highway. there s some areas that are protected with guardrails to protect bikers from traffic, there are some areas in this part of the city that are also protected against terrorist attack. we re not far from the world trade center. it s just a couple blocks away. again, the investigation continuing through the night on into tomorrow as new york recovers from this. stunned but, again, getting on with life as we know it here. and for those who know new york, west street as you go north becomes the west side highway. ron, it s a city trying too g i on with things but hard when it strikes normalcy, riding down a bike path. i m joined by eugene o donnell, now a professor of law and police studies at john j. college of criminal justice, and james cavanaugh, a retired special agent in charge for the atf and now an msnbc law enforcement analyst. jim, you and i were together on tv several hours ago when this news first broke. one of the interesting things
wife is the sister of one of the suspects in the shooting in san bernardino today. syed farook is the only suspect s name that we have at this point. the inference would be that his wife is syed farook s sister. he said nothing about syed farook. he said only that he and the family are sad. he offered his condolences, he said that he is in shock. he said the family is in shock, but we actually have not confirmed who among the possible suspects he is actually related to in this case. he was introduced as a relative of one of the suspects in the case, but he was very reluctant to speak. and the people introducing him were reluctant to allow him to speak. it was one of those press conferences in which we learned much less than anyone expected to learn. in that press conference. we are now covering this ongoing, our live coverage, of the situation in san bernardino which started at 11:20 a.m. this morning. that s when local time, california, that s when this possibly three shoote
when that video surfaces. i think we still have james cavanaugh with us. we don t. i m going bring this question to you craig. i now you talked about you spent time occupy there. but give us an idea of the topography of that area. it sits on a lake. it is a lake community. you have a number of vacation homes there as well. about 10,500 live in fox lake, part of lake county. it is a suburb of chicago. it is technically considered part of the chicago land area. equidistant between milwaukee, wisconsin and chicago proper. a lot of folks who live in fox lake actually train in to work in chicago. it is a middle class community. a middle class neighborhood. but it is also one of those places like a lot of suburban areas they love their police officers. i mean, the folks who patrol these communities don t just
the officer was on routine parole wh patrol when he got in a foot chase with the suspects. his pepper spray and weapon were taken and police a searching a heavily wooded area near the wisconsin border. helicopters and blood hounds have been deployed in the search. metro trains have been shut down. and the faa has even put flight restrictions on the area. we re closely following the situation and will bring you update as questiwe get them. for more professor eugene o donnell, jim cavanaugh, and clint van zandt, msnbc contributor and former fbi profiler. clint, what is the next few hours for authorities like here? well there is a number of things going on right now. there is one report that s credited to a local political official as well as the illinois state police that they have one custody one subject in custody. we haven t received further confirmation of that or not. of course that would make a major change in this. as opposed to looking for three unknown people, we m
call. joy? all right. kristen welker reporting from the white house. i want to bring in james cavanaugh, a retired agent and former hostage negotiator. colonel jack jacobs, msnbc analyst. i m going to start at the table. you can see the plume of smoke in the video purported to be video of the downed plane. can we glean anything from that piece of video? what does it tell you, if anything, about that accident? we can see the debris field and it s going to be important evidence because it will tell you whether the plane broke apart in flight or remained in tact at the site of the crash. there s going to be a lot of information and in a shoot-down