moment we have varying accounts of when this happened. but what we know is that two men in that time period pull up in a vehicle and shot a garland police officer that was outside the building. what was happening inside that building was a fair. now, the fair was showing artwork, illustrations of the prophet, muhammad and the name of that fair was the muhammad art exhibit and context. that s what happened. now, the two individuals that did drive up and shot that police officer were then shot and killed themselves. we don t know who they are. we don t know where they are from, or what their motive was. that information we don t have at the moment. what we can say is that police are confirming that those two men have been shot and killed, and that those two men did shoot a police officer from that area. that s what we know at this hour. let s bring in cliff van zant,
reporter: well, they re going to continue to search in the coming hours. they re going to bring in cadaver dogs and sniff for explosive. they re treating this as a crime scene for now. they want to rule out any possibility this is a crime before they believe investigating for what they believe it to be an industrial accident. charles working all night covering that story outside of waco, texas. federal agents arrested a mississippi man overnight suspected of sending letters contaminated with poison to president obama and senator roger wicker. this move cummings just days after the letters were intercepted in mail sorting facilities for the white house, capitol hill. nbc s tracie potts has the details. reporter: richard what led them to mississippi, was the setting on not just two, but three letters wents too a mississippi judge, signing those letters to become a silent partner i am kevin curtis and i approve this message. that suspect called kevin curtis has been arre
addition to everything else. michael isakoff, thank you so much. joining me now is cliff van zant, nbc analyst and fbi profiler. oh, clint welcome but we always get together under these kinds of circumstances. one more time, alex. good to see you, bad situation. we do not have confirmation of reports that 20-year-old adam lanza was suffering from a personality disorder. but what can you tell us about that? the circumstances under which he would be identified as that? well, we ve got to watch this, too. if there is a personality disorder, some have suggested that he suffered from he was autistic. we know that if you re autistic there s no link between autism and violence. but he s been described as autistic. i m reading here alex. a family insider described him as a deeply disturbed kid. somebody else said he had a condition where he couldn t feel pain.
i m alex witt. it is a day of questions and fresh insight about the sandy hook elementary school shooting. there is information about the gunman, how he entered the school and killed 20 children and six adults before he killed himself. we have established the point of entry. it s believed he was not voluntarily let into the school at all. that he forced his way into the school. but that s as far as we can go on that. in a moment, chris janzen in connecticut with more on that news conference. first compelling new information about the shooter and what he did in the days before the attack. nbc s pete williams is in washington. pete with a good day, what have you learned? reporter: alex, the connecticut authorities have not yet formally identified the gunman, but we re been told and i think it s widely known it s adam lanza is his name, 20 years old who was living with his mother. they say the shooting actually began that morning about three miles from the school at the ho
account for her death. cliff van zant, appreciate you joining us today. we ll keep your eye on that investigation. also watching a developing situation in southern california. you can see overhead a chopper now over crowds of onlookers and photographers on a beach. they are taking pictures of a wayward whale that has come right up to the beach there in dana point, california. this is just south of orange county. and the shot of the wayward whale is just amazing. let s see if they pull out and show it. we just saw it moments ago blowing water out of its blowhole there. we ll come back to it, see if we can revisit this so we can see the actual whale when the chopper pulls out. [ woman ] nine iron, it s almost tee-time.