>> shepard: trace, ralph rayburn in the chopper. let's listen. we're now told that rick scott, the governor of florida, has spoken with the locals and that he's involved. wsvn is reporting that the suspect has a maroon shirt and black parts. broward sheriff's is reporting this is an active shooter situation and wsvn is covering i've live. >> recapping the information that we got early on. the first calls came in around 2:30 this afternoon of the active shooting on campus. started out with five victims injured. one transported. the number just went up to more than 20 victims that have been injured. one person we heard early on had a gunshot wound to the leg. that person was transported to a nearby hospital. we saw a female getting loaded to the black of an ambulance. she was on her way to the hospital. so a large triage situation going on right here. you heard that more victims may be on their way out of the building, the three-story building of stoneman douglas high school. we'll be watching for that as well. >> brandon, we apologize. let's get b

let's listen. >> ralph rayburn brought us a mile from stoneman douglas afternoon. again, to confirm through police there, the suspect they have identified in this shooting is in custody. now, the situation at the school campus is where where there may well still be people inside, suctions of the school building. they canvas, they clear. they evacuate them. lynn just shared. if you're on twitter, the p.d. has done a great job of providing information as quickly as they can. for pickup information, for those of you with students that attend that school, and i'm going to retweet it, and we'll go over that again, once they release it, south at betty straddling park, that's where you can pick up your kids at this point in time as per coral springs p.d. >> shepard: we've just gotten this. this comes to us from our network news service affiliate wfor in south florida that reported to us a lot of students don't have what -- their seventh period, the last period of the day. so at 2:00 p.m. when this was alleged to have begun, there would have been a big mass of shooting whe

ralph rayburn has been working choppers in that city for 25 years. craig stevens on the anchor desk, he has been for exactly that long. lynn martinez carrying us through this tragedy. these are members of this community. they've lived there for decades. they have covered news in that very busy news market for decades. none of them has ever seen a day like today. the deadliest day and broward county, florida, school history, one of the largest school district in the country. we don't know the death toll. we are led to believe it will be significant. the gunman is in custody and's suspected gunman in the back of the squad car being taken into custody. authorities are still working the crime scene at the school and parkland were 2200 students went to school on this valentine's day. school activities are closed tonight. school will not reopen tomorrow. school will not be able to reopen tomorrow, as authorities continue and the victims have not yet been brought out of that school. another school shooting in america. in south florida, our thoughts and pray

. >> craig stevens and lynn martinez, ralph rayburn up in the chopper and all the rest we'll get back to them. i want to get to our phil keating who is based in south florida season now live with us on scene in park land. phil, to you. >> reporter: shepard, we're just half mile south of the high school right now. as you have mentioned throughout the coverage of the past three hours, the law enforcement community led by t broward county sheriff's department really responded rapidly, and had this person of interest suspect matching the description of the black hat, the burgundy shirt and the black pants in custody roughly a mile, mile and a half away from the school which we're -- we believe is where he had been living. according to the school superintendent broward county and the sheriff, this was not a current student but an 18-year-old and the governor rick scott on his way from tallahassee down here. he has spoken and remained in contact with law enforcement down here. he has already expressed his grieve for the families those affect the. we still don't note exactly the full number