going to take an act like this and put the time into it to gather intelligence, to gather the tools, to gather the weapons to carry this out. this was a planned event. you know, clint, you re an fbi profiler. you ve been on air with me now for better part of three hours. we have never asked the question why or motive yet. we ve had so little information. there s not even a bit for you to even consider as to what that theory might be. what we have, richard, is what the police chief suggested, that it appears that the shooter was shooting at random. now, we know that the police response was so fast. i think you were told it was within a minute that an officer engaged that shooter and shot him and killed him, put him down, that perhaps this mass shooter had a target and he wasn t even able to get to where that target is. we don t know yet.
community who were just out enjoying themselves and their families. but, you know, there s a lot of information still yet to be gathered. but what grabs me the most to your question, what grabs me the most with each one of the speakers that came to that podium is that they were just overwhelmed with a great deal of sadness and sympathy for the loss of those lives and those that were injured tonight. we did not get that information necessarily, but you heard the number of volunteers, both of you, cedric and clint, 4,000 local volunteers. we don t know if those were injured. we don t know if those who lost their lives today, the threeic ha victims from the suspect are some of those volunteers. and it s a town that you probably know everybody, especially given, for instance for the chief of police who s been there for decades, a student at the very spot where he had to give this press
that does not know how to build a good device. who did it himself and then carried out the attempted attack, failed miserably, and now is whether he claims to be isis or not is irrelevant. so standby for one second as i bring in clint van sant. i want to get your response to this, too, because clint, talk through here, what does this tell law enforcement? if you are a member of the nypd right now or frankly a member of the joint terrorism task force, members of whom are on the ground in new york, we have confirmed, what are you looking at to see what you can learn, god forbid, for the next time somebody tries to do something like this in the middle of times square? yeah, well, number one, if we are trying to see if he intentionally set this off or if it was accidentally set off, did he make a statement, as you indicate, bill bratton suggested he made some type of statement suggesting an association with
luggage. airport officials say they are also trying to match the more than 20,000 bags and personal items with their owners. let s go back out live to ayman mohyeldin live from the airport. that s right, sheinelle, they re dealing with all kinds of problems in terms of getting terminal 2 open. now they have to deal with some weather conditions that have obviously complicated that. but for the most part the investigation really now shifts a little bit further away from the airport here into the background of that shooter esteban santiago. focusing on known associates, whether there was some kind of accomplice, all of this to piece together the motivation behind two things, why this airport and more importantly why did they take why did he decide to shoot this airport, more importantly why did he carry out this attack. i want to bring in former fbi agent clint van sant, he joins us on the phone. he s been with us throughout the course of the day. great to have you with us again. as a
just there. you can see her right there. that is the mother and as clint was saying, she apparently in the past has had two children that she had given up to foster care and for adoptions but in this case, a little bella, she apparently had little bella with her and then this boyfriend who we re being told, clint, was apparently thinking that little bella was a demon of some kind. so, clint, talk to me about the state that will review the involvement of child protective services in all of this. because if the mother does have a past, how could something like this, this child be in her case, be in her custody, when the boyfriend believed the little girl was a devil. is there a role that maybe services dropped the ball on? well, you know, this always is something we turn an eye to.