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8,000 cases in texas. the state resisted locking down, then reopened quickly, something dr. anthony fauci has consistently warned against. but the lieutenant governor now downplaying the states 2,400 deaths and, instead, targeting fauci. >> he has been wrong every time on every issue. i dont need his advice anymore. well listen to a lot of science, well listen to a lot of doctors. and governor abbott, myself and other state leaders will make the decision. no thank you, dr. fauci. >> temperature ...

That theyre safe and also that they arent a part of the threat. that will happen actually really quickly. this base trains some of the best fighter pilots in the world. there are billions of dollars of planes and equipment there not to mention military personnel that are very important to us in the military because of what they can do. so accountability of equipment, locking down. there are installations within installations. the flight line where the airplanes, where the fighter pilots train ma...

Protect against these attacks. itty-bitty line of attack, it makes for difficult battle if you think about it in those terms. >> is there more of the obama administration could have done more? >> at the end of the day, we have basic problems, so much of the information that we rely on everyday on digital form that we access with user names and passwords. you and i both know how painful it is. make it easy to get your data makes it vulnerable as someone took our credentials. that tension of openi...

Knowing the gun shots started firing and then the hostage-taking afterwards and watching this all unfold. were they on stage when it all happened? >> they had actually just tweeted a photo, a gorgeous photo that you can still find right now, of moments before they were set to go on stage. and that shock is still reverberating to their family members. some of their family members have refused to speak. the founding member of the band who was not on tour, weve reached out to his family and theyre ...

Columbine. what were finding now is response time by the police who are there, and so many times its it would be interesting to see if the campus actually had practiced emergency management type of things, and by the sounds of some reports im reed doing -- this has not been confirmed -- the students were locking down, and anything you can do and one young lady you interviewed prior was talking about something that we have in place the colorado and throughout the states and the response protocol ...

In other parts of the world. additional security was added to this event tonight. luckily it was because ends up we had a threat and they executed that threat. >> how many officers were there? >> i dont have a number. >> dozens or -- >> i dont know. i can give you a number later on but i dont have those numbers now. >> will this impact the high school next door tomorrow? >> i wouldnt think so. simply because we would expect to get this clear, the car cleerd. of course we have a crime scene there...

[ inaudible question ] >> all i know, its two males. >> can you describe the aftermath of the shooting? >> locking down, securing areas, making sure there were nobody else moving toward the event center that may be carrying a guns or trying to harm anybody else. >> were there a lot of people in the parking lot or just -- >> no, there wasnt a lot of people in the parking lot. it was -- excuse me, it was probably 10 or 15 minutes before the event was going to be over when this occurred. okay. that...

Enforcement responds so we can always do a better job. whos really learning are the citizens, sad to say. look at everybody quickly barricading realizing a shooting may be going on, you know, getting away not standing around. moving quickly, barricading, locking down, thats as effective as the police coming. >> again, you think thats something we have learned now over time? sometimes it sounds like instinct that you hear shooting and you would just try to get away or, you know, find a hiding pla...

The reagan funeral in 2004, when reagan was about to lay in state, and you had former leaders, margaret thatcher, mikhail gorbachev in the capitol, and they take this seriously. you cant have an incident happen at the capitol where you take out portion of the legislative branch and thats who is to the folks-not on furlough. >> neil: chad, something maybe you can help me on, as soon as shots are fired, sound like within seconds, they were shutting down, locking down, whole buildings, the capitol ...

Prior to the attack. >> shepard: i wondered from the beginning if this link that they found, female dna, on the bomb, might have been an effort to put some pressure on her. >> well, could have. you have an explosion, dna can come from anywhere. its not conclusive. but again, its an interesting aspect of this case. it continues to develop a lot of different aspects particularly how did they assemble the bomb. the time squares bomber went overseas, got trained, came back, didnt work. so its not so...