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And now, Preston and Steve's news update with Kathy Romano.

Today is Friday, February 23rd.

Good morning, Kathy.

Good morning.

In the news this morning, the armed officer on duty at the Florida school where a shooter killed 17 people never went inside to engage the gunmen and has been placed under investigation officials announced Thursday.

The Valentine's Day shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School by a gunman armed with an AR-15-style assault rifle has reignited national debate over gun laws and school safety, including proposals

by President Donald Trump and others to designate more people, including trained teachers to carry

guns on school grounds. Gun control advocates, meanwhile, have doubled their push to ban assault

rifles. The school resource officer at the high school took up a position viewing the western

entrance of the building that was under attack for more than four minutes but never went in. Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel said at a

news conference on Thursday. The shooting lasted about six minutes. The officer, Scott Peterson,

was suspended without pay and placed under investigation, then chose to resign. I wonder what the

level of training is for resource officers and what they go through and what their

protocol is.

Obviously, he was supposed to do something because the authorities are really angry and upset with

the lack of response.

But I wonder what the specific training is that they go through for that.

You would assume they'd have to train for that possible scenario.

When I was a kid, we had, there was a cop in our school. Always. Always? Yeah. Likewise. Yeah, we had a police, an armed police officer in my school every day. As you would, as you would come into the building, you would see him there. And it was part of the deal. I was thinking about this, you know, and it sucks that we have to think about this, you know, with children.

But, you know, I almost, I was thinking of, like, their plan, you know, like, the plan is to, you know, hide in the classroom. And I don't, I don't like that. It's like, well, there, there used to be a plan. Oh, you're saying, other than that.

But, I mean, there used to be a plan where kids would have to drill regularly for potential nuclear explosions. So there's a lot of things that kids had to do. Hide under your desk. That'll protect you from the nuclear bomb. Right. Right. But you're saying as far as a better plan? Yeah. That I don't know. Or an individual plan.

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