mall on a saturday. there is an orderly exit which means that whatever they were worried about, whether it was an active shooter or whatever else, has been disabled or is not presently a threat. people don t seem to be running. and then we wait. the waiting is, of course, the search of the shopping mall to determine what noise was this, why were so many people talking about an active shooter. and in a soft and rich target. these are soft targets. they have to be. and they re also rich in the sense, there are lots of people in a mall on a saturday. and here we are. you can see just dozens and dozens, easily hundreds of people in an orderly fashion being escorted out of mall. but tom verna, i want to go back to you. not only do 37 the mall but we can see there are hundreds of cars there as well. so when law enforcement responds to something like this, how do you factor that there are hundreds of places potentially this person could hide in the parking lot as well? yeah, thi
anyway, for me the line in the sand, not that any of the others are not as important or traumatic, it was sandy hook. when you have 20 first grade children, and six. teachers being slaughtered in their classrooms. for me that was what shook me to the core. not that any of the other shootings weren t horrible, which they were, but that was almost a defining moment in our society where, as a law someone going to enact laws, to keep us safe. that s the primary job of anyone working at a state or federal level. to ensure the safety of their constituents. when that happens and virtually nothing is done and then you have numerous mass shootings take place in all parts of the country, in all different types of venues. you re not safe going to a mall, you re not safe at a concert, you re not safe in church, you re not safe in schools.
the current state of so that we re living in. and i don t understand why more people on both sides of the aisle, i don t care what your political persuasion is, are not doing more to protect our citizens. i don t get it. i m told that we have some witnesses who have shared what they saw, what they heard with us. camila bernal, i want to go to you. what are we hearing from these witnesses? we re hearing of many, many people who are worried, concerned, had a are going through a scary situation. our affiliate there in allen, texas, talking to people who have been at the mall. coming out of the mall. and parents who are looking for their children. one specifically lack for his daughter who was working at the mall. i want to take you to some of those witnesses and what exactly they re saying. he was covered in blood.
the corner. i do see the police tape. it starts on the sidewalk. people are walking past. camila bernal. i want to go back to you. clearly this is an active, fluid situation. what do we know at this point? we know the shooting happened at around 4:00 p.m. local time. it happened at the allen premium out outlets. authorities say they re reacting to go an active shooter. they re saying this is an active investigation. there are people being led out of the mall. authorities are saying if you re in the area, you should not be going toward the mall. there are many witnesses who talked about the fear of being at that mall this weekend, and specifically a couple hours ago.
it is time for resources to come in. it starts with a 911 call. it takes time for the different resources to get there. you do the best you can to could not taint. the bigger the area, the more challenging it is. one thing i want to mention i guess that s a helicopter flying around. we re starting to see crime scene tape go up. i noticed fat burger. the one individual said the suspect was firing near fat burger. if my old eyes are accurate here, that s not a good sign. something is definitely going. you re starting to see tape being put up in certain areas of the mall. yeah. i cannot see that tape. it is also unclear if these are the newest pictures. we do see fat burger is there on