On capitol hill. Well have much more on that. Also ahead, the latest out of The Middle East. President biden is pushing for a ceasefire to address the humanitarian crisis in gaza. Well show you former president Donald Trumps outburst during his Civil Fraud Trial in new york. First, willie, lets go to the latest on the tragedy unfolding in maine. At least 15 people are dead this morning, up to 50 may be injured in the community of lewiston, located 30 miles north of portland, maine. Police s gunman entered two separate locations. First, a Bowling Alley, where he fatally shot seven people before moving on to a nearby bar. Some of the victims may have been injured in stampedes as crowds raced to escape as the shooting started. Officials fear many teenagers could be among those killed and injured as the Bowling Alley was hosting its youth night. Police have identified now a 40yearold male as a Person Of Interest in connection with these shootings. Hes still at large, considered Armed And Dangerous with an arstyle rifle. Police say theyve located the mans vehicle in the neighboring town of lisbon, but he was not in it. Residents in the area have been urged to shelter in place. According to a bulletin from Law Enforcement officials, the man was a Military Firearms Instructor with about 20 Years Experience of military service. Noted the man recently reported Mental Health issues to include Hearing Voices and threats to shoot up the National Guard base in a nearby town of saco. He was reported to have been committed to a Mental Health facility for two weeks this summer and released. The white house says President Biden, Vice President harris have been briefed on the active situation. Biden spoke to maines governor, the states congressional representatives last night, and offered the full support of the federal government. In response to the shooting, maines commissioner of Public Safety sought to assure the public, theyre committed to apprehending the Person Of Interest. We have literally hundreds of Police Officers working around the state of maine to investigate this case, to locate mr. Carr, who, again, is a Person Of Interest and a Person Of Interest only, and well continue to gather information so that we can bring the suspect to justice and, ultimately, seek prosecution down the road. Lets get right to the ground in lewiston, maine. Thats where we find nbcs emma barnett. Emma, whats the latest there . Reporter yeah, hey, willie. So im standing right in front of the Bowling Alley where the gunman went in about around 6 30 p. M. Last night, and it has been eerily quiet here in lewiston. I got here around 12 30 a. M. , and the only people that i have really seen out and about for the most part have been members of the media. I took a drive to the Reunification Center. The only people there that i saw were media and a couple cars which i assume belong to the families who are inside. I asked the Police Officer how many Family Members are waiting to hear from loved ones and hoping and prays that they are still alive. He was not able to give me that kind of information. Something else that we just learned is that Lisbon School districts are going to be closed. As you mentioned in the intro, lisbon is where that vehicle was found. The School Districts are closed. The town offices are closed. A lot of people are still sheltering in place. I did meet one woman earlier who she took a nap and woke up around midnight and saw everything that was happening in this town. She lives 4 miles away. She came here to see what the scene was like and what was going on, and she described it as being shocked. She was shocked and devastated and just absolutely horrified. This is a small town where things like this, no one ever expects to happen until they happen. It is just absolutely horrific and tragic. Emma, can you give us a sense of the geography of these shootings here there in lewiston . O separate locations. Were looking at a m right now. First, the Bowling Alley, and then south to th bar where they were having a corn hole night, apparently, and shot up those two places. Just about how this played out last night just before 7 00, according to police. Reporter yeah, so the details are still unraveling. I also want to mention in the Bowling Alley, there was a youth it seems to have been a youth night, which makes this even more tragic. We dont know for sure yet, but people fear that there are young people among the victims. And the hospital that a lot of these victims were transported to is just down the road about a mile and a half from here. People were also taken to boston and another hospital in maine, as well. These details are still emerging and still coming to the surface. Okay. Nbcs emma barnett live in lewiston, maine, for us. Well let you get back out and do some reporting and well talk later. Mika, News Conference at 10 30 a. M. As of right now, where they may be able to provide more information. The headline is this Person Of Interest is still on the loose and obviously Armed And Dangerous. This is very much unfolding right now in maine, in lewiston, maine, and surrounding towns. This Person Of Interest, this robert card, 40 years old, Reading Associated press and nbc news reporting, he is a Firearmed Instruct E believed to be in the army reserve, assigned to a Training Facility in saco, maine. There is a document that Circumstance Lat circulated between the military saying that he was treated for Mental Illness in the summer. He has been Hearing Voices and being told to shoot up a Military Base. The Maine Medical Center is reacting to this like it is a war zone. They have a Mass Casualty mass Shooter Event in the er. Theyre coordinating with local hospitals to figure out how to take in patients. To some reports, there were up to 50 injured. Theres an order for residents and Business Owners to stay inside, to not go outside from lewiston to lisbon, maine, as a vehicle of interest was found. They dont know if this man has fle in some other way. Maybe hes received help. Who knows. The governor of maine, janet mills, echoed instructions to shelter in place. Shes been briefed on the situation and will remain in close contact with Public Safety officials. Joe biden spoke by phone with the governor and offered federal support in the wake of this horrific attack, again, in lewiston, maine. Schools are closed today, and everybody is told to shelter place until they know where this man is. Just for the record, willie, maine doesnt require permits to carry guns. I go to maine. Ive been going to maine for 56 years. It has a longstanding culture of gunownership, hunting and sports shooting. I cant imagine Something Like this happening in maine, but thats what we say everywhere where there is one of these Mass Shootings, which is an epidemic. The shootings in maine is exceedingly rare. If you look at the Portland Press herald, great reporting on this, detailing that, as well. Bates college is right there in lewiston, smack in the middle between the two Shooting Sites. Obviously, that school is locked down. Yo imagine the terror of those students along with the members of the community. There is concern, willie, a lot of young people may be victims here. At one of the locations, they were having a teen night or something. The Bowling Alleys youth night. Horrifying. It is. Lets go to Nbc News National Security analyst clint watts. Clint, the Person Of Interest, as theyre calling him as of right now, is still out there. The man who they believe perpetrated the shootings with an arstyle rifle at two separate locations. From your experience, how to you approach this . They found the vehicle they believe he was in. They havent found him. Theyve locked down the town of lisbon. Thats where they found the car. Where do you begin to track this person down . Willie, last night, it was the worstcase scenario, and you knew it right away. Looking at the image of the shooter, he seems to be someone who knows how to handle a weapon. When youre Law Enforcement, youve seen him go through and shoot and kill multiple people, the way hes holding the weapon, the equipment, youre looking at extra magazines taped together it looks like, highcapacity scopes, cargo pants. This is somebody who knows what theyre doing. You can tell by the way theyre standing and holding the weapon. Imagine youre Law Enforcement. Youre trying to track this down. In lewiston, there are not a lot of Law Enforcement. It is a vast area. Just a couple months ago, we were talking about a prison break, remember, in pennsylvania. That was an individual who didnt really have much. You know, escaped from a prison, was just on the loose, was trying to find gear. Thats not the case in this scenario. We have large rural areas, somebody who has some Military Experience, knows how to use the weapon and has already used it multiple times at multiple locations. This is a really dangerous situation for Law Enforcement. Like we had seen earlier this morning, a lot of Law Enforcement, fbi, atf rushing to the scene. Youll have state police rushing to the scene, but theyre moving from behind. Theres not that many Law Enforcement officers in this town to cover that vast an area that quickly while also dealing with multiple trauma scenes. Were covering Breaking News, a Mass Shooting in lewiston, maine. Were talking about 15 or 16 dead. Were trying to get the numbers right. Many, many, many more injured. Again, willie, clint was talking about how experienced this suspect was with the cargo pants and ammunition all over him. He was able to wreak as much terror on this town as possible. The challenge for authorities and the different Law Enforcement organizations that are coming together, trying to track him down, but also to lockdown and make safe, for example, the Health Facilities that are trying to take care of the victims, the many, many victims. The hospital in the area is also on lockdown with police circulating it and circulating the halls because who knows where he might go next. When we talk about up to 50 people injured, we know sadly, from our experience with all these Mass Shootings with ar15s, those are very, very serious injuries. Theres a likelihood medical officials would tell you the death toll could rise, 15 or 16 right now. Clint, would the fbi will on the ground already . Who else could they call in . Lewiston is a town of about 37,000 people, the second largest town in the state of maine, but still only 37,000. They dont have the capacity for a widescale manhunt here. Who else would be on the ground this morning . Yeah, the fbi is absolutely going to move to the scene very quickly. Evidence Response Teams likely s. W. A. T. Have already been deployed. Boston is the field office that would cover that. There are resident agencies throughout maine. Portland and augusta being the main ones. Those agencies will send people. Were still talking about a small number of agents. Separately, i imagine theyre going to need extra security. That brings up the situation with, as mika noted the top of the hour, you know, the army reserve base. Is there anybody who can come do physical security or be immediately called up to try to protect specific locations . I think the key thing we dont really understand about this case yet is why these two targets. Weve not heard. There is some indication late last night that Law Enforcement did know potentially why he went to these two locations, but are there any other locations that this person has talked about or considered, or somebody around that neighborhood that knows him or where he works thinks he might attack or use as a target. Clint the last part is the outdoor training. Is he someone who has done a lot of survivalist training . Has he gone out and done a lot of camping and hiking . That would make the search even more difficult at this point with so few people on the scene. Thats what im wondering about. Clint, if you could help us with youve been up all night but in terms of when this broke, when they started looking for him. Lewiston is 90 minutes north of the border. Having done that drive a lot, is there any possibility he has been able to leave the state, gotten assistance or in terms of where his car was found . Is there anything we can glean about where he may be . So far, ive not heard anything. Late last night, Jim Cavanaugh and i were on, frank, as well, and wed not heard of anything. There was a potential he had another automobile, but that was not confirmed. Separately, it is a place where, you know, he did this attack, there is a reaction time to the two scenes. He has a lot of lead time if he were to have another car. He could move quite some distance, but it is not clear at all where the individual went. As of last night, i have not seen any evidence theyve really tracked any strong leads on his whereabouts. That may have changed, but i have not seen anything so far. All right. National security analyst clint watts, were going to be in touch with you and many others throughout the morning on this. Were starting to get accounts of what it was like to be in the Bowling Alley or the restaurant. This is from the Associated Press. A young man, brandon, putting on his bowling shoes, said, i had my back turned to the door. As soon as i turned, saw it was not a balloon that popped, it was a man holding a weapon, i booked it. He scrambled down the length of the Bowling Alley, dove in where the pins are, and hid up there and survived because of that and was sent to a Reunification Center later. He said, ive been barefoot for five hours because i was putting on my bowling shoes. We have a lot of questions to address the next four hours. This man is still on the run. The suspect so far identified as 40yearold robert card, who is described as a Firearms Instructor, which is why he was able, potentially, to wreak so much damage and murder across the area of, not just lewiston, maine, but wherever else he might be. Still ahead on morning joe, we will continue to follow any and all developments out of the state of maine as a massive manhunt continues for this Person Of Interest in this deadly mass shotting. Up to 50 people injured. The type of weapon used, these injuries will be difficult. Well be checking in with local hospitals, as well, to figure out how theyre locking them town and dealing with the injuries and potentially more deaths as this story unfolds, this Breaking News unfolds. Plus, major news out of washington. Mike johnson is the new Speaker Of The House. Three weeks after republicans removed kevin mccarthy, it was a long battle, well tell you more about the new leader of the lower chamber. Youre watching morning joe. Well be right back. Now, theres skyrizi. Things are looking up, ive got Symptom Relief. Control of my crohns means everything to me. Control is everything to me. Feel significant Symptom Relief at 4 weeks with skyrizi, including less Abdominal Pain and fewer bowel movements. Skyrizi is the first il23 inhibitor that can deliver remission and visibly improve damage of the intestinal lining. And the majority of people experienced longlasting remission at one year. 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