sustained a self inflicted gunshot wound. and was pronounced dead at the scene. investigators conducted a search of the vehicle and determined the male inside the van was the mass shooting suspect. and, jonathan, the suspect has been identified as huu can tran. obviously, the investigation is still on going. still unclear what the motive is at this point. and you re taking a look at the suspect image that was released shortly after the shooting took place. but officials are also saying that in that white cargo van they were able to recover a handgun and then the other weapon that those two heroes were able to wrestle away from the suspect, it was a magazine fed semiautomatic assault pistol which the sheriff believes is illegal in the state of california. , so kathy, just said the
fed s preferred gauge of inflation. mortgage rates falling to the lowest level since september. as the economic data is showing inflation might be easing. the 30-year fixed rate mortgage averaging 6.15% last week down from 6.33 the week before. now economists say the easing rates are boosting both home buyer demand and home builder sentiment. here with me now is the ceo of brown, harris stevens, a real estate company with 3,000 agents in new york, new jersey and connecticut. nice to see you this monday morning. good morning, christine. nice to see you. let s start with mortgage rates. yes. so they doubled. and then they were above 7%. and then they ve levelled off just above 6%. what should people think about what s happening in mortgage rates right now? there is this spirit of optimism right now as you mentioned they re the lowest they ve been since september. so people are taking advantage of that. applications are up, refys are up. that s a good thing and inflation is co
second dance hall after the shooting to kill more victims but the people inside wrestled away his gun before he could hurt anybody and drove off in his van. he was disarmed by two community members who i consider to be heroes because they saved lives. this could have been much worse. the weapon that we recovered at that second scene, i m describing as a magazine-fed semiautomatic all the pistol. not an assault rifle but an assault pistol that had an extended large capacity magazine. kyeongh law has been following the story for us. still no motive. reporter: you re right. the motive is going to be key today as investigators try to piece together what would drive
their lawmakers act. yeah. i mean, frank, to shannon s point and elise s, i mean, we choose to live like this. it doesn t have to be this way. at least one of the guns i want to play this sound to i get this right, but it is believed by the l.a. county sheriff that one of the guns was probably not legally possessed by the shooter. let me play that sound for you. the weapon that we recovered at that second scene i m describing as a magazine-fed semiautomatic assault pistol. not an assault rifle but an assault pistol that had an extended large-capacity magazine attached to it. i believe the weapon that was recovered at the alhambra location is not legal to have here in the state of california. so, frank, the scenario
tucker: i don t know the answer to this, i m not a social scientist, but i ve seen how the country has changed. guns are tools and it can do with them a lot of different things print they don t shoot themselves. that s silly. fed semiautomatic weapons for both of our lifetimes and they haven t been misused like this. why this willful blindness to obvious causes instead of blaming the tool? that makes me suspicious, do you see why? i want to disagree with you on something. why give someone who does know how to hammer a nail and give them an automatic nail gun? does the same thing here. there are common sense things we can do to minimize the damage. tucker: it s not real. there is one crime that i m aware of ever in the united states and the history.