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Databases that are out there, this could be number 150 mass casualty event that has occurred since january 1st of this year alone. >> reporter: it is -- certainly puts it in stark perspective. we have to leave it there, gentlemen, but i know we will continue to discuss this of more. art roderick, cedric anderson, appreciate you both. we will continue the live coverage from here at virginia beach throughout the afternoon, but i want to send it back to jessica dean in new york who is covering some...

Anymore. so when they say its coming in from down south, im fairly sure the law enforcement has a pretty good idea of the location where it came from if not the exact location. so theyll have law enforcement out there right away looking to see, you know, was this a cell phone, was it one of the few payphones left in the u.s.? was it made from a land line? so law enforcement is all over this. and nypd is just about the best at this in the world. i have no doubt theyre pretty much on to this. and ...

We dont know how many more rounds it held. but authorities are obviously looking into that right now. they also say they dont know if he reloaded. finally, one positive note. there were six off-duty law enforcement officers in the club at the time, and the sheriff says that one woman came up to him and said, those officers stood in front of my daughter. kate. back to you. >> so many heroes. there should not have to be so many heroes in all of these places all the time. >> joining me to discuss, ...

Hias had been on the border, made a video, he reposted that, he was very concerned about it. when he went into that synagogue, he said he couldnt take it anymore. that the caravan was bringing in people who were slaughtering our own people. he didnt care about the optics and went in. this does not fit with anything that people knew about him for their entire lives and it comes as a great shock that this would be the person to do this. so investigators now looking into everything and what could h...

>> art roderick is with us. as a former u.s. marshal, tell us how law enforcement reacts. they go toward gunfire, what they hear. theyll see possibly people running, fleeing from the area where they heard gunfire, but how else to they approach this unclear whether the gunman or gunmen happens to be in place. >> fred, we heard the term, unfortunately we are familiar with run hide fight. but also the fourth thing to get done is get witness statements and get an identification of the individual as ...

No matter how small it is, you may think it is nothing, but if it is something strange, thats where the see something, say something comes in. >> i think youre right, if we treated political discourse the way we treat other types of law enforcement and fighting crime, then we may see better results. what i mean by that is if you are an elected official, your words matter. and so law enforcement, if you think about terrorism, if you think about bank robber, think about anything on the spectrum of...

Active shooting happened inside the synagogue, near the synagogue, or surrounding the synagogue. all of that is being worked out now. scary scenes that were looking at out of pittsburgh, fredricka. >> frightening indeed. nick, give us new information as you get it. art roderick with us, james galliano, samantha vinograd. someone that lives in the pittsburgh area, selena zito, giving us her perspective based on her working knowledge of the community there. james, you see vehicles continue to pull...

There are fatalities. pennsylvania governor tom wolf tweeting were still learning details about the shooting at the tree of life synagogue in pittsburgh but it is a serious situation. pennsylvania state police are assisting local first responders. please stay away from the area, keep congregants and law enforcement in your prayers. with me still, art roderick, james galliano, and sam vinograd. there are multiple casualties. there are fatalities. we know three officers have been shot but you hear...

Barricade situation where it is just the shooter. barricade situation with just the shooter, youre going to as art roderick pointed out, you form a perimeter. you do what we call contain, negotiate. no need to put more in harms way if there arent more victims to be harmed. barricaded subject with hostages raises the ante. will they continue to kill people or are they holding to them as human currency to negotiate with authorities. thirdly, the active shooter that we have to, law enforcement offi...

Of the tree of life synagogue and everyone in the neighborhood. i know this is incredibly traumatizing, our prayers are with everyone. thank you so much for your time. art roderick is with us. art, when you hear from law enforcement on the latest update that three officers were shot, they continue to try to clear the building, looking for more potential threats, even though a shooter is in custody, how do they determine whether they exhausted all measures to know the threat is over? >> well, it ...