. >> let's go to blair stokes now who is a florida state university student who was actually in the library that was just evacuated. so blair, talk to us about what you saw and what you heard. >> well, i was studying in the library. and all of a sudden, i hear like the fire alarm doors kind of go off. like if number had just opened the fire alarm. and so this girl just comes walking up. somebody has a gun in the library. everybody just looked around a little bit. we all just looked at each other. we were like why would somebody joke about this. i just kind of moved to the back and started tweeting. i thought oh, what is going on, people probably know about this. and yeah, that is where i went. >> so blair, when did you realize that you were dealing with a real situation here and what did you do? did you all evacuate at that particular point? >> we couldn't evacuate until the cops told us we could. we actually had like a police escort. so most of the time like for this -- most of the past hours, like we were just waiting up there, waiting for cops to get us out. now we were all going out wit

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. >> joining me now on the phone, blair stokes a senior at fsu, who was in the library when the shooting occurred. blair, good morning. >> good morning. >> listen i understand that you didn't hear the gunshots but you did hear all the sirens. what did you do and what did people do? how did people react? >> the way i initially found out like wasn't the sirens. a girl just walked up to the floor of the library where i was studying and casually said there was a gunman on the first floor. at first i was really incredulous and i really didn't believe it. then i heard the sirens. then i saw the cop cars. i saw guns carrying these -- or cops carrying these giant guns. then i knew it was real. >> yeah and so how did you see the response? because if it's a casual -- a girl walks up to you and says there's a gunman in the library, doesn't seem very casual to anybody. tell me how people responded. >> i think people saw it -- it was something that happens at other schools and not at fsu. like something of this caliber and of this like kind of like atrocious nature hasn't happened at fsu so far. and