the person who set off the fire alarm, the idea drawing students out and creating as many casualties as possible. right. the details of what happened today are important. the investigation will continue. we need to know much more about who this person is and to try to understand everything surrounding the shooting. ultimately, this is the worst day for douglas high school and the wonderful community of parkland, at this point, i believe 17 lives. and look, this is, this is one of the finest schools in the state. i was there just a couple of weeks ago talking to these kids about what they can do to be involved in communities.
and every one of these kids and their families now need the community to be with them to help console and to help stand up and to help them overcome the horrific activities of today. will something change because of this? as you know, time and time again, people whether it is aurora, colorado, or after columbine or sandy hook have said, clearly now, something must change. do you think it will? anderson, i learned something heart warming and frankly obscene today, the colleague of mine handed me the protocol of the way to deal with mass shooting like this. there have been so many. does this mean that there is
your response and pull the fire alarm and force people to get out. if a young people decides that he wants to shoot a lot of people and acquire a weapon that was legally acquired, how are you going to prevent him from accessing hundreds of thousands of students. i am not sure the answer is we will find any answer. actually, the fbi and broward county are asking people who have video and you heard one of the teachers talking about snap chat. and we saw one video, they are saying, they tweeted out this thing saying the fbi has set up a website where you can upload images and video of the stoneman shooting. visit fbi.gov/parkland shooting to submit any information you have on the shooting that occurred at the high school.
two hours. when it cake to the evacuation process, they go class by class. that must have been so scarey. yes. but i kept calm because if you are freaking out, other people around you are going to freak out and that is never okay. you have to stay quiet during stuff like that. and i am not going to lie, i was praying with my friend in the corner of the room just making sure everybody felt okay. and when did you know something terrible had happened? she actually text me immediately. they told me the shooting started at 2:35 and i received a text at 2:36. wow. yeah. so i put on the news and i am like let me see if this was for real. and it was on the news.
disciplinary reasons. if they are all him, what happened today was telegraphed by the shooter himself. do we know anything about his family? did anyone close to him, any family member, were they aware of these postings. reporter: we are unclear about the family situation. we don t have that nailed down. we are trying it determine if in fact he did have parents at the time of the shooting. so we are looking into that, anderson, trying to track it down. again, these postings as alluded to by the sheriff and his news conference show a dark individual forecasting what happened today. and specifically with the weapon. what he wants to do with the weapon. the congressman for the