it is too soon to give firm numbers on the total fatalities. congressman for this district tells us at this point, law enforcement does not have a motive for this shooting. and now, i want to go to our ed lavandera, who is on the ground, at the scene here. ed, what s the latest? reporter: well, as you heard, the major headlines, i think what people are most interested in right now is that this situation, the active shooting part of it, clearly has come to a close, and now, investigators and law enforcement here trying to secure the scene, do all the investigative work that they need to do. as you mentioned, authorities are saying they believe just one gunman was involved in this situation, and now we re trying to figure out just how many wounded and deceased there are in this situation. we ve spoken with a witness who said that they saw four bodies on the ground in front of a burger restaurant, and as well as the h&m store, and again,
couch this all by saying, these are witnesses who were leaving these premises in very chaotic and terrifying moments, so, you know, these kind of eyewitness accounts can change very dramatically, but from what we ve heard from several witnesses, that they saw four bodies on the ground, that could very well have included the gunman. we also spoke with another witness who was inside that burger restaurant and saw the body of one victim, who they she thought was the gunman. and that person in the picture that she showed me of the scene, several law enforcement officers standing around the body and that person had what appeared to be some sort of tactical gear, it was a little bit difficult to make it out when i first talked to her, but that is the situation that she described. and what we ve heard over and over from witnesses and people whole were very close to the shooting when it erupted here this afternoon, several witnesses told us that the shooting perhaps lasted as long as 20 to 3
loved ones were because this was so chaotic. again, we are waiting for a lot of details from authorities. thank you. you just heard her go through the tick tock of everything we know at this point. what are you seeing there right now at this facility? we ve been able to move to the western side of the outlet mall. and you can see in the distance. this gives as you little better angle into the area where we believe at least where the shooting might have come to an end. that is the area, if you heard our report earlier. there was a burger restaurant there where there was a lot of police activity. we believe that s the area where investigators are focused at this moment. we did hear from some people
reporter: right now there s a lull of people anticipating what will happen. we don t see any rush of movement. i m on the southern end of this outlet mall from the vantage point where i came in a little while ago. you don t get a sense of chaotic running. people scrambling to move in a terrified kind of way. it seems like things ever settled down. at least for this moment. so people are waiting to see what they re going to do, to be able to do. if you look back here, this is entrance into the outlet area. as you look in the distance, you can see how many hundreds of cars are in there. these are people who had to leave everything behind. the witness we talked to who worked at the burger restaurant in the outlet mall said people scrambled and left as quickly as they could. tables were left with purses and belongings. a lot of people had to race away