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Of course you have the complication of a couple of officers who remain in that building and the shooter has the advantage. they know the exactly the layout, where to hide. and so the police were dealing with much more complicated situation than you usually have. this began with narcotics officers going to that building. this is an area just north of center city philadelphia. and so at this point, now, i think theyre going to wait a while to see if they can hear any other sign of life from inside...

Because we dont know how many, who wanted to die essentially, suicide by cop and take as many officers as possible. and so thats one of the things that they were trying to guard against. of course you have the complication of a couple of officers who remain in that building and the shooter has the advantage. they know the exactly the layout, where to hide. and so the police were dealing with much more complicated situation than you usually have. this began with narcotics officers going to that b...

That the hostages have been removed from the home, they have now one individual that has gone from a hostage situation to a barricaded, cop-shooter situation. time is running out for him. hes got literally no options now left. i would think the police would be at a huge tactical advantage at this point and can kind of choose their spot accordingly. >> yeah, youre right. physiologically, eventually, the perp is going to need to sleep. obviously. i dont care how much drugs he has in his system or ...

Entrances.nothing in the back. how does the s.w.a.t. team to tactically go up inther, and manage to rescue multiple individuals while on the first floor, you have a gunman with an ar-15 and multiple handguns? >> look, keep in mind, before they get in there, they will talk to the people who were already in the building. the narcotics guys, but before they do a search warrant, they will have a tactical plan layout with the building looks like, some basic ideas, and there will be other intelligence...

Raids, try to do the best to get a layout of what a similar apartment might look like. there never really going in blind. on the downside, the perp definitely has some mastery of the terrain features. hes in the building, so hes obviously going to know better with the inside of the building looks like. the problem there is you run into things called fatal funnels. in other words, when the officers come in, there is usually only one way to enter an apartment, where the bad guy can obviously funne...

Entrances, how does the s.w.a.t. team to tactically go up in there and managed to rescue multiple individuals while on the first floor, you have a gunman with an ar-15 and multiple handguns? >> look, keep in mind before they get in there, they will talk to the people who were already in the building here than narcotics guys, but before they do a search warrant, they will have a tactical plan, layout with the building looks like, some basic ideas, and there will be other intelligence that they ga...

>> well continue to come back to you and talk, evan, just from a -- im wondering if youre hearing anything else and the fact that they still dont know or cant say whether its one shooter or two, you know, usually early on people in active shooter situations, people say its two, based on eyewitnesss and those are confused eyewitnesss. its interesting they are still not sure exactly what they are dealing with. >> right. it gives you a sense of how much of a tactical advantage the shooter or shoote...

You think it happened? i remember chris saying, you mean like a tv show? >> reporter: next, she saw police administering polygraph after polygraph and almost always with the same result, they would tell him he was deceptive and how when tapp was promised immunity, his story about ben hobbs changed. but perhaps what troubled carol the most was seeing how confused tapp was. even ten days after his first interviews, he still seemed not to know what house angie lived in. police, carol noticed, kept ...

There was nothing. just pure hate. >> reporter: a veteran fbi s.w.a.t. team leader said the shooter had the advantage over police because of the layout of the walmart. >> each row, the rows cascade against each other. they go perpendicular to each other. you have different sections. you have plants on one side and electronics on the other and some of the super wal marmarts a grocery store. >> reporter: we are learning how the alleged shooter made his way to the walmart where he killed 22 people ...

>> sandra: that was john bolton this morning on the political crisis in venezuela. the trump administration imposing a freeze on the assets appeared in the u.s., escalating pressure on venezuela, stepping down. we are live up the white house with the latest on that. good morning. >> this is a step short of a full on economic embargo against venezuela, but as you heard, john bolton layout there, these are sweeping sanctions. definitely ratchets up the sanctions that are currently in place against...