from what we know, this happened at 10:42 a.m. about an hour and a half ago local time. it happened in the city of david. police have flooded into the area and the police commissioner has called for a special unit to boost security there. i can also tell you that we ve seen video on social media which shows the alleged perpetrator who doesn t appear to be gravely injured. he was being put into an ambulance to be treated for his wounds. he was shot and in the words of the police neutralized or incapacitated by two passer s by who held licensed firearms. in the wake of that shooting last night which killed seven and injured three, three of whom are still in hospital, this is a 60-year-old woman, 24-year-old man and a 15-year-old boy, this is really just escalating tensions obviously further here which were already running sky
we re seeing live pictures here from jerusalem. the response from israeli officials after two people were apparently wounded in a shooting attack saturday. that happened hours after seven people were killed and three wounded near a synagogue in what israeli police called one of the worst terror attacks in years. this all comes after israel launched strikes on gaza and after israeli forces killed nine palestinians in the west bank city of geneva. journalist elliott gotkine is in jerusalem for us. more violence today. take us through what happened. reporter: kim, yeah,s this is, what, the second shooting attack in 14 hours in jerusalem. the latest shooting in which two men, a father and a son, the son aged 22, the father in the late 40s, were shot by apparently a 13-year-old boy according to police. this happened in the city of david which is near the entrance to the old city of jerusalem.
holy land that will take visitors back in time once they are open to the public. we got a behind the scenes look at the active archeological site. we re in the city of david where archeologists have started a new excavation to uncover an an sent pool. in the bible this pool is where jesus is said to have healed a blind man and also where millions of pilgrims came to bapth in a ritual bath before hiking up to the second temple to pray. for the first time in 2000 years the site will be open to the public allowing people from around the world to walk in the footsteps where jesus once stood. the site you saw does have political implications and controversies attached to it. the temple where jews and christians believe jesus walked to from the pool houses the mosque, the third holiest site in islam. bill: the old city of