Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today, Florida School shooting, with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb, live from pyeongchang, south korea. Welcome to today on this thursday morning. We are here in olympic park in pyeongchang, south korea, but it goes without saying that our hearts are definitely back home. Theyre back home and our hearts are heavy. Its hard to even imagine that this has happened again. Again. Its happened again. And we want to get right to the latest overnight. The death toll, in a word, is st shootings in american history. At least 14 others were wounded, some of them are in Critical Condition this morning. The suspected gunman is in custody. Officials identifying him as 19yearold nikolas cruz, a former student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School who had recently been expelled. We are also seeing disturbing images recorded and shared by frightened students as they barricaded themselves in classrooms. Thache went through. This is how it looked,
Yeah, so this is the school behind me. Its about 2,900 students enrolled in the school. Very big school for a residential area. A lot of local notables have gone to the school. Yesterday at 2 30 p. M. It just mayhem was unleashed. The shooter shooting a few people on the outside before going in and thats where it became tricky. That active shooter text went out to the students and the teachers but at the same time he went into the school pulled the fire alarm apparently which got people out of the classes. Were getting these stories from people about the conflict that they were going through. Do they go out or stay in . Theyre hearing the shootings. A lot of students with phones. Weve got images. The whole thing has sent this whole community into shock as theyre learning about this young man who was the shooter. The irony is this community knew a lot about this young man who was the shooter, a troubled young man. Theyre all struggling with this this morning. Well talk more about that i
Were noticed, if they were heeded, maybe, perhaps, this would not have happened. There is also so many stories of heroism which well get to. The suspect accused of killing 17 people and wounding more than a dozen others now charged with premeditated murder. We learned one of those killed was assistant football coach aaron fise who acted as a human shield to protect students and were learning the fbi was warned about a School Shooting threat made online by a user with the same name as the suspect months ago. Lets get the latest on all of these developments. Im joined by rosa flores. Rosa . Reporter well, john, reliving the horror, thats whats happening inside the School Building that you see behind me as investigators scour through the deadly trail. They are collecting evidence, trying to connect dots. As you mentioned, the suspected shooter charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder. Theyre collecting the evidence that would be used in a trial to prove that that was indeed premedita
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