Just a few hundred people. We saw them come out last night for a candlelight vigil to remember the victims. A few hundred people population, this man affected such a huge slice of this community, and now it is reverberating across this entire country. What we know about the killer is that he was a veteran of the United States investigators do not have a specific motive about this but he was not from here reportedly and that is factoring into the investigation. The president weighed in from his trip in asia. He says he believes that this attack was caused by a Mental Health problem and insists its not an issue with the nations gun laws. He says we can talk about guns but now is not the right time. Lets figure out what happened here. Thats where we begin with the facts. And we have cnns ed lavandera. He has the latest. So talk us through it. What do we know about how we came to see this . Its about 11 00 in the morning, there at services. What happens . Reporter i think one of the intere
Kelley. Officials say the gunman dressed all in black was wearing a ballistic vest. Was armed with an assaulttype rifle when he opened fire on the first church of First Baptist church. Victims range in age from 5 to 72 years old. Texas Governor Greg Abbott became emotional as he described the magnitude of this tragedy. As a state, were dealing with the largest mass shooting in our states history. There are so many families whove lost family members. Fathers, mothers, sons and daughters. The tragedy, of course, is worsened by the fact it occurred in a church, a place of worship, where these people were innocently gunned down. Were told the shooter died after a brief chase into a neighboring county. Theres zstill no word on a motive. Were getting more information about how the attack unfolded. Listen to this. At approximately 11 20 this morning, a suspect was seen at a valero gas station in zsutherlad springs, texas. He was dressed in all black. Crossed the vote to the church, exited his
Life, born and raised here, went to high school, college here, i work here right now. I work for at t, im 29 years old. I have a 4yearold daughter. And i think im a pretty cool guy to be around. Reporter do you have any sort of training . Did you know you had this in you . Yeah, i knew i had it in me, but i havent had any specific combat training, i just fight my daughter every night so i can put her to bed. But i just knew it was me or him or that type of scenario, so i chose to go with what i wanted to go with, and it worked. Reporter did you think about your daughter . I didnt think about my daughter. On my instagram and facebook everybodys calling mehero. I was doing that completely out of a selfish act. I was doing it just to save myself. My doing that, i did save other people, but i dont want people to think i was the terminator or superman or anybody like that. But i figured if i was going to die, he was going to have to work for it. So i rushed him and it actually worked out to
Theres a massive crime scene there. The gunman was dressed in all black, armed with a 223 rifle when he attacked the First Baptist church. He fired multiple shots in victims who range in age from 5 to 72 years old. Governor abbott becoming emotional as he described the magnitude of this tragedy. As a state we are dealing with the largest mass shooting in our states history. Theres so many families who have lost family members, fathers, mothers, sons and daughters, the tragedy, of course, is worsened by the fact that it occurred in a church, a place of worship, where these people were innocently gunned down. 26 lives lost. We are told the shooter died after a brief chase into a neighboring county. Still no word on a motive but we are getting new information about how the attack unfolded. Listen. At approximately 11 20 this morning, a suspect was scene at a have a layero gas station in texas. He was dressed in all black. The suspect crossed the street to the church. Exited his vehicle an
Russian lawyer, follow ups he promised when he promised there werent any. Over to manu raju. A lot you have gotten in the past day plus. Lay out your new reporting on the effort to give trump access to wikileaks documents. This email on september 4th, 2016, was sent to donald trump, then candidate donald trump, donald trump, jr. And others in the Trump Organization including donald trump jr. s personal assistant and in this email, it actually has a decryption code and link to web address where purportedly they could have received the hacked wikileaks documents included in this, it says that they could also receive the hacked Clinton Colin powell emails, the former secretary of state whose own emails were hacked and released ten days later by a russian front group. Now the timeline is important here because on september 4th, that was after months after the dnc was hacked and after their own emails became leaked and it was a month before Clinton Campaign chairman John Podestas emails wer