in new york we re learning about today s deadly shooting at two military centers in chattanooga, tennessee. let s listen in. special agent in charge of the fbi for the eastern district of tennessee ed rhinehold, and i m bill killian. u.s. attorney. we ll answer questions we can answer we ll keep you apprised as we can. please respect our inability to answer some of your questions. otherwise otherwise, we ll explain what we can. if you re contacted by law enforcement agencies or the fbi,
citizens and our people and this country. chattanooga police chief is here and he will detail some unquestionable acts of bravery and heroism exhibited by the chattanooga police department in the active shooter situation they found themselves. steve jaredo will detail the assets and resources of atf toward the investigation. and ed rhinehold will detail what he can of the joint terrorism task force-led investigation, the resources and personnel of the fbi and what they have dedicated to this. at that point, we will answer any questions that you have if we can answer them and i want to thank you in advance for
tonight. as we close out this portion we want to answer whatever questions that we have and i ll bring up ed rhinehold for the fbi. he s likely to have the answers about the investigation. questions? yeswe have no idea what his motivation was behind this shooting. we re just beginning this investigation we ll explore the option but at this point we don t have anything that directly ties him to an international terrorist organization. i can t speculate on what his motivation would have been or what or any afillation he may have. i m not going to discuss that part of investigation.