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Quote, an unprovoked attack. 48-year-old officer miosotis familia was sitting in a marked mobile command vehicle in the bronx when a gunman opened fire through a window, shooting the 12-year veteran in the head. two other officers confronted the suspect identified as alexander bonds running a block away. police say the officer shot and killed bonds after he pulled out a gun. >> we want to be careful here. theyre investigating this as an assassination. not that weapon went off and happened to fin...

>> its very difficult. i mean, obviously, the weather is going to have a huge impact on this issue. and you can see the fire department lined up there with the rescue squad trucks and response vehicles ready to go once the area is declared safe. but yeah, obviously the weathers going to have a huge impact. i just saw someatf. it looked like atf snipers carrying their weapons, responding. so youre going to have not only, you know, local police, sheriffs offices, but also, you know, federal law en...

Around is the people who shot this down thought they were shooting down a ukrainian military plane. how difficult is it to hit the thing you intend to hit? >> ideally, the way this would work if it was under regular military control was the sa-11 system usually has three to four vehicles. one of them is a command vehicle with an acquisition radar which sorts through everything in the sky, decides what a target is, and then passes it to the target engagement radar associated with the missiles. wh...

To proving that it could have been the separatists or the rebels. first of all if youre looking at the picture youll see what looks like a gum drop on the front of the missile system. thats for the acquisition radar, the shorter range radar. that communicates between the missile and the launcher, and it tracks the aircraft but it doesnt give you the minutes and minutes of advanced warning that a surveillance radar would have. also, when youre looking at this picture, this is just the launcher an...

Jurisdictions. [ inaudible ] respond up here, so obviously a big effort in the surrounding jurisdictions. >> uh-huh and so oliver, as far as you can tell, because we were talking columbia, maryland, its kind of sandwiched between washington d.c. and baltimore, maryland. are you also seeing the assistance -- you mention park police, which is federal law enforcement. are you noticing whether there are markers of other jurisdictions that are there to assist? >> i certainly am. youre seeing a respon...

Anticipating anything they might have encountered inside that mall. theyre standing around outside, outside of what looks like a media book and also s.w.a.t. cars. it seems since theyre standing there, in all likelihood, inside it has been cleared? jim? >> now theyre in the process of clearing it. what it is, its a very large building, obviously. so -- they dont know how many shooters could have been involved. so that takes time. it looks like they have their command vehicle there. thats their t...

People coming out of the mall. >> right. >> the mall has now been cleared. so the tactical teams from multiple agencies has been slowly, methodically going through every store, every nook and cranny in the mall. if you can picture a very, very large mall, every back room of every store, every restroom, every dressing room, theres a lot of areas to cover that we wanted to make sure that everyone was safe. a lot of people were still sheltering in place. this was a very crowded, busy mall on a satu...

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