six already have been discharged. so their injuries have been treated and they are going to be fine. we will be back in a moment with more. >> breaking news now, a gunman opened fire in a texas high school killing eight. police say they have possible possible explosive devices around the campus and in the surrounding area. the sheriff says potentially inside the school as well. it happened this morning at santa fe high school about 30 miles southeast of houston. the associated press reporting the suspect is 17-year-old dimitrois pagourtzis. investigators say they're interviewing a second person of interest. that person is in custody. we're learning more from witnesses about what happened inside the school. a student says at first he thought somebody hit a trash can

before he realizes it was gun shots. another student said he felt totally helpless. watch him. we had one student even say that she was surprised -- she was not surprised but she was scared. this by the way is the seventh school shooting this year and the second deadliest since the marjory stoneman massacre where 17 died. casey stegall is in santa fe. the governor -- casey, stand by. we have governor greg abbott returning. we were told senator cruz was coming. but here's the governor. >> i'm the county judge of galveston county, texas. we're unfortunately here because of a tragic event that occurred this morning at santa fe high

school. fortunately for us, we did have a rapid response from a lot of state and u.s. leaders. they're down here now. we spent time briefing the governor, the lieutenant governor, senator cruz and other elected officials this morning. at this time i'll pass it off to governor abbott. >> judge, first, i want to thank you for your tireless efforts the past few hours to help your county respond to this. we appreciate you and your entire team stepping up and showing way to respond to what has to be probably the worst disaster ever to strike this community. also want to express my gratitude to the other officials that are gathering with us here today. this is just the beginning of what will be robust response by both local, state and federal officials. we come together today as we deal with one of the most heinous attacks that we've seen

in texas schools. it's impossible to describe the magnitude of the evil of someone who would attack innocent children in a school. a place of learning where parents should be able to send their children without fear for their child's safety. it's with a heavy heart that i can confirm that as of this time there have been ten lives that have been lost, and another ten that have been wounded. we grieve for the victims who lost their lives at santa fe high school. and we pray for the families that are suffering and will continue to suffer in the days to come. nothing can prepare a parent for the loss of a child. this will be a long and painful time for these parents as they

work their way through what has to be the greatest challenge they have ever dealt with. we mourn with them. we mourn as fellow texans. we must come together as one community at this time of enormous suffering and show the victims and their families the support they need and they deserve. we appreciate all the first responders who have already stepped up to help respond to this challenge and we look to god. we look to god to give the first responders as well as the victims and their families, the guidance they need in the coming days and weeks as we work to continue to get to the bottom of what happened and very importantly work to respond to this challenge. i ask the rest of the country to join texas in mourning the loss

of these individuals, these students and to offer your prayers in support of these families. and i ask every parent out there, wherever you may be, to hold your children close tonight and let them know how much you love them. now we have two goals going forward. the immediate goal is to work in the immediate aftermath of this catastrophe to gather the evidence and the information that is needed to ensure that this crime is going to be prosecuted appropriately while also working in tandem to ensure that we provide the families and victims as well as all the children a that this school and schools across the district with the support and resources and

counselling they need. second, we need to do more than just pray for the victims and their families. it's time that we take action to step up and make sure this tragedy is never repeated ever again in the history of the state of texas. so beginning immediately, i'm going to be working with members of the texas legislature and also members of our communities across the entire state of texas to begin with roundtable discussions beginning next week where we will assemble all stakeholders to begin to work immediately on swift solutions to prevent tragedies like this from ever happening again. we want to hear from parents, we want to hear from students, we want to hear from educators and

concerned citizens and those that hold a second amendment right. we want to hear from everybody that has an interest in what has happened today so we can work together on putting together laws that will protect second amendment rights and make sure our schools and communities are safer places. this includes things like speeding background checks. include strategies to keep guns out of the happened of those that piece an immediate danger to others. that include providing more resources to our schools, to make sure that they have the safety personnel that can help protect their schools. also means providing resources to reduce gun violence. it also means perhaps expanding a program in lubbock where they have ways of measuring mental health challenges of students and being able to identify those

that may pose a risk and looking to deploy those strategies in school districts across the state of texas. listen, the fact of the matter is, in the fog of the aftermath of a catastrophe like this the a answers are not immediate. that said, i do want to cover the details of where we stand right now. understanding we will be providing updates later. i mentioned those identified as being deceased and wounded. we will provide an update on that later on. we're still -- law enforcement is still in the process of undertaking both searches and investigation of the entire scene as well as other locations. there are warrants out concerning the person who is

responsible for the shooting and they include warrants to search two residences, the reason why there's some slowness in being able to undertake these searchs is because of the potential for explosive devices to be found in these residences. they want to make sure they're able to enter them without anybody being harmed. one reason why there is concern about explosive devices is that various different kinds of explosive devices have already been detected. one was a co2 device. another one a molotov cocktail. various other types of explosive devices found in a home and well as in a vehicle. there's a search warrant out for a vehicle of the shooter, but again, care and caution is being undertaken to make sure that entry is not made in the vehicle in a way that could pose harm to

the people that are trying to enter into it. we also know information already that the shooter has the information contained in journals on his computer and cell phone that he said that not only did he want to commit the shooting, but he wanted to commit suicide after the shooting. as you probably know, he gave himself up. admitted that he didn't have the courage to commit the suicide that he wanted to take his own life earlier. he's currently at the santa fe police department. the santa fe police department is working in collaboration on this investigation with the fbi, with the texas department of public safety, with the atf, with the galveston police department as well as the galveston county sheriff's office. this is something that will be handled collaboratively by

federal and state prosecutors. so you'll know, there are one or two other people of interest that are currently being interviewed. one of the persons at the scene and we cannot definitively say whether or not this is a person that may have had some level of involvement in the crime, there was some suspicious reactions on the party of this person that we want to make sure this person is adequately investigated. separate from that, there's another person where we have certain information that we want to make sure this person is fully interviewed to see if there's information to be gleaned from this other person who at this time will not be identified. as you probably have heard, the weapons used in this attack, there's two weapons. one was a shotgun and the other is a 38 revolver.

neither of these weapons were owned or legally possessed by the shooter. it's my information that both of these weapons were obtained by the shooter from his father. it's my information at this time that the federal legally owned these weapons. the father is not aware that the weapons were taken. i do want to thank all of the multitude of law enforcement agencies involved in this process. they include the santa fe police department, galveston sheriff's office, texas department of public safety, league city police department. mentioned the fbi as well as the atf. the galveston police department, harris county police department, pair land police department and

houston metro police department. two things that we're working on as we speak. one is to make sure that parents are going to be notified as swiftly as possible. one thing that depends upon, how swiftly the crime scene will be dealt with with the concern being for the potential of explosive devices on the crime scene. that is something that can be worked out here in a very short period of time. second very importantly is the necessity providing counsels to everybody involved. certainly counselling for the families for any living victim and the entire independent school district.

i know resources are being provided by the county for that and also by the state. we'll have whatever amount of counselors the school district needs. i've had the opportunity to visit with the subject of the school district who has been quite helpful both in the investigation and also in the response. i thank her for her leadership. i received phone calls from the president, the vice president and the secretary of homeland security and as well as the secretary of education. all have pledged whatever support texas needs in order to be able to adequately respond to this. one of the people helping us respond is one of the senators from the state of texas to the federal government. that is ted cruz who at this time will take the mic. >> thank you, governor. thank you for your strong leadership particularly in times of crisis. once again, texas has seen the face of evil. what happened this morning here

in santa fe defies words. the agony, the hell that parents of this community is going through is unimaginable. every one as a parent that sends our sons or daughters off to school in the morning, to have this horror greet them. this community is grieving mightily and the entire state of texas, the entire country is grieving along with these parents, grieving with these students. there's been too damn many of these. texas has seen too many of these. we've seen deranged bombers murdering innocent people or six months ago in southerland springs, another evil criminal murdering innocent people.

two weeks ago i was back in southerland springs at the dedication -- the rededication of that church on the six month anniversary of that horrific crime. the word of encouragement that i would give to the people of santa fe, as you deal with this unimaginable grief is that in the wake of this horror that community and this community came together, leaned on each other. stood side by side with each other, cried on each other's shoulders, prayed for each other. helped each other stand up. i can tell you six months after the horror, there was hope and joy, grieve and mourning and loss but also hope and joy. i'll tell the people of santa fe, you are right now being lifted up after this incident in prayers by millions

of people across texas, across the country and across the world. in the public policy arena, we need to do everything humanly possible from stopping this from happening again to stop violent criminals. to stop them from getting firearms. to stop them from getting access from cools. to incarcerate them when they try to illegally purchase firearms. in the days ahead, we'll discover more about this particular shooter, about what red flags, what warning signs there may have been or may not have been. i'm sure we'll have robust conversation about what more could have been done to prevented this atrocity. texas as a state will make it through this. this community will make it through it, leaning on each

other, standing for each other, we'll make it through this. and we thank the incredible heros that we saw today. those in law enforcement that rushed into ham's way. teachers, students. we know that we're going to hear the bravery that manifested in the face of evil. bravery that we know was done at least in some instances at great cost and great sacrifice including sacrifice of people's own lives. so we celebrate that bravery that courage at the same time we grieve the horror of this mass murder. that i'd like to recognize dan patrick. >> thank you, senator. once again, thank you to law enforcement. we all pray to lift up these families and all of the

students. what can we do now? one, if you're a parent and you own guns, lock your guns safely away. your children should not be able or anyone else to get your legally-owned guns. it's a serious issue. one big step that we can take. number 2, this school, santa fe school district was one of 186 schools that received a safety award for going through a program that the state administered out of over 1,000 school districts. dr. wall and her staff had done everything that they could to protect these students. there were two officers assigned to the school and a roving officer. the chief was on his way to the school when the shots were fired. the chief was the first to fullback the first officer and

returns fire. we may have to look at the design of our schools moving forward and retro-fitting schools that are already built. there's too many entrances and too many exits to over 8,000 campuses in texas.over 8,000. there's not enough people to put a guard at every entraps. if we can protect a large office building or a courthouse or any major facility, maybe we need to look at limiting the exits and entrances into the school so we can have law enforcement looking at the people that come in, one or two entrances. schools may have to have their start day, not all students show

up at the same time. we have to be creative. for what we know, this student walked in with a long day and a shotgun under a coat. it's 90 degrees. if there was one entrance, maybe he might be stopped. it will take work and money but we need to do the work and the money to protect the children. we need to harden our schools and make them safer. that's one of many issues. that's why the governor is calling for the roundtable to discuss every option. this is not acceptable in the state of texas or in this country. this must end and we must do everything we can. we can't protect every parking lot, every stadium and every school. as a nation, we should look at the design of the schools. let people that come on the campus and take innocent lives.

the legislature will work side by side with the governor. we will act working with the federal government, we will act to do everything we can that this never ever happens again in texas. our colonel, steve mccall from state police. colonel? >> thank you. i just want to underscore some points that the governor made. first and foremost, when you get these calls, every police, no matter where you are, has to immediately engage the active shooter, period. there's no alternative. every second means someone else will die. in this situation you had that. the brave officers, end school district here in santa fe, stepped up to the plate and engaged the person in critical condition. the other, the chief got there on scene. rescued his officer and a texas state trooper engaged the

suspect. because they ran in, other lives have been saved. that's important. in terms of the investigation, i'm going to defer to the special agent in charge of the fbi. i can tell you this, everything that can be done and will be done at the local state and federal level. we'll get to the bottom of this. we have a statement from the subject right now that is important. aga again, the subject is alive. that helps identify motive. we'll continue to investigate. >> good afternoon. i'm terry turner from the houston fbi office. i want the say my hearts, thoughts and prayers go out to the santa fe community. this is a tragedy. i'd like to thank our federal, state, local partners for working this investigation with

us. it's a joint effort. every resource is being used. we're still in the process of gathering evidence, conducting several interviews, doing search warrants. the investigation is pending and ongoing. as far as information, once we receive the information, we'll introduce it to you. because the investigation is ongoing, we need more information. we're still gathering it. anyone with photos, videos or information on your phone, take them to the fbi texas city office. the address is 600 gulf freeway, suite 211 in texas city and anybody with additional information police call 800-call-fbi. thank you for your help. >> once again, we want to thank the heros, law enforcement who

stepped forward to respond to and confront the shooter their action probably ensured more lives were not lost. also once again, we send our hearts out to comfort the families of the victims. we want to ensure those families as well as every person across the entire state of texas that we as leaders of this state view what happened today as unacceptab unacceptable. we'll be happy to take a few questions. >> governor abbott, who do you want at the roundtable common morning? >> very importantly, we need people participating in the roundtable that will bring a diversity of ideas, thoughts and concerns. i'd like to say two mens from

the texas senate, two members from the house side and also important to have families, victims, educators. this doesn't just happen in schools. it happens elsewhere. it would be great to have people that were victims of southerland springs. it's very important to have those that believe in making sure that gun rights are protected. we want to have everybody who brings every perspective to bring the right strategies that will work. >> any specific legislation? >> that will be up to the governing >> [question inaudible] >> interestingly, i had prepared a policy paper that was going to be rolling out next week addressing gun safety in the

state of texas. i ticked off a few of the proposals in general. they include some things that wouldn't be relevant to what happened today. they do include background checks, they include strategies to keep guns out of the hands of those that pose an immediate danger to others. have safety people that need to respond and hardening of schools. to address the mental health issues that are behind these shootings and address them in a way that reduces gun violence. also includes looking at that program, the mental health problem, that's been i'm employed by the lubbock independent school district and look to expand that. >> governor, can you provide

more details about law enforcement? any information on the shooter? >> that would be better answered by somebody else who was on the scene. i've been briefed on it. i want to make sure you have accurate information. >> what was the apprehension like? how much time between the beginning -- >> we know officers were at the school at the time. as far as the time frame, we don't know that. we have to review the video at this point. there were officers on the scene. very limited time frame. >> you said they were at the school. >> yes, sir. >> first, the safety plan by this particular school and school district is to have two isd officers on campus.

that i were on campus at the time and were able to confront the shooter early on. two, there are cameras in the school that will provide film of a lot of this information. that is not yet been made available to us yet. hopefully soon that will reveal a whole lot. >> [question inaudible] >> first, with regard to the school safety center, you may recall that after the shooting in parkland in florida, i asked mike morat, the tea commissioner, to reach out to every school as well as to every college and make sure that their school safety standards were up to speed and he received back

confirmation information from schools across the entire state of texas. so we did that proactively. interestingly this school went through their school safety procedure just weeks before this incident. they went through a lock down test. so they took the precautionary preparation that was expected of them. >> >> [question inaudible] >> yes, it appears the explosive devices were made by the shooter. cannot solidly confirm that. there's no reason to suspect that any other person other than the shooter made those devises. >> do you know how many there were? >> we're working on the number. i don't have information from his house on the two residences that are being explored to learn how many there might be there. i haven't heard if the car has been opened up to learn how many might be in there.

that's a number that we are able to ascertain at this moment. >> do you know where he got the supplies. don't know yet. >> we always hear about the warning signs. what were some in this days? >> one of the frustrating things in the early status, unlike parkland and unlike southerland springs, there were not those types of warning signs. we have what are often categorized as red flag warnings. they were nonexistent or imperceptible. there is from his facebook page a t-shirt that says "born to kill." that would be the only, foremost warning sign. as far as investigations by law

enforcement, arrests or confrontation with law enforcement, as far as having a criminal history he has none. his cleat is screen. >> are there any individuals that are wounded and in critical condition? >> there are -- it's my understanding there's one, perhaps two people that are still in critical condition. i'm not at liberty to reveal their identification at this time. >> thank you governor. >> that was a definition of an all hands on deck news conference in santa fe, texas. you have governor greg abbott, gop senator ted cruz there. the governor's point, the last one he made, is important. we go through these school shootings and you always have

this pattern. you know the kids, everybody said yeah, i knew the kid. he was a bad kid. in this situation, we're talking about a plough -- some of his social media footprint does have social connections to gun groups. nothing more nefarious than that. the lieutenant governor talked about the solutions in the early going here. what did they do now? governor abbott mentioned monday they'll have a roundtable to bring in both sides of the aisle to get some con -- common sense solutions. the governor talked about a 17-year-old that has been named dimitrois pagourtzis that walked into santa fe high school. he walked in with a rifle, a 38

caliber handgun and an array of bombs. it's unclear if they went off. we don't know that. that's part of what happened in the bedlam of the shooting. they pointed out that they have located the shooter's car. they believe there's explosives in the car as well. it's unclear if they have opened the car to see how many. and the search is focusing on two primary areas. one is the shooter's home. he's said to have gotten the guns from his father who brought them illegally. a second it is is some trailer that was abandoned. the shooter went in the trailer and spent a significant amount of time. the most important thing the governor said, that in fact there was on his computer, in

his journals, there were these facts, acknowledgements that he wanted to pull off the shooting and he wanted to commit suicide in this process. the governor said in the end he didn't have the courage. there was a little talk about the resource officer and and how this man heroic actions may have saved some lives. we know he's in his 50s, a former houston police detective. we know his in critical condition. prayers going out for him. a lot of talk about maybe more resource officers. the solutions is unbelievable to see them in a venture of this shooting that is now 4 1/2 hours old. data? >> all of the details trickling. getting more information on them to continue getting more information, let's talk to texas attorney general ken paxton. he joins me now. we had a lengthy press conference from the governor. ted cruz there and other

officials. wanted an update from you since we haven't heard from you in 1 1/2 hours. >> this is obviously horrific. another horrific example of somebody that is out of control, coming into our schools. the press conference highlighted by the governor and lieutenant governor talking about waying to prevent this. obviously there's no perfect way. some of the ideas about making sure that we have protection at our schools, two, that we have access and maybe that technology is another way to begin to prevent this from happening. >> lieutenant governor dan patrick said lock up your guns. governor abbott said the guns were legally owned by the father. they were not used by the shooter. is that one of the things you'll be looking at? >> oh, absolutely.

it's a common sense way that parents can protect their own kids and protect other kids and protect all of us. making sure that they follow safety rules and keep their guess protecting. >> can you explain the process with the suspect and the prosecution? what is the steps that are taken next in texas? >> typically you have local d.a. that would be involved in this, pursuing state charges. alongside with that, you have the fbi involved in an investigation and the u.s. attorneys involved in bringing in federal prosecution. so it would be going on at the same time. who would go first. they have to make that determination. a duel process. >> people talking on air today about how close knit the community is there. >> it's obviously a small

community and texas has a massive houston community. there's a little over 13,000. people know each other well. losing ten people from the community will have a tremendous impact on probably everybody in the community. >> one of the things the governor said he will do next week, he's asking for roundtables across the state to look for swift solutions. asking for parents, students, citizens and legal folks to try to figure out a way to protect the rights of the second amendment but to try to prevent this from happening again. >> from your perspective, what role will your office play? >> we're happy to play any role the governor wants us to play. it's a great idea. it's something that we should absolutely be doing. after southerland springs

happened several months ago, i said this is going to happen again unless we begin the process of coming with solutions that don't. this is a great way to begin. >> i agree. thanks. back to you, trace. >> we have breaking news. for the first time, we're seeing the alleged shooter's mug shot, this is 17-year-old dimitrois pagourtzis. this is the student that we have talked about. we know that he was on the football team as a freshman, that he was lauded for his defensive skills, a dance team member in his greek orthodox church. police say he's been charged with capital murder and he right now -- there's no bond at all. i want to bring back in the texas attorney general, ken paxton if i could. attorney general, you've heard all morning long about this kid. we've gone over this.

students normally know the kid. they know oh, he was a bad kid. in this case, you had one girl say no, he was a sweet hard. are you surprised this kid doesn't seem to fit the pattern and he had journals saying he wanted to pull off this shoot something. >> i'm absolutely surprised. almost every other case we've been involved in, there's warning signs that people miss. in this case so far, there weren't any public warning signs, private ones that nobody would know about. so yeah, it's surprising that he didn't exist anything that other people would have seen as a warning sign. >> you know, attorney general when you talk about the governor saying there was surveillance video in the school, all schools know that. the question becomes the fbi said we need more pictures, more information. anything you can give us to

peace this together will be appreciated it. from a legal perspective, when you see the videos and how the shooting went down, how does that help us down the road? does a help us defend our schools or give us more information on how they transpire? >> well, i think it's both. it helps us know how the person get in, which comes to the lieutenant governor's point of access. it lets us know how the officers resmopon responded. they prevented a lot of fatalities. we'll see looking at that video it did matter having the officers there. >> if you look at this video like parkland and we saw there was highly criticized response in parkland, florida because the resource officer stayed outside the school even though he knew the shooter's location, are

there things that videos there show us that even small changes could alleviate lives being lost down the line? >> no doubt. seeing what happened in parkland and those guys could have done a better job preventing loss of life. you learn fro those hopefully in the future you get better and better. look at israel. they've done a great job of protecting their schools. they've learned from the past how to prevent it in the future. >> you heard the lieutenant governor come out, dan patrick saying maybe we have one entrance. line the kids up. you have critics say you can't line up 1,400 kids outside and then you have the vulnerable students there. for every solution there's

problems. for you being in law enforcement, you have to walk the fine line when you heard about these discussions, correct? >> there's no doubt. you can't have one entrance. you have to look at each school and take it how can we minimize the access point so that a shooter like this can't easily access our children. >> ken paxton, thank you. >> thank you for having me on. >> we'll continue breaking news now. the governor of texas, governor abbott says there's ten wounded or dead. one of those wounded saved many lives. continuing coverage of the tragedy in santa fe, texas.

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you'll hear a lot in the days and weeks ahead especially as we get more of the video that comes out. he's officer john barnes. the family says he's still in critical condition. the police chief from the houston p.d. said the family is hopeful and that he is hanging in there. he's 49 years old. we said in his 50s. he's actually 49. he retired from the houston police department in 2018 a few months ago in january and he became a school resource officer, one of two resource officers on campus that was armed and he did confront the shooter and was shot in the process in the arm and the shoot. he lost a lot of blood. remains in critical condition. the family is hopeful. i want to bring in casey stegall. he's on the scene. as you walk around and glean information, you hear from the people who were actually inside that building. what is your feeling of the fact that nobody really knew who this

kid was? nobody suspected that he would do anything like this. >> right, trace. he was very actively involved. no real red flags, if you will, like we typically have in the hours following one of these shootings. that makes this all the more shocking for this relatively small community. you know, this is the only high school in santa fe. it's big. all of the people in the community go to this one high school. in fact, about 1,300 students or so. there's a junior high and elementary school in town. so a lot of community where people know each other by name and certainly everyone scratching their heads right now, that this person could have carried this out. again, actively involved a kid in football and various student organizations. i want to tell you about what is actually happening on the ground

here in santa fe. >> you have this full scale investigation underway. the high school less than four miles or so from where we are right now, trace, which is at the independent school district's against office where the press conference where governor abbott and senator cruz was held. we understand the police are still trying to security the perimeter. that's why they have a large perimeter set up after reports of these explosive devices. and multiple explosive devices. as you heard, molotov cocktails, people bombs, a co2 bomb of some sort. the governor says the suspect made all of these explosive devices himself and those will no doubt provide some clues for investigators as well. they want to make sure the area

is security after they found some of the devices in the high school and also in the suspect's car. two search warrants being executed around this area in this community to homes that are connected to the suspect being searched as we speak by police. that also will yield a tremendous amount of evidence. the governor telling us that so far they have found some journals that were made by the suspect that talked about intentions of carrying out this school shooting and that he intended to take his own life before it was all said and done. trace, you hear the school resource officers approached him and may have foiled his plot here today and credited as heros for preventing even more injury and loss of life here. trace? >> trace: as the governor said,

he didn't have the courage to take his own life that he said he wanted to do casey stegall live. back to you. you talk about the explosives going into the school. we first said we didn't know if they were planted. at some point he planted the explosives. sounds like he went in with the gun, with the 38, the rifle, the 38 caliber handgun and a variety of explosives. it was at one time. the molotov cocktails, the pipe bombs. the rest of them, this all-out assault. >> dana: and adding to the despair to the families, it's a pattern that happens to often. this is -- we see this obsession with the columbine shooters and so much of this is very similar. they whip each other up online and try to beat out what happened in columbine. it wasn't as horrific but still horrific that we have to cover

this again and have this. laura ingle is with me now. i've done this for seven months. i've done three of these. how do you stop this pattern from continuing? as the attorney general said there might not be this exact answer. but parents, as the lieutenant governor said, parents should lock up their guns so children cannot get access to them. you have an update on the other injured. >> we do. we've been working the phones all day trying to give you the latest information. as we just heard in the resent press conference and with trail gallagher there, identifying one of the people badly injured. none of those that host their lives have been identified. we have three hospitals bringing us up to date who they're

treating. we'll start with the school resource officer. john barnes engaged the shotter and was shot. he's in critical condition. he's one of three people being treated in galveston. the other, adult female with a gunshot wound to the leg. another patient, gunshot wound to the leg. clear lake regional medical center, treated from the high school at least five. all students with gunshot wounds. some discharged. others are still there. we understand one victim is in critical condition. clear lake regional reps say they trained on how to do with mass casualty incidents like this just a week ago. a week ago they were running a hospitalwide drill. one more hospital that has two victims right now. >> dana: so as we continue to monitor, we're hoping we can

bring you better updates for the afternoon. >> dana: when we we hear more about who the people are? >> we're supposed to be getting an update in the next hour. it will be 3:00 local time in texas. we understand one of the hospitals will give us an update in the next 15 or 20 minutes. >> dana: so stay tuned for that. trace, back to you. >> trace: we're hearing from some of the students inside. it's fascinating to hear their perspective of what happened. ander that perception of what went down. one student said when she heard the fire alarm, she heard what sounded like an aluminum can being kicked back and forth. i want to play this. >> my friend said he awesome kid walking down the hallway with a gun. he pulled the fire alarm. he ran out. then he run a and everybody was outside. the teachers heard -- telling us

to back up. and they told everybody to run. three shots i heard. we talk off in the back. i ran into the trees. i didn't want to be in sight. i heard for more shots. we ran to the car wash and trying to figure out what's going on. i saw a girl shot in the knee. a fireman got her. other than that, i honestly don't know. >> i can only imagine how scary this was for you. what was going through your head? >> living. stressing. trying to get away. >> terrifying. she said mom, there were shots. thank god i wasn't far away. i got here as quick as i could. i told her to stay quiet, calm, to breathe. just waiting and waiting.

finally they were leading her out of the school. thank got she's okay. i don't know how many people were shot. >> trace: i can't imagine the agony as a parent waiting, finding out and hearing whether your child is safe. the one student saying what was going through your mind. he said living, stressing. just trying to get out. i want to bring in the president of a company called ssi. they're the ones that started this whole active shooter -- i'm sorry. ssi guardian. they started the active shooter training. i'm not sure if you heard dan patrick talking about having one entrance and letting all the kids go through that. what are your thoughts on that? >> i did hear that comment. i'd say that may sound good at the moment. what is the actual number? do we go to 14 to 2 to 1? i'd say having a single entrance has other risks. if something happened and the

attacker shooting down that entrance, the other entrances and exits wouldn't be an opportunity for students and teachers to escape. it's tricky. make no mistake. as we typically, there's a lot of ideas and thoughts on what we should to. what schools need, they need the guidance, standards from the states, from the federal government to give them the right guidance to make their best decisions. >> trace: goes back to the old argument where you have the airports. they say look, if we can get you by the checkpoint, we know you don't have guns, it's good. but in recent years, all of these people are middling around, waiting to get beyond that checkpoint and they're vulnerable there as well. >> that's right. that's one of the challenges with a single entry point. it's important to remember 95%

of school shooters are students. this attacker was a 17-year-old student. he was supposed to be at school. i'm not sure if you had a single entry point that that would prevent anything. >> trace: it's a very good point. lastly i want to say if you had the surveillance video, would it give you insight on how you could have better prepared the school to withstand this? >> surveillance video is very important in the post incident phase. we study them and see where additional gaps may have been and get a better understanding how this particular event played out. >> trace: thanks, michael. dana? >> dana: trace, even with the pain fresh in texas, people are standing up to help. some images in just now from santa fe. folks lined up at blood drives that are happening right now. it's currently a 2 1/2 hour wait

to donate blood there. that's according to the head football coach at santa fe high. she said i'm in line to give blood. so many people. everything is bigger in texas. so much love and support. tracing in the last hour, we heard from the governor and the attorney general, the lieutenant governor, senator ted cruz. there's going to be a movement next week to try to get everybody on the same page to try to come up with swift solutions if they can find them. >> trace: a couple things that i was struck by in the coverage of this, dana, as you listen to the kids and the heart break pours out and you think one girl saying no, i wasn't surprised. i was scared but i wasn't suppli surprises. now you have the families preparing for graduation and now funerals of at least ten victims. it's mind boggling. >> dana: if there's a silver lining, there was good news. the trauma centers and the

hospitals have done a very good job to help save lives there and hopefully we'll have more information coming up. neil cavuto has a full hour of breaking news as well. trace, it's been an honor to be with you today. now over to neil cavuto. >> angry that my friends got shot. as soon as the alarm went off, everybody started running outside. next thing you know, everybody looks. you hear boom, boom. i ran as fast as i could to the nearest place to hide. i called my mom. >> neil: it's happened again. still so much we don't know, this much we do. police are taking extra caution as they investigate the mass shooting at santa fe high school after some explosives were found at the school and in the area around there school. the shooting suspect identified as 17-year-old dimitrois pagourtzis. here's what we know