furious and we have listen, i have one source now who says that, that congress woman giffords has in fact died and working to get another one. and this is a horrible, horrible event. and we re trying to get a grip of how many people may have been killed on this in this shooting. for a staff, a congressional staff, i can t imagine what they re going through and we re trying to get all the details right here live on television. kelly: as we stated earlier, certainly all of our prayers are going out to all of them involved in this and as you mentioned the numbers are fluid, but we re getting confirmation that congress woman gabrielle giffords has passed as a result of the gunshot to the head. i want to bring in our colleague and news anchor bill hemmer right now. bill, you tiactually spoke to the congress woman as early as
congress woman gabrielle giffords was having a meeting with her constituents, a meeting with them to talk about matters pertaining to her district and that shots rang out. we understand now through confirmation from u.s. officials that lone gunman opened fire, shooting indescriminately and as a live witness on the scene, andrew gooden spoke to us, not long ago, she mentioned that she heard 15 shots ring out, i m losing my voice here, and those 15 shot ringing out, hitting three arizona staff members of gabrielle giffords and also hitting her point blank range in the head and sadly reporting that she has died from those wounds. jamie: and others as well. let s just mention that folks at home may expect that they would get every detail about what happened today. there were eyewitnesses, there were authorities on scene, staffers on scene, some of whom were injured in this, but from chad who works congress
time, but unlike a president, there s no secret service protection for a member of congress or for a united states senator. jamie: and congressman, we are going to be responsible and just report what we know and what we did hear from an eyewitness. yes. jamie: who was very close to the the scene, who said that when she started counting the shots she heard at least eight more, that the response of police and emergency personnel was within one minute, that there was a crowd, she thought, of at least a hundred people and that she did believe that someone responsible was actually attacked by the crowd, but all this have has to be confirmed by law enforcement. and so far, i m even looking at the congress woman s website and on that website, there is no mention of this incident or her involvement in it. at this point do you think that s the most and now it appears that we have pictures of the scene right now and we want to take a look at this, congressman and just take a look at the
there was more than one suspect was in custody. there s report that one was and that the firing appeared to be indiscriminate that these shots went off very quickly and randomly, and that the congress woman was there for a meet and greet of her constituents, called congress on your corner. it was announced event. i went on her website and it did say there, when the time, the place and that as many as 100 people or more according to that eyewitness had gathered and the response appears to have been swift, but still the details we want to be very careful in terms of reporting exact numbers, there are reports that three others have died, reports that six others have died and fox news is working to confirm all of that. at this point, bret, what, what is going on, do you think, in her office and with her staff? well, i think they re trying to get a grip on all of this. it s going very fast and
well, first of all, it s a very shocking event. i can tell you that perhaps the local authorities that were there were certainly on the scene because it was a major event, which would draw a lot of public. so, although there was no one probably from washington d.c. that accompanied her, i would certainly think that the local authorities were on site and that they reacted quickly. when you have a lone person that s that they have to do intelligence on, suddenly appears and for whatever reason unloads on everyone, who knows what the purpose or what his thinking was. all right. kelly: all right. we want to give a note of caution before we report this. what we re getting reports now from npr and local reports on the scene there that u.s. congress woman gabrielle giffords has died after being shot in the head at a public appearance in tucson, arizona,