federal government department of justice has begun an investigation through the fbi and the department of justice inspector general. jo? mike viqueira, thank you so much. just a little bit, we will take a look at the legal fallout from jeffrey epstein s death. how his alleged accusers will still be able to seek justice. now a race to the white house. a big weekend. 2020 contenders are all in iowa for the most part and wisconsin. in a few hours these democratic hopefuls will be maeking their pitches all across the state. this comes as demands for gun control legislation grow on the heels of mass shootings a week ago. senator elizabeth warren is introducing a new plan to curb gun violence and that includes background checks, a ban on assault weapons and prohibiting anyone convicted of a hate crime from owning a gun. and gun control very much front and center overall as 16 candidates join a gun safety
injured in dayton, ohio. i talk with a witness who was there, anthony reynolds, who was there and he got his eye on the suspect. you re talking about the dayton one? we do not want to confuse because the photos we are seeing right now are from texas. that is what we are watching and dayton that eyewitness described a different scene. exactly. what you re looking at right now are pictures from yesterday. 20 dead and 26 injured at a walmart in el paso. this comes just a few days after another walmart shooting. let me bring in jim kavanagh. we were just talking 12 hours or so and talking about that texas incident where we had the 20 people killed and 26 others injured, many of them some young children. you are the reports it was an ak-47 used there in texas and we are told, i believe jo ling was
we want to bring in shawn henry, a national security analyst from msnbc. he s on the phone bus. shawn, thank you for joining us. what happened here? how are you digesting this breaking new right now? obviously, this is still developing and a lot of information will be coming out, you know? when we look at things like this, certainly going back to el paso you have the manifesto and law enforcement officers trying to seek what is the objective and the motivation of the shooter. in this particular case, it s still unclear. we don t have any information about what may have caused the shooter. was it some type of a conflict between two patron that got out of hand? good morning, i m jo ling was it some type of gang-related kent at msnbc world incident, perhaps a jilted headquarters. you re watching breaking news lover, or somebody who was upset with their partner or their coverage. 6:00 a.m. out east and 3:00 a.m. spouse? or was this something that was out west.
there was no blood or hair anywhere on the rocks. and the location of jody s body seemed off to cioffi. way off. she was like 30 to 40 feet away from us to the north. a person falls offer the cliff usually they re going to go south or they re going to go right down. reporter: someone else was scratching his head about that night for different reasons. it had to do with steven s behavior while the search was under way. officer walter serrie was surprised stephen was willing to leave the lookout as rescuers were still looking for jody. did he give any indication, i don t want to leave, my wife could still be alive down there? no, not at all. reporter: serrie says he couldn t believe how willingly stephen scharf got into his patrol car. good morning, i m jo ling kent with breaking news. we have knowledge that there has been another mass shooting in
markings on the screen, if you re listening on the radio, many of them on the ground. those, of course, are where the shell casings and evidence markers are close-up picture of it right there. it is clearly, a wide and very big scene for the police department in dayton to go over. they still have that area very much sealed off. they are getting the help we re told of the fbi. the atf and dea will be of assistance. as jo ling mentioned, the mayor of dayton will be holding a press conference at the top of the hour, 7:00 a.m. eastern time. that s local for dayton. that s being held at the convention center. which is quite a place. that is the reunification center, 7:00 a.m. that is the reunification center for many of the victims and family members right now and the images i ve seen from there just heart-wrenching as many of the people get together to find out that their loved ones are okay. we ve been hearing from witnesses on the ground in dayton, ohio.