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Taylor, we are very, very sorry that you had to experience this. thank you very much for giving us your eyewitness act of what happened when you were line dancing with your friends last night. take care of yourself. >> thank you. have a good one. >> incredible poise, incredible poise she should not have to display at a moment like this. >> obviously they are in shock. this was their weekly routine. 21 years old and you could be underaged and they would put a black x on your hand so you couldnt d...

>> yes, i have. in fact, i dated my wife there years ago. this is a familiar place to me. my daughter went to dance school in the building. first call i made when i got the call from cnn was to call my daughter and find out where she was. this is a very familiar place for me. >> you thought your daughter might have been in there? >> my daughter goes there for line dancing, yeah. my first thought was to find exactly where she was when that -- when i got the call from cnn. >> on wednesday nights, ...

Tactical officers raced to the scene. a few more words about the bar borderline bar & grill. 2,500 square feet. hundreds of people were inside. look, this was college night. wednesday night college night at the bar. you have students from pepperdine and cal lutheran who are frantically trying to find out if their friends were inside. there were lots of reports of college students fleeing the scene. >> still an active situation. csu channel islands is another college in the area. imagine hundreds...

In the united states and around the world. im wolf blitzer and youre in the situation room. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. were following breaking news on this the second horrific mass shooting in this country in less than two weeks. in california tonight the fbi has been searching the gunmans home and car trying to determine why he opened fire on young people line dancing at a bar on college night. 12 people were killed including a veteran sheriffs officer who rushed in minutes afte...

Los angeles. and its a nice its a residential community. quiet and conservative. the location of this bar is very popular. in town. they have its country western themed. usually. theyll be line dancing things like that going on. and its probably the one largest venue that would be open at this time of the night in thousand oaks. literally this town is as i said its a bedroom community. and thats where most of the people in thousand oaks are now. i would say right now 99% of thousand oaks isnt aw...

Thank you so much. lets continue on here. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. you are watching cnn this afternoon. im brooke baldwin. we start with a community in morning and showing support for one of their own. thousand oaks california, people were out and about, line dancing, listening to country music when a man holding a handgun walks in and starts shooting people at random. by the time it stopped, 12 were killed and at least 15 more were injured. the gunman was later found dead behi...

>> very chilling situation. secondly, was the music on fort entirety as the shots were going out or did the dj turn the music off as the shots were firing? >> you know, thats the thing. i dont even know. you know, its a gun in an indoor area. and everyones hearing starts to go to the crowd. i dont even know if the music was playing. ainsley: mitchell can we ask you about the area? we are thinking its college country night. we heard it started at 9:00. it runs until 2:00. line dancing night. were...

It is there is, there never needs to be a rush to judgment to paint a picture of a witness here. >> in the san fernando valley, thousand oaks, a very nice safe neighborhood. tell us about this bar. a huge bar, the dance floor alone is 2500 ft. . tell us where you are. >> reporter: thousand oaks is a white suburb, in downtown la, a big one as you say, and on the dance floor. and a wednesday night line

Steve: how many kids from your college were there last night, mitchell? >> no idea. probably a lot. brian: thanks, mitchell. appreciate it. >> yeah no, problem. brian: this all unfolded 11:20 local time out on the west coast in thousand oaks proximity of many locations. if you are in pepperdine you cut through the mountains and you are right there in 25 minutes. if you are in the thousand oaks area you get on the 101 and right there very short time. on a wednesday night. i imagine he said there ...

We heard from a witness who was 19 years old, she was inside, she managed to get out. this is a huge country-western bar. they do wind -- line dancing wednesday night, they have a line dancing class, you can learn to do it. a lot of very young people inside the country bar. jillian: a lot of reports from witnesses from people inside the bar who were able to thankfully make it out safely and one of the things we heard over the course of the last few hours this happened at 11:20 p.m. local time in...