And the investigation moving forward as they try to reconcile what has traditionally been the safest city in this state with wapd on saturday morning. Back to you. Were going to be back to you very shortly. Any moment now we are actually expecting to get an update from officials in dayton, ohio. At least nine People Killed there early sunday morning. Police have not yet commented on any possible motive behind that attack. They actually were very careful over the weekend to not start piecing things together yet. Were going to bring you that News Conference as soon as it begins because we are following two tragedies on two front. Cnns ryan young is there to dayton, ohio. Ryan, are you getting a sense of what we can possibly here from officials any moment now . Thats one thing that we all sort of have a question mark over. We see the Fire Department is gathering here. They might be able to talk about how they were able to respond and help some of the wounded. When you think about the crime and the impact on this community which has been through over the last few months. They had a tornado that devastated parts of this community and now they have the shooting where almost 2,000 people were on the same street having a remembrance and memorial for all the people whose lives were lost. Youre talking about something that happened very quickly. That shooter of course walked down that street and started firing and then you see the First Responders who responded so quickly who were able to take him down within 30 seconds. When you hear that sound from that memorial last night, i can tell you there were so many people who were crying. We watched people who collapsed into the arms of some of the First Responders there because they were thanking them so much. One of the things that stood out to all of us is when the governor took the stage last night and was trying to talk about what he wanted to see happen with the memorial. So many people started screaming do something. They kept screaming do something until he had to stop talking at the memorial. People are frustrated and want to see change. Then theres been talk about the alleged shooter having a hit list all the way back to high school. Theres been a conversation in this community how did this go unchecked. And then the were fact that he was with his sister and she was among the one dead. There was all the conversation about what could the motive be. Have they been able to check his social media . What happened that led to this. Six of them were africanamericans. And when you watch the video that you saw, all the people running back inside, you realize that if he would have made it into the club with that weapon this could have been far, far worse, even as devastating as it is. The way its been described is it would have been c catastrophic had he been able to make it into that location. Youre at the press conference and were going to be hearing from officials any moment. Its so jarring to see that video of all these people running back in to the building, but also then jeuks ta pose tha with the vigil, those happening within hours of each other and what is happening in American Cities and american streets right now. Its truly horrific. Were going to bring that to you. Ryan is at the press conference. Were going to get back to ryan as soon as the conference begins. Lets turn to the white house. Because as i mentioned, President Trump addressed the nation this morning in the wake of these two deadly shootings. Listen. The shooter in el paso posted a manifesto online consumed by racist hate. In one voice, our nation must condemn racism, bigotry and white supremacy. These sinister ideologies must be defeated. Hate has no place in america. President trump also called on lawmakers to reform Mental Health laws and he also cast blame on the quote, unquote, violence in video games, adding that hes asked the department of justice to seek the Death Penalty for win convicted of murder as a hate crime. White house correspondent pamela brown is joining me live. The president did say a lot of things but i found it also strange, he did not mention the changes that he had suggested just hours earlier this morning on twitter, like tougher background checks and perhaps in his suggestion tying it to immigration reform. What are you hearing from there . Thats absolutely right. The president clearly wanted to keep the focus on this being a Mental Health issue. He really seemed to stay away from anything having to do with gun violence, reform, anything having to do with background checks. As you said, he tweeted about that this morning, connecting it to immigration. In the past publicly he had supported universal background checks and then backed away under pressure from the nra. What was so absent was any discussion about the president s own rhetoric. The white houses response today is to not discuss that public cloe and that includes president. He didnt acknowledge his own rhetoric and whether its fanning the flames. Behind the scenes, white house officials are defensive about that suggestion that his rhetoric played any role in the el paso shooting. The shooter used some of the same language in his manifesto that the president had used, though the shooter said he had his own views before President Trump. The backtoback shootings from a blow to the white house given the magnitude of the tragedies. The president made clear today as i pointed out his focus is on Mental Health and not guns. He focused repeatedly on the hate and evil that droiives the acts. Heres what he said. Mental illness and hatred pulls the trigger, not the gun. So there you have it, kate. President trump said today he supports red flag laws that allows Law Enforcement and family members to petition a course to prevent access to firearms for someone who is a danger. He also said he would direct the doj to propose legislation so that people who commit hate crimes will have the Death Penalty. He looked backwards and says his legislation has prevented pump stocks. In the past the president has supported other gun control measures such as raising the age limit for buying rifles. He seemed to support assault weapons bans and background checks, but he then backed away under pressure from the nra. Clearly today he is trying to keep the focus on the fact that this was a Mental Health issue. He talked about video games, the role the internet plays. And again did not talk about his own rhetoric at all, kate. Pamela, thank you so much. Youre really putting it together perfectly, what we just heard from the president. Joining me now is immigration attorney and analyst, who is in el paso actually this weekend with his family, cnn political analyst and White House Correspondent for the atlantic and National Reporter for politico. Thank you for being here. You heard what the president had to say. Pamela brown kind of laid it out perfectly, the things that he had suggested, but also the things that were kind of left out. I mean, do you get a sense that there is really Something Different this time coming from the white house . Whats helpful and instructive in this moment is to understand that whether its with this shooting or las vegas or parkland is the president s instinct in the aftermath of these incidents is to go for gun control measures, whether its universal background checks or even going so far as to ban assault rifles. Thats what he called for immediately after parkland last year, gathering with senators like Dianne Feinstein to say he wants to act on this. But as we saw this morning he tweeted on universal background checks and an hour or two hours later he is giving the speech and as pam was just speaking on, where he didnt mention gun control at all. So it does elucidate for us the control that the gop has in moments like this and the nra. So if past is prologue, no, i dont think anything will change. Im going to interrupt one second. This is the mayor of dayton speaking right now for an update on that horrific shooting. Im glad youre here for this 11 00 briefing. I have city manager shell dicksteen and chris shaw and michelle lovely, obviously chief richard biehl, fire chief payne. I have a way of actually demoting people sometimes. Im trying to do better. Weve had a busy morning this morning. Ive been very impressed with the outpouring of the spirit of the Community Last night, folks coming together in the oregon district. The oregon district is open. A lot of you who may not be from here, well talk about how the oregon district seems closed. Just a point of reference, its a localowned businesses and so a lot of those localowned businesses close regularly on sunday and monday. That is very typical for them. So if youre a regular in dayton you know which restaurants are open on monday and which ones arent. The majority of them, thats their weekend. So i want you to make sure in your coverage ive heard that a couple of times and folks have said they say its open but it seems to be closed. Its because its sunday and monday. I know some of the places are planning on opening just because of this on monday, even though theyre normally not open. But we are respecting what they have to do to go through as local businesses. Im going to turn it over to chief biel next to give an update. Theres not Much Movement but wanted to give him some time for some comments this morning. Thank you. Thank you, mayor. I do have just very brief update. I want to remind you that we are less than 36 hours into this incident and its investigation. I can confirm that if all the magazines that have been recovered from the suspect were completely full, and we have not had a chance to examine that. We just know we have magazines with bullets in them. But if all of those were completely at full capacity, including the loose rounds found on the ground near him, as well as in a backpack that he carried, he would have had a maximum of 250 rounds in his possession at the time. We can confirm at least 41 spent shell casings from his weapon based on their location and his path of travel. Thats at least 41. As you well understand, in a very dynamic and chaotic scene as this was, with people running through the crime scene, with First Responders running through the crime scene, with emergency ems traveling through the crime scene, evidence can be lost. So we can say at least 41 spent shell casings from the suspect. As it relates to the officers, we have recovered 48 45caliber shell casings, 16. 233 shell casings and one shotgun shell casing. In terms of the persons injured, were getting different information from other sources of persons treated in the hospitals, so we have previously said 27. Theres some information theres 32. I can confirm to you that there is at least 14 of those injured, whether that number is 27 or 32, at least that were injured through gunshot wounds. So many people were injured through other means in their flight from this very chaotic event. There are autopsies currently being completed by the coroners office, so that is a process that is still undergoing and it will be some time. Thats really all i have to share thus far this morning. Thank you, chief. Next im going to invite fire chief payne to come forward and speak a little bit about some of the First Responders from the fire ems response. Good morning, everybody. So at 1 07 dayton Fire Department received their first dispatch to respond to the oregon district. We responded with one fire crew and one medic, which is dispatch protocol for a shooting. Immediately upon a rierriving oe scene we realized that we had multiple people down. We upgraded it to a mass casualty incident, which called for additional response personnel and command units. And then it was expanded once again shortly thereafter. Our crews transported five people to the hospital, b3 from medic 14, one from medic 10 and actually river side medic crew transported another. Many of those people that did make it to the hospital selftransported. And so we initiated our mass casualty protocol. We put command units in place and we did our triage and treatment and then we facilitated the transfers to the hospitals in a balanced manner so we didnt overload any one hospital. There are 37 total patients treated at area hospitals and they resulted from injuries as a result of gunshot wounds, being trampled and then lacerations from fleeing the scene in broken glass. As youre aware, we had nine victims, plus the shooter that were pronounced at the scene. And as of 9 00 this morning we have eleven victims still hospitalized. Thats all i have at this time. Thank you, chief. Next i would like to invite michelle lovely to come forward to talk a little bit about what were doing with the funds for the victims families and those that have been affected by this incident. Michelle. Weve been approached by community members, companies, individuals, just tons of people wanting to know how they can help and what they can do. And once again, the Dayton Community is just such a strong community. Unfortunately, after the tornadoes and now this, just the Community Shows once again that were dayton strong. So we have developed a fund at the Dayton Foundation and anyone can give to that. Thats the Dayton Oregon District Tragedy Fund and the fund number is 8365. So you can give right on our website at Dayton Foundation. Org. You can also send a check to the Dayton Foundation with that fund listed in the memo line. But we have had a lot of questions about how were using the funds and how much weve collected and we are just as anxious as all of you to get our arms around that. But were less than 24 hours with our fund being opened, so we are meeting actually today at noon to talk to weve been approached by Community Foundations all across the United States who have been through unfortunately been through situations like this. So theyre providing guidance to us ask were also consulting with our council on foundations so find out how we should appropriately be managing these funds and make sure that theyre put out in the community in the best way possible. Thank you. Ill now open it for questions. I want to ask the chief, do you have any greater clarity on the sister and the mutual friend of the gunman and whether you talked to the mutual friend yet about that whole situation on the night . Weve had the opportunity to have some conversation. I will say theres more conversation needed. I will not say at this point we have clarity of the entirety of the relationship. You talked about how the three of them are aspirathad se at some point. Do the other two know when i mean, did he get the gun out of the car when they all three pulled up originally. We have no information at this time to suggest that they were aware of the weapons or when they were introduced into this environment. We have no information at this time. Reporter were they in the trunk of vehicle or did he leave them in another location and after they aspirated did he go get it . We dont have that determined with certainty. We do know the shotgun was recovered in the trunk. But exactly how they were transported to the scene has not been clarified. Reporter what is the condition of the excome pan yen . I believe hes still being treated in the hospital. He received a gunshot wound to the lower torso. Reporter you said its only been 36 hours. Less than. Reporter how close are you in your mind at this point to establishing a motive . Not close enough. Not close enough at all. We have a lot of evidence still to go through. Just based on where were at now, we are not seeing any indication of race being a motive, but we are not through all the evidence. And so until were through all the evidence we cannot rule that out. But im saying were not seeing anything at this time that suggests race is a motive. Reporter obviously this is your community. If you could, i mean going to that vigil last night, seeing all these people, i cant imagine the stress that youre under and the pain you feel for this community. Can you talk a little bit about your heart and what youve seen over the last few hours and what youve been dealing with . I think ive spoken a lot about the grit and the determination of this community. And surely the 8 00 vigil was no different. You know grieving is a process and as the chief said, were probably 35 hours into this process. But, you know, i have no doubt that this community and its resilience and its willingness to see through. Weve seen through many things in this community and i know that theyll come together, that were coming together strong again here. Im going to let commissioner mims and shaw answer this question as well. Its very interesting. First of all, thank you all for being here. Its very interesting to see such a sea of so many people who had their hearts showing on their sleeves, those who were concerned about the nine victims, which i think was uppermost in terms of everyones mind, thinking about them and their families. Having the ministers say some of the kind of things that they said that help people understand our reason for being here. Our goal is to provide as much safety as we can for our cities. We escaped two major tragedies in terms of a visit from a hate group back a couple months ago and we were able to escape even the, what, 14 to 15 tornadoes without any loss of life as well. And then for this to come and hit us at such a hard time, you know, were all still emotional about this in terms of how we digest these issues. And some of you know when we Start Talking about assault weapons, being a vietnam vet i understand clearly the damage that those type of weapons can inflict upon individuals. And they have no place in the hands of average everyday citizens. So we do need to have more work done at the federal and state level to make sure that we minimize these type of situations for the future. Thank you, commissioner. Yes, i agree with what the mayor and commissioner said. The mayor is