an active shooter scene. one person is in custody. there s been a variation of reports this person has a history of anti-semitic behavior. that the tree of life synagogue has in the past been targeted by anti-semitic behavior. talk to me about protections or what you feel needs to be put in place now. we at the jewish federation over the last two years have looked at hardening facilities. we ve looked at multiple training facilities. i m going to have to run right now. i m being called by some people. before i let you go, you heard the president who talked about perhaps it s time to stiffen laws, death penalty okay, i m sorry, i really have to go right now, i
synagogue previously, you have had discussions in the past about this kind of situation that the fbi has been consulted on this kind of thing. is that the case? yeah, that is correct. we have done lots of training on things like active shooters and looked at hardening facilities as much as possible. describe for me how many people would have been inside the synagogue on a saturday morning and what types of people would have been in there, what they would have been doing? i can t tell you exactly how many were in there, it depends if there was some type of bar mitzvah or other special event which would bring more people. i would guess tree of life a typical saturday morning would have at that time of morning maybe 50, 60 people. a guess. you talked to the mayor, what did he pass onto you? he just said we ll do everything we can, the city will do everything it can to help out and i heard from keith roth who is on the way as well, really appreciate the help from our
cove covers six, seven elementary. so with a school this big, you would want to have possibly two. budget restraints typically on average i d say it s usually one and all the rest of the schools end up having a urge can ever one officer covering many. phil, in recent years we ve had the public has had to learn these new terms. soft target versus hard target. and the president is now calling for the hardening of schools, the nra calling for the hardening of schools using the same terminology. can schools be fortified? i don t think they can. look, you re not talking about schools. you are talking about federal buildings, airports, train stations. we re talking about schools now. when you think about hardening facilities, and you look at the post-9/11 environment, you multiply the facilities by the thousands. you are not just talking about
security officers in those facilities, you are talking about things like metal detectors. for a high school, i live a couple blocks frarp a middle scho from a ilgd in schoomiddle scho talking about acres of land to ensure students only go through one entry point. do you know the kotcosts? we better ensure that we are also talking about bus stations, train stations, federal facilities. i don t think americans recognize when they talk about hardening facilities what they are asking for. i m not sure it is doable. and i wanted to ask you about the sound that we just heard there on the 911 call. when you have a woman warning the fbi that somebody will explode, that they will shoot up a school, how is it that something like that gets closed within an hour? i can t answer that question. nobody i ve spoken with since the days that has come out can answer that question. you have specificity, you have someone who is credible. i think what we ll find is that