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Support these families. i think we're going to have to wait now until we've identified the victims and wait for officials to say whether or not they were employees, because that will then lead to a possible motive. i don't think the town wants to get in front of that. i will say, though, and we say this so afternoon, this is a town on edge and we throw those sayings around. this is truly a town, i think, that has a lot of fear in it, because walmart is such a central location. it is in every town. and people here are a little bit unnerved and you hear a lot of talk about possible copy cat atta...

A mortar attack, rocket attack. and as these forces are drawn down, who knows? maybe even a ground assault by a group of isis-k fighters. you have got to be prepared for any and all of that. and, of course, it is dangerous because once we start to draw down troops, we have less response capability. obviously we're going to do everything we can to put overhead assets there to monitor from the air, to be ready to strike back and defend from the air, but it's not the same as having the troops on the ground. >> yeah. they're also worried about a potential shoulder fired or surface air missile that...

The fbi says most domestic terrorists this year involve white supremacy. the bureau is now warning against copy cat attacks. the quote, the fbi remains concerned they could become inspired by these to engage in similar acts of violence, from a new statement, fbi director wray has ordered the field offices to conduct new threat assessments that could thwart any future attempts at mass shootings. fbi officials say they are investigating 850 domestic terror cases, 40% allegedly motivated by race or religion. there are many questions and debates over house do you do this, how do you monitor it. au...

Is they stopped the carnage and were able to apprehend this individual and hopefully through the work of the nypd, fbi, the justice department, they'll be able to uncover additional dangers that are in new york city or the united states. and also how we can better prepare ourself to stop this act moving forward. >> how concerned are new yorkers about possible copy cat attacks? >> new yorkers are tough, resilient, we demonstrated our resilience once again by people coming out in large numbers for the halloween day parade last evening. we're going to continue to have each other's back. we're not...

Of fear should be as high as that in england. teresa may made her statement -- >> all of the stepped up security in the united states is out of an abundance of caution? >> absolutely. and we should exercise an abundance of caution after incidents like this. in many circumstances you have people who do the copy cat attacks on the heightened publicity that the terrorist overseas has. teresa may is right, england may have a potential imminent threat. as we learned in belgium and france, when you put the pressure down, they're like balls of mercury. they break out and spread out. but the moment it...