ayman wilkie dean and new york, we are continuing to follow the tragedy out of allen, texas this hour. police reports are at an outlet mall just north of dallas. and moments ago, local officials made a very brief statement saying a police officer and an unrelated call at that mall heard shots ring out at about 3:36 pm local time. officials are confirming there are casualties, they have not yet released the exact numbers on those dead, or injured. police also say they s believe the suspect has acted alone. they re saying they plan to hold another press conference in about two hours from now. as you can imagine, lots of questions. we are going to bring you more updates the money they come into our newsroom. a short time ago, governor greg abbott issued his statement writing in part, quote, our hearts are with the people of allen, texas. tonight, during this unspeakable tragedy. we are going to, as we mentioned, bring you all the information that we get as it happens. joining
and through the process that criminal defendants experience on arrival, there s the security preparations well underway there. there s a possible legal maneuvering and motions before and after the arraignment on both sides, and of course, there s how this shapes the future politically, not just the middle of a presidential campaign, but also three other active criminal investigations of the former president. we have new details on much of it. also conversation tonight with ronan farrow was done so much reporting on stormy daniels, karen macdougal and how those aligned with the former president bought their silence. we ve got reporters tonight on every aspect of the story. cnn s jessica schneider on the criminal justice processing and shimon prokupecz on the logistics and security and randy kaye on the machinery moving a former president want to start with jessica schneider. what do we know about about tuesday s arraignment? what s going to happen? so we ve gotten some idea of
about two hours after the shooting began that the lone gunman in this case has been killed. we are, however, awaiting the unfortunate update as to how many victims were killed as well. morgan. i will ask you to stay with me just for a moment because you have given us a lot of information i want to be able to digest with my panel for a moment and i will come back to you for more. frank, morgan was just giving us incredible insight there in detail, based on that eyewitness reporting. and there were two moments of what he was describing that stood out to me. one, the chaos of the situation that perhaps some of these individuals, some of the innocent bystanders who were there, they could not tell who is a law enforcement officer from that to the possible shooter based on what he was wearing. maybe he was wearing tactical gear, maybe he was dressed to look like a policeman entering the situation. and the second part, the striking account of the mother who put her children in the
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means an awful lot. and it will. i hope mean that we get evan back sooner rather than later. potential chilling effect on this. i mean, not only is this horrific for even for the for the paper for the wall street journal, but but the chilling effect on this i mean reporters. this is the job we all do. and for it to have governments suddenly reach out and snatch one. yeah, it s really it s terrible and you know it s getting harder. it s not just russia. i think it s getting more challenging in so many parts of the world, and that s just bad for all of us. you know, we need to we need journalists need to be able to do their job safely. and we, you know that s obviously our commitment is to the safety of our journalists. we re also committed to covering the news all over the globe. we re very lucky at the wall street journal. we ve got a huge network of foreign correspondents. we re committed to providing that that sort of eyewitness reporting unbiased, transparent reporting that matters