hoyer from emergency medicine. doctor, good to see you. thank you for being with us. what happened yesterday? what did it look like from your perspective? well from our perspective, we essentially deployed a code green when we got the information from from the hospital personnel that there was going to be potential x number of gunshot victims. so we have a process in place in our emergency department that we implemented to get our staff ready to receive the patients. and like the schools that you alluded to, in a hospital base setting we do drills as well. and over the past maybe six or nine months we had done an active shooting drill ourselves. it is unfortunate that have to you drill like that these days but we were prepared. and the transition of patient care from prehospital to ourselves was quite seamless and our staff was ready to take care
in 2005 protecting manufacturers and dealers from being held liable when crimes are committed with their firearms and since the assault weapons ban was aloud to expire in 2004 sales of the ar-15 and other semi automatic have soared after the 26 murders of the grade schoolers in newtown, connecticut. and i reached out to the national shooting sportman association to inquire about the industry response to the shooting yesterday and a spokesperson e-mailed me and said our hearts go out to the victims of the tragedy and their families. out of respect for the families, the community and the ongoing law enforcement investigation, we believe it would be inappropriate to comment or participant in media requests at this time. but the organization published a report in 2016 showing the economic impact from the firearms and ammunition industry. that it grew from $19.1 billion in 2008 to $49.3 billion in
another story. i m joined now by cameron kaski, a student who witnessed the shooting here at the school. cameron, tell me what you saw. ali, i was in a room locked with about 20 other students, and i saw a lot of hysteria. i saw there were a lot of things going on. there were a lot of rumors. nobody was entirely sure what was happening. it was a blur. people were showing me videos of gore. i was being shown videos, not necessarily against my will, but without asking, of teachers that i knew being shot and bodies and blood. it was, it was all very scary because we were still in the room and there was a chance the person who was doing those things was coming right for us. cameron, i have to ask you, 24 hours after the event, i ve spoken to a lot of your schoolmates and they have a real range of emotions. some of them are so upset,
knew you were responding to probably a shooting? absolutely. and the initial 911 calls received were there was a possibly a shooting in the school. we hoped those 911 reports were not accurate. we don t want to respond to incidents like that. but as we were responding to the scene, and more and more calls were coming in, dozens and dozens of calls into 911 saying there was an active shooter situation, we knew this was the real deal. let me tell, as we were covering, i too was hoping these were false alarms and that wasn t the case but here we are. michael moser with the coral springs fire department. thank you to you and and your team for your quick responses yesterday. coming up, much more from parkland yesterday where at this time yesterday students were under siege in what should be the safety of their school building. when i was in the vocational school he showed me the layout of guns and he would shoot them
coverage and those people will need mental health care and he won t get it. so he is not making mental health any better and secondly, they are mentally ill people all over the world and only in the united states do parents send their children to school and wonder if they will be the victims of a mass shooting. because we have out of control gun laws, we have weapons of war on our streets. these weapons, the weapon used in parkland was banned under federal law for ten years, that ban expired and it is now legal. there is no reason why it shouldn t be banned again. andy, let s talk about the relationship between politicians or maybe even the republican party but some democrats. and the nra which likes to think of itself as a member organization but a lobby for the gun industry and it not only funds some people s campaigns, and gives them money, as it has for the president and several senior republican senators, but it sort of guarantees if you do their bidding, no one will run against