Page 11 - Muzzle Flashes News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Time and to be able to evaluate any type of threats. so i would just tell you that you need to understand that. i think it's a miracle that we haven't had any instances similar to this over the summer and fall with the amount of gunfire that we would hear that i personally heard last summer and fall i think it's a miracle we haven't had something like this happen. i think we're very fortunate that that has happened. i'd also like to point out that my officers tell me that when this happened when they heard the shots and when they heard the bullets singing past they saw muzzle flashes. these mu...

Who described a very difficult difficult situation, when shots rang out against a lined up formation of police officers, standing there to protect people's rights. are we going to mike tobin now? mike tobin, are you there? >> reporter: martha we have people looking at scene officers with metal detectors, examining the scene. presumably they're looking for what is left over of rounds fired off in this direction. you talk about the location where the police officers would form up, countless nights we saw them form up in a line at that location where the police officers are now looking for the ev...

Some tidbits to find out who these shooters were. of course forensics. are there any shell casings, camera shots, video, observations of police officers? it's a standard investigation. it will move fast and they will have a lot of detectives on it to locate the shooter or shooters. >> must have been a dozen cameras around the area of the police department. i'm sure they are looking at that. we were speaking with a witness who was at the scene last night and says that he heard five six shots coming from right behind where the protesters were. does that tell you anything? >> yeah. it sounds like...

St. louis county police in about an hour. we're expecting that shift to take place. it has been a day of tension and confusion with a manhunt and people wondering what might happen next. police are frantically searching for clues on who may have been responsible for the shooting of two police officers in ferguson. late last night bloodied riot gear marked violence on streets which have witnessed so much unrest. >> this is an ambush is what it is. >> reporter: both officers have been released from the hospital. they are lucky to be alive after sustaining serious wounds at a protest rally aimed ...

Released this morning. now the rush to find the shooter. >> when this happened when they heard the shots, and when they heard the bullets singing past that they saw muzzle flashes, but the muzzle flashes were probably about 125 yards away. this is the number one priority right now of the st. louis county police department to identify these individuals. that individual or individuals who shot our police officers. >> today condemnation from across the country. attorney general eric holder saying his stomach churned when he heard the news, calling it an ambush. and president obama saying quote --...