washington, d.c. jim, let me begin with you. because you know something about one of the suspects i understand? tell us. across the police scanners bill, the name faruq saeed came out as the suspect who went into this meeting/holiday party left angrily and they believed was the one who came back and initiated the shooting. anything about faruq saeed? do we know anything about him? there is a lot of work being done. not that uncommon of name. there is work being done to see if there are any connections between him where he may be going to mosque. are there any other indicators that there was an islamist jihadist type of attack. we have got to be very careful here, mr. cohen. very very careful. if it is a tears attack generated by fanatical muslims it becomes an international paris type story with implications for the president of the united states on down. so we don t want to speculated. but, do you have any information for us at all
is i have not heard suicide vests, no. do you believe this whole situation is all clear that people are safe or there is still more shooters potentially out there? we feel confident about the neighborhood where the officer-involved shooting took place that we have secured that and there is nobody outstanding there. we are reasonably confident on that. on the broader scale of the investigation, as i said early on we had information that there were potentially three shooters, we are still at a point where we are tracking down that information. we are going to try to continue to identify if there was a third person involved or potentially even more people that might have been involved in the planning. we are still pretty early on that part of the investigation. there were a number of reports about a holiday party. i can t listen to all of them. chief, there is a report out as to holiday party somebody left angrily went out, came back with two other people, guns, and started firi
will give you an example. when he would first heard about this chase we were over in a different locations a couple other correspondents based on railroad tracks bill that was directly across where the shooting took place. we were there by ourselves and a still photographer. when we were there i had someone tell me hey, you know we have to go with the idea we are looking for three men with tactical gear and they said ak 47s. that s when the law enforcement guy said that s what we are looking for. now, if they officially say that we are in chase. we are in chase. a black suv. and so right away within a second of getting text where we were the main center of where the fbi was the bomb squads right where we were by those railroad tracks they took off. this was like unit, unit, unit go, go, go. the tactical units took off. we jumped in the suv and drove here. they have given us a little information but a lot of the main situation are there two bose in the suv that have been pulled out. stu
be monitored and that will be a big story for tomorrow. for tonight we re trying to find out who these guys are. and then as i said if it is a terrorist component islamic, that just blows this whole thing up into another paris situation where the president is under siege already and that becomes a big international story where is if it is just a local beef, then it s a local beef, it gets down into charleston, it gets down into fort hood and that. now, the the washington post is reporting also that federal law enforcement officials are saying they do not believe the shooting, they do not believe the shooting is an act of international terrorism. okay. these are initial reports that are coming out, which is why i warned everybody that speculating is very difficult. but, we have a name and the name is obviously a name that was on the police band and it is a muslim name.
all right. but if that s true these guys certainly ha lot of things prepared to bring in the weapons and the garb and everything like that. the suggestion, bill arguments between two people. one of those persons then left. conflict dressed now in black wearing black masks with heavy duty weapons. yes it would appear that planning was involved in that indeed was the case. if that report is true, you don t conjure up the pipe bomb, trace what do you have for us tonight in. well, i just want to expand on what jonathan is saying there bill, we are still trying to vet this l.a. times report. the theory here is that this was rented out this conference room that the shooting happened at was actually rented out by the county health department san bernadino. it was kind of a slash christmas party also kind of an awards banquet. the report is that this person was actually inside