tyler breen. and, of course, the big question is why? why did he do it? sergeant mittsy fee arrow is with the lapd. she joins us now by phone. sergeant piaro, tell us how long the gunman was shooting before he was shot? it appears that the incident took approximately a little over five minutes from beginning to end. as can see in the video, tyler approached the intersection of sunset and vine armed with a handgun, started shooting at passing motorists, walked up and down the area of sunset and vine and then walks southbound down vine street where he shot a passenger sitting in his vehicle. and then again proceeded back toward the intersection of vine where he was excuse me. back toward the intersection of sunset where he was confronted by police, sunset on vine. at that are you there? yes. at that point, the police ordered him to drop his p weawe and he pointed his gun at the police. an officer-involved shooting then occurred. we re trying to piece together what m
so far there is no information on a possible motive. chris johns lives at the intersection. he shot video of the gunman and even engaged him in conversation to try to get his attention and he join us from los angeles. thank pup what were you thinking at the time in first of all, what drew your attention in the noise? yeah. basically, i heard pop, pop, pop. you know, i heard the gunshots. so that kind of drew my attention. i looked at the video and you said, hey, over here. look over here. why were you why were you trying to get him to come? you were asking him to shoot at you. yeah. i thought that i made a calculate calculated, kind of comparison. i thought, if people down there at point blank range to the shooter were going to get shot, you know, they were kind of helpless to avoid being killed. you know, me, i m four stories up, if i could take any of his attention and divert it towards me, any gunshots that he would shoot at me, i would have an opportunity to get
he calls palestinians an invented people. a palestinian leader says the gop front-runner s comments are racist. thousands of white house visitors have done it. now president obama has, too. he sets off a metal detector at a white house security checkpoint. and across russia, angry protesters take to the streets. they say parliamentary elections were rigged. the target of their anger, the prime minister vladimir putin and his party. controversial words from newt gingerich today. he says palestinians are and i m quoting here an invented people. gingerich made the remarks in an interview on the jewish channel. here it is. well, i believe that the jewish people have the right to have a state. and i believe the commitments that were made at a time remember, there were there was no palestine as a state as part of the ottoman empire. i think that we ve had an invented palestinian people who were historically part of the arab community. gingerich went on to say it s
one of the men says dod drugged him and offered him $1,000 for oral sex. no comment from dodd who is battling colon cancer. the fight over payroll tax cut is facing a new year s deadline. each party has a different idea on how to achieve it. with an interview with cbs, president barack obama admits there s no quick fix for the american economy. did you over promise? did you underestimate how difficult this was going to be? i didn t over promise and i didn t underestimate how tough this was going to be. i always believed that this was a long term project. this wasn t a short term project. and, you know, for individual americans who are struggling right now, they have every reason to be impatient. reversing structural problems in our economy that had been building up for two decades. that s going to take time. it s going to take more than a year. it s going to take more than two years. it s going to take more than one term. probably takes more than one president. both p
i always believed that this was a long term project. this wasn t a short term project. and, you know, for individual americans who are struggling right now, they have every reason to be impatient. reversing structural problems in our economy that had been building up for two decades. that s going to take time. it s going to take more than a year. going take more than two years. going to take more than one term. probably takes more than one president. now more on that investigation of memphis. sexual abuse allegations are surfacing against the head of the amateur athletic union. two men tell espn that robert bobby dodd molested them back in the 1980s when they were playing on dodd s aau basketball team. cnn george howell is in memphis. he joins us now live. so, george, what more, if anything, is being said about these allegations? reporter: fredericka, we just got off the phone with police. they say there s an active investigation into bobby dodd. the amateur athletic un