whether or not that speaks to what happened here today, what some of the motive was still unclear at this point. randi kaye reported are the rowing parkland florida. stand buy i want to get to kyung law now. you re at one of the hospitals treating one of the victims from the shooting. talk to me about what you have been see tlg. well, the first thing we noticed when we arrived here is that this sort of panic that you married randi talking about, that expanded and carried over to some of the local hospitals. the hospital that i m at it is the hospital that is closest to the school. when we arrived here and this is a couple hours after the shooting. this is a parking lot that the that the hospital asked to us park in to give the families a bit of privacy as they started to walk in and out of the emergency rooms. the doors are a bit of a distance behind my right shoulder. and what we noticed is that even from our vantage point some vehicles were tearing into here.
you know, you re not quite sure initially how what s going on around you. we all follow the same procedures you were taupt. you lock your classroom, stay put. so i wasn t my classroom i was in by myself. i was sit tlg in my closet too. because you re not sure. you don t know all the information yet. i understand you guys live right behind the hides. a lot of will s friends ran over to your house after this happened. talk to me about that. when we were in the closet i got a phone call from one of my friend. and he called me and said are you where are you right now? i told him i was a teacher he has a different period. and he said we re on west clays the school next to us they told me they jumped the fence and there is a canal they had to walk near. and they had to jump the fence to get over to the west glazed. they told me they had no whering
we ll stay locked on this. and also if you are listening or you can t get to a television or someone else wants to tune in, maybe a family frent friend or a parent concerned about the safety go online to nbc6.com or our app and tune in because we are live online. if you want to learn more information. but take a look. it looks like they are dropping off book bags here in this pile. that is what you are looking at now as they are trying to secure the area at the location there. we do know as again once again atf is headed to the scene. they re responding to the scene right now. which is again very active. okay. right now we re going to go out to laura rodriguez. she is live on the scene right now. she s going to give us the latest on what is happen tlg. laura? reporter: well, jawan, the best way to describe the scene is chaotic. i m surrounded by parents, siblings, many people just standing here just by the
i would say almost never has come naturally. they re more concerned about the trip to puerto rico today than they are about the trip to las vegas tomorrow. las vegas, he is expected to be surrounded by law enforcement. puerto rico, i think, will pose a different challenge, especially after his weekend twitter attack on the san juan mayor. what they re trying to convince him to do is stay focused on thanking the first responders, who are helping from outside and the first responders who are there on the ground in puerto rico in the first place. we will see if the president is able to maintain that. as we know, he has often had troubles sticking to a script, especially on these longer days. he did do well, or at least was perceived as doing well after the hurricanes in texas and in florida. and he s going to have to really call on that spirit and muster some of that on this trip today. david, let s just remind people about what happened this weekend, where the president did go after th
false. additionally, tlg s been accusations oreliefs that there s some explosives going off. that is also false. the only explosive in this event was from our s.w.a.t. team breaching the room. please, we are pretty confident that there is no longer a threat other than we are attempt to go locate the person of interest. not at this point. we believe it s a local individual. he resides here locally. i m not at liberty to if go you his place of residence yet because it s an ongoing investigation. we don t know what his belief system was at this time. i m sorry i can t hear you. no. we have no idea at this point. it s on ongoing investigation. as you can imagine, it just happened. so police belease bear with us. okay. i m going to say this one more time. we do not know. it s on ongoing investigation.