could stay away, as they continue their investigation, this is 5901 pine island road in parkland. in parkland. and you heard from trina earlier, she knows this area very well. this is something you just don t see every day in parkland. a school schools are great in that community. and everything else. just something a lot of people would not expect. and now we re getting information from the producer that multiple injuries are confirmed from this school shooting inside of the building. multiple injuries are confirmed from the shooting inside of the building here. it is at stoneman douglas high school. as you see more staff this looks like staff and teachers walking out of the school as of right now. as they continue to try to look and search for that gunman and this has been playing out now for more than an hour as they continue their search for the gunman. so we re continuing to stay on top of this and i m going to try and gather more information for you. but chopper 6 over the
a shooting in the school. what you saw right there, that is from one of the kids in the classroom on lockdown. so they are hiding and taken a picture and they ve gotten this picture out to their parents. so they are in side of the classroom at marjorie stoneman douglas high school and i ve had a flurry of text and phone calls from parents at the school saying we can t get in or i ve talked to my child and they re hiding in a closet, they re hiding in a classroom, but they cannot leave the school as of yet. and again, we were told that officers in the area are looking for a white male, we don t have an age or a further description, but a white male in a burg andy shirt in the vicinity and they believe that person is the active shooter. and if we could pull up the chopper shot. you see police at one of the entrances. there it is. there doesn t seem to be a great sense of urgency, but the shots that we ve seen, they are about between two buildings here. the door to the building is o
overpass. it is very difficult to get to the school but an officer just announced the staging area for the parents is north community park. i am just steps aaway from north community park and you could see dozens of concerned parents obviously. many tears, many hugs, people just trying to get in contact with their children who are inside of the school. right now i want to speak to the brother of somebody who is in that school. you have been able to talk to your sister. i was able to get in contact with my sister, bellatorez and she answered the phone trembling in shock and people being shot at and able to make it out. but right now, the kid is still out there and barricaded himself. and what did she witnessed? what building was she in. in the freshman building where i think it all transpired. is that the three-story building. yeah. that is the three-story building. closet to on homeberg and coral springs.
coral springs p.d. and broward sheriff s office are on the scene. but they have said that this is a level three mci, which is the possibility of multiple victims, more than 21 victims. that means that they are preparing for an incident that may have more than 21 victims. which is probably prudent to do if you hear of an active shooter at the school. some reporters are interpreting that to mean that there are more than 20 people injured. we do not have that information yet. stand by, jim. tammy leitner is headed from miami up to parkland, florida. tammy, i guess that is if you were starting in miami, that is about a 30 minute drive four? actually it is a a little bit longer. we re about 30 minutes out right now. you guys, i can tell you that we did speak with a mother whose daughter is inside of the school right now. she is actually trapped inside of the school. according to her, there are still at least about 20 kids
bso, the other law enforcement officers, we see them there outside, those in the command structure, this is something that is obviously a worst case scenario which something they train for, a tremendous amount of time. the broward county school board and all of our schools in south florida have had information that they give out to students about how to handle this kind of situation. you never want to have to do this in real life. but unfortunately it is playing out here today. that looks like obviously a distraught parent trying to get some information i have to interrupt you right now. we re looking at these images the first time. forgive us. you can see an upset mother trying to get more information on maybe her child inside the high school she s trying to get in touch with. we understand how upset she is. the governor is on his way, governor scott is on his way to the scene. we expect him to arrive soon