others, a shooting where a couple of civilians and set up stopping the shooter from what could have been a significantly, significantly worse situation. that shouldn t has been released from the hospital this evening. is expected to appear virtually, in court tomorrow. we don t know anything, at this point, about motive in that shooting. we don t know anything about the motive in tonight s shooting. but as we re tired atf officer, jim kavanaugh, said moments this is likely the shooting that we are seeing tonight is a likely part of the aftermath, a reverberation after saturday nights shooting and colorado. obviously a devastating night in chesapeake, virginia. jim kavanaugh is back with us. jim hopefully you heard the conversation i just had with the information officer in virginia. what are your thoughts after hearing from him? well i think that they have got it, it s a real hot stain, stephanie, but what they have is kind of settled down because they believe is just one activ
not dead. if you are just joining, us again, we do have breaking news, law enforcement in chesapeake virginia is responding to a shooting as of now we re told there are multiple. fatalities. we don t know an exact number and injuries in this and this comes from the chesapeake public information officer. obviously, we will bring you more when we get. it juliette, i am out of questions. i don t know what more we can say, as you and i have talked about so often. so, and unfortunately, we are in the middle of this. we want to be super careful about the reporting right now. but what we do know is that the primary focus right now is family unification, as we all have been saying, it s a shopping tuesday night. people really start cooking tomorrow. it is a late night open store. and, so there are lots of people there whose family members do not know where they are. so, i hate to be tactical about this, and not as emotional as
we all are, but right now it s going to be the focus right now on family unification, because you re going to have to identify who the victims are. and then notify the families. so, we are looking at a couple of hours into the night. until we know exactly how many in the people who survived can meet up with their families and those who did not have to be identified. we are talking moments since this is happened. so, identification of the victims s primary at the stage. neil, juliette, joey, it s awful to think about this two days before thanksgiving. i appreciate being with you guys. obviously, we will stay on this. cnn is staying on this breaking news. we will bring you all the new developments. we are going to take a quick break, while we continue to gather our reporting on what is happening tonight at this walmart that you now see on your screen in chesapeake, virginia. our live coverage of this breaking news will pick up in
as of now, we are told there are multiple fatalities and injuries. chesapeake police, the public information officer there, leo kaczynski, as just told cnn that there are multiple fatalities and they are still going through the building at walmart. we are still joined by juliette kayyam, neil franklin, and joey jackson. while, joey, here we are, again. here we go again. there is nothing it s impossible to be surprised anymore when we have to report on a mass shooting. but it s still just as sickening, of course, as we prepare for the thanksgiving week. and also, alisyn, i m so tired of saying it s on the heels of, and it s on the heels, of and it s on the heels of of what just happened. and we saw, even with a three young man and the football players and virginia, that just happened recently. you know, what do you say about this? and if you talk about the issue of gun control, goodness forbid, that s not something we should
you just described all the legal setbacks he s had this year and a host of different fronts. now you have this one today, and you re describing it as pretty bad. yeah. this is what deals with say, this is a totally different thing than the tax returns. this is about the mar-a-lago investigation where trump stole a bunch of documents, highly classified and otherwise. he went to a judge that he basically shopped for that he said i need a special master. and you got that special master, but the government said, hey we re gonna appeal this thing, and today was the appeal this thing. we are following breaking news out of chesapeake virginia, people say multiple people were killed after a shooting took place in a walmart store. several more people are set to be injured, according to early reports. there was a single shooter who is believed at this point to be dead. the first report of the shooting came in at about 10:12