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What does that visual signal to you? >> that is on scene commanders trying to evacuate citizens. what they've tournament is that the area that they are evacuating they, determined that they can be safe. they don't want to walk citizens through an area where they think a gunman will have shot on them or line on them. officers will be ahead of them towards the more ahead of them, have secured an area where they know it's safe to walk them out. they may not have found the gunman inside the mall. they may be searching now to clear the mall, locate, isolate, the shooter. they want to locate and iso...

Out of it. on the scene, -- they'll establish on seeing comment right there, and the ranking officers from all of the departments will go to that on scene comment. the captains and lieutenants of lmpd, plain old pd and the agents in charge of atf will go to that place to. that way, they can make decisions on how to deploy forces, what is needed. look at the shooting that we just saw in atlanta, where the killer left the premises to the four minutes after murdering four others. he immediately skipped the building. it's not unusual. the parkland shooter did it as well. many others have done as w...

They've got the job, their task today is, you know, locate, isolate, and eliminate the threat. they've got to find the shooter and right now they don't have him. we don't know if they have him located or not, but what they've got to do is locate him, and hopefully that comes from citizens in the building, nearby who have heard the shots or see the person, and they'll call 911 to help the officers locate him. once they locate him in a room or a building, they can isolate him, squeeze him down, get the perimeter secured, and then they can evacuate behind them so they got to locate him, and then ...

Drive away and rifle shots from law enforcement sniper, or he could blow up if the bomb is live. the way you want it to go, he takes the negotiator's phone and they get into a long dialogue. they want to talk. they act like they don't want to talk, but they all want to talk. he is going to want to talk, tell you his anti-government beliefs, why joe biden is no good, why everybody is no good. that will go on a long time. you have to ride that train with him, try to build rapport. he may be suicidal. it is possible he is suicidal. you have to deal with that. but slowing it down is key for the ch...

They have an audience at home and have their hands around their throat. they don't haven't to weakness. they're retaliating against the brits, demonstrating not only to the region, but the people at home that they're still powerful. leland: real quick, we heard from lucas, great reporting for him, we heard there are more american troops headed to the region. carrier group there. these are close quarters and the iranians are shown they could be hoose -- hostile. >> on scene commanders have the authority to act to protect themselves. this is a defensive part of the strategy. the offensive part i...