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Sorts of active shooting situations, i know that the most recent incident that comes to mind, you know, involving a similar setting, strip mall, businesses, remember it was chattanooga, tennessee, that that recruitment center back in july. im just curious, in terms of police preparation in the wake of that shooting, whats changed? >> well, i do remember the incident in chattanooga. usually what happens is not only does this active shooter training involve law enforcement, but it also involves ma...

That we focus on, we believe that the most important piece of technology is the brain, meaning a human being, properly trained security agent, is the only piece of technology that can actually react to a threat. so you can get a lot farther with training and using the natural mechanics of body language to be able to interpret a threat. in israel what we found is the body language of a murderer is the same before they commit the act much murder as it is after they commit the act of murder. so the...

The store at the time or directly outside that saw this directly and what you may learn from them? >> i dont have a good feel for that. its a fairly small store and contained -- there are a number of witnesses were talking to. thats all the information i have for that. >> do you know if he has a criminal record? >> i dont know that he does. >> do you know how many people -- >> -- measures taken in light of the shooting? were there any additional security measures taken? >> we will be here, as we...

Court as that point in time. >> are you there? >> yes. >> you faded out for a moment. we have been pointing out this is saturday and there are shoppers there. as far, you heard mark fuhrman a moment ago offering concerns about in some malls security personnel there dont wear guns. >> well, but you know, what were seeing is more training for mall security and where the mall security is now carrying guns. there is a lot of malls now that are arming their mall security. not everyone is armed, not a...

Near gun and ammunition, but the i.d. is unknown at this point. what does it tell you? >> they may, we can only speculate, they may have the shooter. but they dont know if its a shooter or shooters. so what they are trying to do is properly identify not only the shooting victims but they are trying to definitely make a determination whether they have the shooter or the shooters in custody or under control. >> we were talking about the fact that earlier, today, the mall security, the officers hir...

In law enforcement as well as mall security, security officers are rarely armed. only ones armed are off-duty police hired by malls in peak hours. we thank all of you for sharing those reaction with us. >> well be right back after the break. well be back with the latest headlines at the top of the hour. we thank you very much for joining us my name is jenny, and i quit smoking with chantix. before chantix, i tried to quit probably about five times. it was different than the other times i tried t...

Week with police as they first got there. tell me what was happening when police first got there. >> this is the kind of thing men and women in law enforcement have to train for. since columbine we have seen these kind of shooter incidents, so we train all the time with our tactical team, state police, our neighboring jurisdictions. in fact we had trained here in the colombia mall before, trained with mall security. so our folks got here very, very quickly, both patrol officers and our s.w.a.t. ...

If he had a box of shotgun shells, he would have a box of shotgun shells. we dont know what type of shotgun he had, whether he had an automatic shotgun, semiautomatic, or pump shotgun. we dont know which one he had. but this is a close-range weapon. this is a weapon that is not going to engage an opponent at a distance beyond maybe 15, 20, 25 yards. so this is a weapon that is specifically made to cause a lot of damage in close range, and he was probably using some type of double-ought buck. >> ...

Spoke, i said the food court is considered one of the main entryways into the mall. the food court is on the lower level of the mall. when you come in, theres a lot of restaurants there, a lot of fast food restaurants. then you also have the escalator to take you to the second level or you can stay on the bottom levels right by a champs sporting goods place. its a very busy area. a lot of people sitting in the food court. i wasnt surprised when the guy from the jewelry store said it occurred at ...

As i understand it, we have somebody on the phone. randy brooks who is a customer right there at the shopping mall -- excuse me. owner of one of the stores there at the mall. randy, welcome. tell us what you know at this point? >> we dont know a whole lot except for what people are texting us. were in a lockdown situation and the back of our store right now. about an hour ago. we saw everybody running in the mall and we heard shots fired. we heard people were shot. we heard now that the shooter ...