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A makeshift memorial is in the neighborhood of where the two police officers, rafael ramos and wenjian liu were killed as they simply sat in their patrol cars. cnn's sara ganim is on the scene for us there in brooklyn. we've been watching the tensions between the mayor and the police officers. what is the mood there? set the scene for us. >> reporter: wolf, none of those tensions that you just talked about between the mayor and the police are occurring here. people say they believe those tensions are not a good thing that it's not a good conversation to be going on and tensions will only lead ...

Investigation of this horrific crime. the reverend al sharpton who hosts a show on this network denounced the violence and said that eric garner's family has no connection to the suspect and michael brown's family in missouri rejected the violence in a statement they posted online. adam reece joins us now from the crime scene in brooklyn. so, adam, we went through the basics there. what are the things now that we have yet to find out about this, that are going to be learned today, hopefully. >> steve, investigators will continue to comb this neighborhood here in brooklyn looking to talk to mor...

And as he does that, investigators will be combing the neighborhood here looking to talk to more eyewitnesses into what commissioner bratton is calling a targeted assassination. these officers targeted for their uniform. now, makeshift memorial has been set up behind me. you can see flowers and candles dropped off by residents and police officers in this area of brooklyn. and police will be looking into brinsley's social media. his digital footprint, if you will, to see what they can find out in addition to what they've learned in terms of his postings and what his motivation was in coming her...

So we do not have information about how he might be traveling. >> reporter: police still have not revealed a possible motive. t.j. and reena? >> marci, thank you. australians are still reeling from the 16-hour siege on a cafe in sydney ending in the middle of the night in a hail of bullets. cafe owner tori johnson was one of those killed. he apparently died trying to wrestle the weapon away from the gunman. and katrina dawson leaves behind a husband and three children. a makeshift memorial near the lindt chocolate cafe is growing by the minute. hundreds of australians flocking to the sight l...

>> our thoughts and prayers with you and all of the people who are trying to reconcile what has happened as they had family and friends on that flight, and safest of travels to you and your family today. thank you for your time. we appreciate it. >> thank you for having me and all the best. >> you too. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> roger, as he said, lost a friend. many people lost friends, relatives. let's go now to cnn's erin mclaughlin. you're at amsterdam's airport where roger is. we know that is where that ill-fated plane took off. almost half of those who died were from the netherlands....