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Back in 2019. also today, new photos just in to cnn showing baldwin meeting with helena hutchins husband and son in new mexico. in a statement the actor said his heart was broken for them and hes fully cooperating as police investigate. helena hutchins died there from the gunshot wound there on the set. cnn correspondent lucy kafanov is in santa fe, new mexico. lucy, what more are you learning about the safety issues and accusations? >> reporter: thats right, fred. we remember from the affidavit...

Even find their marks and then they will walk through and do a blocking rehearsal so the actors will find their marks here and figure out where they want to put the camera and will rehears that with no guns at all. if the scene requires it we can give them an empty gun or cold gun if we have to but generally we rehearse with a cold gun or dummy gun and then we block it out with the entire crew. the department heads will watch the blocking and see where the actor standing and where the camera is ...

Now "euphoria," sam levenson, the show run and director demands authenticity. every "t" is crossed and "i" is dotted and we use real firearms whenever possible, and whenever theres a firearm brought out on set he makes sure theres an actual arm oher, not just a prop person or crew person but an arm oher with the gun to make sure that were at the utmost of safety and we block every scene and we know in advance where the actors are pointing, when they are going to pull the trigger and where the ca...

>> and i know, dutch, you were not on the set of "rust" when the this happened on thursday, but can you give us an idea of when you have a rehearsal involving a firearm, again, we dont know all the details about, you know, the weapon or whether indeed there were live rounds or if this is an accident as a result of blanks. we just dont have that concrete information, but can you give us an idea at this juncture generally when there is going to be a rehearsal, because i have seen reportedly that t...

While shooting "the crow" and no criminal charges were filed but lees mother settled a case and were told this baldwin was the person who discharged the firearm but is it he orrers who are more responsible? >> certainly on the civil side i would think hes less vulnerable than other. the civil negligence standard is much lower than the criminal negligent standard so when you talk about civil negligence, in other words, filing a lawsuit to get damages, youre talking about whether someone violated ...

Expert and has more than 25 years of experience in the entertainment industry as an on-set weapons arm oher, and hes worked with alec baldwin before. mike, thank you for jumping on with us. based on your expertise, how could this have possibly happened. >> thats an excellent question. i dont know. you know, i know people are saying why are we using such dangerous weapons? they are not dangerous if they are handled professionally by people who know what they are doing. i mean, weve been using gun...