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Shooting on the set. officials say they are still in the initial stages into what lead to the incident when baldwin discharged a prop weapon on set. the director rushed to the hospital with injuries. the films director of photographer was pronounced dead. police continue to look into witnesses and what kind of projectile prop gun. >> prop weapons do have a safer factor even though they are still dangerous. >> living in los angeles with her husband and son and credited in production of dozens of ...

About blanks and the difference between blanks and bullets, thats the way it is supposed to be explained? >> you nailed it. you could have done, you know, ten times the job that was done on the baldwin set. >> well, let me ask you about this. >> this is -- >> go ahead, please. >> this is the thing that would be a blank round, just a casing and some gun powder. this is live ammo , the thing used to shoot at things. so, you know, hard to get these wrong, which is which. one issue though has been r...

Condition is at this point. what we can tell you, though, the sheriffs department says they have not charged anyone. no charges filed. they continue to interview witn witnesses and investigate this. as for the company behind the movie, they put out a statement. it says in part, the entire cast and crew has been devastated by todays tragedy. with he send our tkaoefpt condolences to halynas family and loved ones. we have halted production on the film for an undetermined period of time. and while t...

At some point there was a mishap and those were not followed. >> what can come out of a blank gun? if a prop gun is supposed to only have blanks, how is it then that something could come out of it? a projectile? >> anytime you are dealing with a gunpowder load, which is what is in a prop weapon, that fires blanks, youre going to have gas, youre going to have heat, youre going to have air coming out of it. even though there is no actual physical projectile mounted on the front of that weapon, on ...

The questions remain as to what the projectile was that was discharged from the gun. there has been comments, unconfirmed reports, that we received into our newsroom very early in all of this that a potential live round of ammunition was in a gun. i want to make it very clear, though, i know for me and for a lot of people in our newsroom who arent so familiar with prop guns on movie sets that are supposed to have blanks, especially in these western movies, blanks are still very dangerous in cert...

Shouldnt be in that weapon. >> okay. i understand youre at a disadvantage there, all of us are, because we werent on the set and there are many unanswered questions here. based on your experience, one of the remarkable details here is that two people were injured, one killed and one hospitalized. can you imagine any circumstances with a prop weapon or a blank round where that could happen, where two people could be injured or hit? >> yeah, i mean, there are injuries that do happen from, you know...

Extreme caution with any kind of weapons, whether they be prop guns, blank guns, anything in between. typically we will do a safety brief with the cast and crew. well introduce the weapon to the cast and crew, well let them examine it, well explain the safety precautions that go with each type of prop weapon. in this case it was a blank firing weapon, and with that there are inherent risks. we saw with the brandon lee shooting several years ago, that prop weapons do have a dangerous factor to th...

Protocols on set in terms of how close people can be? these are props. you know, someone whos never spent time on a movie set, i have to say, you think of a prop and think it cant be a real gun, cant harm anybody, and there are also protocols in place in terms of distancing to make sure that nothing goes wrong. can you walk us through what is supposed to happen? >> yeah. the industry-wide labor management has safety bulletin number one for just about every movie set. its bulletin number one. the...

>> yeah. >> i believe that you looked into that as well. explain to people how its possible that shooting a prop weapon could kill one person, could injure another. especially if there is not live ammunition necessarily involved in these prop weapons. >> so when were dealing with a casing full of gunpowder, gun powder essentially explodes. it turns instantly from a solid to a gas. it creates a tremendous amount of pressure. when its a blank, simply that pressure is released and some fire and noi...