for congress about getting access to these documents. harris: s what you re talking about as it was attempt at shaming with holder and i really didn t accomplish anything either. i want to press in with this idea that you say neither side has totally clean hands. you were mentioning congress has leaked documents and informatio information. if you look at it, and it was just the house but if you look at the senate side with the indictment of jim wolf, the security headed for the senate intel committee recently, that appears at least to be some evidence. people have always been concerned about leaks with some folks involved in the house intelligence committee. similarly, doj, there is an email that you called 70,000 conference table mentioned where the price of the conference
as darren mentioned a moment ago, there s some discussion about whether there were pipe bombs or there s an explosive on the scene. as is always the case with these stories, we get a lot of information up front, but for obvious reasons, authorities are trying to keep a handle on that while they determine that everybody is in safety. so we re continuing to listen to that. we have had a tweet from the president saying that initial reports look like things are bad. senator ted cruz has also tweeted he and his wife are keeping the students and faculty at the high school in their prayers along with all first responders on the scene. please be safe and heed warnings from local officials coming from the texas senator. we re keeping an eye on the situation with our affiliate, kprc from houston. initial reports are sketchy. we don t know the full situation. and there does seem to be some confusion about people thinking
protection of the students depending on when s.w.a.t., and resources get in. when we look at that particular component being removed, the students going out in the evacuation, it s a real arduous task. one of the things you have to focus on is your communications and these drills that the students go through in the past such as the lockdown drills you mentioned earlier. we received a tweet from donald trump. early reports not looking good. good bless all. it s interesting. usually the president waits a little while. obviously he has been briefed. we don t know whether the president is getting his information from watching television news or whether he s getting it from better sources. there s more information we re not able to confirm or report coming in from local news. we did hear the harris county sheriff s department tweeting multiple casualties. and we are now confirming, nbc through its affiliate is now confirming that eight people have been killed in the school
reporter: what time did they get access to the school? i don t know the exact time, but my understanding is right before school started. anywhere between 7:30 and 8:00 is my you saiding. reporter: how old is the shooter? just that he was a student at the high school so i would imagine under 18. [ speaking foreign language ] you are listening to harris county sheriff ed gonzalez updating reporters at the scene. some brand new information coming in about their investigation. we know that the suspected shooter, the accused shooter is a male student. we also know that another person was brought in for questioning and was also a student. nine confirmed dead. we are being told the majority of these fatalities in the mass shooting at the school are, indeed, students. yeah. we want to get some sound now i want to just go to david
1 1999, but otherwise we usually look for a sole shooter. and this shooting today makes number 22 for this year. that s over one school shooting a week in the united states since january, and at the same time last year we had 17. so unfortunately we see the numbers and the fatalities going up. clint again, as darren who is with me always points out when we re doing these things, we are still in a stage where we don t know all the details. we have little information. that s what we re sharing. we know that at least eight people are dead according to harris county and our nbc affiliate there. we understand there s still some being treated in a hospital. we know the students were evacuated from the school. we re not sure whether that was under orders or because of a fire alarm set off. when you are looking at this now, what are you thinking?