of structure, but the general guidelines in our industry is if you are required for the shot, i.e., you re the cameraman, you re the director, you re the first assistant director, you re the armorer, coordinator, whoever the personnel that is required to film the specific sequence, they will be on set. other personnel that are not required for that particular sequence, they don t really need to be on set. larry is going to stand by with us. i want to get to our cnn law enforcement correspondent, josh campbell, who was right there asking some of the questions. josh, the sheriff was going through with the d.a. this partial investigation. he said alec baldwin has been cooperating and has been interviewed on several occasions. he also said they have spoken to dave halls, the assistant director, and hanna gutierrez who was the armorer on this set. they, in addition to alec baldwin, were two people that handled the colt revolver right
thank you. i m john king in washington. you ve been listening to authorities in santa fe, new mexico, the sheriff, menendez, and also the district attorney, ms. altweiss, talking about the tragedy on the movie rust. the sheriff talking about 600 pieces of evidence taken from the scene, including as many as 500 rounds of ammunition. the sheriff says he believes more of the rounds they received from the scene are live rounds, and confirming that a live round fired by alec baldwin that killed the cinematographer and injured the director was a live round. i want to bring in people to discuss this. i want to start with larry zanoff who has worked on many movies where firearms are used, potential weapons are used. larry, i want to walk through the things we heard from the sheriff and the district attorney, and you tell me
weekend, i can t comment whether that happened or not, but we as an industry keep live activity and blank activity in parallel universes. there are some very, very limited situations where there might be some training involved for actors, but you re not dealing with the same firearms that are brought onto set. what you have on a film set is a firearm specifically set up to fire these blanks, and never shall the two meet up. how a live round got onto that set is probably the key of the investigation, and i m sure the professional law enforcement officials there will figure that out in the end. larry zanoff, thankful for your opinions. on the scene, again, a very complicated situation. the sheriff said it will proceed in a methodical way. the very big question, larry just touched on it, what does the crime lab say about the
larry zanoff back into the conversation. he were hearing the sheriff and the d.a. lay it out. let me ask you, as someone with so much expertise in this area here. a, what are your biggest questions? did the sheriff raise a question you would have asked, or is there something he didn t raise that you think is key to this? first off, i would like to applaud the professionalism of the sheriff in the information that he gave and the way he gave it. clearly we have already stated that live ammunition should not be on set. he himself pointed out that the film and television industry has an extremely good record of safety, and we have extremely stringent guidelines that govern the use of firearms and blank ammunition on set. there is never to be live ammunition on set. this idea that, you know, they may have been plinking over the