tomorrow, and i'll let secretary tillerson talk about his meeting with mr. lavrov. there is a lot of things to obviously discuss. the overall fight on isis. but i think with respect to syria inparticular, i think we need to remind them of the commitments they've made and the commitments syria has made. i think that first and foremost we need to make sure we all understand what the situation is on the ground. there is no question who acted in this case and what syria did. and i think that we need to make sure that russia fully understands the actions that assad took, the commitments that syria has made, and russia has equally agreed to those same understandings. getting them back on the same page first and foremost would seem the logical step, and secondly, and i guess equally as important, is making sure the areas we can make a commitment to defeat isis is major.

>> so once the president and secretary of state puts sanctions on the table. the secretary of state said russia is incompetent. what did the president say russia actually is? >> we'll have plenty of time to see how those talks go. one thing the president made clear from the get-go is he doesn't like to telegraph all the cards we have. i think he wants to see how that conversation goes with secretary tillerson. if we can get them to agree to commit to action on defeating isis -- i think that's what they're going to have a discussion about. i think where that talk starts and what they're willing to commit to in action, i think that's important to get ahead of this right now before they meet. it's not something i want to do. i'd like to let secretary tillerson meet with lavrov, have t that conversation anrepo back. >> what is the president's perspective on the ability, the

current ability of the senior advisers, to resolve their idealogical differences, resolve their personality differences and work in sync? >> he's very confident in that. >> why? >> because they're all the same strength. they came together for a common purpose, to win a campaign. there's an unbelievably talented team at the senior level, and frankly all the way to the bottom level of this administration, that is committed to the president's agenda. i said this multiple times throughout the transition, that everybody that came into this administration, while they might have a personal view or an action on an issue, they understand and understood and understand the president's decision and agenda. and their goal coming into this was to understand first and foremost that the president made promises to the people of this country about the direction he's taking and the actions he's taking. i just read the congressional

review act piece of legislation he signed, the executive orders. when you look at the actions he's taken and the results he's getting, 60% down on the border, nobody would dispute the fact that immigration was a hot topic during this campaign. and the president's actions are seeing results. and i think you're seeing it both on the market and on the international security front. so he understands that we have some pretty smart, talented individuals who are opinionated on a lot of subjects, but that our battles and policy differences need to be behind closed doors, we need to focus, and ultimately all come out committed to advancing the president's agenda. but he is completely aware of the types of talent that he has, and that's part of the reason he brought this team together is because of the talent and successes and accomplishments they've had on a variety of backgrounds, and it's fully believed they are going to continue to push forward.

>> he was allowed to have this meeting on friday where he essentially told the president, cool off. >> i think there was a lot of things overblown with this that makes it out to the media and makes it more sensational than it truly is. but the president is obviously very pleased with the last week he had and the accomplishment on the foreign policy frontme. i think we had an unbelievable and helpful meeting with the chinese, and he continues to have very strong foreign policy wins in terms of the relationships we're making with other heads of state. the attack of syria went not just bipartisan praise here at home but world praise. i think he recognizes that sometimes some of this spills over and these policy differences and discussions, and he's made sure the focus stays on advancing the agenda. >> you're saying the priorities

of syria, how far is the president willing to go after getting assad out of power there? >> you can't imagine a stable and peaceful syria with assad in charge. i don't think that's possible. but i think that the first step in that has to be to make sure the conditions in syria are stable. you can't have isis marching through syria and then worry mostly about who is in charge right now. we've got to make sure that, first and foremost, in terms of our national security, i think was brian's question at the beginning, our national security is the first and foremost reason we have to act. and as isis is proliferating, chemicals of mass destruction are on the rise, we have to contain that. then with that done, i think we can apply political, economic and diplomatic pressure for a

regime change. they can work in tandem. but the bottom line is his first priority is still the containment of isis and the conflicts that are occurring. >> is the red line for this white house chemical warfare? >> i think the president was clear there were a number of lines that were crossed last week. we saw that in the last administrationthey drew these red lines, and then the red lines were run over. i don't think you'll see the same play. not just syria, but the world saw last week, was a president that is going to act decisively and proportionately and with justification when it comes to actions like that. the answer is if you gas a baby, if you put a barrel bomb in to innocent people, i think you will see a response from this president. that is unacceptable, and i think the rest of the world -- again, one of the things i don't want to start doing, cecilia, is

saying, if you do this, this is the action you're going to get. the president has made very clear throughout his time in the campaign and through the transition now as president that he's not going to telegraph a response to every corresponding action because that just tells the opposition and the enemy what you're going to do and whether or not that response is worth taking. the president is going to be very clear that he's going to keep his cards close to the vest, but make no mistake, he will act. john? >> i wanted to ask you about the reaction that the president took in terms of military involvement on sweden. you said in your statement that all 59 of those cruise missiles hit their intended target, and yet we're seeing reports that that military air base in syria continues to be used by the syrian military. given that, how can you consider that particular mission a success? >> well, because i think from what you're hearing, you've taken two pre-field planes and taken them off. it's a pr stunt.

the bottom line is their fuel capability has been taken out, their radar capability was taken out and over 20 paerls % of the wing aircraft from their entire aircraft line was taken out. as a pr stunt, they took some prefield planes, pushed them over to make it look like nothing. but make no mistake about it, their radar capability is gone, their fueling capability is gone and a good chunk of their aircraft is gone. that's a huge success. john gizzy? >> i just have one question. following the reports about a shake-up at the white house, there have been various reports that the deputy supervisor kate mcfarland is stepping down from that post. she'll take on the post of the u.s. ambassador to singapore. can you confirm that, and what's behind that particular move, if indeed that's the case? >> i've said many times before that we're not going to get into

personnel announcements until they're ready to announce. i would say that -- two points on that. one, when general mcmaster was announced, it was pretty clear. we said it at the time, he was asked if he would have the ability to shake it to his liking. i think that was an accurate statement at the time and it continues to be now. general mcmaster has the president's confidence to ensure that our national security council is shaped in a manner that best serves the united states in every way, shape and form. i think the staff said it over the weekend, i'll reiterate it, the only thing that is being shaken up is washington. i think this president continues to show that he is going to be a disruptor and do things differently and bring real change to washington. john gizzy. >> thank you, sean. two questions. first, the previous administration was in touch with

the assad opposition and gathered conclaves of different groups, including the syrian army. is this the same anti-assad forces, political and military? >> i'm not going to go into detail about what we're doing and who we're talking about. that didn't prove too successful last cycle in terms of regime change, siem no i'm not going t into tell graegraphing and how doing it. >> rob desantos wrote to the president last week to call into executive order to end what he calls the opm rule of 2013. that was an executive order, of course, that undercut the affordable care act's amendment, saying that members of congress and their staff couldn't get health care and special

subsidies, unlike any other american. and he said as soon as that is eliminated, congress will move faster because they and their staff will not have special treatment. is the president going to use his pen and get rid of the opm order? >> i'll have to look at that. i know secretary price has been dealing with a lot of -- i know that's an opm order. secretary price has been reviewing all of the necessary implementation documents and orders with respect to obamacare. i know he's working with director mulvaney. director mulvaney i anticipate will be here with you guys at some point, probably tomorrow, to talk about some reoanizing of government. that might be an appropriate time to talk to him specifically about that. dave? >> the list of judges that the president put out last year saying these are the people i would consider a nominee that you referred to earlier, in the end democrats still tried to filibuster judge gorsuch.

so what difference from that perspective did putting out that list make in the end? >> that's a great question. i think what it showed first and foremost was the president put out his word. >> we're going to interrupt the white house daily press briefing to bring you breaking news. out of san bernardino, there has been a shooting at an elementary school out there. preliminary reports suggest that it was a murder-suicide. let's get directly to steve patterson who is in our los angeles newsroom. steve? >> reporter: katy, we're getting reports out of the san bernardino police department that there were multiple injuries inside a school in san bernardino. we've been talking to the sheriff's department. they have said this does seem to be a murder-suicide situation. it's on the campus of northpark elementary which is in san bernardino county. the school is on lockdown at this point. they do believe at this point the shooter has been neutralized and the situation there is now safe. but again, this is something

that is developing. it's an ongoing situation. what we are hearing about this classroom is that there was someone in the classroom who had a gun and started shooting. two victims were down in that classroom reported to be students. one teacher inside that classroom also down, reported from this shooting. and again, the suspect is reported to be down as well. so again, we have four people who took gunshot wounds, including this possible suspect, inside that classroom. this is an elementary school. of course, obviously, this is about a year and a half after that terrorism incident in san bernardino, so people there on edge. we got news very quickly that this happened. obviously the police department -- the sheriff's department on edge in that community, so we got updates very fast. this was reported to happen about 10:00 this morning. first responders got on scene very quickly. they had the school on lockdown very quickly as well, and we got

reports about those numbers as well. but again, this is a developing situation. we do hear again that that shooter is reported to be neutralized in the situation, but they want to make sure, as well as schools and area businesses in that community, that everything is safe at this point. but again, the initial report, four injuries, four people being treated at the local hospital, including this possible shooter, including two students, including one teacher. that's the latest that we're hearing from the san bernardino sheriff's department at this point, katy. back to you. >> steve, i know this is early on in the story at the moment, but this is an elementary school. obviously, when you say two students, they're going to be on the younger side. do we have any indication whatsoever what grade that classroom was? was it a kindergarten classroom, god forbid, like sandy hook, or were they older kids? do we have any idea at the moment? >> reporter: katy, at this point we have no information on the names, the ages, what age group that classroom was.

obviously, as you mentioned, this is an elementary school, so we're talking about possibly students anywhere from first grade to fifth grade, so very young kids inside those classrooms. we don't know how the shooter was able to get on campus, we don't know the background of the shooter, the motivation here at this point. all we know, obviously, is that this is a terrible situation inside a community that has already experienced quite a bit of trauma in southern california. so again, we got updates very fast from the police department. they've been tweeting t ingtwee bernardino police chief has been tweeting throughout the morning, providing information to the community. they want to get this information out as fast as possible to any parents, educators, community members that might be worrying about this situation growing. at this point it does seem to be a contained situation. it does seem the shooter was neutralized at this point.

we don't know, again, the extent of what happened inside that classroom, how many students there were inside the classroom. again, we are hearing a this point murder-suicide. as far as what the scenario was that the shooting took place, but all these details are going to come out as the hours go on and we continue to dive into this, katy. >> and steve, we now have our knbc helicopter, our station in los angeles made it over to that school in san bernardino. you can see that there are what appear to be students outside of it. actually, that was the wrong school. now we are looking at the right school, and that is completely deserted and empty. but outside of the school we can see very young children on the sidewalks walking with teachers and guardians, walking to a safe space. we do see some police activity there, and i'm sorry, i'm looking at the screen that's just under my desk, but not a ton of what we would see as extremely urgent activity. it seems to be pretty calm at

the moment. those children, as you can see, are holding hands and walking into an open field. joining me now by phone is brian levi levine, criminal inspector at cal state university in san bernardino. we heard that san bernardino is in a shelter in place order. are you there now? >> no, i'm off campus today doing research. i can tell you, though, yes, it was a shelter in place order. this event was reported approximately 40-some-odd minutes ago. the school is very close. it is walking distance, probably a half mile from the cal state campus. so the university didue an order for shelter in place. we know now that the situation is contained. we know the elementary school students are are being moved to

cajon high school. that's probably the video you're seeing. you have one of the top journalists covering this area for knbc. he's an emmy award winner and i'm sure he's on the scene as well. this department, especially for a smaller department relative to some of the bigger ones, is very good at coordinating these kinds of events. >> and from what we know so far, brian levine, thank you very much, a criminal adjuster inside cal state university, there was a shooting at an elementary school in san bernardino. four people have been shot in an apparent murder-suicide. two of those victims, we are told, was students. it is unclear how old they are and what their current condition is. as you can see from these helicopter shots on your screen, there are a number of students outside in the field.

right now they're doing a roll call to make sure everybody is there and accounted for, and you can see a number of police officers guarding those students. but it does not look -- appear to be, at this moment, an extremely urgent scene there because we are told that they believe that the shooter has been, quote, neutralized, which means the shooter is no longer a threat. we want to go back now to sean spicer, who is continuing the white house press briefing, and let's go back. sean. >> the notification we have to give congress, so once we get ambassador leithauser confirmed, we'll have a better plan on that, but we're not there yet. >> the president had a lot to say about syria. he said then-president obama needed to seek congressional approval. as a member of congress, i believe he should as well. what is his plan to explain his strategy in a broader sense and

why did he not need congressional approval on this deal? >> i think article 2 is pretty clear, that when it's in the interest of the country, the president hasull authority to act. he did that. he and his team spoke extensively to congressional leaders on both sides of the aisle that night to describe the action that's being taken forward. i think we have fulfilled every obligation. the article 2 is very clear with the president's ability to react. >> with things happening here behind the scenes with staff members, obviously there was some idealogical and policy differences on this particular military action last week. does the president believe or do you believe this has been smoothed over in the short term, or has there been a long-term solution to the fighting between steve bannon, jared kushner and others? >> are you talking specifically with syria -- >> specifically with syria there was a disagreement, but is this a short-term fix to this problem? or do you believe, does the president believe there is a

longer term fix, this infighting that has really plagued this administration? >> i would say a couple things, jeff. one is, a lot of this is frankly overblown. number two is the reason the president brought this team together was to offer a diverse set of opinions. he doesn't want a monolithical thought protcess going through the white house. he is the decider. he had a number of people ge him plans. he wanted additional options, additional explanations and questions answered. that's how he's going to deal. and so whether it's this, health care, tax reform, trade, he's got a divergent set of opinions of experts. the idea isn't to have one set of policy flowing through there, it's to give the president the best advice possible, but once the president makes the decision that the team is on board 100%,

he makes sure that he full fills the agenda he has laid out. i think the president wants to have a series of ideas and thoughts put forward to him. that's how he's going to make the best opinion or best decision possible for this country. >> he must have crossed a line if he said to work it out. >> i think sometimes, again, i'm not going to get into what happens internally, but sometimes things might spill out in the public more than other things. but there is always going to be a healthy debate internally on a variety of policy issues among the cabinet, among the staff to make sure the president sees every option that is available, every opinion that he should weigh and counter before he makes a final decision. sometimes i think sometimes those discussions may make them out a little more publicly than they do, but as i said in the beginning, i think there is a lot of overblown coverage of how it happened and what went down. >> and steve bannon? >> he is very confident in the team that he has, that they have an unbelievable amount of

knowledge, and he enjoys the counsel they all bring to this table. thank you guys very much. i'll see you tomorrow. >> sean spicer ending his daily press briefing, talking a number of subjects that are on the white house's agenda today, including the ongoing questions about what exactly the trump administration's plans are overseas, specifically in syria. the other story that we are also following is a shooting in san bernardino at an elementary school. four victims down right now, two of which we are told are students. we're unclear on the ages of those students or what their conditions are. that appears to be a murder-suicide involving a teacher. we're going to have more on that coming up. but let's go back to what's going on in the white house today. we have kristin welker who is in the white house press briefing. kristin, a lot of questions on syria, what this administration plans to do going forward. sean spicer was pretty definitive saying he's leaving open the possibility for more action there if assad decides to

do something similar using a chemical weapon in the future. >> reporter: a couple headlines, katy. the one you mentioned, sean spicer very clear that the president is prepared to take more action if he deems it necessary. and he also responded to questions about the fact that over the weekend there was some mixed messaging coming from some of the top officials within the trump administration, from secretary tillerson, who seemed to indicate it's up to the syrian people to get rid of assad, and the u.n. ambassador nikki haley who says assad must go. i preed him on that, and he expressed e need, frankly, for assa tbe removed through a political protscess. but i went further and asked him if he believed isis could be defeated with assad still in power and he said yes. he did indicate the two didn't have to happen along the stame track.

he still stressed that it's the president's belief that ultimately he has to be removed from power. a couple other headlines i'll tick through with you as we've been reporting, of course, secretary of state rex tillerson set to meet with his counterpart tomorrow. he is going to urge his counterpart and russian officials to get tougher on assad, to stop propping up that regime. he wouldn't respond to multiple questions, though, about whether or not he would specifically put the threat of more sanctions on the table. so that remains an unanswered question at this hour, katy. and he responded to a whole host of questions about some of the infighting here within the white house between chief strategist steve bannon and president trump's son-in-law jared kushner. he called those reports overblown, although you and i have been reporting on this for some time now, and we know that it's very real, that there have been some fierce idealogical divides within this white house. but he stressed the fact the

president feels very confident that his top officials can move forward, can work in concert together, even if they maintain some of these idealogical dirchts differences. at the very end of the briefing, sean spicer said the reason he brought all of these people on board was to have diverse reaction from the white house. a lot said tod a the white house tries to determine the next steps in syria, katy. >> kristin, thank you for those headlines. now we have the founder of cove strategies/slap, also campaign manager robbie mook. we should do a quick video from san bernardino which we are also following. guys, let's talk about what is going on in the white house today, specifically this infighting between donald trump's senior adviser and special adviser steve bannon as well as his son-in-law and special adviser jared kushner.

matt, i was talking to some sources close to steve bannon over the weekend who said he is in a very bad place right now. you don't want to go up against jared kushner who is the president's son-in-law. he's someone he can't fire. he's in the position where there's too much headlines surrounding him and too much drama that was taking away from donald trump's message. matt, what are you hearing? >> you know, i'm hearing that the president actually has assembled a group of people that are incredibly diverse. i mean, i've worked in the white house. there is usually a pool of people you pick from, and the president has mostly decided to pick different types of people who have not had much political experience. jared kushner is a democrat. steve bannon is maybe a republican, but he's mostly a disrtoon the right. then you have others as well. it does create for a different kind of white house than we've probably ever seen, but out of that, the president hopes to get

diverse opinions and advice and hopefully it leads to good decisions. >> how do you work, though, matt, when somebody is a democrat and somebody else is not really a republican or whatever steve bannon ultimately is, an economic nationalist. these are not just competing idealogies, those are idealogies in direct conflict with each other. how do you run a white house like that? >> katy, it's a great question, and a lot of us looked at the creation of the white house staff and wondered how this was going to work. when you win a white house, you're so much fighting the bureaucracy which tends to lean left, and usually you're unified politically with the political jobs fighting the bureaucracy. what we have in the trump administration is real conflict at the political point as well. i have to say after this week, most people are looking at it and saying, as fitful as some of the headlines are, it seems to

be working. >> robbie, is there any real belief among democrats that donald trump is somebody who was actually a moderate behind the scenes? donald trump is somebody who is not an ideologue, and somebody like steve bannon who is one of the more disruptive presences is put to the side and someone like jared kushner is brought to the forefront in shaping the president's agenda. >> the president runs h operation by chaos. his company has never had to be held accountable to a board or anything, it's all kept in the family, and he seems to be running the white house the same way. let's step back for a second and realize when we're talking about kushner, this is a son-in-law. i think a lot of people would question whether those sorts of choices are really appropriate to run the free world. but i think the other issue this gets to is that what i think president trump needs around him

are people that can help him, navigate not just the bureaucracy but congress itself. i think the failure to pass any kind of health care bim. so the failure to accomplish that showed us that not only is donald trump not really equipped to maneuver the legislative protsz, but he also doesn't really have a command of the substance. he was never really able to negotiate with members of congress about the policy details. and the people around him are not providing him with that support to be successful in that arena. so my larger concern, just going forward as an american, i don't see anybody in this white house who is able to guide the president through these situations. >> we see a lady traveling around, and he's leading foreign

policy in china. >> he's leading policy in the negotiating peace between libya and the palestinians, there's iraq. everything seems to be on jared kushner's plate. >> and i just think the president need people around him who can guide him rough. eventually we need to see some success not just in launching a foreign attack, but having a foreign strategy and then getting those done on the hill. we haven't seen any of those things. >> ryan, that was supposed to be reince priebus, and if you look at the big screen here we have competing factions in the west wing here. we have the a team, team bannon who you can see on the screen, and team spice. you got some good reporting out of the west wing today in terms of what exactly is going on and what the messaging is.

there doesn't seem to be a coherent message coming out of the white house and that's because the staffers don't really know what donald trump stands for. is there a trump doctrine? sean spicer just said it was america first. >> yeah, there's definitely disagreements, and inside the west wing there is a real obsession about this hunter day mark, not because it's important legally in any fashion, but it's a big media deadline. donald trump watches so much media so the press staff is intent on beating this deadline. you heard sean spicer say they are on day one. they are counting down the days. last week there was a planned meeting how to communicate the 100-day agenda. there was deep disagreements between trump's administration team, between people at this meeting, over what president trump has accomplished so far. >> was there an acknowledgment that they do need to reset, that they do need to find some new messaging, because so far what

they've been doing isn't working. >> sean spicer announced what the trump doctrine was today. i learned that mike dubke told a set of trump staffers, there is no trump doctrine. that did not go over well, and i think sean spicer's comments may be to amend some of that behind closed doors statement. they really haven't settled on what they've done so far, and they've pulled out discipline. trump's swearing in, basically, changed immigration policy. >> matt, does it worry conservatives to see someone like jared kushner who might be a democrat would have more influence in this administration? >> yes. i moon, it's a diverse set of advisers, they have different politics. it doesn't worry me so much

because whether or not they're thsd the white house, he's going to talk to them. that's what. . they have very competent lawyers, so at least now it's all above board so we can see it. if there are advisers outsd the white house is he doesn't need these hoops, the president will still call when he wants to. i assume that she was president, that she would have consulted with associate clinton. i think that's normal. it's time fouls to break. we are paying attention to that shooting in san bernardino at an elementary school. officials tell us four people have been shot. we believe that two of those are students. more right after these

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developments this thin this. we received from the chief that there are two confirmed fatalities. two adults are deceased in a classroom believed to be a murder-suicide. we believe the suspect is down and there is no further threat. despite that, you can see in the video there that situation on the ground with students, teachers, educators outside the building as police continue to sweep that building. important work they're doing going classroom to classroom to just make sure the threat is shored up. here's what happened. it is about 10:30 this morning. that is the community of san bernardino where the terrorist attack took place about a year and a half ago. there is a shooter in one of the classrooms. we don't know how big that class is, who the teacher was in that classroom, where exactly inside this school that classroom was. police say a shooter inside there at about 10:30 starts firing. this is being treated at this point as a domestic murder

murder-suicide. again, you heard the chief there a minute ago tweeting those two fatalities are adults. the initial report that came in was four down, two students, one educator and then that possible shooter. so that would fit within this possible scenario. as you see now, students and teachers gathered outside of that school. what is happening at this point is the students will be bused to nearby cal state san bernardino, taken off this campus here so the police can continue to sweep every single classroom to make absolutely sure this threat has lifted. but again, new information, two fatalities now confirmed on the ground as the police work continues there. as we'll move quickly beyond this to the investigation phase talking about the possible i.d. of the shooter, the possible i.d.s of the educators inside

the classroom, and then the students inside the classroom. we know that this is a school, northpark elementary, of about 600 students, k through 6. we're talking about very young students inside that school this morning. katy? >> steve, our reporters on the ground are being told by authorities that they are not searching for the shooter any longer. right now their priority is reunitingtudents with their parents, and we can tell that is what is going on from those held t -- helicopter images of the students being lined up on the field of that school. let's go to profiler and msnbc contributor clint. it is pretty jarring to hear of someone on the campus with a gun, let alone an elementary school campus. >> reporter: yeah, it was. as you reported earlier, it was december 2015 that we had the believed terrorist attack in the same city. as you know, 14 were killed, 22

were injured. so, unfortunately, this city is no stranger to mass casualties and mass shootings. we know also this year, just in april 2017 alone, there has been 13 mass shootings in america. that's where four more people have been shot and killed. so, you know, gun violence continues in this country. in this particular case, the information we're getting suggests a domestic situation. we don't know who the shooter -- normally the shooter is a male in situations like this, although we don't know at this point. coming on campus, and the challenging thing in a domestic situation, should it be a husband, wife, whatever, two individuals who were very close together, the challenge is, if one person is angry, they know where you can find that other person 8, 10 hours a day. whether this is violence in the workplace or what, it still is an act of murder, and it looks like murder-suicide, and whether

children were targeted or happened to get hit by bouncing bullets, we still have to find out. >> just to be clear, although the city is under high alert after that 2015 terror alert where the married couple killed a number of people inside an office baby shower, this does not appear to be the same sort of situation. officials are telling us that this appears to be a domestic murder-suicide. again, two students, we're told, have been injured in some way. we don't know the current stat us of those students. let's go now to our reporter on the ground who has been talking to -- i believe witnesses, parents and some officials. >> reporter: so since we last reported, we've jogged down north park. we're actually outside the school. you can see the children on the playground, law enforcement presence here. one of the school buses that is prepared to transfer the students to another location so they can be reunited with their

parents. there are a number of parents who have also gotten to this location. excuse me, sir, you're a dad as well? >> i'm a grandpa. >> are you able to locate your student? >> my grandson is right there, thank god. he can't see me, but as long as i can see him, that's good. the whole family is rushing to get here. >> that's a knbc reporter on the ground who is obviously trying to get as much information as he possibly can. what officials are telling us this appears to be a deomestic violence incident, a murder-suicide in the school. a teacher was shot and it appears two other students were shot as well. we do not know the status of those students, whether or not they are survivors. they're being treated at a local hospital. again, this is just developing now, but officials say they believe this situation is over. they are no longer looking for an active shooter. they believe the shooter has been neutralized, which means

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