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our country. joining us now is melissa, a teacher at marjorie stone ham douglas high school in farquharson land, florida, whose party described. thank you very much for being here today. i m so sorry for what you went through today. thank you. can you just describe what happened? i know you were teaching class at the time of the shooting. i know it was tard toward the e the school day. can you walk me through what you went through with your students? the day was winding down. we had about ten minutes left. in the last period of the day i teach newspaper. i was working with the kids making a school newspaper and the fire alarm went off for a second time today and so we followed the protocol, which is to evacuate. and so, you know, i grabbed my emergency folder and we started to file out the door. and then, you know, we made it to the stairwell and one of the security one of the security people that s posted in my
are thoughts and prayers go out to them. no parent should ever have to send their kids to school and have them not return. that should not happen in parkland, it shouldn t happen anywhere in the country. and this we have to find a way for this to stop. as a district we will continue to work with law enforcement. we are focusing on providing all of the support that our students, our family and employees need. to cope with this devastating tragedy. it s going to take some time to go through this. to heal. to figure out how to move on. some updates on douglas. as for activities and school we ll be closed for the rest of the week. all activities will be cancelled
plus students. tammy lightener, who has covered this story so ably all day long, thanks very much for staying up with us tonight. we want to turn now to jim guard. he s a math teacher at marjorie stone ham douglas high school in parkland, florida. jim, we re so happy to have you with us in more ways than one. walk us through your experience today, starting with the first you heard something was wrong. well, we had i just finished reviewing for a test with the kids, and about 2:20 or so we had the fire alarm went off which was unusual because we had just had a fire drill today at about 9:30 or so. so, i told the kids, wait, hang on for a second here before we go out. it may have been something accidental, something burned or what have you. so, we opened the door and our administrator got on and sad