In their custody. Now the victims, more than 20 its going to shake up not only people are wounded and 22 your community, congresswoman. Specifically being treated at it will shake up the country and local hospitals and 11 at one our viewers around the world who are watching right now are going hospital and 11 at another to continue to ask what is going on and then they will ask the hospital. An official at the el paso next question, what can be done Mayors Office saying there are to stop this . Multiple fatalities, multiple because as you correctly point out weve gone through too many fatalities. The exact number of people of these horrendous mass killed is still not known or at least has not yet been released shootings in our country in recent years. Publicly. Here is what were hearing among other things from eyewitnesses. Wolf, we have the solution. They are right in front of us, i was in a sports store and a what we need is the will to act little kid runs in there and as a country, and we have to at says there is an active shooter some point say at walmart, but me and the guy didnt pay him no mind because hes a little kid and i walked enough, and we have to ask out and i go to footlocker and ourselves how many more wakeup all i hear is pop, pop, and all calls does this country need . I i am imploring that those i know is think my gun to think of us who have the capacity and past and the footlocker closed the cage and some people lifted the power to make change, that we Work Together to end this it and they got so scared and they wanted to get out. Epidemic. I seen a whole bunch of kids this is needless. Running out without their parents and i picked up as many there are families in tear, as i could and another guy did weeping right now and it did not as well. Im sorry, im shaking. Have to be this way. I cant think. And i just peeled out and i just hope the kids make it safe, man, it is so heartbreaking to because there were a whole bunch think and we dont know the nature of the victims. Of kids without the parents and i was more worried about the we know 22 people were taken to kids than myself. Two local hospitals. You heard the shots . We know there are multiple yeah. He did, too. Tell us how this feels like. Fatalities, and what is so awful im in the military, and it feels different for me because were trained to when you and every victim is so sad, but hear gunshots and pull out your weapon and think fast. Presumably well hear about kids being shot at this mall and it i really wasnt worried about is going to be so awful when we myself. I just picked up the kids and hear that, congresswoman. I assume youve spent some time carried them with me and me and the other guy did and we made it through dillards. At the local mall and you know i really wasnt worried about about the people who go there myself. What did you think about and youve seen the mall in action. Its never going to be the same. What ran through your mind when it was the shooting, wolf, you hearded shots . Im in the military. My understanding is that it took its a feeling that you cant place on the same property as explain, you know what im the mall, but at the walmart saying . You heart is all you think is that is right next to the mall, pull out your weapon and think and the shooter or shooters were fast. What were the kids they were running around not were not completely sure crying. Just running around and all i could think about was the kids. I think about it if my child, if yet how many if there was just one or if there were two, started in the parking lot and i had one, what i would want walked into the walmart and someone else to do and i pecked there is, unfortunately, very graphic video that has been them up a them up and the other guy did as circulating and i would well. Encourage folks not to watch it. I couldnt go back and i it is far too traumatizing. Tried my best me and the other guy as many but then there were reports that out as possible and thats all that was. The shooter or a shooter then i couldnt really do nothing. Went into the adjacent mall and thank you. That was u. S. Army specialist glendon oakley and we spoke to all of that is still being him earlier as well and he is pieced together. So i am not sure if anyone went totally understandably shaken by in after all or not, but the what he saw and he tried to protect the little kids who were in that mall and a lot of mall went on lockdown and shopping and going on back to everyone was doing Everything Possible to keep folks safe. School shopping in el paso and as far as you know, lets bring in shimon prokupecz. Shimon, youre working your congresswoman, you represent your district includes el paso, sources for us. What else can you tell us . And were speaking with veronica police are saying this happened after 10 00 a. M. At el escobar, the u. S. Congresswoman from el paso. Has anything like this ever paso time, early, the shooter and its believed he walked in know, in your community . No, wolf. From the walmart and there are el paso has been one of the witnesses who say they saw the shooter leave and there was a safest communities in all of the nation for decades. Walmart that one person described as maybe 200 yards from this mall. He left that walmart. There was a shooting inside the we routinely rank in the top three safest city of our size in walmart and then he walked the nation. We are a community of across into the mall where there was more gun fire according to hardworking families, people who the police, and as you said, take care of each other, people wolf, police are saying theyre sticking to the words of who take care of others. We never imagined on e i neve multiple dead. Theyre not saying exactly how many people have been killed. We know as you said, more than 20 people have been injured. The shooter, they believe, is imagined anything like this could or would happen. Only one person right now i suspect that we will have a responsible for this. Lot of people in our community they have questioned other who are going to be in shock and people. There were initial reports that there may be other shooters, but disbelief and this feels unreal. Police right now believe that there was only one shooter and this feels so unreal. That person, they believe they have him in custody. But its real and unfortunately, they also say that they have witnesses who tell them that he we are now part of a family of used a riflestyle assaulttype style weapon in the shooting. So police have him in custody communities that have suffered this unspeakable tragedy. And all indications are that it is so heartbreaking. Hes alive and theyll be able congresswoman, we are getting new information. To learn a lot of information a hospital official has told from him. Is, and the other the El Paso Times that people thing right now obviously for police, you have the fbi there have died after being and you have the atf and other transported to the medical federal agencies on scene, but the motive here that yet unknown and they are Still Hospital and they were following the shootings. We know that a high level of i know youre getting more folks here in washington, d. C. , information all of the time. Weve also just received some and also over at the Department New video from the ground in it of justice this investigation on what happened here and right now viewers and congresswoman, if were waiting to get more you can stick around. Specific information, wolf, from i want to get your police as to how many exactly have been killed here and how many people have been injured this is incredibly disturbing and what more can we learn about and it shows injured people the suspect here and the motive, laying on the ground outside the walmart. Wolf . We know 22 people have been injured, transported to two local hospitals. We know there are multiple [ speaking Foreign Language ] fatalities and we dont know how many yet. I know youre working your sources. Shimon, well get back to you. We have brandnew video coming from inside the walmart at that cielo vista mall, and it purports to show people hiding as shots are heard. Lets listen. [ speaking Foreign Language ] [ shot fired ] help [ shots fired ] help help we need cpr awful situation. Sex sex state representative cesar blanko represents part of el paso and his district help me turn him over help me officers are down the street congresswoman, it is so heartbreaking to see that. From where the shooting took place. I know its heartbreaking for first of all, how are you doing . You, its heartbreaking for all i understand youve been in of our viewers and i know youve touch with authorities and can you help us clarify what the got a lot that youve got to do, but give us some final thoughts latest information is, state representative . Wolf, thank you so much. Before i let you go. I would just encourage to all watching and hearing the shots of us to come together. Fired as a veteran, its a el paso is a resilient, tragedy that this is happening in our country and in my wonderful city. We are all going to step up and community. We do know that 19 people have take care of one another during this very difficult time, and while we mourn and while we been shot. Regroup and while we take care multiple folks are injured and of one another i again, i would filling in our level one trauma implore that those of us who center. Have the ability to create its a saturday. Change and i am among them, that parents and children are in our shopping malls as well as we create the change that we walmart preparing for back to desperately, desperately need. School. So theres a lot of traffic in congresswoman Veronica Escobar whose district includes these areas. My District Office is right down the street from it and its el paso, thank you so much for joining us. Our deepest, deepest condolences unfortunate that this has go out to those families in your happened. I have been in touch with community who are suffering right now and lets hope all of Governor Greg Abbott who is in those injured recover el paso to provide support and completely. Its such an awful situation his leadership and i have been that has unfolded. In communication with our chief thank you so much for joining us. Thank you, wolf. Of state Police Colonel mccraw i want to bring in jonathan here at dps who has confirmed that there have been multiple wakrel, former secret Service People shot north of 19 people agent and also joining us is Charles Ramsey and was police and there is a suspect in chief here in washington, d. C. Custody. Chief ramsey, give us your it is a male, and it no longer thoughts as you just heard that is an active shooting situation. It is a homicide scene situation painf painful conversation we had and the video that is coming in. Yeah, this is really going to according to the El Paso Police be bad once the numbers are finally released. You have people outside the department, but really a tragedy building probably inside the for one of the safest cities in building, as well. The world that this is happening you know, they keep saying they have one in custody. Here at home. Representative blanco, you its important to note i dont think we know the condition of the person in custody. Say 19 people have been shot. We dont. That doesnt necessarily mean we dont know if that person theyve been killed, is that was shot or if theyre in any right . No. However, i am receiving reports from our Level One Trauma Center condition to be interviewed at that they are receiving numerous all and this is not going to be good at all especially when you patients coming in with with start seeing victims in the parking lot. He was probably shooting before he even got in there he was injuries from the location. Already shooting. So my concern is that its going so thats thats terrible. To be north of that number. Terrible. Jonathan what was your eventually, we have been told analysis based on what we saw . From the University Medical wolf, these are unpredictable center of el paso that theyve received 11 victims and the del and dynamic situations. Sol Medical Center has received they can occur at any moment, and the key is here to survival another 11 people, that would be is maintaining situational 22. Where are you getting the 19 number from . Awareness and having a these are local reports from protection plan. Our from the local police we saw the benefits of that in the videos. We see people following dhs department in coordination with the state police, but obviously, recommendations to run, hide and these numbers are always in flux fight. People who can run and create distance from the threat did it, as its a chaotic situation, but but people who could not they hid, they tried to hide from look, you know, i do know that that threat. Listen, these are survival tactics at this point in time. To my understanding that it was an assault weapon that was its tragic that we are talking about this, but it is a utilized which could provide necessary conversation that we must have. Are we going to need to do mass casualties. My understanding based on these what is done in big parts of reports that the shooter began shooting in a parking lot area europe and the middle east, if you go to a mall in tel aviv, and and as of this moment for example, in israel, you have to go through security and you have to go through metal only one suspect has been detectors, chief ramsey, is that apprehended and no knowledge of going to be necessary here in the United States . Any other suspects. I sure hope not, but i mean, when the police the we do have to take a look, a Authorities Say there have been serious look at security. Multiple fatalities have they today its a mall. Weve had churches. Indicated an approximate number weve had schools. I mean, you know, venues like concerts i mean, we do need of killed . To take a look, a strong look at state police has not been firmed anyone killed at this security, but this is the United States, too. Point. So were waiting to hear back there is freedom of movement. People will come and go. From those report, but you know, you look at malls. You can leave a parking lot and walk right into the store that this is such a tragedy in our you want to go to. They have numerous ways to get community. We have been victims in our in and out. It would be very difficult to really shut that down the Way Community of a shooting not long you would like to for purposes of security. Ago at one of our va hospital so, yeah, we need to look at it, but we need to be reasonable in facilities here in el paso and our approach, too. Nothing of this magnitude. Everybody stand by. This is as id said before theres a lot more going on and i also want to remind our viewers as we go to break that there is an urgent need right thsh, this is a backtoschool season now for blood in the el paso and lots of children as we heard from the Army Specialist on your area, Blood Donation centers are program that lots of kids are at the mall or at the walmart with in el paso right now including their parents shopping, at 424 south mesa hills and 133 preparing for school and its just so sad that these mass north zaragoza. Shootings are happening in these civilian locations in our country at such a high well be right back. Magnitude. Yes. His . Its awful. State representative cesar ill take aleve. Aleve. Proven better on pain. Blanco, do you have any information on the suspect or beauty editors have tried everything any possible motive for this in search of a whiter smile. Mass murder . I havent received reports of their choice . Crest 3d whitestrips. Motive. 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[chuckles] area across the street from the mall is a very large outdoor i couldnt have asked for better parents, but like most people they didnt have anyone to teach them mall called the fountain affair the best financial habits. So we changed that. So this area is a hightraffic as a Financial Health coach, i help people every day. Area and one of the reasons i i try to put myself in their shoes from my own experience. Have my District Office in the area is becaus a lot of people i connect to them because ive been there. Are in this area all of the time. So theres going to be a lot of helping families like mine save a little money changes everything. People on a saturday especially when theyre getting ready to go this is personalized guidance. This is wells fargo. Back to, its the largest mall in el paso which obviously attracts a lot of people to the area. There are a lot of restaurants naturally around the area. There is a Movie Theater right next to the mall. Large parking lots that surround the mall obviously and lots of eateries and things like that. The hospitals that a lot of these patients and victims are going to are not far away from the mall and the interstate are right off the mall is right a cockroach can survive heresubmerged ttle guy. Underwater for 30 minutes. Off the interstate and there will be access for the emergency wow. Yeah. Vehicles to go in and go out, but a hightraffic area. This is the center of el paso. Not getting in today. You know, i was a stock boy for terminix. Defenders of home. Olay ultra moisture body wash nourishment it needs and keeps it there longer with lockin moisture technology. Shoe during high school and its a families come and enjoy their skin is petal smooth. Weekend ands such a tragedy that because your best skin starts with olay. This is happening in our community. Ive been to a lot of malls all over the United States, state representative, ive been to malls all over the world and in europe and the middle east. You go to a mall you have to go through security, unfortunately. Here in the United States you do go into security as you come into a mall. What kind of security do they have at the mall in el paso . I do frequent the maul and youve got store security. Youve got a mall security and this is an open place and there arent any metal detectors. You do see a Police Presence every now and then from the local police department, but look, its like any mall in america. Folks feel safe and people are shopping, enjoying and eating enjoying their time at the mall. Weve never had a scenario in this mall where you would need metal detectors or any kind of strong presence from Law Enforcement. Its just like any other city in the United States and now this community will be changed forever. Yeah. Certainly will be, and i am sure that there will be increased security now. Unfortunately, that will be required at other malls around the country as well. State representative cesar blanco, thank you so much for joining us and once again, our hearts go out to the families in your beautiful community. El paso is a great, great city. Before i let you go, anything we want to welcome our else you want to share with our viewers here in the united viewers . I just want to say that el states and around the world. Paso is a very strong community. Im wolf blitzer in washington. Were following breaking news. Its a tightknit, family very sad breaking news here in oriented community. The United States. This will not break us. Gun fire, lots of gunfire in a we will continue to be strong just like many other cities across our country that deal very crowded shopping center. With these type of tragedies. A mall in el paso, texas. We will survive this and many people were taken to hopefully as legislators and hospitals, several people are elected officials that there is now dead. Im about to show our viewers some very, very disturbing the courage the will to do something more regarding these video. Its just in to cnn. Type of fight abilities and disturbing because it shows tragic scenarios that are victims of the shooting lying on plaguing our nation. The ground in the terrifying lets hope, state first moments of this awful, representative cesar blanco and awful mass murder. Good luck to the folks over there and our hearts go out to the families of these victims and once we get more specific numbers of this tragedy, this horrendous mass shooting and the enormity of it will increase. Good luck over there. Thank you, wolf. We are getting a tweet in and a statement from the president. President trump just tweeted this, let me read it to our viewers. Terrible shootings in el paso, tks tex. 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We are also hearing more from eyewitnesses who were there at the shooting including from this man who was at the walmart, at the mall, who uttered a message of unity and love. Watch this. For anybody that went through this, no matter what, even though i wanted to fight i couldnt, i had to run. Run, if you cant run, hide. And help everyone as you possibly can. Im trying to get through to get to my wife because she was ahead of me, but yeah, help everybody you can. Maybe all for one, one for all, but when all for one is gone then, its like, its not about you, its about everyone else. What if they got shot and you didnt know what to do and the other way around. [ inaudible ] love everybody, man. This is a dark world. We all need love. We all need peace with each other. We all need were all the same. Lets get some analysis to this heartbreaking story and our police and Law Enforcement experts are joining us right now. Julia kayyem, and our Law Enforcement analyst and Charles Ramsey is the former Police Commissioner in philadelphia. Commissioner ramsey, let me start with you. You hear whats going on, you see these preliminary accounts of the number of people multiple fatalities at least 22 or so people injured in this mass shooting. What goes through your mind . Well, i mean, another tragedy. Here we are again. Its a week ago that we had the issue at the garlic festival. This isnt going to stop. Its just a question of where and when unfortunately, because nothings being done thats really going to cause it to stop. So we need to be prepared. We need to be on guard, but we shouldnt be surprised about this. Its just one more tragedy, and i feel for the people whose loved ones have been victims, whether they were killed or whether they survived, theyll never be the same. You and i will personally remember the shootings that were going on with the d. C. Sniper shootings that you were the police chief here in washington, d. C. , at the time and there were people who lived through that who are still suffering this very day. Thats right. I mean, its a collateral damage, ill call it. This cause when you have these things and even just watching it on television. How many kids and their parents are getting ready to go to a mall somewhere in the United States to shop for School Supplies now and they see what happened in el paso. This is totally out of hand in this country and something needs to be done and at least the conversation started in order to bring some of this to an end. I know everybody is concerned right now and at least i havent heard the thoughts and prayers stuff all over again. If thoughts and prayers worked this would have been solved a long time ago. We need to be taking action, strong action or well be right back here again. Yeah. You see these kids, young people leaving the mall and its an awful, awful situation. Julia kayyem, what goes through your mind as we continue to get more information, multiple fatalities, 22 people injured and 22 people taken to local hospitals, a suspect is in custody. So three things, professionally. Why, of course, why are the numbers all over the place in terms of the fatalities and it seems that the police are actually waiting to do identification until they give a number especially if there are children that were killed. We are hearing a lot about children in the mall. I suspect we will get a definitive number and that might explain why this delay. The second from a security perspective, is of course, we know how to secure big buildings and the stadium. In texas its open carry and you cant have the kind of security that you would have in a walmart in massachusetts that is not open carry. Walmart is sophisticated in their security but they have to deal with whatever state or area that theyre in. The third thing, i just want to say is about chief ramseys point, and and you know, chief ramsey has been in this a lot longer than pea and seen the impact of guns and what we can address is a single shooter who has been able to shoot at least 40 people in a very small period of time. One area that we begin to talk about is the capacity of gun, of certain guns in this country to kill people very, very quickly in a short period of time because that means they cant respond, and it means Law Enforcement cant respond, and i do think that if we look at these numbers how quickly it happened last weekend and this weekend, as well and if thats a particularly american phenomenon and it has nothing to do with handguns and what you heard from people, we are looking at a very fast gun and they wont say what it is. Finally, im not going to be professional now, but personal this is a mall on a saturday before school starts. Every parent knows exactly what that situation could feel like and knows exactly the fear in a childs heart and mind forever if you happen to be at the wrong walmart, at the wrong time. School starts a week from monday in texas, and its just madness at this stage. Chief ramsey is 100 right when he says that parents are watching what has just happened in el paso at this big mall there and theyre wondering is it safe to go to the local mall where i live to take my kids and get clothes for the new school year . Jonathan, youre a former secret Service Agent and Law Enforcement analyst, and based on the information we are getting from the El Paso Police department, from the mayor, from the state representatives and other authorities including local media, what do you think . I want to jump back to the video that we saw from inside the walmart where we heard the gun fire. What we did not hear in the gun fire was a rapid burst. A fully automatic or threeround burst. What we heard was a very systematic, firing process, one, two, three. To me thats indicative of target acquisition and someone thats just not going into spray bullets around a room. He he or she, the suspect, was methodically looking and picking out their targets. That is terrifying for those people who were there. That video showing somebody underneath a table. That is a terrifying moment that will stay with him for the rest of their life. Weve been talking about 22 injured. Actually, everyone who is involved in this is injured. There is a physiological and psychological effect that everyone will undertake because they are involved in this situation. The situations have last a lifetime. We had a young woman 16 years old earlier t her life. Just think about how this moment in time, this sunday morning, 10 00 in el paso when she was buying School Supplies will stay with her for the rest of her life and there is a Ripple Effect with these incidents and we have to start solving for them. Theres got to be something and looking at these live pictures coming in, youre looking at Law Enforcement, heavily armed Law Enforcement and theyre coming into the mall right now where were showing our viewers these live pictures and the aftermath of this mass murder and this mass shooting is going to be significant and lets take a quick break and resume our special coverage right after this. Dont miss your golden opportunity to experience our most advanced Safety Technology on our full line vehicles. Now at the lexus golden opportunity sales event. Lease the 2019 es 350 for 379 a month for 36 months and well make your first month payment. Experience amazing. You wouldnt accept from any one else. Why accept it from your allergy pills . Flonase relieves your worst symptoms including nasal congestion, which most pills dont. Flonase helps block 6 key inflammatory substances. Most pills only block one. Flonase. You dont live in one corner. Fragrance shouldnt either. 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At least 22 people have been taken to local hospitals. We are gathering more information right now and specific numbers of fatalities and we are also hearing from the democratic president ial candidate beto orourke who is from el paso. He represented that city in the u. S. Congress, is part of the 16th Congressional District and he also temporarily served as the city mayor, sat on the city council. Moments ago beto orourke reacted to this mass shooting that happened in his hometown. At this point the area has still not been cleared. Its still considered active. We know that a lot of injury, a lot of suffering in el paso right now. Im incredibly saddened and it is very hard to think about t s this but ill tell you el paso is the strongest place in the world. This community is going to come together. Im going back there right now to be with my family and to be with my hometown, and i want to thank the El Paso Police department and the First Responders that are there right now and were going back to be with them. And ive spoken to the mayor of el paso, and ive spoken to congresswoman escobar and spoken to sheriff wiles. Theyre all doing everything they can and we are still learning information about this situation, and so i just ask for ask for everyones strength for el paso right now. Everyones resolve to make sure that this does not continue to happen in this country. Well share more as we go forward. I thank you all for being here today. Thanks. Beto orourke was in las vegas when he got the word of this mass shooting going on in his hometown of el paso. He is now on his way back, but the first thing he did like so many people who know individuals and have loved ones in el paso, they immediately called to make sure they were okay, they werent at the mall at the time. He called his wife and spoke to his wife and spoke to his daughter and they were reassuring him that they were okay and so many people had been shaken by this horrendous, horrendous situation. As we reported, at least 22 people, at least 22 people were injured. The del sol Medical Center in el paso has received 11 of the victims from todays mass shooting. The hospital spokesman Victor Guerrero is joining us on the phone right now. Victor, thanks so much. How are you doing . How is everyone at the hospital doing . Tell us about the condition of these victims. Victor, are you there . Yes. Victor, this is wolf blitzer in washington. I just want to if you can hear me okay. Give us an update on whats happening at the hospital. All right. We will try to reconnect with Victor Guerrero. He represents the del sol Medical Center in el paso where 11 of the victim, the shooting victims have been transported. Well get back to him, continual of the breaking news right after this. Whos dog is this . 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We can confirm that the 22 injured victims are being treated at two area hospitals. One suspect according to the police, is now in custody. Police say no active shooter remains at the cielo vista shopping mall. Weve been seeing employees calmly helping people evacuate while s. W. A. T. Teams were hunting for the shooters. Keep in mind, many stores were offering backtoschool specials just days before el paso schools were getting ready to reopen after the summer break. Terrifying scenes of panicked shoppers running through the stores as the shooting went on unfolded. Watch this. Run, mija, run. Hands up hands up hands up hands up lets go lets go vamonos. Lets go lockdown at cielo vista mall. Lets go. Lets go. El paso police are working with the fbi, the dea, federal and state agencies in their investigation which is only just beginning, however, the cielo vista mall remains on lockdown right now, totally understandable. Evacuated shoppers are starting to process the terrifying events of this afternoon and theyre describing what they saw. Watch this. There was people running from inside the mall to dillards and they were just screaming to get out and thats when everyone started getting out and then the store manager said for everybody to evacuate so we had to stay behind and make sure everybody was out and then the police came in. I want to bring in texas congresswoman escobar. Shes joining us on the phone right now. Her district includes el paso. First of all, congresswoman, how are you doing . Wolf, im heart broken, but im, you know, im far more worried about obviously about all of our families. There are a number of people who have been injured, a number of fatalities. People who were conducting their saturday business, who were running their errands going to the grocery store, shopping for School Supplies. These incredible people in my community are warmhearted, compassionate, kind people and this was a massacre. Whats the latest informat federal authorities on the number of People Killed . Well, we have received some confirmation from dps and from local officials, but you know, its an everchanging, its a dynamic environment. We keep getting updated with different information, sometimes theres conflicting reports. So i dont want to announce anything, but i will say that the numbers are shocking. When we heard from the mayor, we heard from the local police department, we heard from a state representative that there are multiple fatalities, and i can only imagine how heartbreaking that must be. I assume theyre waiting notification to next of kin. I can only imagine that thats what they normally do, right . Right. And theyve El Paso Police set up a family reunification site that is maybe just a couple of miles away from the crime scene so that family members who know that their next of kin was in the area and in the shopping center, that they havent been able to reach them, if they havent heard from them, theyre able to go there to try to gather some more information. There is obviously a lot of concerned families. I know i spoke with one of our hospital ceos earlier and one of the individuals who who died in their care had really no identification and so theres going to be a lot of confusion and a lot of, you know, very, very, very worried families in the next few hours and so i think the best thing that we can do is let Law Enforcement do their job and what America Needs to know is that this is a very, very heartbreaking moment for a very safe and wonderful, warm and beautiful community. What can you tell us, if anything, congresswoman, about the suspect who is now in custo custody and a possible motive for this horrendous mass murder . We dont we dont have the motive yet, and i have received the name of the suspect in custody and have a little bit of information, but again, im going to leave that to Law Enforcement to to share. Youve been told that this is the person in custody is the shooter and one person is in custody not multiple people, right . Right. And one of the we heard conflicting reports throughout the early afternoon that there might be three shooters, for example, and one person is in custody, but we dont know if there were others who were helping. I mean, we have been told that to stay away from the area that its, you know, its not quite secure yet and so that leads me to believe that they are still looking for at least one other person. We heard the former congressman from your district beto orourke say as soon as he got word he was in las vegas at the time campaigning. As soon as he got word the first thing he did was call his wife to find out and make sure she was okay and the kids are okay. What did you do first when you heard about this shooting . Wolf, we were having our town hall meeting, actually, and we were in the midst of the q and a session and folks were lined up ready to ask their questions. We were in the middle of that, and a member of my staff approached me, and i immediately, of course, became concerned because that was unusual, but she walked up and told me that Law Enforcement asked that we immediately end the town hall meeting, send everyone home and let folks know that there was an active shooter in the community in the cielo vista area. So we did that. We asked everyone to you know, calmly make their way out and get to their car, go home and get safe and we immediately downtown el paso. 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