here which is, until we know what the motives are, there will be an assumption that this was at least a focus that this was a targeted attack on an asian american or an asian festival during the lunar new year. huge parties, huge event, some of them public, some of them private as we ve seen in this case. every city is now dealing with this now. this is not just about a particular investigation. mayors and police departments are inevitably assessing their sort of security strategy this morning. there s lots of events throughout the country, and because we live in a time with increased hate crimes towards the asian community, they will be a focus on that. you ll be the very focused law enforcement issue and then the more national context that we are going to be facing in this homeland where celebrations are expected today. i should note again, we were told that law enforcement was going to update us at 9:00 a.m.
an additional teen people taken to local hospitalsment right now there is very little information about the suspect who left the scene. police are asking people to share information if they have any. to give you some context about this, there was supposed to be a city of monterey park lunar new year festival that would have closed these streets off as well yesterday during the day and today. but this seems to have been festivities taking place in a business that was off on one of the side streets, not the city s official festival. just imagine, there were supposed to be many, many people here celebrating during the most joyous time of the year for this community on the monterey park city website it shows this community is 65% asian. they said this festival that they hold every year typically has brought in 100,000 people per day to these streets to celebrate, but again, this