good afternoon, i m kendis gibson at msnbc world headquarters in new york. we gib this hour with the breaking news. any moment now the officials will hold a press after the deadly shooting in virginia beach. watching that podium, we expect that news conference to happen any moment there. these are the victims. they re now being remembered this afternoon by authorities another community in america mourns. earlier today officials identify the gunman is a city employee and saying his name only once and we ll not say it at all. the motive behind the attack is uncertain. joining me now msnbc david gura, live in virginia beach as well as pete williams, nbc justice constituent and jim cavanaugh msnbc contributor, welcome to
the gunman also a city employee is dead following a lengthy shootout with police. his name only spoken once. instead putting the focus on the innocent victims who are gone and in the next hour, another press conference is scheduled to take place. we start now with msnbc david gura on the ground right there in virginia beach. david, how is the city trying to cope with this massacre? reporter: they re trying, as you say, fewer than 24 hours after this tragedy happened. there have been a number of vigils taken place already here in virginia beach. there was one this morning at a movie theater that the governor of the commonwealth of virginia ralph northam attended and one this evening at old dominion in norfolk. what i want to stress is this is a large city. this is the largest city in the commonwealth. larger than the capitol richmond. but it is a very close-knit community as i keep hearing as i talk to people who live here and where i m standing now in this municipal complex is a clos
and david gura with us from the scene in virginia beach as well as jim cavanaugh, our former atf special agent. pete, i want to start with you, what stood out to you from that press conference? just that it was two weapons and not just one and that would also explain perhaps how he was able to get off so many rounds. but they re both the same, they re both the .45-caliber handgun. not clear whether both of them had silences or just one. but we know at least one did have a silencer. it seems likely both did based on what the witnesses have said about the sounds of the gunfire sounding rather distant. and who knows whether he shifted to the second one when the police encountered him or what. that will take a while to figure out. just to clarify something, because it may be a little confusing, when the police chief said the fbi is taking over part of this, all of the fbi is taking over is the work inside of that building. the evidence recovery and a very
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say this is like a college campus with government buildings on it and the attack took place in the building right behind me. this is something that came up during the course of the press conference that took place this morning. the city manager and the chief of police talking about how long the folks who were killed had worked for the city of virginia beach. there was one man killed who had worked here for 41 years. so these were familiar faces and people familiar with them and i had an opportunity to talk to jim wood, the vice mayor after that press conference took place. i asked how he begins to think about moving forward from what happened here on friday afternoon. let s take a listen. it has been very difficult for all of us. we have we knew a lot of these people and i ve been on the council 17 years so i knew a number of the people and i know some of the people in the hospital as well. it is very tough on us. it is a long-term healing process and not something that will be cor