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Follow the science and i think it's probably premature but a tough call. >> harris: did you say democrats are premature to make the decisions they're making? a huge billboard in times square that went up yesterday pressing president biden to follow the lead of governors and lift the federal mask mandates. one of those governors is from connecticut. >> they won't say zero infections anybody back on the field. that's not the way it works. we can deal with omicron or zombie con or whatever comes next and keep people safe. >> harris: a "washington examiner" op-ed saying this is all about politics ...

At 11:44 p.m. saturday night. that's when they first got the call. that's when the shots rang out. this event attracted 20,000 people. it was so crowded, people were standing shoulder to shoulder. police got to the scene and found taylor was fatally shot and five others were hurt. their injuries described as non-life threatening. you can imagine there were a number of people out with cell phones. one bystander actually captured the sounds of the gunfire as it erupted. [ gunshots ] >> four or five shots. pop, pop, pop, pop, pop. the guy fell right their rigr t front of me. >> reporter: the orga...

This morning, police in florida are hunting for a killer who opened fire on the crowd of the zombie festival in ft. myers minutes before the event ended on saturday. hundreds of people in zombie theme costumes were fleeing in terror. we get more from cnn's jason carroll. >> reporter: still no word on the motive or responsible for the shooting. police released the name of the man killed. his name is xpaviuos taylor. he spoke to his aunt who said he was at zombie con with his friends. she believes he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. police say the shooting happened

Fort myers, kill being one person and wounding five others. steve harrigan, live in miami. steve, are there any leads on the shooter at this point? reporter: martha, the manhunt is still on. police examining cell phone records of people at scene of the man fired several shots just before midnight before the zombie con event in fort myers was supposed to end. initially people thought it might be part of the festivities, fake shots. only when bodies began to fall they realized this associating was for real. >> about four or five shots at same time. pop, pop, pop. >> all of sudden i heard like so...

There were more than 10,000 people there shoulder to shoulder just before midnight in downtown fort myers. many of the people there were in zombie costumes. you have people with blood splatter, fake blood splatter on their bodies holding fake guns. police are supposed to determine who is really wounded and who is the shooter. this is the ninth year of this zombie con event. it started with a few hundred people, but grown into tens of thousands, based on a zombie movie that was filmed in fort myers. martha. martha: you have to shake your head. steve, thank you very much. bill: so the head of th...