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Straight, chief moose backed by members of the sniper task force holds daily press conferences. one a day every day. >> i have to take some questions. >> early on we determined that the snipers were listening to things that we were saying. several of us feared they were actually in the background watching these press conferences. >> the question about the schools and their status tomorrow, schools are going to open. that decision has been made. >> there is no reason to believe that the shooter is targeting schoolchildren. >> the public had been afraid that their kids weren't safe. so we said o...

>> the eighth victim is a student at benjamin tasker middle school. he is critically wounded, but survives. >> right over there right over my right shoulder is where the boy was shot. >> the idea that a shooter would target an innocent child on his way to school was alarming in a way that the previous shootings hadn't been. >> what they're now saying is that there is a connection between the shooting here and the other ones that have really caused quite the jitters throughout the washington area. >> the school shooting occurs 70 odd miles from the previous shooting in fredericksburg, virginia....

Holds daily press conferences. one a day every day. >> early on we determined that the snipers were listening to things that we were saying. several of us feared they were actually in the background watching this press conference. >> the question about the schools and their status tomorrow, schools are going to open. that decision has been made. >> there is no reason to believe that the shooter is targeting schoolchildren. >> the public was afraid their kids weren't safe. we said okay. we'll send police. >> a 13-year-old boy shot and wounded as he arrives at his suburban maryland school. >> th...

Also natural disasters and then the shootings in the beltway in 2002 when one of the young kids going into benjamin tasker middle school was shot and people started doing lockdowns and that make sense and now we're reacting to an event that's a very rare event and i'll call the reaction to this is a spontaneous utterance. defining a law on spontaneous utterance is a statement made after a series of events and it's done in response to stalling event and something done spontaneously. i think the reaction to put armed guards in schools or to arm teachers and principals is a response to spontaneou...

foggy or a little thick out there. we still have a little humidity across the area. we don't have the heavy fog but still a little bit of haze and humidity and very mild temperatures for this time of year. >> no thick fog like yesterday. >> only in a few spots. not nearly as widespread as it was yesterday. we are dealing with some rain showers. let's get to those. generally, washington and points west but this little batch of rain has been moving to the east here over the last couple of hours. it is now very close to the district here, reston, as you get out towards leesburg, had a s...