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But just beyond the city is juarez, mexico. the mexican border just a couple miles away. this is a place, a city, a store that people would come across the border and shops. some of the victims could very well be mexican nationals as well as americans who live here in el paso. i spoke a short time ago to a state representative, cesar blanco. he described the pain that they're feeling here because this is a peaceful town. a warm town. a town they felt safe in and, today, that sense of safety has certainly been broken, wolf. >> very sad indeed. jim sciutto, stand by. we'll get back to you. just ...

Could hit a ball into mexico. it is very close. we are just over the bridge. four portals, four bridges. you just walk across. of course a lot of people here have relatives and friends who live in juarez. frequently go back and forth. of course, it is important to business too, to be able to move back and forth across the border. >> greta: often times we hear these horrible stories of violence, sounds like it happens all the time, everyday, all over the place and it begins to make the place terrifying. is juarez terrifying and really that dangerous or am i just over focusing on it? >> it reall...

Moment. but first, we want to catch you up on some other stories that are making news this hour. a violent, deadly weekend in juarez, mexico. the latest, three people shot to death while leaving a children's party. two of them americans. the victims either worked for the u.s. consulate or their spouses did. the white house quickly condemned the killings and vowed to bring the killers to justice. the state department also sent out an advisory to u.s. consulate workers in mexico to temporarily send their families out of the country as a precaution. and it said americans traveling to mexico shoul...

Border to return to the united states until they investigate and really find out what's going on, whether drug cartels are indeed targeting americans or whether this was some sort of random act. >> well, the question is whether or not this is some sort of message that they're sending to the u.s. government or to people who are trying to crack down on the drug violence there and the drug trade, i should say. >> exactly. and you have to remember, this is juarez. the reason we have so much violence is because it's right in the middle of operations of the gulf cartel and the juarez cartel, and it'...

And the state department sent an advisory to u.s. consular workers in mexico to temporarily send their families out of mexico. they're doing that as a precaution. juarez in recent years has earned a spot as one of the deadliest cities in the world. but this weekend's killings could represent a disturbing new chapter. rafael romo is cnn's senior editor for latin american affairs. tonight i spoke with him about what we know about these deadly attacks. >> what we know is that these three people were together at a children's party saturday morning. after they left somebody was chasing them, stoppe...