we ve got so many agencies from dade and broward out here. just we ve seen several s.w.a.t. teams go in with full active gear on. again, students coming out, telling us they do know who this student is. another student just came out. you ll have to excuse me, saying a teacher could have possibly passed. this is all information that s coming out. just like anything it s a fluid situation and we have not confirmed any of this information. so, if you re a parent and you re watching this hopefully, you can get on the phone with your child and confirm some of we ve been listening to the voice of our affiliate reporter down there in broward area. let me repeat myself. it is in the early stages of this of what s going on, this active shooter situation. there is a lot of misinformation that gets out there. people seeing these reports that are just not correct.
situation. you can see police out here. they re trying to make sure that the students that are coming out of this school are of course safe. we have coral springs police out here, ft. lauderdale vso. we have so many agencies from dade and broward out here. we ve seen several swat teams go in with full active gear on. students coming out, telling us, they know who the student is. another student just came out. you ll have to excuse me, saying that a teacher possibly could have passed. this is all information coming out. just like anything, it s a fluid situation. we have not confirmed any of this information. so if you re a parent watching this and you can get on the phone with your child an confirm some of this information, but there are students that have come out and they re okay.
worst day in parkland. let me stop you there. describe parkland for our viewers that don t though broward county, don t know the western part of broward or dade. sure. yeah, this is this is a beautiful idyllic community. it is a wonderful community. douglas shs one of the best high schools in the state of florida. i visit often. i was there just a few weeks o ago. and yet here we are talking about a school another school shooting right in the midst of all of this. this is one of those moments
jacob my colleague at msnbc is on waikiki beach in honolulu on assignment working on pieces related to this, what would happen if there were a north korean threat. bring us up to speed. we talked about the response and what is supposed to happen. what have you learned about the circumstances surrounding that push alert that came out just about 7 minutes past the hour in the last hour? well, i have to tell you, dade, listening to that, i know the audio, listening him someone pushed the wrong button is interesting. i was in the room. small room. inside the bunker inside the diamond head crater here in the honolulu area. and staffed 24-7 around the clock. two people sitting there. there is a phone direct line from u.s. pacific command which would warn about an incoming threat. sounds like from what he said
a no-win situation coming into this. i would argue for anybody that s tuning in, thinking that anybody here is gloating about republicans losing. no, actually the worst thing i would argue that could ever happen to my former porte whafb in mitch mcconnell and good people, good republicans had to wres welwhat they were going to do with roy moore. this may actually be a blessing in disguise for the gop. they dodged a bull net a way. it s a sat dade no for a conservative, it s a good day when you say it s a bad day for the party. i m not sure it s a bad day. the party wants its soul back, it has to do the right thing. they lost a senate seat. the senate is in play in 2018. it probably wasn t before. republicans had a terrible turn jut problem. they are very despirited. republicans are not turning out. that s what happened in alabama in new jersey, virginia and