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We have beefed up the work of our police department, to make sure that neighborhoods throughout our city are safe. >> i hope so. just a little while ago, i know you announced arrests have been made in connection to various social media posts and possible additional threats out there. what more can you tell us about that, mayor? >> there have been some concerning social media posts that are threatening in nature. federal, state and local law enforcement made it clear that those social media posts...

We want to go back to our top story. theres new information on the mass at shooing in buffalo. at least ten people were killed. lets go back to alex presha in washington. alex? >> reporter: were learning the homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas has been briefed as the fbi prepares to investigate this shooting as a possible hate crime. also briefed attorney general garland and also the president. but investigators are going to be poring through multiple online posts that this alleged sh...

Governor did mention and the end of the press conference there, was the use of social media platforms. when i was in just, one there were several different social media platforms where it appears the shooter had uploaded, or prepared this content. it seems to have happened over the last couple of months based on all the posts ive seen. , and this is very consistent with what we used to see pre-pandemic. im, sure im, and i was view several, times we saw individual white men dressed up in tactical...

Carry concealed weapons. were ready. this is new york. were here to protect our people. thank you. any questions? >> reporter: you mentioned that the suspect was from the southern tier. can you tell us where in the southern tier he is from? >> i know that law enforcement is securing the home right now and getting search warrants. so im not going to disclose the location at this time. >> reporter: can you tell us the county? >> broome county. >> reporter: there have been social media posts from o...

Negative ads for the third candidate to come out of nowhere that looks to be what has happened with kathy barnette. what we know about her? >> not a whole lot. she was born in alabama, she has written a book about being black and conservative. she has explained her pro-life views in part by saying she was born after her mother was raped when her mother was 11 years old. shes talked a lot about that that has a resignation with pro-life conservatives in pennsylvania while the supreme court is cons...

To monitor millions of posts in search of information like this and as part of the inquiry. >> was at one weapon or more than one weapon? [inaudible] >> my understanding, it was in illegally obtained weapon, modified with illegal magazines that could have been acquired anywhere, we will find out where they came from but they were in the state of pennsylvania, its not hard to make the modification but it became illegal when it was modified. [inaudible question] >> we are not going to comment at t...

And shares than the actual reality that was going on. it was a situation that was trying to protect users but fed them conspiracy theories instead. >> how new is using social media postings as evidence in these war crime tribunals compared to as the past where they would use documents, a photographs, and reporting? >> it is new. people are getting very good at it. russia has outlined the playbook by mistake in syria, in part because all of the collection, the data collection from syria, to prove...

Monitors literally millions of posts in search of information like this, and this is all part of the inquiry. >> reporter: was it one weapon or more than one weapon and where the weapons legally obtained or not, do we know? >> my understanding is that it was a legally obtained weapon but it was modified with illegal magazines that could have been acquired anywhere. were going to find out where they came from. but theyre actually for sale legally in the state of pennsylvania, so its not that hard...

There are literally millions of posts in search of information like this, and thats all part of the inquiry. >> was it one weapon? more than one weapon? and where the weapons legally obtained? >> my understanding is that it was illegally obtained weapon, but it was modified with illegal magazines that couldve been a quite anywhere. were gonna find out where they can, from there are for sale legally in the state of pennsylvania. so its not hard to make those one affiliations. but it was as modifi...

Law enforcecement should have known who this individual is? was there concerning posts brought to the attention of law enforcement anywhere? >> no. at this time we dont know that. >> anyone else? >> we see this everywhere else. we think tnever think its goin happen here. these people are our neighbors. we see them at the grocery store shopping every day. it has to be going through each and every single one of your minds when you heard about this. >> of course. thats why we want to bring justice....