i want to say this is a catastrophic, unbelievably catastrophic day in browa rd county history.ach. umm, we have multiple casualties. we've had approximately 1a people transported to area hospitals with varying degrees of injuries. there are multiple casualties, though, there are folks who have lost their lives. i don't know the number right now. it is a fluid scene right now. we have multiple swat teams clearing the buildings. we have a shooter who was taken into custody about an hour ago. he was taken from stoneman douglas after he committed a horrible homicidal detestable act. the fbi and our crime scene people will begin processing this horrific scene as soon as the buildings are cleared. i have spoken to president trump. i have spoken to president trump, and he's offered the full power of the united states of america to help us get through this. and the sheriff was tweeting to say this. confirmation that the death toll is, at the moment, 17. that may not be a final death toll, but that is the figure police have at the moment. and i wasjust saying, there are indications, acc

we are proud of the browa rd enforcement. the broward sheriff's office which responded very quickly, and of course, the parkland fire department. as far as the assessment to which you are referring, i will leave it to the law enforcement to see if lessons can be learned is quite we are hearing, if you can confirm, i7 quite we are hearing, if you can confirm, 17 have been killed. —— learned. and two are in a critical condition? the sheriff was confirming i7 fatalities. in terms of how many are injured, i do not have that number as yet. all right, thank you so much for talking to us. and now we will go straightaway to david willis in washington, a bbc correspondent. jon sopel was saying that we were not expecting to see tighter gun control from donald trump, and he has not said it. that is true. donald trump did tweet today. he said no child, teacher, or anyone, should ever feel unsafe in said no child, teacher, or anyone, should everfeel unsafe in an american school. but if you think that that is going to provoke any sort of d

. >> reporter: a catastr in browa, times., one of the worst school the worst absolutely in broward corgest school diss rick in the country and early rf numerous fatalities high school confirmed by the. >> we have 17 confirmed victims. 12 building. two victims are the building. one victim is on the street at the of pine island, and people r lives at the hospital. >> reporter: the shooting started the afternoon just as school was about to end at stoneman douglas high school on the west side of broward county northwest forward lauderdale many students report add fire a hmm being pulled and then the fa current student identified asarz started opening fire as students and started fleeing. win about an hour and 15 minut minutes,mer student nikolaus cruz was arre arrested nearbyeve that was whes living. the sheriffo s indication yet that he can share as for a motive but he as this investigation unravels we will g gs about signs that cd have been seen about this suspectheriff would in the specy of all of the fatalities hownt s and their ages or whether it was mixture students and teachers how

would you also be calling for because of the missed signals or lack of response from the browa browardwere outside of the school? are you calling for the resignation or firing of broward sheriffs or the head of their law enforcement? >> i think that's something that should be looked into. because i find it hard to believe that when he was on your town hall he didn't know about these issues that took place. i find it a mighty coincidence that it was only the day after your town hall that the failure of his department became public. that was known. i'm assuming it was known immediately that this happened. i don't know why we had to wait a week to find this out. >> florida state representative randy fine, thank you for your time. appreciate it. >> thank you. >>> coming up, a call to the fbi tip line reported troubling behavior, dreams to become a professional school shooter. details on the multiple signals missed that may have prevented the mass shooting leaving 17 dead. i am totally blind. and non-24 can make me show up too early... or too late. or make me feel like i'm not really "there

. >> at this point i have no independent knowledge from video or personal knowledge that any browa browardot seen any video that shows deputies or police officers in any area not going in. >> that was my colleague, nbc news carrie sanders speaking with sheriff scot seritoday. basically calling on governor rick scott here in florida to suspend the sheriff. that is something the governor could do. we understand he still ordered the florida department of law enforcement to look into the response here during the shooting at stoneman douglas. we're expecting parents and students to come back since the shooting. this is ahead of them going back to class wednesday. they will have a modified scheduled trying to ease them back into their schedule. >>> a new piece in the "new yorker" magazine examines florida's gun laws and the role an nra lobbyist has played there, marianne hammer. she's nearing four decades as the most influential gun lobbyist in the united states. staff writer joins us now. he's not even five feet at all. wields amazing influence around tallahassee. >> also carries a handbag in h

shooter himself is now in custody, he's believed to be an 18—year—old former student of the school in browaeen harrowing news leading the six o'clock bulletin earlier that evening, after a man had been found guilty of murdering his niece last summer. and the attempted murder of a second woman. denise thought some of the description provided was inappropriate for an early evening broadcast. also on wednesday, the bbc‘s economics editor wrote online about the economic performance of the european union, pointing out that growth in the region was at levels not seen since 2007. initially, the article had the headline ‘uk no longer shackled to a corpse', a reference to a comment once made by the eurosceptic mp douglas carswell, that britain's membership of the eu came at a significant financial cost. the headline was later changed, but not before several readers had tweeted their objections. and others wondered why the phrase didn't have quotation marks we put these points to bbc news, and they told us: a couple of weeks ago, viewer russell moore contacted us with his thoughts on a practice that

in the last few minutes, the sheriff in browa rd county last few minutes, the sheriff in broward countyrming the figure of 17 fatalities in the shooting incident, saying i2 of 17 fatalities in the shooting incident, saying 12 of those people died inside the school, three outside the school premises, and two in hospital, or on their way to hospital. all of them from gunshot injuries. and it does appear that there is at least a dozen people who have also been taken to hospital, and some of those are thought to be suffering from quite severe gunshot injuries. one eyewitness was quoted earlier on as saying it was just blood all over the place. clearly a very, very distressing afternoon for these young people. very distressing. as you said, david, we have also got a confirmation of the attacker‘s name, apparently nicolas dejesus attacker‘s name, apparently nicolas de jesus cruz, a attacker‘s name, apparently nicolas dejesus cruz, a former student. attacker‘s name, apparently nicolas de jesus cruz, a former student. we know that according to the miami herald, this is somebody who was a former