there. the five-day halt in fighting. nbc s aaron mclaughlin is along the turkish side of the border with syria for us. erin, we re getting a reality check of what is playing out on the ground. today was to be to be the first day of that pause of military operations. what are you seeing on the ground? reporter: at the moment, ayman, there s an intense dust storm happening here. i don t know if you can see the wind t rain and the dust we re experiencing right now. other than that, pretty quiet. just a mile behind me is the kurdish city abutting the syrian/turkey border. earlier this morning it was a different situation. we saw heavy clashes, grenades, automatic gunfire and mortar fire. we also heard later in the day from turkish president erdogan who said that was
band was performing, there was music, it came towards the end of this festival. the festival, according to the website was ending at around 6:00 pacific time. the band was still playing and then the shots started ringing out. so i think that s going to be a key factor for investigators. the other thing that is still not certain is was this shooter targeting someone or was this completely random and this shooter was just trying to create chaos, trying to kill as many people as possible? the fact that they ve recovered this rifle, we don t know what kind of style of rifle it is, but we have heard witnesses describe automatic gunfire, rapid gunfire. you heard that one witness saying about 30 gunshots, that the shooter may have loaded, reloaded, a key fact here. so all of that still very much in the air. we have yet to officially hear from police as to exactly what happened here. we know the president tweeted. he said that the shooter was still wanted, was still on the run, saying that it
that has been going on for decades. it supports the local community and it s called the gilroy garlic festival. [ gunshots ] shots ringing out there at this festival. people running for their lives. law enforcement are now telling cnn that they have recovered a firearm and rifle ammunition from the scene. this man was there. it sounded like automatic gunfire and it sounded like approximately 30 rounds. and then there was a point of silence and then there was another reload. it seemed like a reload. and we heard 30 more rounds. and how close were you to this gunfire? we were probably within a few hundred feet. and from what i understand in speaking to a number of vendors and festivalgoers, this gunfire came in and around the stage
synagogue in pittsburgh. savage with automatic gunfire. anti-semitism had blasted its way into american consciousness. we have four down. reporter: barry was praying inside the tree of life synagogue when bullets started flying. he hid in a closet as a gunman mowed down 11 of his fellow worshippers. what it like being a survivor? sometimes, i just feel dead inside. no feeling at all. i hate that feeling, but it s there. how many of your friends have you had to bury? too many to count. reporter: it was the deadliest anti-semitic attack in american history, the personification of the rising state of hate in this country. the anti-defamation league says anti-semitism in america was
children had obviously nothing to do with that interfamily feud that officials say was going on, but in ruling out that this was a random racially motivated religiously motivated crime, they re looking into the family aspect here. steve patterson live for us in texas this morning. in the wake of the latest mass shooting to hit the country, members of congress are looking to begin to take some sort of action to try and curb this sort of violence. a spokesman for chuck grassley of iowa revealed yesterday the panel plans to hold a hearing on pump stocks, the device used by the las vegas shooter that can simulate automatic gunfire. in the wake of the mass shootings, it continues to divide many in the republican party. the bump stock issue, the judiciary committee is working on that issue alone. but do we believe in the