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>> well, there was a small number of people within the set area where the interviews took place. those people had been interviewed. im talking about 100 people on scene in different areas. so those people that were in close proximity to the incident, theyve been interviewed. z >> just for clarity, were there other live rounds inside the chamber? >> not that were aware of. >> the sheriff used the word complacency on set. how much do you have to go beyond complacency to get to criminal negligence,...

Rounds, including the fatal round, and the other question, how were live rounds found on the set and how did it get there? back in washington, critical details coming together for president bidens painfrastructe package. can he get it together before he goes overseas? thats tomorrow. safelite replace. ♪e repa, america! after the past year-ish, everyone deserves something new! so at&t is giving everyone our best deals on every iphone - including the iphone 13 pro with its amazing camera. like...

Round that was fired, but it did fire from the weapon and it did cause injury, so that would lead us to believe it was a live round. >> sheriff, can you speak skprus -- just to the idea of safety around movie sets, the idea of having weapons on sets of movies? >> obviously, i think the industry has had a record recently of being safe. i think there was some c complacency on this set, and i think there are issues that need to be addressed by the industry and possibly the state, but ill leave that...

Weekend, i cant comment whether that happened or not, but we as an industry keep live activity and blank activity in parallel universes. there are some very, very limited situations where there might be some training involved for actors, but youre not dealing with the same firearms that are brought onto set. what you have on a film set is a firearm specifically set up to fire these blanks, and never shall the two meet up. how a live round got onto that set is probably the key of the investigatio...

But theyre still conducting the investigation. we know theyre going to do the witness interviews, but theyre not just going to rely on people in and around the set, theyll likely be interviewing shooting ranges, other places around this area, in order to determine whether some of these cast members were out conducting target practice or if they were out in one of these many remote fields. but it gets to the larger question, john, which is obviously unfathomable, is a live movie set filming a wes...

Cylinder. it may not be functioning but that will be determined by the crime lab. the other firearm is a plastic, n non-functioning revolver. >> can you talk about tensions on the set? obviously there were people who were around the accident, members who may have been drinking the night before. can you talk about that and was there tension around that? >> i wont talk about specifics, but we are aware of today rumors or those statements that have been made, and were going to do the best to track ...

Its called plinking, and they go out into the rural areas and shoot at beer cans. this is with live ammunition. >> reporter: cnn has not been able to confirm the report. in a statement, the producers of "rust" said they were not made aware of any official complaints concerning weapon or prop safety on-set and will be conducting an internal review of procedures while production is shut down. according to the report, run of the guns used was later handed 20 actor alec baldwin who was rehearsing fo...

I would encourage anybody that has any information that any target practicing or any firearm was discharged away from the movie set or for practice or for whatever reason to contact the sheriffs office. >> sheriff, two of the three guns were non-functioning. what do you think happened here? >> im sorry? >> you said two of the three guns appeared to be non-functioning on that table. what do you think unfolded that afternoon? >> i think the facts are clear. a weapon was handed to mr. baldwin. the ...

Larry zanoff back into the conversation. he were hearing the sheriff and the d.a. lay it out. let me ask you, as someone with so much expertise in this area here. a, what are your biggest questions? did the sheriff raise a question you would have asked, or is there something he didnt raise that you think is key to this? >> first off, i would like to applaud the professionalism of the sheriff in the information that he gave and the way he gave it. clearly we have already stated that live ammuniti...

Whether they match up with acceptable protocols in hollywood. number one was three firearms taken from the scene. two, the sheriff believed to be inoperative, one a plastic revolver and wayne .45-caliber weapon in which the barrel had been altered that it couldnt fire a live round. then the third one, he called a colt .45 revolver that alec baldwin fired. obviously a woman is dead and a man injured from that bullet. he said other live rounds were found as well. is there any protocol that allows ...