[ speaking foreign language ] by now. so there will be identification and then, of course, family notification which they clearly want to do before and you will just have an issue about whether people have identifications. what was their legal status? this is a border stcity. this is a community that is racially diverse and actually the sargence had alluded to this, and i just have a help! recommendation to local officials that they re worried we need cpr! that the wounded either walked help! help! away and they are reunited we need cpr! we need cpr! help! because of the immigration status. there will be no immigration enforcement at either the family unification centers or the army trooper! hospital. because as the sergeant said this is a concern. it s clear there are people that help me turn him over! are not unifying with their help me! ? it was just outside of the mall family and that there are people at that walmart outside in the that are worried and injured that did
concerns have been. we were sitting in the airport getting ready to board the plane, we got a text message from our children who live in el paso, he is a soldier in the army at ft. bliss. and they said all of us are safe. we didn t know what they were talking about. a few minutes later, an alert message came on saying that there was an active shooter. as we were loading the plane. well, sitting in our sas safe, we then started hearing other people on the plane calling home saying hey, are you okay. so it is one ofof situations where again as you have reported so many peop these things can happen anywhere. and it certainly is happening now here in el paso, texas. a beautiful and very large city. are you familiar with this mall, the shopping area? i am. it is close to the airport. it is on airway drive. you know, i m not real familiar with it, but i know that it is one of the many malls that are in the el paso area. is this like an open mall
police. what are your sources telling? a lot of resources now heading in to the area to assist the el paso police. this is what always happens in these situations. a couple points to make. significant here that the mayor s office has already confirmed that they have some suspects in custody. i think it is important for viewers to keep in mind that there are always initial reports, the initial reports always say there are multiple shooters. there could be other people on that in that mall who were carrying weapons. because they can carry weapons there in that state. and so that could be cause smfgt confusion. and i want to interrupt you, let s listen into the officer. currently is searching the area so stay away. if you have loved ones that are unaccounted for that were at the mall, there is a reunification center currently set up at
information coming from the mayor s office from el paso police, but we also know that many of you are probably relying on your social media accounts to learn a lot of information. we did want to caution you that sometimes some of the early reports where the incomplete information is just that, incomplete and early. and of course we are continuing to work to confirm a lot of information and details that are coming in. we also want to get firsthand accounts. and we ll get that now from juan rodarte who was at a nearby should th shopping mall. not just that cielo vista tha tr 1407i in shopping mall about two miles away. the bassett place mall. underst experienced being evacuated from that mall. what did you experience? well, basically we were told to evacuate our store.
without incident. they were looking for him and the police found him and they did a search. it is not clear if he was outside or inside the walmart or somewhere else, but there were a couple of other significant pieces and the police saying that the officials out there saying that the shooting, they believe the entire shooting took place outside the walmart and inside the walmart and that he never went inside the mall during the shooting and that because of the shooting, the mall was put on lockdown and obviously there was a lot of panic. so some folks there were probably injured. the other thing that i think is very interesting is that allen, texas, where this suspect is from according to the map is about ten hours or so away from this scene. it s about 650 miles. so he would have had to have driven to this area. when did he get to this area? how long has he been on the road? how long has he been planning that? that will all factor into what investigators are going to be looking into