showed up? there have been some relatives who ve shown up, some who don t have students here or patients here but they don t know where to go so that information about the family reunification center at the alamo gym in santa fe is very important for parents to understand that s probably the best location to go to locate a child. have you been in touch with other hospitals. no, we haven t. we ve gotten offers of support from colleagues like md anderson have called who said if we need them they can help us. you recently completed a crisis-type drill here? we do drills probably quarterly at utmb to keep our level one trauma center status intact. it s sort of an expectation that we practice with these sorts of situations so that s why we re good at it, that s why we re ready at all times.
santa fe isd which is the school district police officer shot. well, there was another police officer shot in the chest in critical so we may be talking about the same person or there may be two people in critical condition. nick, thank you so much for helping us out. the school and staff have been evacuated as we heard the school superintendent and other officials. the governor is enroute, governor abbot. we also understand president trump has spoke within texas governor greg abbot offering his condolences to those affected by the shooting. the president planning to work with the governor and provide all assistance. nick, is there going to be another briefing there as far as you know when the governor arrives? i m not sure what the
you are right now roughly three to four miles away from the school. this is a school that s about 25, 30 minutes outside houston as i understand it. what more have you been able to find out, nick? so we just had a press conference with some local officials from the santa fe school district police and the santa fe local police as well. you know, the details are pretty sparse. they did say there have been fewer than ten fatalities. they couldn t confirm an exact number yet. that number they did say also that a santa fe isd, the school district police officer, that one was also wounded and taken to the hospital. and i guess the big takeaway was that there were explosives found on and off campus at santa fe high school, and they have multiple law enforcement agencies still at the scene trying to sort out that
powell who is a reporter at the houston chronicle. nick, what are you understanding? we hear there is going to be a briefing coming up. i m going to have to hop off because they re approaching the podium but we re about to hear from santa fe school district. the judge and several other local officials but we re about to start now so i have to hop off. and we ll carry that live as well. we ll bring you this briefing from santa fe regional high school with the school superintendent and other officials momentarily. we ve received an outpouring of support from across the state and we appreciate your continued prayers from our student, staff and community. i m going to turn it over to our chief of police to share details that we have at this time. thank you. as you re aware, a horrific event occurred today at santa fe
loyication is, if it will be down here in santa fe but i ll be here on the scene in the meantime. how many hospitals do you believe were involved in taking the casualties? i m not sure the total number. i can confirm several people were taken to utmb in galveston which is one of the big facilities in this region. how many grades a how many grades are involved? i believe it s nine through 12, i can t say with confidence what the school population number is. nick, thanks so much. we ll return to kprc and one of the students. it was looked like a