What follows is a partial transcript of the special CNN Late Edition Primetime with Wolf Blitzer that aired the evening of Tuesday, August 10, after day-long coverage of the shooting at the North Valley Jewish Community Center in Granada Hills, California. We pick up the broadcast at about 8:15 P.M., Eastern time.
Wolf Blitzer: Joining us now from Los Angeles is Alicia Brook. She's the mother of two kids who attend the day camp at the Jewish Community Center there in the Valley in Granada Hills. One of them was at the day camp today. Tell us what happened.
Alicia Brook: Okay. Well, my son, number one, did not go today. I'm very grateful he stayed home. He would have been at a field trip. My daughter is fifteen. She's a counselor with one of the groups, and they were still on the property when everything happened. So the bus driver got them out of there very quickly and moved them over to Northridge Park where they were there all day. But she said she didn't know at all at first what was going on. But there was a lot of panic going on at the community center.
Blitzer: How did you hear about what was going on?
Brook: I had called my son, because I was leaving work today early, as it turned out, and I called him to tell him I was on my way home. And at about ten minutes later, he paged me and said, "Mom, there was a shooting at the Jewish Community Center." So, obviously, at that point my heart just about dropped, and I was at least thirty miles away from the Valley. So I had to figure on how I was going to get home in one piece to get to the Community Center. I got my son. I got home, and we came over here. And I've been here since about 12:50 [Pacific time, roughly four and a half hours earlier].
Blitzer: And did you have trouble reuniting with your daughter?
Brook: No. Actually, as a matter of fact, my daughter was already reunited with her dad. He picked her up. I've been here doing interviews. So I haven't seen her.