this is cnn breaking news. i m jake tapper. we have this breaking news. reports of a shooting. reports of multiple victims. that according to las vegas police who apprehended the suspect. she is monitoring this from her . what can you tell us? reporter: we are getting a lot of information. we are just trying to sort out right now. what we are learning is noteworthy to say that we do know the shooter come as the las vegas metropolitan police department has said, the shooter has been contained and is now no longer alive. that part we do know. however, we do know this started around noon local time. just about an hour ago when we saw the campus impacted by this mere beam hall. also reports around student union as well. those are very close. we do know that this was steady week at unlv leading up to finals. we know that there were lots of students who were on campus. we have lost it. reporter: they were close to their classrooms. some of them were locking doors. they sa
safety of its kids, every school in the lone star state will be required to have a armed security officer on campus. the new law passed following a deadly shooting in uvalde, killing 19 students into teachers. casey, i live in dallas for a lot of people, this is a long time coming. absolutely, and this is all on their house bill three by the way which passed here in texas, and has a couple of different components to it, mental health care training for certain professionals inside some of the public schools, also push for schools to develop active shooter plans. but the most controversial, and the most biggest change is requiring all texas public schools to have a armed person on campus. whether it is a police officer, or a school resource officer, a lawyer to marshall type program, with teachers or other staff are certified and armed. the trouble has been finding enough staff, austin says that
and somewhere within that community and you have large contingencies of law enforcement that s utilizing all of their assets, resources and technology tonight to try to fied these subjects. but there s a lot of questions still that are going to have to be answered. but the more pressing question right now is for law enforcement for that community, who are these subjects? where are they and how fast can we either have them surrender or neutralize this threat as soon as possible. clint van zandt, active shooter plans. active shooter plan for a festival like this, again, tens of thousands of attendees over three days but in gilroy, california, which on a normal day would have less than a total number of teendes that were coming over three days. it s 30 minutes outside of a
you wouldn t have been to be going through this now? there are times that i wonder if i had been there because normally i do conseal carry and that s another thing. all the men that conseal carry, that we had active shooter plans, for whatever reason none of us was there, which is so rare. even if i had passed, i feel as though some even if i was down, could i hit him in the legs or anything so he wouldn t keep going. maybe i could have stopped the devastation that happened. people would have died, people would have got hurt, but maybe i could have made it half of what it was. it goes through my mind. i can t change the past. i ve just got to move forward from now. it s hard not to think about i mentioned my brother.