Of southern california. Well get to all the news out of washington, what the president s expected to say tonight, how the republicans are so conflicted they have two responses planned tonight. And well have some of our top people here to tee off with maybe the president s last chance to go big. But first the breaking news out of california. Police are in a tense standoff right now in the San Bernardino mountains with someone they believe is the fugitive, the exlos Angeles Police officer Christopher Dorner. It began when Police Deputies responded to a report of a stolen car, actually a pickup. The suspect in that robbery was reported to match dorners description. And that led to this shootout situation. In the last hour, the lapd briefed reporters on what has happened so far. The suspect in the vehicle fled into the forest. Shortly thereafter, this individual barricaded himself in one of the cabins there and an exchange of gunfire occurred. During that exchange of gunfire, two other off
Violent bitter clashes between israel and gaza are getting more intense today and hundreds of gaza residents are trying to get out. The consulate in jerusalem helped 150 leave gaza and get into jordan today. Thats after they dropped leaflets into gaza warning them to move away from air strikes. Israeli says its forces have already hit what it calls more than a thousand terror targets, yet rockets from gaza keep coming. More than 800 have been intercepted and today israel intercepted two more over tel aviv. The Gaza Health Ministry says at least 68 people have died in gaza and most are civilians. Israeli Prime Minister netanyahu said today hamas is to blame. Reporter who is hiding in hamas. Hamas. Who is putting people in the hospital, hamas. Who is putting control centers in civilian residents and kin kindergartens. Hamas. Theyre using humans as a human shield. Benjamin netanyahu spoke with secretary john kerry. Kerrie said israel has the right to defend itself. Wolf blitzer has been t
This out. He caled a smith wesson. The atf says mateen legally purchased the weapons used in the attack within the past week or so. Mateen had a permit to carry the weapon because of his work of being a Security Guard. Seemed professional to me. As a Security Guard, dressed as a Security Guard . Oh, yeah. Gun and everything. Reporter he was known to the fbi suspected to be an isis sympathizer but found in evidence in 2013 and 2014 as direct links to the terror group. A man that worked with him in 2014 is wishing investigators had done more iblg. I saw it coming. He said he was going to kill a whoa bunch of people. Reporter mateen worshipped here just two days before the attack saying that he kept to himself and saw no indication that mateen would do something so violent. We dont recall any friend of him in this mosque as he would not socialize with anybody. Reporter when it was all over, at least 50 people were killed inside pulse nightclub, more than 50 others wounded. A community tor
People all over the highways and byways all over this town. Over that hour he was in an awful lot of places. The police say they were able to contain and this is a direct quote from the this chief, this animal outside of a Movie Theater where he was shot and killed. He was described as a white male in his 30s. The this chief says he has a pretty good idea who he is but will not tell us. Incredible acts of bravery by private certain seasons and one e. R. Heard the gunshots. Locked fat silt down. Grabbed their trauma bag and ran out on to the streets to treat those who had been shots. We are learning about at least one very young victim, a 17monthold child who was airlifted from one of the medical facilities to lubbock, texas. Their condition unknown. We bring in Jacqui Heinrich in new york who is following this and the reaction we are getting across texas and the white house as well. Reporter texas has seen its share of carnage. This happened four weeks to the day of the el paso, shooti
Vehicles, at one point abanged his car and stealing a postal truck. Police finally cornered him in a parking lot of a Movie Theater. This subject was contacted by Law Enforcement and he an exchange of gunfire happened, and that subject is deceased. Witnesses joey and julia mcnair caught it all on camera outside the theater. And a warning their video may be disturbing for some viewers. Hes going to shoot. [ gunfire ] [ bleep ]. Get down. Oh, my god. Goldie, are you down . Are they shooting at that man . I dont know. I cant see. Oh, my god. I think they investigators believe they have identified the shooter, but the only description theyre giving publicly is a white male in his 30s. Also no word on a motive at this point. An emergency room doctor at one of the hospitals treating victims says he called upon his experience during the iraq war to daet wieal with all the inju. Myself personally, im an iraq war veteran. I served 12 years in the military and served in the battle of fallujah an