>> shepard: it's noon on the west coast. 3:00 in ft. lauderdale. the leader of a white nationalist says the 19-year-old has ties to that organization and the motive for the murders may have been girl trouble. the fbi confirms they got a warning months ago about somebody with the same name as the suspect posting online about become a professional school shooter. that was apparently not the only warning. >> turns out, you know, everyone predicted it. he's crazy. >> shepard: we're learning more about the victims and the football coach that dubbed as a security guard who gave his life saving students. >> i heard he shielded a couple people and took the bullet for

them. >> shepard: we'll talk with a teacher that was at the school yesterday and once had the suspect in her class. let's get to it. >> shepard: here we are again. first from the fox news deck this afternoon. the suspected gunman in yesterday's massacre in florida has ties to a white national group that held its own military-style drills. that's according to the leader of the very group. he told the associated press that he didn't know the 19-year-old personally but the suspect took it upon himself to shoot up the school and may have been over as he put it trouble with a girl. that's the latest we're learning about the man investigators killed 17 people yesterday. one of the deadliest school shootings in our nation's history. a little more than 24 hours later, we're finding out the red flags seem to be just about everywhere. the fbi this morning reported it received a warning months ago about a potential school shooter with the same name as the

suspect. the warning about this comment on a youtube channel. it reads "i'm going to be a professional school shooter." you can see the user name there. it's the same as the shooter's. the feds say there was not enough information. >> no other information was included with that comment? which would indicate a time, location or the true identity of the person that made the comment. the fbi conducted database reviews, checks and wasn't able to further identify the purpose that actually made the comment. >> shepard: investigators say gunman showed up in his former school just before classes left for day in parkland. they said he had a semiautomatic weapon and ammunition, smoke grenades and a gas mask. he was ready to go. cops say he set off the fire alarm, pulled that so that his classmates would come out in the hallways so it would be open season. fellow students described the

horror that unfolded in front of them. >> i was like in the building in front of the shooter. like right where he pulled the fire alarm. me and my friends were going downstairs because we thought it was a fire alarm. he was loading the gun. we go upstairs to the third floor. like everyone get into a classroom. we hear bullets coming closer and closer and then hear kids screaming. >> i was in the classroom. all i heard was the gun shots. the police cleared us to go outside, i saw dead bodies. >> my teacher was dead. i saw him. in my class. >> shepard: wow. children. hundreds of students and staff pouring out of the school with their hands all in the air. an all too familiar scene since columbine. police say they found the suspect about a mile from the school. they say he had multiple ammunition magazines on him but he did not put up a fight.

i mentioned all the red flags. students have been saying that the suspect loved to show off his weapons, that he bragged about killing animals. once teacher told a miami herald newspaper warning that this particular suspect, man, now, 19, shouldn't have a backpack on campus. students also said the man was a becausive with his ex-girlfriend and the school expelled him because he got into fight with her new boyfriend. many say they talked about it, talked about it at school and they said if anybody was going to shoot it up, it would be he. >> he was a troubled kid. everybody thought -- he joked. it was a lot like crazy stuff that he did. just not right for school. he got kicked out for that kind of stuff. honestly, people were saying it was him. all kind threw jokes around like that he would shoot up the

school. turns out everyone predicted it. it's craziness. >> shepard: of course there's plenty of questions left for investigators. steve harrigan tops our coverage live from the shooting scene. parkland florida, northwestern broward county what are you learning about the suspect? >> shepard, new details are emerging about nikolas cruz. his mother died years ago and his mother died three months ago. she had the flu and died of pneumonia. some say that threw him in a tail spin. he was in the magistrate's room earlier and a video conference. he looked frail. 130 pounds. he purchased the ar-15 legally. he was in an orange jump suit and also been in a suicide

prevention vest. he had no bond set and now he faces 17 counts of first degree murder. that number could go up. five of his victims are still in the hospital in life threatening condition, shepard. >> shepard: we watched with a lot of interest when the officer that spotted him and took him down came to microphones. >> that's right. unlike most of these shooters, this one survived. he didn't turn the weapon on himself. there was chaos in the scene at the school with the fire alarm, the bodies, the blood, the smoke. he managed to escape. this officer explained a short time ago how he captured the suspect. >> he complied with my commands. and was taken into custody without any issues. >> now the families of all 17 that were killed have been notified. we're starting to hear from some

of those family members. their names have not been identified but they're posting on social media themselves. a longer than a typical sound bite but gives you the sense of the mood here on the ground. a father writes "my heart is broken. yesterday we lost our baby girl to a violent shooting at her school. we lost our daughter and my son, jesse loss his sister. i'm broken as i write this trying to figure out how my family gets through this. we appreciate the calls and messages and apologize for not reacting to everyone individually. jen and i will be figuring things out today. we'll be getting messages out later regarding visitation. hugs to all and hold your children tight." a sign here the carnage goes beyond the 17 people killed, shepard. >> shepard: wow. steve harrigan.

we have the richest country on the planet and there's been 25 school shootings since columbine. 25 school shootings. doesn't happen anywhere else in the world. 54 mass shootings since the turn of the century. we have all of the resources in the world and we can't figure out why this happens in our country and doesn't happen everywhere else. why can't we come together as a society and say we're going to research this, going to bring our best and brightest together and put them in a room and give them whatever they need to figure out why are our children killing each other more than anything else? give them whatever they need. we change the course of human events around the world. we put a man on the moon 50 years ago and we can't figure out why only our children are running around killing each other. it doesn't happen everywhere else. it happens here. why can't they put the best and the brightest together to help us stop it? failing our children. yesterday's massacre is the

deadliest mass shooting in modern u.s. history in which the suspect has survived. that's according to fox news researchers. so never before somebody accused of shooting and killing this many people lived to see the inside of a courtroom. that's something. bob bianci is here with us. is there something we can learn from this suspect in he's still alive. >> they briefed him, shep. as you pointed out, we know more than the law enforcement will that these incidents related to school will happen with greater and greater frequency. we've done nothing to get the best minds together to eradicate it. >> shepard: this process, one thing about florida, you know, it happens in florida, you're going to see it. the sunshine laws in florida are almost unique in the country in that we're going to have access to everything. there's video inside. we're going to see the videos, the evidence.

the whole world will see it. >> yeah, and a great prosecution. they have a lot of data. hopefully the psycho psychologists will get into the mind of something like this. like you've indicated, this will going to be full board with the prosecutors. death penalty all the way. a lot of evidence. they'll look into late groups and spark a debate like people like you are going to -- >> shepard: sparks a debate every time. >> you're right. but somebody has to do something. >> shepard: we said that after new town. >> absolutely. >> shepard: from a law enforcement perspective, it's never a bad day to give props to law enforcement but they were all over this thing yesterday. it was so fast. they had him in custody before the -- really people knew what they were doing. it was astounding and amazing. impressive. >> i've been involved -- >> shepard: there's chaos. >> yeah. you don't know where the bad guy is, if there's other kids. parents coming to the scene, media coming to the scene.

they did a tremendous job as well as capturing him safety to be prosecuted. >> shepard: this happens -- the first time we ever saw it happen live in front of us because you're in the television market where it's competitive and they have choppers, resources, columbine. and yesterday, the news people down there, they really keep you informed. we saw the whole thing unfold. and the processes that they have put into place, the changes put in police since columbine, swat teams act and react differently. what did you think? >> i thought it was great. when we were teaching schools what to do, there's a lot of divergence of what people think is the right thing to do. do you lock down, do you set up perimeters, fight, jump out. i found the person that was responsible, even though i was an attorney, responsible for 44 law ebb forcement agencies, a lot of debate how to go about doing this.

so we went to school by school with operational plans and try to teach a uniform and consistent message. that needs to be done nationally. in morris county, new jersey, the former president of the chiefs association out there has a class 3 retired police officer squad that goes out to schools, working with the schools. so when you go there, shep, we had plans in hand. when we go to the scene and there's an active shooter scenario, we didn't have to worry about where is the boiler room, where are the utilities, who is in charge. we knew that on the way up there so we were able to immediately interdict. parents have to start targeting their heads. they have to have real conversations about this. god forbid in a school or another context. how dare you talk to our kids about this? it's real. if it happens, they have to know what to do so they can defend

themselves and sometimes it comes down to that. >> shepard: that school system is like a city. it's the sixth largest in the country. 337 schools, 270,000 students. 30,000 employees. every single one of them feels this today. all of them are changed, right? >> yeah. all of them changed. what really concerns me, a lot of points of data in here, whether it's the fbi or whether it be what happened with the school. this is not to be critical. because there's thousands of these people out there. let's face it. we need to do a better job coordinating that data from an intelligence point of view to put our eyes and ears on specific people. the red flags were all over the place. it's not the fault of anybody. you don't expect it to happen. >> shepard: we don't know whose fault it is. they'll argue about it. one side will argue one way, one side will argue the other way just like they do every time. just like they have 30 years. in the end, maybe we as the people will go, figure this out.

we're not bad. something different. we have to figure it out. stop messing with politics. who cares? dead kids in the school yesterday and we're yelling about politics. it's absurd and obscene. i'm out of town. it's one of those things. bob, good to see you. >> good to see you, shep. >> shepard: police have started the somber task now of naming the victims. some of them heros that gave their lives to help the others. that's another thing we find in this -- these things. the heros emerge. who knew would emerge? we're learning about the final actions as the gunman closed in. coming up from the fox news deck on a thursday afternoon.

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an excellent family man that coached hard and took pride working with his student athletes. one student said he talked to coach feis not long before the shooter killed him. >> i had a 20-minute conversation in between classes talking to him, seeing how football was because we started our season again. he was happy, making sure everybody was getting to class. doing his normal thing. i heard from a friend of mine. he was a big man. he wanted to make sure that everybody was safe. i heard he got in front of a cold people and shielded them. he took the bullets for them. he saved their life for sure. >> shepard: and heros emerge. coach feis one of 17 victims that died in broward yesterday. phil keating is in south florida, live in parkland, hi, phil. >> the day began with a prayer service at a nearby church. people gathered openly, bowing

their heads and saying a prayer to do whatever they could to try to get some condolences and grief relief passed on to the family members of the 17 fatalities. keep in mind, 14 others injuries. these are people that lost their loved ones, boyfriends, wives, girlfriends. we know that three were adults a geometry teacher, aaron feis, the coach and security guard and another teacher there at the school, the athletic director specifically. we do have some of their names that we have learned. you saw the images yesterday. the students running, fleeing from the school in panic and terror. no one can imagine what it's like to be in that position even though we've seen it on tv so many times until your in that position. i can give you a background on a few of these victims. 15-year-old alissa.

she was a freshman and soccer player. 14-year-old martin duque. another 14-year-old, gina rose. she was a freshman that served on the team's winter guard team. and joaquin oliver. he was a u.s. citizen just a year ago. these are all some of the victims here out of total 17 fatalities and what is now the worst high school shooting in history. outpacing columbine by two victims. here's attorney general pam bondi on the difficulty that her job requires on times like this. >> the other scene was at the hotel where we were with the family members. having to tell with the fbi advocates and my advocates that a child, some 14 years old, dead, is one of the hardest things you have to do in your career. these parents, tremendous

families are grieving. please respect their privacy. we were there until about 3:30 a.m. with these families. many of them had siblings that were in the school and survived. and then a brother or a sister did not. >> a vigil has been planned for 6:00 p.m. at the parkland amphitheater. we expect that right around sunset time to be packed with people because this truly is parkland, florida, a community; shep. >> shepard: thanks, phil. coverage continues after this. patrick woke up with a sore back.

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>> i heard five pops. i was like that's not a drill.

>> let's go! >> i don't know how we're alive. >> it's a day that you pray every day, i get up, that we will never have to see. >> as soon as he graduated, he became a security guard. that's where he spent his whole career. he sprinted toward it to make sure that everybody was safe. i heard he got in front of a couple people and shielded them. >> i was coming for lunch. i was sitting down. all i heard is pop pop pop. >> i heard boom boom boom. >> seven shots. >> fully automatic, bang, bang. >> after i heard the shots, i was leaving. i heard like two more. >> every one just climbing the fence. everyone. like there's no room. >> it was just like praying and crying. and then the police came. we just got out. >> no parent should ever have to send their kids to school and have them not return.

>> shepard: the day that everything changed in parkland, florida. they have just released -- just came to us seconds ago while we were in a commercial break, this is the complaint affidavit from the sheriff's office. it's five pages. signed by the arresting officer and goes through some of the details. there's the victim's list on the back. i guess i'm going to read this to you. like i said, this just came in. the defendant did commit 17 counts of first degree premeditated murder. the following occurred and list of victims are deceased. at approximately 2:23 p.m., multiple 911 calls received advising of a shooting that was occurring at stoneman douglas high school located at 59101 pine island road in parkland. upon entering the school, responding units rendered aid to multiple shooting victims who were transported to multiple hospitals. multiple deceased victims were

observed on scene. the incident will be reported under broward sheriff's office and a case number. as units responded -- in is the affidavit -- a description of the shooter was broadcast over the police radio. as a result of the chaos, multiple persons were fleeing the school. after the shooting, the shooter blended in with fleeing students and was able to elude arresting officers. the affidavit continues that cruz's parents were both deceased and this particular man had allowed cruz to live in his residence the past few months. this man stated that the suspect has his own room inside the home and an assault rifle was abandoned on scene. atf gun trace was performed and records show the rifle was purchased by this suspect in february of 2017.

it says on february 2017. doesn't list a date. it says on february 2017. maybe it's a typo. i don't know. it goes on, the list of the victims found on the school campus that were shot or pronounced dead or victims found shot on the school campus and taken to north broward medical center where they were pronounced deceased. the victims' death were caused by the criminal acts of the suspect and the killings done with a premeditated design. further, during the commission of the murders, the suspect did actually possess and discharge a firearm. as a result, death was inflicted on the foregoing individuals. the officer who took him down signed it. this is a court copy. 17 counts of homicide. the back page, a partial list of the victims.

five pages the complaint. our chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is live in washington. it's something to look at the paperwork on something you've seen unfold. it's so real with the kids running out and the chaos. then you read it on a sheet of pap paper. >> that's right. one of these is a standard law enforcement tool used to show probable cause to the court. so it's the basics of the crime alleged in this case. a couple things though that jump out at me. i was looking through it as you read through it live on the air. one, there's huge blocks of the complaint. i don't know if you notice this as well, which seem to have been left blank or redacted or in the haste of writing up the complaint, skipped down whole sections. in this particular case, if you go to the bottom, page two, there's a section this remains intact. it says that it identifies a family that he was living with at the time of the shooting.

it says james sneed stated that cruz's parents were both deceased and he allowed him to live at his residence the past few weeks and gives a partial address. i won't read that out on the air. it gives a partial address for the family that took him in at the time. gives us a purchase date for the weapon, february 2017. a purchased legally and gives us basics that we've known through the news conference in the last 24 hours. the criminal complaint as you know well is a holding document. it gives the court an opportunity to detain him which they have elected to do without bail. it just kind of lays the basic frame work for the case that will be built in the coming days, shep. >> shepard: cow. catherine, these warning flags, you know, you think it through and you say, okay, there was this youtube thing.

i'm not trying to adjudicate it. okay, he said these things but hasn't done anything. they could talk to him. that would be about it, right? >> one of the things that is jumping out on me based on what we learned about the youtube comment, the fbi has said there's not enough information. they talk about a location and a team and a true identity of the individual to go out and question the person who was behind that post. i've asked the fbi to further clarify whether the agents tried and failed to identify the ip address for the computer from which the comment was posted. the ip address is that unique numeric code, which is like a fingerprint for every computer. the reason i asked that, it does seem a little strange that nikolas cruz would have shielded or in some way blocked his ip address, yet he was all over the internet, instagram, posting these images of weapons and

himself. it's a disconnect. that's why it requires more explanation from the fbi. >> shepard: very interesting. nice to see you, catherine. >> you bet. >> shepard: phil keating is down there in parkland. hearing all this, these are the kind of questions they're asking there or are they in of phase of grief, phil? >> they're still asking all the questions. the broward county sheriff, scott israel, said at 10:45 a.m. eastern, this does not get any easier today than it was yesterday. so this is going to be a long time coming before people can kind of really get over the shock and the catastrophe of what happened here yesterday. we did just receive as a public records release the criminal complaint that's been filed by the state attorney's office here in conjunction with the broward county sheriff's office. it does point out some facts that we already know.

according to the prosecutor, the conclusion is that nikolas cruz did commit 17 counts of first degree murder. the first 911 -- >> shepard: phil, i just read it on air. >> you did? i'm sorry. >> shepard: you were off recording. you're busy. viewers understand. it's busy down there. >> i'm sorry. >> shepard: don't be sorry. are you hearing anything from law enforcement officers aside from there on the scene? like had anyone had any contact with this guy that we don't know anything about? i feel like we'll know more about him quick. >> that would be nice. honestly, all records that have come out so far and from the sheriff on down to deputies, everyone said he had no criminal record. we know about his background. he was an adopted child at birth. his adopted father died when he was young. his adopted mother died this past november. he had a friend that was in this school yesterday when the rampage began who took him in with the help of his parents. they had an extra bedroom at

their house. he was staying there. they knew he had this assault rifle. they let him keep it locked up. the attorney for the family said look, he had a key to it but he was an adult. he was 19. you're allowed to possess and own a firearm. he passed all background checks li lickedty split. so there were no flags other than the potentially-related youtube posts allegedly by a guy identifying himself as nikolas cruz. could be him, could be a bizarre coincidence. that's what the fbi said, shep. another youtube user's friend grabbed it and somebody is posting they want to be a professional school shooter. the fbi acknowledged to the media that they tried trace the source of that posting.

they could not ultimately get into the system to pin it on this particular nikolas cruz. >> shepard: yeah, that's really strange. it's like they can trace you anywhere you are, get these phones. i don't know. phil, i guess it's more complicated. >> what is stranger that they couldn't. >> shepard: phil keating down there. we watched this yesterday. it is extraordinary to see what we saw. it was happening within minutes and the chopper was over the suspect as they took him down. it all played out live on television. one of the best local news coverage stations in the country, wsnv 7 in miami. i'm bias. i used to work there. it was astounding the information we got yesterday. craig stevens. i know you come in to work 2:30,

3:00 p.m. most days and then there it was. i don't think you guys have gone off the air yet, have you? >> we did briefly overnight. it was nine hours consecutive coverage yesterday because as you saw, the story continued to develop in the course of that coverage. one of the most startling moments for us was about an hour or so into it when authorities said we know who we're looking for, we know where he lives and works. we don't know where he is. not long after that they found him. >> shepard: what have your reporters and teams learned about him? it's been 24 hours. what have you learned? >> it's fairly consistent. phil keating has picked up a lot on this as well. there's two tracks. there's the track of that family that had taken him in after his mother passed away in november. there was a young person that lived in the home as well. they attended school together. the sense from the family that we're getting from the attorney they have, they had no idea at

all that anything like this could possibly happen. they did acknowledge he had the weapon. it was kept lock as phil reported. because he's a young adult, they didn't see an issue with that. we heard from a number of students that knew of him and knew of his preoccupation with guns. in their view, an unhealthy preoccupation with it. in fact, there was some reporting as well that before he was expelled from the school and sent off to an alternative school, that the school at least was made aware this is someone that we should keep an eye on. >> shepard: it was about 4:00, 4:30 yesterday afternoon and one of your reporters started interviewing a young boy. he said i know this guy. i was watching it going, this seems real but how is this spot? turns out he was spot on. >> he was spot on. we heard that from a number of young people that we spoke to yesterday. as you know in these situations, sometimes the stories youet

from witnesses for obvious reasons, they're startled, still in shock, don't gel. almost in this case universally, the portrait they painted of this young man was the same. he was a little bit of an outcast and he had the preoccupation with weapons. he spent some time in the junior rotc program. others found him to be a little off. >> shepard: one of the things that i thought was striking, it's a huge school, craig. 3,200 students. >> right. >> shepard: you think of south florida as this sprawling metropolis and the place where this school is a small town a community, a tight knit place, it feels. >> it is. it's out by the saw grass expressway. folks are practically in the everglades. parkland, the community, crime stats show -- we're comparing apples to oranges and i made that point yesterday because this can happen anywhere, but

per capita, the crime rate in that community is very, very low. a lot of people, parents as we spoke to them yesterday, made that point, too. they thought gosh, we chose to live here because it's a safe, close knit community and by golly, look what happened. >> shepard: what is the community story line today through the herald, the sun sentinel? is everybody talking about more security or talking about guns or parents or warning flags or what? >> all of it. a lot of people are asking how is it that there were some signs with this young man and we couldn't connect the dots? why is it that this got to this point? looking at school security. we heard from the governor. he wants to meet with lawmakers next week in tallahassee to discuss ways of beefing up or examining school security, this is the first for the governor in

recent memory, governor scott say we want to do more from preventing guns getting into the hands of the mentally ill. to your point, all of that and the young people, it's just heart breaking astonishing, sock and sadness. >> shepard: craig, i can't thank you enough. you have kids yourself. you're a professor in school and the rest and your heart breaks. >> awful day for us. thank you. >> shepard: stay tight. appreciate you. all the best to our friends at wscn. it was a horrible thing. an unbelievable thing to witness. the view that we got from the news coverage from south florida. just so respectful and timely and astonishing to see it unfold live. it wasn't like we went back and heard about it later. there it was. that's a test meant to the way they work down there and the police officers that pulled it

together. it was astounding. president trump spoke publicly today for the first time since the deadly mass shootings in florida. trace gallagher with more on the president's response. trace? >> shep, the president began by saying that no child or teacher should be in danger at an american school and no parents should have to fear for their sons and daughters when they kiss them good-bye in the morning. he said each of the victims that died had dreams to pursue, love to give and talents to share with the world. the president then quoted from scripture and he spoke directly to children urging them to seek help if they feel lost or alone. watch. >> if you need help, turn to a teacher, a family member, a local police officer or a faith leader. answer hate with love, answer cruelty with kindness. we must also work together to create a culture in our country that embraces the dignity of

life that creates deep and meaningful human connections and that turns classmates and colleagues into friends and neighbors. >> along with conveying his sympathies, mr. trump talked about solutions saying his administration plans to seek answers beginning at the local level and moving up to the state level. here's the president. >> later this month, i will be meeting with the nation's governors and attorney generals. we're making our schools and our children safer will be our top priority. it is not enough to simply take actions that make us feel like we're making a difference. >> the president did not talk about gun control, which is interesting because if you'll recall in the wake of the las vegas mass shooting, the president did say that he would eventually be willing to discuss gun laws. he made no such illusion this

time around. the president said he will visit parkland and the white house reportedly thinks that will be sometime this weekend. we should point out, shep, the coverage talking yesterday, it was amazing through all of this that the stuff for the first time in a school shooting, the stuff that kept coming out in the early going, almost all of it turned out to be accurate, which is uncanny in the lengthy list of school shootings we've covered. >> shepard: i was thinking about same thing last night. i have never seen it all pan out like that before. everything they said, that's what it was. >> the numbers were great. 14 to 20, 14 to 30. the student going out with the other classmates. all of the eye witness accounts were spot on. >> shepard: they were. trace, thank you. good to see you. teachers, they never get enough credit. where would we be without them? we're about too meet a teacher

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>> shepard: i mentioned a second ago, we're going to talk to a teacher who taught the suspect and one of the victims from yesterday's shooting in parkland, florida. but from the criminal complaint, i didn't read it, because i wanted the make sure that all the next of kin had been notified, and i've now learned the next of kin have been notified. for the first time, we have a complete list of all of those murdered yesterday. i'm going to read them. eventually we'll have pictures of them and learn about their lives. but we already know what a horrible end they met. and to their families and friends in advance, you know. carmen marie schintron, chris

brent hickson, metto pollack. peter wong. nicholas dwart. aaron feis, the coach and security guard. luke hoyer. alaina petty. jamie guttenberg. alex schacter. martin duke. alissa alahadaf. helena ramsey. joaquin oliver. kara lockran. they all went to school yesterday on valentine's day. a former student shot them dead. students came out of the place into the television cameras, which were clearly everywhere

and some say i saw 3 or 4 of them in the classroom. the victims from parkland, florida yesterday. the 25th school shooting since columbine in america. we'll speak to the teacher that knew two of them next. we'll be back with that teacher and her memories of the victim. first, look at the white house today. the flag at half staff to honor the school shooting victims. this marks one dozen times that this white house has ordered the flags lowered for a mass shooter or terror attack since the year 2015. the white house, if day after again. sfx: muffled whistle text alert. i'm your phone, stuck down here between your seat and your console, playing a little hide-n-seek. cold...

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>> shepard: continuing coverage with us now. with us now is alicia blond. one of her students died. she used to teach the suspect. mrs. blonde, i'm so sorry. so very sorry. >> thank you. i just found out i had a second students, they jew released a second student pass away as well. >> shepard: i know one was joaquin oliver. will you tell us about joaquin? >> i had joaquin in my spanish class his freshman year of high school. he was a tall, lanky kid who gave me a lot of trouble in class. but was funny. always greeted me outside the hallway. in the four years he's been at douglas, any time he passed me in the hallway, he would say,

prophe, i love you. forgive me for the hard time i gave you. it's very difficult to know that a kid like that that really struggled in school, worked hard to pull up his grades. he just recently told one of his friends that he had a gpa now and he was going to be able to graduate with his class. i was proud of him. to know now that he won't be able to attend grad bash, cross the stage with his class, won't be able to attend college. it's not only heart breaking, it angers me to no extent. alex schacter, a bright young man. it's unimaginable. anywhere. but especially in a skoal like stoneman douglas. this school has been my home for 18 years. i love the school, i love the

students. i'm devastated. >> shepard: what should the rest of us know about what you're feeling and you're students are feeling? >> the students are trying to rally together as best they can. i'm so incredibly proud of them. they're so articulate. they are incredibly brave. i was in the auditorium yesterday with about 200 of these kids who did what they needed to do, who followed the directions of the swat team, who were crying, who were texting their parents, telling them they love them. i was hugging them. crying with them. one of them was interviewed with me earlier today for another station. i was incredibly proud of them. i'm also very angry. because this happened at 2:15 in the afternoon, about 20 minutes before that bell rings. i know that people cloak themselves in the second

amendment, the right to bear arms. our founding fathers didn't have this in mind. our founding fathers didn't believe that somebody could walk into a school and knock off a round and kill 17 people in a matter of seconds and injure 14 others. i don't think that was the idea of our founding fathers. seems like we're more worried whether athletes take a knee at a sporting event than athletes in a school. these kids ready to turn in their homework instead of running down the hallway for their life. we need to do something as a society. we need to do something as american people to protect our kids. this doesn't just happen in stoneman douglas. with all due respect to your station, you'll be here today, tomorrow and maybe next week but the following week, it will start tapering off and it will

be a passing memory like columbine. the vegas shoeing, sandy hook. nothing gets done. we need to protect our students. this is our future. the kids that died were bright kids. kids that could make a difference down the road. kids that might be my doctors when i get old and need help. now those kids are gone. those parents lives will never be the same. their teachers, the friends, the faculty, the administration at the school. we're all changed by this event. how many more of these events do we have to have before something is done? before these politicians stop refusing to cross the aisle and do something to protect their citizens. i ask you that question. how many more of these events do we have to have before something gets done?

>> shepard: the president says he wants to do something meaningful. what would you as a survivor ask him as he visit as he will? >> to be quite honest, i don't care that the president visits. because the president is one that believes that we should have the right to bear arms. okay? it's okay for somebody to have a weapon to kill 40 or 50 people in a matter of seconds. i don't agree with my president with all due respect. he's my president. he was elected by the people but i disagree with him. i tell you right here right now, that as a teacher and that as a citizen of this country, i will do everything i can to change these laws. my parents brought me here from 1962 in cuba. they brought me here because they thought we would be safer. they brought me for a better life. a lot of these kids came for the same reason. a lot of these kids that are here have come from venezuela, from columbia, peru, from other countries to seek a better life. and that better life is not

being given to these kids. they shouldn't have to run for their lives at 2:20 in the afternoon. they should be looking forward to the evening and its valentine's day and have flowers in their hands and teddy bears that their boyfriends have given them. that's what they should be worried about. not running with their hands up in the air in the middle of the street and dropping their backpack. i left school yesterday. i don't have my car. i don't have my phone. i don't have my purse. okay? not that any of that matters to me. none of that matters. i would give any of that up to bring the 17 lives back, including chris hicks on who was a wonderful athletic director. he was the first to come to my aid when i fractured my wrist. and aaron feis. protected those kids day and night. this should stop happening in our country. >> shepard: at the top of the hour, the computer takes us to the next hour. but thank you so much for all that you do for our children,

you and teachers across this country. we wish you comfort and peace, to all of you there. thank you for being our guest. "your world" with neil cavuto is next. >> let's go! >> the suspect has been charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder. >> i find probable cause. i find the proof of guilt to be evidence or the presumption great. sir, you're held with no bond. >> neil: incredible. just incredible. new details are emerging as we speak about the florida school shooting as the suspect makes his first appearance in court. nikolas cruz charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder. welcome. i'm neil cavuto. here's what we know right now. we're waiting for an official timeline from the broward county sheriff. that could come any minute. officials say