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Partisan issue. what do you think you can change about that? you are trying to engage the faith community, trying to get them to write letters to manufacturers, but where do you think you can find a piece of common ground so we can have a conversation about what it means to responsibly own a gun in this country? because no one has found it yet. >> well, we have to keep working at it because these tragedies, these mass shootings continue. not just the mass shootings but also ones that happen every single day in communities all across the country. so we need to have these conversations. we need ...

Cervera, thank you for your leadership, as well as elected officials here at this difficult time here in virginia beach. we continue to focus on these families, on the victims, as we said yesterday, these are 12 individuals who came to work in the city of virginia beach thinking that they would go home in the evening. and they didn't return and has left a tremendous void in our families and in our community. i've had the opportunity along with some other elected officials to visit our local hospitals. i am a doctor. i served in desert storm. i have been in situations such as this. and it was i...

When we get through the shock of it all and we get through the details that we must go through over the next day or two, i believe that our community, virginia beach, along with our neighbors and our other cities and hampton roads and our commonwealth and our country will be there for not only the families because that's when they're going to need us going forward, but we're going to show that virginia beach is a city of resolve and dedication and, you know, we are going to be there for all the families, the friends and our community in a big way. and for that i thank you and i would like to t...

Friends, co-workers, neighbors, colleagues. you know, at this point i would like to turn things over to chief cervera to give you the information that we have so far. >> the mayor, as you saw, could hardly continue. the police chief, understandably, struggled as well. >> right now we have a lot of questions. the whys, they will come later. right now we have more questions really than we have answers. we're a little more than two hours into this event, and we use the word "event," that's a cop term. this devastating incident that happened that none of us want to be here to talk about, this deva...

Chief cervera for an update. >> as i said earlier this evening as we are able to gather more information, we will give that information out, so this is the additional information that i have at this time. again, it will probably change a little and it may increase as we move forward as we're investigating this case. right now we have a team of investigators, detectives from the city of virginia beach being assisted by forensic technicians from the fbi and the state police in processing this most horrific scene. we are in the process of identifying the victims, of making notification to their f...