clock tower shooting and on forward, and we have seen shifts in the paradigm, and more of the instances in the last ten to 15 years, i don t want to say negotiations are becoming obsolete, but these committed