they have spoken alec baltd win, the movie s assistant director and the armorer, what are they releasing about those interviews, if any. thus far all the witnesses they have interviewed have been in their words cooperative. they do have some additional questioning, but we re learning from court records today, i told you about last night, the assistant director, the person who handed alec baldwin that weapon, according to an interview with detectives in court records, he indicated that he failed to conduct a proper inspection of the firearm, and the ammunition in it before actually handing it to baldwin, which gets to the question of liability, that s something we have been focusing on. who is actually responsible, is it the person that handed the weapon to baldwin, is it baldwin himself, that will be a question from the district attorney. we re learning from that man himself, he failed to properly inspect that weapon for safety purposes. you spoke with the santa fe
school board members if they defy his order of no mask mandate, but he will restrict the state money that goes to counties. that s about $9,000 per student in a year. this county here, 179,000 students. talking serious money and we re just talking about palm beach county. so here they ve decided, kids must wearing a masks, but the parents can sign something and they can opt out. s in broward county, the decision will be, there s no opting out. you must you must go to school with a mask when school starts later this month. listen to what some of the parents had to say about government telling them what their children must do for safety purposes. i want them to be protected when they go back to school. i don t want to send them into an unsafe environment. we knows mask kids safe. people want to wear masks, it s their choice to do that, but as a parent who does not want their kid wearing a mask we should have a choice as well. shouldn t just be one-sided. reporter: this is very
all right. i don t think i need to do any questions or comments other than that right now. i just wanted to update you all on what s going on and then we will give you more information as we have it, okay. all right. already. thank you all very much we ll be back. i hear you. okay. that was russell tippen, the ceo of medical center health systems there and he was just briefing us on the number of injured who they were treating at the hospital there, 14 people who they were treating at the hospital. he didn t provide ages or describe injuries for us. but he wanted to assure everybody there on scene that the families have been, you know, offered assistance with social workers and counseling to help them get through this traumatic time. and he really wanted to pass along the message it s a time to hold loved ones tight and he said plays please play pray for the tount and community and what people are going through. the hospital remains on lockdown for safety purposes. joining us t
here. and so we have somebody assigned to that to work with the families, okay. the hospital and all the locations are locked down. and that s only for the safety of our staff and for everybody in the hospitals. okay. ones we feel it s safe to open that up we will. but right now everything is locked down for safety purposes, all right. our nurses, doctors, everybody, lab techs, housekeeping, everybody is doing a fantastic job. we have good blood sources. we have good supplies right now. everything is good at this point, okay as far as we know. we re getting we re hearing it like you all are. we get a lot of updates and information. right now the hospital is stable, secure. everybody that was their conditions vary but we are not ready to speak on that but we do have 14 here.
take families and update them on their family members or friend that are here. and so we have somebody assigned to that to work with the families, okay? the hospital and all the locations are locked down, and that s only for the safety of our staff and for everybody in the hospitals, okay? once we feel it s safe to open it back up, we will. but everything is locked down for safety purposes. our nurses, doctors, everybody, lab teches, housekeeping, everybody is doing a fantastic job. we have good blood sources and good simplifies righupplies rig. everything is good at this point. as far as we know. we re hearing it like y all are. we got a lot of updates and information. but right now the hospital is stable, secure. everybody that was in the hospital we ve secured them. we re taking care of them while taking care of all these people at the same time, okay? we have 14 victims here. their conditions vary, but we re