columbia, maryland, in howard county just outside washington d.c. we have our own cnn crews on the way to that mall. we continue to reach out to a number of sources in that vicinity. mike brooks is on the phone with us now. you know that area, given that you once worked in the metropolitan police in that area. what are your sources telling you about what this means? there s not too many details right now. the mall apparently is on complete lockdown right now. employees are sheltering in place in their stores as they have probably practiced in the past. and the howard county police and fire, they are both on the scene. howard county police all so on their twitter account, en route. they don t have many facts right now. they re telling me there s a possibility of numerous people shot. trying to confirm that right
shooter. and there is a lot that we don t know what is going on n. what do we need to know right now? well, right now, the investigators don t know the motive and what it is, and there is some talk of whether it is a domestic dispute is what a fellow investigator at one point told cnn but the howard county police have not confirmed, and they say it is possible, but the police chief said that they don t know the identity of the shooter. he apparently had lots of ammunition on him, and they thought that perhaps he could have had explosives on him, but it took a long time for them to get through all of that, and so we don t know the identity of the shooter. we also of course don t know when the mall is going to open again. this is a big crime scene all day long, and the mall op eratos the are basically going to have to determine when that is going to be and the howard county executives don t yet know when that is going to be, miguel. all right. erin mcpike for us in columbia, maryland
fairly serious charge, and they could get more serious for him, and could justin bieber be deported? well, i doubt it. what we are looking at here is going to be end up being a reckless driving, because of what you said earlier, miguel, he tested under the legal limit to be intoxicated for the state of florida. for anyone over 21 it is 0.8 and for under 21, it is 0.2, and justin bieber is. so it is going to be reduced to the reckless driving misdemeanor which means he is not eligible for deportation, because he has not been convicted of a felony crime or a crime of moral turpitude, but if you have a misdemeanor and it is theft or deception or lying, that is grounds to be tossed out of the country, but i don t see it happen i happening here. and although, he said that he also smoked marijuana, and with ewill have to see what the police make of that. bieber told the cops that his o
subject, they are going to make sure, go back, look at all the video surveillance coming from the entrances from the parking lot. since this happened on the second floor of the mall, that person had to have gotten there somehow, had to have walked through the mall. and you know, was this somebody who was targeted, was it workplace violence incident is it someone that the shooter knew, we don t know at this time yet. we re looking at pictures here. we saw another picture helicopter in the air. right now, until they get a positive id on this subject, they re going to keep the mall locked down. they re going to try to interview everyone who may have heard something, may have seen something. a lot of investigations going on right now making sure that the area is secure to securing the crime scene and also investigating exactly what everybody saw, try to get all the witnesses together. and howard county police
welcome back. we re following this breaking news situation out of columbia, maryland, just about 45 minutes or so outside of washington d.c. at the mall in columbia where police and fire are on the scene of what s been described as an active shooting situation at the mall in columbia. now howard county police have confirmed that three people are dead from that shooting in columbia maryland. and we just learned according to howard county police that one of the people found dead there was located near ammunition and the identification however unknown. so it s unclear as they continue to law enforcement descend on the situation there to try and extrapolate all that s taken place. we don t know how many gunmen