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When it was really contained but we just didn't know because there were so many calls coming in. we had to get everything out with a fire response in a police response. this is also the first time that we have deployed to rescue tax force on a significant event. we will talk about with the rescue task force capone is a little bit but something that has been worked out for many, many years. at the event, there was a standby crew of approximately 16 ems paramedic personnel and community areas. they performed wonderfully under fire, literally under fire, taking care of patients were right there i...

Was the initial fire response, the fact that firefighters apparently did not know which chemicals they were dealing with and in fact we still don't know exactly which chemicals were at the blast site just beyond those trees behind me. when the firefighters sprayed water on the chemicals, there was a volatile and explosive reaction, and that may have triggered the explosions with the damage that's behind me a couple of kilometers. i want to swif on the front camera on my phone. this is a construction site where migrant workers were building these apartments right here. this is where they lived ...

>> reporter: as we have driven around, you really do, when you think about the fact that from the epicenter of the blast you have cars that were melted. buildings that are uninhabitable. we're inside one of 12 emergency shelters set up in city for thousands offense people who have been displaced. a lot of them are asleep. there's a makeshift tent city over there. we're on the campus of a primary school. classrooms are turned into places where parents are sleeping and spending the night. we're also hearing more about the initial fire response. the question that everybody wants to know, we know ...

Sheriff's, milwaukee police department were huge as far as assisting us not only in the tactical portion but in the investigative portion. milwaukee pd is also assisting us in the officer-involved shooting portion of this investigation with the district attorney's office. i would like to thank the fbi, the atf, and also dci from the state of wisconsin. fbi we're working with and with atf currently on this investigation. it's a joint operation. fbi is lead on the investigation. dci provided agents for interviews. there were many witnesses that needed to be interviewed and people that needed to ...

motive. we'll bring you that briefing that we expect to get any minute as it is going to be getting under way shortly. i think we're showing you liver pictur live pictures there. details trickled out, among them, the shooter's id. sources familiar with the investigation say that the bald white man who entered the temple yesterday with a 9/11 tattoo was 40-year-old wade michael page. he is said to be an army vet, a psychological operations specialist discharged in 1998 for patterns of misconduct. further details on that, undisclosed. he was discharged after he shot nine people and sha...