attends i .com that s tens i .com. eva longoria searching for mexico tonight at nine on cnn. you live in the cnn newsroom i m jim acosta in washington. details are slowly trickling out. of david, alabama, side of last night s mass shooting. a news briefing last hour provided us with some new information. four people are confirmed dead enforcement caution, though that s 28 people were injured. some critically, at least 15 teenagers were shot, we re told , and several, as i just said a few moments ago. they are in critical condition. the attack took place at 1/16 birthday party. in this community of 3000 people, the heartbreak of this small town on full display this evening at a vigil that just got underway within the last hour. you re looking at some pictures that are just recently come into us here at cnn, and we now know one of the people killed the older brother of the girl celebrating her birthday, phil staviyski dowdell. there he is right there, smiling. he was days away
us here at cnn, and we now know one of the people killed the older brother of the girl celebrating her birthday, phil staviyski dowdell. there he is right there, smiling. he was days away from graduating and going to jacksonville state university on a football scholarship. cnn s isabel russell s joins us now from david villa, isabel. let s start with the suspect. um is there one? i know that police just had that press conference. about an hour ago. it sounds as though they re just not saying a whole lot about a suspect at this point. hey jim. good evening to you if i can first tell you that just here in the last five minutes, we saw police officers actually taking down the emergency tape. so now access is being allowed back onto this road. we re seeing people curious about the situation going up to that dance studio where this shooting happened at a sweet 16th birthday party we did here in the last hour from
have thrown molotov cocktails into pro-life offices. where is the doj? here is ian. it has the potential for not only danger, you are putting supreme court justices at their residences, their neighbors who have to deal with this. but you are also looking at people who that are trying to influence a decision of what is supposed to be an independent branch of the united states government. if you want to go influence policy, go to congress. it s appalling that the department of justice would rather go investigate a parent that shows up at a school board meeting and says we re coming for you as in we re going to knock you out of a job at the next election but does nothing when people try and influence decisions before the court. steve: so ian said that it was all about essentially the administration does not want to anger their base and go after the protesters, even though they are breaking the law in some cases. brian: very simple. do you have any emergency tape? do you have a cone?
was corrected, again, i do not know exactly what the violations were. but the standards are definitely getting better, higher and more difficult to achieve. gretchen: as a former member of the new york police department in the bomb squad what, do you make of the fact that the officials are looking at this as if it s a crime scene? they say it s standard operating procedure, and so there is nothing really more to be made of that, or is there? the first thing i would like to point out is on the emergency tape you played, the one first responder reported it as a bomb just went off. gretchen: exactly. he didn t say it sounded like a bomb. he said a bomb. so, of course, that may have resulted in automatic in a horrific event like this, the people in the units, the arson unit if there is a separate unit, they may have automatically been dispatch. you heard the dispatcher saying i m sending you everybody i have. again, because there is such a horrific amount of devastation, they can
i ran up this, the rocks, and then i ran into the second house over there and that s where mr. larry was. one of the kids came running across the street yelling, mister, mister, there s some kids in trouble here. reporter: larry couldn t believe what he saw. he called 911 and a flood of emergency responders were on scene. it took three each to haul the kids out. they were stuck in there. they were sucked right into that thing. they tried to pull me out, but they had to dig like that deep to get my legs out. reporter: it took 20 minutes to unstick katie and andrew. they were slightly hypothermic and a little banged up. right here, here, here reporter: but they were alive. the lesson to stay away from mud. reporter: you saw in the video there was fencing, emergency tape around it. that came after the kids were pulled out of the mud, when they