. >> all right, mayor christine hunschofsky, thank you for being with us and our thoughts are with you >>> another tweet just coming in from the president. actually, two tweets there. the president just a few moments ago, seems like we are going back and forth here when i talked about russia investigation. he said i never said russia did not meddle in the election. i said it may be russia or china or another country or group or a 400-pound genius sitting in bed and playing with his computer. the russian hoax was that the trump campaign colluded with russia, it never did. it expresses what many say there is no full-throated endorsement of the conclusion of the u.s. intelligence community that it was russia, not a 400-pound genius sitting on his bed and not russia. october of 2016 in "time" magazine. >> no, november. >> november? >> yeah, 2016. he essentially said he didn't believe that they interfered. that was the "time" magazine article in november of 2016. >> all right. thanks for being with us. tonight, cnn is airing new episodes of the original series "the radical story of patty hu

parkland mayor christine hunschofsky joins us tonight. miss mayor, i do not know if you can hear me or not. first, our condolences to your town. this is an awful story, and the details make it even worse, what do we know at this hour about the suspect? we saw pictures of him being taken away on a gurney into an ambulance, do you know what that was? >> i'm not familiar what was going on inside as part of the police operation. i was outside on the perimeter with the parents and the students who were coming out. >> tucker: can you confirm that the number that we have is 17 dead, is that the correct number? >> that is the number that i have heard as well from our broward sheriff. >> tucker: are reporter just told us that some of the families on the scene there are not sure where their children are. >> i have not seen any families, i am still in the area here, but i have not seen any family is around, but there were several families early on that had not heard from their students at all. just when all of this was happening, we are very thankfu

parkland mayor christine hunschofsky, thank you very much. we've seen images of some young man being escorted into a vehicle. we don't know if it is the shooter or anything other than there is some young man detained and local tv got a shot of it. as far as broward county is concerned, this remains an active shooter situation. there's the image i'm referring to. possibly a young man wearing a maroon shirt and he looks as though he is being detained, if not arrested. in an active shooter situation, even if they believe that person is a suspect, and we have no information they do, they would be making sure there aren't two or three or four suspects. >> you look at the videos. the officers doing a high risk search on the individual. we don't know what his status is or why he's in custody. you can bet police officers, before they send out the all clear, they'll ensure there is no threat. we've been seeing the television screens as students stream out, an attempted orderly evacuation what we can't see he are police officers going room by room atte