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Monitoring the situation for us. she joins us live from hong kong. anna, what are we learning? >> reporter: well, as you say, 49 people are now dead. but that death toll could very well rise. there are dozens of others that have been seriously injured, being treated in hospital. so as i say, that death toll could rise. this is unprecedented, this act of violence unprecedented in new zealand. never before has there been a terror attack in new zealand let alone on this scale. this was a massacre. the gunman who we believe to be an australian citizen, he has been charged, he is in his late 20s. h...

Possibility more shooters aren't at large. anna coren is monitoring the situation and joining us live. >> reporter: this has been horrendous day for new zealand, as the primary jacinda ardern described earlier. a terror attack carried out by three men, one of those being an australian citizen. now, this australian, he live streamed the video on facebook. his killing spree was live on facebook. and i've watched the full 17 minutes and it is probably one of the worst things that i have ever seen. he arrives at the mosque, he is heavily armed. has numerous semi automatic weapons. he walks into th...

Semi automatic weapons. looking at the video, there would have been at least 60s semi automatic weapons. he had magazines of ammunition, he had jerry cans filled with fuel. and when they arrested two of these men in their cars, there were ieds attached to the cars. so if at all possible, this death toll of 40 people could have been much higher if these men had been allowed to carry out perhaps the full extent of their attack. >> anna coren live for us in hong kong, 4:00 p.m. with the latest there. thank you. let's go ahead and bring in an international security direct director. john, i'm gla...

Their teachers were not lost and the damage not suffered the law needs to be applied dispassionately and he is saying this is horrific. everybody agrees on that but should the manufacturer bear liability? he says no. it is about the person who chose the gun and what they did with it. >> i disagree with that debate. there are 15, semi automatic weapons. you can't kill a rabbit or deer. shannon: plenty of people use it for that and target practice and other things. >> this is a military style weapon and it is used to kill. we've seen over and over at various educational schools in this country w...

Iceberg and the defendant is a domestic terrorist bent on committing acts dangerous to human life that are intended to affect government conduct. so, what this gentleman had been doing, he was stockpiling weapons, more than a dozen, including semi automatic weapons, rifles, handguns and more than a thousand rounds of ammunition, since about twee201. he is also accused of using tramadol, a narcotic that's sort of a sedative, and stockpiled 20 bottles of human growth hormone. according to the court documents he talked about conducting these massive attacks, massive terrorism and had recent googl...