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The white house tells us the president has been brief, as you would expect, is monitoring the situation. very fluid-moving situation at this hour. 7:00 on the east coast in philadelphia. breaking news correspondent trace gallagher joins us now. he has the very latest details in the case tonight. good evening, trace. >> good evening, martha. a moment to go philadelphia police still pushing reporters and others away from the scene, so clearly there appears to be a huge continued sense of urgency. people on scene have not heard gunshots for several minutes. you can see that s.w.a.t. units are sti...

On today. as to a motive police have not been speculating yet because this is a massive investigation. the shooting took place on multiple levels of this municipal complex. it didn't even happen in just one office. police say thought gunman essentially went floor to floor. police also added that when they figured out what was going on, officers rushed in, exchanging gunfire with the suspect. we were able to listen to a little bit of the radio traffic that was happening as this horrible attack was unfolding. here is a brief clip of what officers said was happening during that scanner traffic. >...

That's expected to happen a little bit later on today. we are expecting a news conference within the next hour or. so investigators have not publicly speculated as to what his motive could have been but that he was a city employee and that he came to where he worked opening fire and as you mentioned going floor to floor killing these 12 people where he worked. the gunman died as a result of a shootout with police. investigators there are trying to piece together how that gun battle happened. we have been able to put together some of the radio traffic, scanner traffic happening as police were e...

Some new details, possibly mayor bobby dyer. those have been the two gentlemen who have given the most information so far and we haven't had a lot of details since last night's conference, so we're counting on semifor some key information. and we're looking for any real detail about possible conflict this man had with people at his work that might have prompted him to come in and start shooting people. and whether there might have been a specific target in mind. those are some things that maybe the police chief and the mayor, possibly the fbi might be able to answer. >> yeah. and what we learn...

Possibly, and certainly prepared to inflict mass carnage. and he obviously and horrifically did that. but the police officers' response is being widely praised this morning and last night. they got in here quickly. the police station, the main police station here in virginia beach is just a couple of doors down from where the shooting occurred, so they were able to get here quickly and four officers went into the building. now, we have -- you're outside the building, we've been outside this building. it's not a really small -- it's not a small building. it's got three floors, it's fairly exten...