Others. We have doorbell camera video that shows the moment this all started. [ gun fire ] back up. Stairwel stairwell. Reporter police say what youre hearing there was the suspect, maurice hill, grabbing a rifle and opening fire with cops diving out of windows and doors to escape. And two other officers trapped upstairs with three suspects that they had taken into custody. More than 100 rounds fired by the suspect. Six officers wounded, all treated and released. The commissioner trying to talk the suspect into surrendering, as more rounds were being fired out the windows. I have to admit, i did not think that this guy was gonna come out alive. After several conversations with him, hearing bunch of information throughout the afternoon, he was indicating that he was not going back to prison, so he was not coming out alive. Reporter the d. A. Said the suspect has a long criminal history, several stints behind bars, and will face charges ranging from attempted murder to aggravated assault, along with weapons and drug violation. A convicted felon who the d. A. Said should not have been on the streets. There will be, like it or not, occasions when there are bad results. And the real measure of the police, for example, or others i dont want to call people out, but the real measure of all of news Law Enforcement is not whether or not theres a bad outcome. There will be bad outcomes. Its that you managed it better than other people managed it. Reporter truly remarkable, dana, that no civilians were hurt and no officers killed as the bullets were flying through this neighborhood. Dana the story broke last night when we were on the five. Did you hear anything from your sources about how the standoff finally ended . Reporter they were in negotiations with the suspect for some time. The commissioner was on a three way phone call with the suspect and his attorney. Then it became a four way phone call with the d. A. We saw the commissioner and suspects attorney drive in here to the scene just a few minutes before it ended. The suspect wanted his attorney there. Was going to apparently give himself up. But then police fired tear gas into the house to give him a push out that front door. Dana all right, rick. Amazing. I turned on the tv and saw you were there last night. I knew we were in good hands with the reporting that you do. Thank you. Reporter thank you. Dana were waiting for that press conference. In the mean time, lets bring in gary mctphamara. Really good to have you here. Gary, let me ask you something about what its like as a police chief to have the people that report to you in such danger and what a relief it must have been to him to realize that all of them were going to survive. Well, i think its one of those things that we always worry about. As a police chief, as a leader in Law Enforcement, you hope your officers are well trained, well equipped and have the ability to manage. You always know at any moment, at any given moment, 24 hours a day, youre potentially gonna get that phone call. That stress level certainly goes up. To find out that the officers are gonna survive, thats really significant. But to hear six officers were shot immediately would raise that level beyond, i think, what any of us can imagine. Dana do you think things are getting more dangerous out there as the summer has ramped up, we know we had officers shot in california earlier this week. Well, i do. I think that the general consensus or the move towards disrespecting Law Enforcement certainly has a level of what were seeing now, as far as violence goes. Being a Police Officer is always a violent career. We know that. Were always gonna put ourselves in harms way. As we start to see what really happened, we start to understand that some of the incidents we see that may not involve violence, but disrespect towards Law Enforcement really do play significant role in peoples respect towards Law Enforcement and how theyre going to comply with Police Officers demands. Dana theres frustration about this individual being allowed to be out of jail. We know hes 36 years old. Hes been in prison before. Hes been arrested several times. And theres this frustration expressed by the Philadelphia District attorney, Larry Krazner about how he was even out of jail. Watch this. I think its clear this man should not have been on the streets, in the sense that he obviously was a tremendous danger to the public and to Law Enforcement. I would say there will be a lot of charges. These are more than enough charges so that mr. Maurice hill may never exit jail. Dana gary, your thoughts on that before we bring in Phillip Holloway . Well, thats exactly right. If somebody has the propensity towards violence, Law Enforcement takes great effort to do great investigation to put violent people in jail. I think there is that level of frustration that we all have to start to look at to say, if you are violent, if youve committed violent acts in the past, you have to be held accountable. Clearly, this individual did not learn from the time that he did spend in jail and its evident with what he did last night. Dana i want to bring in phil holloway, former district attorney, having been a Police Officer as well. Phil, your thoughts about this entire episode, as we wait for the press conference to get under way. Your thoughts about just getting criminals to be able to stay behind bars when they would obviously pose a possible danger to the public and to Police Officers. Dana, his rap sheet was Something Like 27 or 28 pages long. I think that may not be including any federal charges he may have had. At some points corrections become not about rehabilitation, not about necessarily punishment, although theres a place for that here, but it comes to the point of protecting the public from individuals and basically taking them and separating them from the public so that the public never has to be jeopardized by their actions again. And that is what i think this is going to theyre going to make sure they charge him with enough things that in the event of a conviction, he may never breathe free air again. Thats where i think this is going. Dana of course we know there is a desire to figure out a way to get people to rehabilitate in prison, to be able to leave prison. Do you think, phil, that its possible, and i know you advise Police Departments. Are you concerned that the move to try to figure out a way to get more people out of prison could put more people from the public in danger . Well, that seems to be the problem. There is a definite problem with too many minor offender, people who are not violent, petty offenders, who are incarcerated for too long. Then on the other hand, you have people like that who should not ever breathe free air. Thats a problem Law Enforcement and particularly the courts have to figure out. But there is definitely a need to get to the bottom line to make sure that people who are not subjected theyre not capable of rehabilitation. There are those types of people do not need to be given 15, 20, 30th chances. At that point theres really nothing that you can do because those people are broken and they cannot be fixed. Dana as sad as that is, it is a fact of life. Gary and phil, thank you. We are still waiting for this press conference to begin. We will bring it to you live. While they get started lets bring in mary anne marsh former Senior Adviser to john kerry. As we wait for this press conference to fully get under way, mary anne, your thoughts about how the fact the obama administration, when they were running for reelection in 2012, they didnt really bring up the gun issue. Do you think that will be dramatically different in this next president ial cycle . Theres no question about it, it will dominate the 2020 cycle especially on the democratic side. Republicans will be held accountable because the politics have changed. Just look at the fox news poll. 90 of all americans want universal background checks. 81 of people want people at risk not to have guns. 51 want assault weapons banned. If youre a republican, and there are 19 up for reelection, and you dont vote for gun control, youll have a hard time getting reelected. Dana the press conference is under way. Lets listen to the mayor here. And the residents of north philadelphia. In the face of what could have been a horrific tragedy, peaceful resolution of the incident marks one of the finest moments for the Philadelphia Police department. I am very proud of each and every officer involved and proud of all our officers and force. The fact that our officers found themselves under such an attack while trying to carry out a basic function of their job is reprehensible. Seeing an entire neighborhood put in harms way was nothing short of devastating. We can and must do more to protect our officers and all of our citizens. Koufrs, this incident is a reminder, a harsh reminder, of the reality americans face every day, whether its Mass Shootings like we saw last week in el paso and dayton, guns that flooded American Cities leading to senseless and preventible violence. In fact, as dozens of officers were responding last night, others in south philadelphia were responding to another shooting, a young man shot in the head and later pronounced dead. That incident didnt draw national attention. It happens daily in this city and many others across the nation. But a life was lost last night to gun violence. Here in philadelphia, and like so many other shootings, it goes unnoticed because it happens every day. As i said last night, our officers need help. They need help keeping these weapons out of the hands of the bad guys. No one should have access to the kind of weaponry and fire power that we saw in north philadelphia yesterday. Several weeks ago i attended a meeting of faith based leaders in philadelphia who are concerned about gun violence. Like the police, theyre all on the front lines of this crisis. Theyre working every day to bring hope and faith to their communities. They look to us here in government for answers. I sat during that meeting and heard their pleas for help and saw the despair in their eyes. Ministers, pastors, rabbis, they came looking to us for help. I told them simply, we are trying. In january, we launched a series of antiviolence initiatives that we believe can make a difference and is making a difference. But i also told these men and women of faith the simple truth. We here at City Government can only do so much. Getting relief in the form of meaningful gun control legislation will save lives, the lives of residents and of men and women who are sworn to protect us. Incidents like this should not keep happening, not in our city and not in our country. If we dont see change, gun violence will continue to ravage our communities and tear families apart. So i say to our state and federal lawmakers, step up or step aside. Help our Police Officers. Help our clergy. Help our kids. If you choose not to help us, then get out of the way and allow cities like philadelphia that struggle with gun violence to enact their own solutions. Before i introduce Police Commissioner ross, i want to say, yesterday when the incident started, we had an opportunity to sit in the Police Detail room and listen to the transmission of the police back and forth to each other. First, bravery is the number one emotion that i felt for them. They were brave. They were running towards heavy gun fire. Training and ability was unmatched. They were coordinated. They were talking to each other. They were directing each other. They were keeping each other safe, while being barraged with ammunition and shots from high powered rifle. They stood out there and they were patient and were there for seven hours under gun fire. One of the things, one of the vignettes that i saw on Television Last night after it was almost all over were the officers helping remove the children from the daycare. To see our officers carrying little babies, holding kids hands and walking them to safety showed me what those men and women are really about. They are about protecting us. We dont always do things perfectly. Theres trouble. We stumble sometimes. But watching those officers carry those children and walk those children to safety gave me faith in this department and in this city and who we are as a city. And the people we live here and what we are all about. We have our violence problems. We have our crime problems. We have our poverty problems. When it comes to reaching out and helping each other, were there. And thats what we need to do now. [ applause ] id like to take this opportunity to introduce the best Police Commissioner in america. [ applause ] thank you, mayor. I appreciate all those accolades. They are accolades that should go to the men and women of this Police Department who did an absolutely stellar job last evening in protecting that neighborhood. I cant say enough about how they conducted themselves. It truly made me proud to be on the ground with them to see how they represent this city each and every day. As the mayor said, we dont always get it right. Nobody does. But when he described the scene like he did about the help that they gave not only moving those young kids to safety, but assuaging the concerns of parents who were arriving at the scene, who were telling them, calm down, your child is okay, words that a parent needs to hear more than anything else during a crisis like that. And so there are many heroes from last night. Probably too many to mention by name. Certainly you know of the six officers who were struck by gun fire. Many more who did things that transcended just about anything i could ever imagine from swat and how meticulous they were. And just the entire operation, as well as how they extracted those people from that scene. I got to tell you, it was a truly harrowing experience for all those hours to know that you have not only two of your officers trapped upstairs from a gunman who has fired multiple rounds from an assault rifle, but you also had citizens that were up there, too. Not knowing whether or not this gunman was going to decide to go out in what some may say a blaze of his own glory and decide to basically charge those steps and try to take those people out upstairs. And so for a long time last night, i know our collective hearts were in our throats. Not just at that scene, but probably for many people, not knowing how that was going to end. And i have to be honest with you. In the beginning of that scene, being there, i did not think it would end nearly the way it did. I mean, there was dialogue that was being presented to us at the scene that suggested this man was not gonna go back to prison. And he had made that clear. And we knew he had the weaponry. He was firing while i was at the scene, an certainly long before i got there. He continued to do so. And so the swat operation to detective brooks who fed me every line he wanted me to give in negotiations, to many officers who arrived on the scene. As my officers told me, two of the heroes most thought of were the two officers upstairs. They were officers who knew they were trapped, who wanted to go in immediately and get them. This was before swat got in. As i understand it, these officers were astute enough and wise enough and brave enough to say, do not come in here. Do not come in here. If you come in here, you will be met with severe gunfire. Now think about what it takes to do that. To know that youre trapped in the building yourself. Your Natural Inclination is to say, help, come get me. But they did the opposite. And that speaks volumes of what we see each and every day. We were dealt a hand that nobody should be dealt. Thankful that no one died from it. All our officers were discharged. But dealing with a violent criminal that told me that he had an extensive record and did not want to deal with prison again and he wanted to get some deals, which obviously didnt happen. But i just want to thank, you know, all those officers and tell them that if you feel like you dont and you are not appreciated, trust me, you are. And i know i speak for everyone up here and probably most in the room, you know. You may not always feel like you get the respect and the due that you deserve, but there are many people who respect what you do, appreciate what you do, because most people couldnt do what you do. And so i thank them for all that theyve done. I know youll have questions later, but theres others that have to speak. I do have a general idea of the circumstances. We can update you in questions a little later. Right now i just want to introduce the governor for his comments. [ applause ] thank you. Thank you, commissioner. Just a few things. First of all, senator casey and i senator casey will speak next. Visited district 39 and the Police Officers this morning and told them what the mayor and the commissioner have already said. That they deserve our greatest respect and thanks for what they did. They walked toward the line of fire, not away from it. And they did a phenomenal job in protecting the folks in philadelphia. It was miraculous that in the end only six people were injured. All of them are out of the hospital. From gun fire. So, it was an amazing thing, and i think we all owe a lot to the police force. I also wanted to make sure that state did everything it needed to do to help the city of philadelphia in facing this crisis. And i asked both the mayor yesterday and i asked the officers at district 39 today if they thought there was anything the state could have done more. They both said, very nicely, that we did everything we should have done an could have done. So we stand ready to help in any way we can. One of the ways that we have to work as both mayor and commissioner have already said, and others will talk about, is to end gun violence. To start working and stop talking about this. There are a lot of things that we need to do to address all of the issues that face people in places like philadelphia. But weve got to start with figuring out ways of getting guns out of the hands of people like the jerk who shot six officers yesterday and last night her