want to bring in ali vitali who is on the scene for us. this is breaking in the last hour or so. we re learning more by the minute. what do we know right now? reporter: learning more by the minute, yasmin. expected to get even more hard information as soon as this press briefing starts. i m told that the sheriff is on his way over right now. and we ll start getting more information. when that happens, i ll go over and try to ask all the questions that we still have, which is effectively what is the official timeline of what happened here. i will say i caught up with a parent, who was picking her children up here, they were thankfully okay, but she described to me that moment where she got the text message from one of her kids saying that there was an active shooting at their high school, and she never thought that it could happen in this community, and to her children, and unfortunately now this has come to perry, iowa. she also told me that while this shooting may have hap
to be dead from apparent, as you actually just said, jim, self-inflicted gunshot wound. and may have been a student. we re also being told by jonathan and tom that three others injured including two students and an administrator. one could be fatal. but that investigation is currently ongoing, jim. yeah, right. so they they have some facts they haven t put out, but they do have family notifications to make. and that s critical. they have a family reunification center set up. so hopefully within the next couple of hours they ll be more transparent, get the families notified and get the facts out because they got a community on edge up here. and he did say that you don t have to worry, but people want information. you re the police, and the sheriff, and they want as much information as you can legally give them as quick as you can. that s part of your duty as well. hopefully within the next couple of hours they ll get that. it looks like probably, you know, a suicide in a child,
supposedly coming back to the united states. that s right. the sheriff said they talked to her and working on get her back here. whether she cooperates or not that s in progress. so many, some of the bodies are apparently in very very bad condition. how difficult is the identification process for the coroner s office? we re told three of the bodies still have not yet been identified of the 59 dead. that s right. three have not. i was at the hospital this morning. they were telling me how difficult it was to identify the people who were there. they dropped their phones when they ran, they dropped their pocketbooks, didn t have driver s license with them. it s been a very tedious process even identifying one off-duty police officer through fingerprints. how many families still need to be notified they lost a loved one? i can t tell you the number. i do know there s a family