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hello, everyone, and good morning. welcome to "cnn this morning." i'm amara walker. >> i'm victor blackwell. it's happened again. we are waking up to the tragic realities of gun violence in this country. eight people are dead, seven injured over a mass shooting at an outlet mall in allen, texas. some of the scenes we saw captured on video, we warn you they are hard to watch. . you can hear the rapid fire there and see shoppers and employees scrambling into storage areas, they hid when they heard the gunshots. witnesses say some people sheltered in place for up to two hours as law enf...

An allen police officer at the mall for anon related call. investigators believe that the shooter was acting alone. >> juliette kai em is back us with. if you are keeping tally, there been 200 mass shootings this year. we are not even 200 days into the year. i think like 120 some days in the year. i was doing the math. we were talking about this before the break. i mean, how do we learn to live with this? because this is america for you. >> yes. obviously, there is the defensive measures making self-targets -- soft targets less response, frtraining for response, training people not just about ...

Surveilled they didn't pick it out of a phone book. they picked it because there were suspicious characters going in and out and now the public officials are stopping that, that's a mistake, i think, don't you? >> it's a mistake this they were allowed to do that. but the federal government and the fbi even preempt state officials so i anticipate that the fbi is doing a deep scrub this have guy's background, david. david: all right, well, the brooklyn bridge. this came as a shock to me, i'm overjoyed that he wasn't able to do that, even though it was horrible what he did do. is that because the...

Often they die there. a subject of law enforcement attention. there are a lot of soft targets. we do see attacks on self-targets. if you do the thought experiment where a lot of them conducting by people shouting ala akbar or hard to judge motivation we'd be having a different kind of conversation in fact, attacks by people motivated by al qaeda's ideology in the united states on soft targets are pretty infrequent. we saw in the boston marathon bombing two people who did this. they weren't located by nsa surveillance. nsa surveillance i think the role it plays in averting terrorist attacks has...

Democratic society where people do have freedoms and do have privacy rights are going to, in the future, protect self-targets and those are the targets that people are particularly concerned about in the light of boston is going to be a struggle for law enforcement and for us as a country. how much surveillance are people prepared to have? because there is going to be a lot more. we will see other cities following what new york has done and having cameras being stepped up right throughout the city. >> all right. now the three people who were killed in the blast here in boston, the two blasts, ...