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Is not necessarily stopping the acts. in terms of a broader recognition, we have to take a deep look at this, a combination of mental health professionals, academia, places of worship, to look at why are we trending this way, what is the need for people to find this recogniz recognitit recognition in faith or love of family or some other greater, higher purpose. rob: a lot of people talk about -- everybody wants to blame something. a lot of people in this country think that guns are the problem ...

Rob: this is going mostly to spanish now. we did learn a second ago from that el paso police officer, it appears the suspect or suspects have been engaged and have been neutralized and there is no more current threat at this shopping mall in el paso at this point. gillian: doctor, are you still on the phone with us? im still here. gillian: we hated to interrupt. we wanted to hear what police had to say. that is important information for the el paso community, no active shooter currently, no im...

This is the world that we live in and we need to be fit for the challenge and i believe present day law enforcement is fit for the challenge. rob: doctor, you start to wonder, if people think about this kind of stuff now, its one of those things where you -- it does become a part of the reality and people start to wonder, am i going to be in a situation like this and you wonder do you need to take training so you can be somebody that can help in a situation like this. i think about it sometimes ...

Really thick ones. he was carrying a dark rifle and he was just pointing at people and just shooting and, yeah, the last thing i saw, he shot somebody that was in a corner and he just picked up the rifle and just walked into walmart. gillian: was his face covered? >> no, it wasnt. he had -- the only thing he had on was the ear muffs and dark, black hair. he was probably 510", 511", maybe late 30s maybe. i couldnt really see his face. rob: did you say you saw a woman get shot in the parking lot a...

Of injuries were inflicted, because of which type of guns hes using and where hes engaging them from. what we normally see in these types of injuries are usually you have multiple injuries, many of them injuries to the torso, the head t extremities, lots of them involving heavy bleeding and/or critical conditions of the patients. plus, theres always casualties that occur on the periphery where you have shattered glass, other projectiles created by gunshots. rob: i imagine theres a difference, a ...

Us. we have reaction from the governor of texas. he said the texas department of public safety is assisting local law enforcement and federal authorities to bring this to the quickest and safest conclusion. we thank all first respoers we want to listen in to beto orourke who is a texas native and presidential candidate. >> ive got to share something with you that i just learned on my way out here to see you. in my hometown of el paso, texas, there is right now an active shooter or shooters at th...

Out in the parking lot, you heard stories from donation centers for blood in eyewitnesses, steve, everybody. started shooting around people being in the >> that community and beyond because one of the area. at people, grabbed his wal-mart store and -- our guests i believe it was the attorney general when you see a police department mother, rushed back into and, you know, one we were talking to, just tweet that blood is needed the car and they wanted about 20 minutes ago, eyewitness said there we...

Mass casualty incident. the hospitals gearing up, calling in extra staff, preparing extra ors so they have more surgical teams necessary to save some of these people that have injuries that are life-threatening. er is getting patients out who may not need to be there right now for a life-threatening illness. they moved them to other parts of the hospital and prepare the area. we do this all the time in the bronx. we prepare any time we are told theres a mass casualty incident, we mobilize our te...

Assess the placement of where the shooter is at the location. gillian: that video looked like it was from inside a sams club, also in the same shopping center. >> but that victim can be a formidable component of intelligence as to where the shooter is located, how many shooters are there, where did the shooter enter, what is the shooter wearing. these are important components for first responders to effectively get to the shooter and neutralize the situation accordingly. rob: when you go into th...

Active scene here. im going to keep trying to talk to folks as they work their way out. rob: garrett, some of those details are horrific. lets update our views. this is el paso, texas on the east side of the city, near the airport in el paso, the siello vista mall. theres a walmart, a sams club there and theres been an active shooting sometime around 11:00 in the morning local time. reports from local media say as many as 18 people have been shot. a witness told garrett tenney his mother was sho...