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Mentioned, from the border. we are waiting for a white house statement on all of this on the el paso shooting. i did get this in moments ago. i'm going to read it fresh here. this is from the deputy press secretary, steven groves, saying the president has been briefed on the shooting in el paso and we continue to monitor the situation. the president has spoken with attorney general barr and governor abbott. and that's the end of the statement. the president right now is in bedminster, new jersey. we have correspondents who are traveling with him. we have our kelly o'donnell there at the white ...

Confront the shooters. that's the first thing that the officers will be doing. second is to establish a perimeter so that nobody gets in and out so that you don't have a situation where the shooter tries to get away. >> you said establish a perimeter. your phone is breaking up a little. what was the third thing? >> establish a perimeter around this area. so we don't know exactly the site. obviously shopping malls present a lot of places to hide, a lot of concealment. it is difficult to certainly determine who is the shooter and who are victims, who are innocent bystander, and then of course th...

Is a former special agent in charge of the atf. atf is on the way. what do they plan to do in this sort of situation. >> at the el paso pd and the sheriff's office, of course, the fbi and the texas department of public safety, the texas rangers, they'll have a big investigative team. of course, initially if they need assistance in take advantage t-- containing the ara or whatever they can do. they have the full range of law enforcement services, just like all agencies that respond to these do. i'd say now it's slowed down. kendis, when the public information came out and reported one in custod...

They to be inside that walmart, could get into the larger mall itself. so right now everybody, again, citizens are tweeting and putting information on the internet about the shooting, but according to news sources and pd, we do not have that specific confirmation that it's all happening within a walmart store. >> and we don't know that it's wrapped up as yet. we're waiting for the police officers to tell us what the situation is. a lot people are weighing in on this, including the local congresswoman, who represents this area right there, representative veronica escobar, who tweeted moments ag...

Facebook messages and marking that they're safe. i heard that, again, i'm just trying to wrap my head around it, to be honest, because i know there's going to be someone that i know that knows someone at least, you know? there's not too many degrees of separation in that city. >> it's a relatively small ton, 800,000 people. >> it's a tightly knit community. >> many people might be wondering what's the gang situation in this town. >> it's been several years since i've lived there, so it's hard for me to say that. obviously there was gang presence when i was growing up there, but we can't say fo...