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College campus, at a home and gunshots also fired on a bus. we're standing by for two news conferences, all this happening while president obama himself was in santa monica for a political fund-raiser, just a ten-minute drive away. cnn's miguel marquez is joining us live from santa monica right now. for viewers who are just tuning in, miguel, update them on what we know. i want to reiterate, we're standing by for a briefing from local police authorities on new information coming in. but update our viewers on the latest information. >> reporter: yes, sadly, santa monica college, a gunman walked...

Doing this? >> reporter: it appears he may have been farther off than authorities are saying. in this he did not seem to possess any handguns or rifles, he did want a high point on the wish list and moss berg pump action shotgun. the high point is what we come to use as assault type weapon, 9 millimeter based weapon. he wanted those. he wanted to build many more bombs before he carried out this attack. seems he was a little ways off. back to you. >> thanks very much. when we come back, online espionage by chinese actors. looking at a new report that says they've stolen information about crit...

This particular incident, i think, is a culmination of a variety of these massacre type incidents that we've seen over the last few years, and they're increasingly happening. the issues of high capacity weapons, these magazines, assault weapons being used, body armor available out in the open marketplace. these are items that civilians basically should never really have. there's no reason for a civilian to have an assault type weapon. you know, other people will talk about, well, it was converted from something else. what it is is semiautomatic or in some cases possibly automatic weapons not u...

Horrific crime was identified as the bushmaster ar 15 assault type weapon it had high capacity magazines and in addition the subject had a glock 10 millimeter all weapons had multiple magazines and additional ammunition. >> after killing the heroic principal and four others all women who tried to top them or shield the children in their care. when the tiny in the classroom lanza used the assault weapon to kill every child within range of his rage. >> the bushmaster was used as it was explained yesterday in the school in its entirety and the hand gun was used to. >> then he heard the vines cops...

Gun in america and carries 30 round clips. went through several of those. had several more clips unused a couple with of handguns and unspent bullets as police were closing in. here is what we heard from lieutenant paul vance yesterday. >> the weapon utilized most of the time in this horrific crime was identified as bushmaster. ar-15 assault type weapon. it had high capacity magazines. in addition to that the subject had in his possession a glock 10 millimeter, a sigg sauer 9mm, all weapons had multiple magazines and additional ammunition. >> reporter: police told us when they were closing in,...