outfront tonight, terror at the temple. this community is reeling and wondering why six people were shot dead and three others wounded. tonight we re learning much more about the alleged gunman and the victims. police have identified the suspect as 40-year-old army veteran wade michael page who had connections to white supremacist groups. and here are now some pictures that we ve just gotten in to cnn. these are from page s old myspace page. obviously, can you see him in front of a flag with a swastika. the image you re looking at now is fairly recent, from february of this year 37 the death toll from yesterday s shooting now stands at seven including the suspected shooter. three people are in the hospital tonight after a chtic scene captured in this call to 911. i thought i heard shots. can you confirm that? man with a gun in the parking lot. man with a gun. ambulance up! subject is down. i need an ambulance. we have one officer shot. subject with a gun, white t-shirt,
yes. he stopped moving. we re approaching upon him. he s not moving. the subject is down! go ahead. we have one officer shot. proceed. squad 7512 south hollow avenue, subject with a gaughan, balding, white t-shirt, officer down. officer down. those were dispatches from the emergency department from police that you re listening to right there. ted rowlands standing by. we ve had so much more information get in and those were really tenuous moments as this was all developing. ted, i understand now you have some new developments to tell us about this alleged shooter. what do you know? a little bit more information, don, on the shooter and gun that was used. one firearm was used in this shooting according to a special agent with the atf we just talked to about five minutes ago, a 9 millimeter semi-automatic pistol recovered at the scene. they have issued a search warrant for the home where the suspect lives. they are executing that warrant as we speak right now, l
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the best that i could describe was a ski rope type. the woven type and it was my guess about 24 inches long. no. williams denies there was any such cord. because if that rope had been in the station wagon that night, i m sure they would have taken it. the fact that i didn t confiscate it didn t make it go away. the nylon cord would never be seen again. could have been the murder weapon as far as i know. fbi supervisors decided to let wayne williams go that night. we didn t have a body. secondly, there was no who saw wayne williams outside of his car. there was no one that saw him throw anything overboard. two days later, only a mile downstream from that bridge, another body. after two years, one suspect now, wayne williams. when we come back, the lie detector test. the surprise that he didn t beat that. he was convinced he could beat a polygraph test. he was like i ll be darned. the guy we have been looking for for two years. hmm, it says here that c
the situation room . we begin with the state of unemployment in america, just three months before election day. both democrats and republicans have something to seize on in the newest jobs report. employers say they added 163,000 jobs to the u.s. economy in july. that s better than economists expected, and something for the obama camp to hang its hat on. but the romney camp is pointing to this figure, the overall unemployment rate unexpectedly rose to 8.3%, because american households report losing 195,000 jobs. we want to bring in our white house correspondent, dan lothian. so sounds like kind of a wash, politically, dan. it does. and what the president is trying to do is highlight the positive, as you pointed out. yes, the unemployment rate did tick up to 8.3%, but what they re focused on is the fact that jobs were created, more jobs than expected. the experts out there, economists had expected that some 95,000 jobs would have been created last month, but as you pointe