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Having ripple effects, richard, across the country and in jewish communities, large and small. this is a very upsetting incident, and in a few minutes, i'm expecting to talk to the husband of a woman who was right outside the synagogue when this siege took place shortly after 10:00 this morning when this suspect, rob bowers, apparently went into the synagogue there and yelled that all jews must die and then opened fire, we believe with an assault-style rifle. he also was carrying some handguns. and after this shooting took place, there were about 100 people inside, as we understand. he barrica...

Over 200 mass shootings in this country, categorized as any one, more than four people having been shot. which is a tragic number in itself. of course today we are adding to that. the suspect is 46-year-old rob bowers. are you hearing anything about him? quickly before we go to your colleague david johnson. >> we haven't heard anything directly about it. i briefly asked the former rabbi who used to be over at the synagogue and have a congregation there. he said he hadn't heard that name before. >> okay. >> we just heard it within the last couple of minutes. we are working to find out more abou...

The melee and that he ended up surrendering to police there. let's go right now to nbc's pete williams, who has the latest, our justice correspondent joining us from d.c. on the phone. >> we have been making an effort to try to confirm the name. we have heard this now from several law enforcement organization has the man that's been arrested is rob bowers, rob bowers, b-o-w-e-r-s, of pittsburgh. 46 years old. has a pittsburgh address. and we have seen it ourselves. and law enforcement officials have also directed us to it. a number of anti-semitic comments made on social media, and some commen...

Rob -- full name, resident bowers. we believe him to be from the north versailles community there in pennsylvania. a 46-year-old man. we understand he was injured in the incident today and surrendered to police just a short ways away from the site of the attack, the tree of life synagogue there in the squirrel hill area of pittsburgh. we are keeping a very close look at andrews air force base and the rain. there you see it now, the president is on the way to rallies. we are told he may make a statement on what has been happening this morning. he tweeted about it. kelly o'donnell joins us from ...

Conference at 4:00 p.m. and also fuller comments from the president who is in indianapolis. he has promised to speak more extensively about what happened in pittsburgh this morning at that event. we will of course bring you those comments live. and in the meantime i want to go to malcolm nance. first question here, just how are you processing aunt of ll o what are you watching for. >> and now we're hoping to get more information about the details of how the attack was carried out. let's not ins take this at all, this was a terrorist attack. it meets every element of the definition of terrorism...