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President, who is also very emotional in his remarks and announced that they're going to be suspending light rail service on the vta this afternoon. i want to bring back cedric alexander and catherine once again, our own lindsey reiser is also on the scene there. but catherine, let me start with you and ask you about the rescue task force that came in. we heard from officials, that's one of the few details we got about how this all unfolded. that there was a rescue task force that went in that extricated people who were inside. what did you learn in listening to the officials about what happen...

How many casualties. we are still trying to collaborate everything and what happen with this incident. i will tell you right now the suspect involved with this incident is deceased. i'm not going into details of cause of death. biggest thing is public safety for the community and public safety is assured at this point. we have investigators on scene. pretty much doing the investigation to see what happened and transpired. we have multiple law enforcement agencies that responded. including multiple fire personnel from different agencies that responded, as well. we did initiate the active shoote...

So in the law enforcement world, you have cold scenes, hot scenes, and warm scenes. the hot scene is where there's a shooting going on, there's a danger to somebody immediately. the cold scene is outside, far away, where everybody is safe. the warm zone inside is where rescue traffic crew goes to, because a warm zone inside allows -- it's a possibility that it could turn into a hot zone. and you don't want to send fire and emergency management into a facility when you might have still a shooter or even perhaps a bomb that's been placed or something like that. so you send them in, in a rescue t...

Came in and multiple agencies came in and initiated a rescue task force part of the protocol to assist in a warm zone to assist with victims and the biggest thing is public safety. we want to get medical aid. >> where? >> one second? >> they went in and extricated? where did they go into? >> the information with the building i don't have that information at this point. there is an indoor and outdoor area. one more question and i need to route it out. >> was there a gun battle between arriving officers and shooter? >> i don't have that information. so -- >> how many number of people shot? >> i ...

Dead. authorities say it was a man but they will not say how he died, if he shot himself or was killed in a shootout with deputies. we just learned a lot about that gunman, including his possible relations to the victims. he'll join us in a minute. we're also learning that more victims are being treated in hospitals, and santa clara medical center tells nbc news there is a patient there in critical condition. take a look at this. this shooting happened at the vta light rail facility, and you'll notice it's right next door to the santa clara sheriff's office. this whole thing happened just afte...