Police say he had no obvious connection to the school in decatur. The school was evacuated and no one was injured. The gunman told one School Employee he was sorry for what he was doing and was willing to die. Tarika duncan has our report. Reporter Elementary School children sprinted to safety after a gunman opened fire at the ronald e. Mcnair Discovery Learning Academy in decatur, georgia. What did they tell you . There was a lockdown because someone was in the building. Mmhmm . Right . And it was scary. Reporter 800 students were evacuated. No one was injured. Police say 20yearold Michael Brandon hill snuck into the school with an Assault Rifle and ordered a secretary to call an atlanta tv station. Station employee lacy lecor answered the call. The front desk called ahead to say im transferring someone and she says shes in a School Office with a gunman. I asked her what he wanted and she said he wanted us to start filming as police die. Reporter Authorities Say hill fired several sho
have facebook or twitter or these organizing tools that people use to get together. i think what you re seeing is political parties, the extremes of the parties to be able to use these tools to really push their message forward. mark, explain to us where we re seeing the widest divide. some of this is not surprising, right, when you talk about maybe social issues. then the environment was one of these one of these topics that people felt differently about when it comes to the role of government. yeah. i think it boils down i think to an economic issue in many ways. what you re going to hear from conservatives, certainly from a lot of republicans is that a lot of the regulations that are coming out of here in washington, d.c. are adversely affecting people out across the nation, you know. it s greatly hurting them maintain their jobs, shutting down plants. also they are seeing all of these other nations around the world not really abiding by the environmental restricti
i want to bring in mark preston to talk about with what all of this means. i guess in a way mark, we knew that things were partisan. that s not surprising. but if you look at how pew researchers measure this, 48 different ways of measuring how we feel about politics over the years, and they find that we re more divided than ever. almost double over the past 25 years. why? you know suzanne, talk about a comprehensive study that pew has done now, you know, there s a lot of reasons. and what s interesting is that it shows that not only are we more divided politically but also seeing a growing middle. you know, a grow withing number of folks not aligning themselves entirely with the democratic party or the republican party. i think what you see is frustration out there right now on how to lead forward. i think you might be able to tie in the fact that social media has become so prevalent in helping organize people, you know, ten years ago we didn t have facebook or twitter or t