Incident. So we start from the beginning. Working with our local partners. We take the presumption it may be, it may not be, but we will work hand in hand with them from the beginning. If things change were here from the get go and there is no steps lost as the investigation proceeds. At this point i will turn it back over to the chief. So very quickly, after the initial response we have several hundred people that were in the building that are not injured. Those people have been taken to a safe location and they are part of the investigation. In addition to that we know this is human incident and this is a tragedy. We know we have a lot of folks very concerned and very worried about their loved ones and they have been at that facility today. We set up area at Hernando Center here in city of San Bernardino for framly members to go for information. Well push out information to the family members as we can. The Sheriff Department put out crime tip hotline number, if anybody has information we would very much like to hear from you. With that i will take a couple questions. Reporter do you have any information on this that what is happening apparently upwards of three gunmen stormed into . I dont. I heard everything it was a meeting to potential, like a lunchtype gathering maybe for holidays. That is not confirmed. That is very preliminary. My understanding that most of the people that were wounded, most of the victims were all centrally located in one area of the facility. Any weapons or body armor have been recovered. In terms of employees my understanding the facility has both state and county employees as well as folks that work for a number about organizations. The Inland Regional Center serves a number of organizations that treat Mental Illness type issues and that sort of stuff. I dont have any idea i know state and local county employees work there. I do not know if any are victims or who they are at this point. [inaudible] i do not have any information that children were involved. Weapons used, number much people involved, given what you have in the way of evidence, witness accounts, anything else you characterized this as organized event . What were these menussing and shooting people with . Preliminary information that these people came prepared. They were dressed and equipped in a way that they were prepared and armed with long guns, not handguns. I do not know what type of guns. [inaudible] dont know. Were any weapons recovered at the scene . We dont have any weapons recovered at this point. Could you move to the left a little bit. There is a shadow. Thank you. Thank you. [inaudible] the preliminary number we have right now there are 14 people that are deceased and our count is another 14 people that have been taken to various hospitals for significant injuries potentially related to gunshots. We have number of other people that may have minor type of injuries. They fell down during the course of fleeing or something of that nature. 14 we believe are wounded. [inaudible] Video Evidence of what happened . I would imagine there are but were not that far in the investigation. [inaudible] he. The whole thing . Still being searched . Is there possibility that there are more deceased or wounded inside of that Regional Center. I think that could be a possibility, yes. I dont think were comfortable saying no at this point. Have the bomb techs recovered anything that is or looked like ied in the building . As the teams were going through the building searching for suspects and victims. There were things in the building not immediately identifiable that caused some concern. As a result of that we do have some bomb techs on sight and checking some of that out. I do not know if they were brought in by the suspects. I do not know if they are bombs of any sort. Our teams are moving through. That needs to be looked at more closely. No [inaudible]. Havent scene anything apart or destroyed anything. I have no information on that. [inaudible] have you found any vehicles you believe are related to or not that i know of at this point. Witnesses said the gunmen said anything . Did they say anything . We dont have anything specific from the witness. Were still in the stage talking to them. Are there any other active scenes at this point . This is the only active scene were working . What about security that may have been shot inside . That is part of the investigation. I just dont have that at this point. Can you talk about the suspect vehicle that yukon suv . That is all we have. Yes generic. Upwards ever three suspects. Suspects wearing camouflage . I never heard of camouflage. Upwards of three, does that mean there could be more than three . I have been repeatedly told the number is three. Keep in mind this is information flowing in as people are talking to witnesses very quickly. As we put everything together some of this may change. We know these are fluid situations. Some of the information we put out now may change a little bit in the future. Any description about these suspects . As far as people in the area were doing everything we can to keep this area safe. Were addressing other facilities in the area that we think may be similar or may be similar or have any information or Credible Threats to any other facilities at this point. Were all heightened sense of the word. We ask public be on heightened sense of alert. If they come across information, contact us and let us investigate. Any suspects at all, sir. Not from what i have. Were they Wearing Masks, chief, the gunmen . One report i heard masks were involved but i dont know that to be definitive. [inaudible]. Leads that youre pursuing right now . Yes. Chief, did gunmen say anything at all during the attack, during the shootings . Im not that im aware of. Any sort of threats made prior to this incident . That is part of the investigation. Well not talk specifically about that right now. [inaudible] thank you to you and to the chiefs, all the fire chiefs and everything for your guys response. I appreciate that. Thank you very much. [inaudible] a few minutes. Based on how wellarmed you think these suspects are, what are you responding with . How are you equiping your people in the field . Well our people into the field go into the field with what they have. We have number of officers that have high caliber weapons, they carry assault rifles with them. Mostly officers carry handguns. Officers arrived on scene an initial work to go into the building to clear it went in what they have [inaudible] we do not know where the suspects are the. Can tau buck the fbi, how is the how fbi is getting involved with this . Maybe they have a representative . Historically some of these investigations can turn into potentialal federal prosecution type thing. Which dont know at this point if that is the case. Better to have them on scene at the beginning to they know what we know and are active to the vision. The federal government bring to the table tremendous resources to help us do our job. [inaudible] can you talk about that . We have no information at this point to indicate this is terroristrelated in the traditional sense people may be thinking. Obviously at minimum we have domestic terror type situation that occurred here. Any description at all . We dont. [inaudible] only thing im comfortable saying at this point is that the information we have is that they came prepared to do what they did as if they were on a mission. How long were they inside shooting . I dont know specifically. Several minutes. Were the gunmen still there when the police arrived, when the initial responding officers arrived . We dont know. Our Police Officers have not engaged or exchanged gunfire with anybody but we dont know if they were on scene when they arrived. But were the vast majority of the dead and wounded one centralized location within the facility . Yes, in the same general area of the facility. Making assumption but im sorry if it is assumption that they had targeted that particular room, those toke lar people . I think were too early in the investigation to make that assumption. We dont know what the motive is. Did they take hostages . Were they told this was just a shootout . We dont have any information that they took any hostages . What kind of weapons were used or describe what kind of weapons they use, sorry . Long guns is what i told. I think people speculated what type of long guns those r i dont want to put out a specific type of gun. I will say its a long gun, not a handgun. [inaudible] they came in with a purpose. Do you have any threats prior to this. I dont have specifics on that. With that, well cut this off. Well be back every hour on the hour to provide a update even if we dont have anything specifically. Well come back on the hour every hour to provide you with a update. At top of the hour . At top of the hour is fine. [inaudible] deirdre they will give updates in 45 minutes time. Meantime we want to remind you some of the details what we know so far. Numerous people have been shot with at least 14 people dead in San Bernardino, california. The shooters have not been accounted for. That is to say we are in a live incident. Authorities are looking for one to three shooters. Witnesses say that men came in with body armor and masks and began shooting in Conference Room. Well tell you about it in just a minute. This is risk reward. Im deirdre bolton. The shootings start the around 11 00 a. M. Pacific time to 2 00 p. M. Eastern time. This is where it took place, the Inland Regional Center. This is nonprofit facility for treating individuals with developmental disabilities. According to the institutions Facebook Page they serve 30,000 people a year. They have about 600 Staff Members. The target was probably a group much people who rented the space from the disability center. Also possible that they were driving black yukon su have. One witness saw it reportedly driving away slowly from the scene. Suv has been found but has been abandoned. Joining me for this hour, former cia covert operations officer, mike baker. Former nypd officer, bill stanton, and former Reagan DefenseDeputy Assistant secretary kt mcfarland. Glad to have you all here. Start with you, bill, youre beside me here in new york, along with kt, based on what you see here what is most likely scenario . One in three, more than one shooter shows a conspiracy. The fact they have long guns an vests shows a next level, to me either an organized hit, maybe persons or persons in that meeting, could be narc corelated, or terrorism. One of those three. Deirdre kt, you and i were going to talk about the threat of isis terrorism more International Front based on study from gw university, whether or not this is terrorism what they think of traditionally, coordinated effort to bills point and really stressing our Law Enforcement. I think this is an important point to make whether it is domestic terrorism or International Islamic extremist terrorism, whether this is what we look forward to in american society, we dont have enough resources to deal with it. For example, to follow a terrorist, you know, government is looking at closely, somebody who could go operational at anytime, that takes two dozen government employees, state, federal, nsa. Deirdre i wrote you about that from paris. I was telling you that i had understood, at least in frances case there are 11,500 people deemed to be sympathizers. I said it is true that you need 23 people, whether Law Enforcement locally, federally, administratively, per threatening person. Yeah. Deirdre you said that is a low number. That is a low number. Europe theyre saying higher numbers. Everybody has to be on agame. Everybody has to be on agame. Not like they go home. It is 24 hours. That huge commitments of resources. We dont have people trained to do that we dont have budgets to support these people. If this is the new normal we have to rethink those resources. Deirdre i want to bring in mike baker, former cia ops officer. What do you think about what kt said, if this is the new normal we dont have enough resources to manage it . You never have enough resources and cant prevent anything. We have to exercise caution. Bill brings up good point, is this a drug hit. The fact they came in with egress plan, clearly had desireexit. Desire to exit the attack site puts it in different category from what unfortunately we become used to with random psychopath shootings with mentally ill. I think we have to be a little bit careful about the motive i hear what you were saying. Be cautious and be careful that is always wise information with breaking news situations. I heard what you said we dont know that moment that is what we heard from the briefing at the top of the our. But youll know you have been light in the situation in such as this one what is going on right now . What will you be doing if you were still part of the cia . It is a secondary issue at this point. Also the etf and fbi there are so many moving parts it is hard to understand how difficult this is that this stage with the shooters on the loose. They are gathering as many witness statements as possible but mayor not reliable and then you have 10 different reports. Theyre looking at the backgrounds of all individuals who may have been the target and they are working over the issue be obviously so there are so many issues being done but look at that scene people have said to me i am watching this they all seem very called. That is a good thing that is what they are trained to do. If youre not do research doing your training training, unfortunately they have to practice constantly. Deirdre i will ask you the same question. If this happened in new york city what would you be doing with the police force . To make that is a different animal of 40,000 people and extended agencies. Right now i look at how smart and quiet they were to get in and get out. Looking at security cameras, traffic patterns to see which way they have gone. The backup call call, interestingly, all the careful planning that went into this. They ditched the car. Deirdre the one witness who said that it is the same black issue be when he noticed it the car drove away so slowly never calling attention to itself. This is the new paradigm what he did and how he described the car that is the best way we will combat violence like this in the future. To deputize americans to be observant. On twitter there was a lot in that area and waterman is the address it was on south waterman avenue another said he actually went there just to bring people to the hospital to help out. And a nod that is the hindrance but people want to reach out. It is the doubleedged sword with social media. Of the bad guys are as smart as we think they are there also monitoring social media and the news as we speak. Deirdre i am sure Law Enforcement has greater challenges even dont tweet out your location. House Speaker Paul Ryan is expected to comment. There is the capital Tree Lighting ceremony this evening in washington d. C. We will take you there. In the meantime Ashley Webster is here in new york. What you tracking . Simply saying they came prepared and they were on a mission. That is very clear from what we have heard so far. Why did they burst into that particular building or Conference Room . We felt all that is the most innocuous with the county department of Public Health that Conference Room today was having a holiday luncheon. But we do know the Regional Center to provide services was the target of recent complaints and therefore was the red herring. Deirdre now we go to washington d. C. And paul reilly and. Talking about the ongoing tragedy in california today. The would like to have a brief moment of silence for those who are affected please keep the victims and their families in your prayers right now. This is my first time holding in hosting this ceremony now i can appreciate everything that went into it. 4,000 miles of travel, too thousand handmade ornaments, hundreds of essays written by hundreds of students including our special guest. Deirdre that is house Speaker Paul Ryan speaking for the national Tree Lighting ceremony in washington d. C. Bar right now youre looking at a live feed from a local partner in san bernadine no california. Were speaking about the language of us in pretty now is using. I will sing the focus is on the Conference Room where most of the fatalities were reported. At the time it was rented by the San Bernadino department of Public Health to whole day holiday banquet so it seems strange that was targeted or what may have led to that but i was just saying this special Services Center targeted had complaints that they were cut back those that provide that special services. Deirdre we can see Something Like 30,000 people receive support from that center we will contact you shortly i know you have something to say on that subject. Is there any connection to the Veterans Administration . This isnt just a of a bunch of people who were playing paint all. Is there some connection that we dont know of course, there Veterans Association . Deirdre to your point and there were Wearing Masks and party all barring a body armor and heavy armor and weapons unfortunately they were efficient. The fact theyre wearing a mask they were not willing to give up their lives. So they dont want to be identified in they want to get away. To bring you back in here to have great perspective of national Law EnforcementWork Together i heard you say you find reassuring that it sounds cal