this press conference i handed over to mehdi hassan. hello alicia. a horrific day of breaking news. the worst kind of breaking news. we are now waiting for police preface conference on the shooting in california. that is going to be a very important press conference, is it not? it is going to be a very important press conference. a lot of big questions, still outstanding. many of course, the question of public safety. you heard representative chu saying she had people coming up to her all day saying can i send my kids to school? can i go to another event that is there, trying to reassure them. then of course questions about motive, what was it that was driving the suspect here to commit this horrific act. and then there is still a lot we don t know, matty, about the victims. we know that there are ten people dead, five were men five are women, we know that there are going to be ten more injured. but beyond that a lot of questions. we don t know enough about the victims. w
whether we will ever have a seat at the table. truly profound question. karoun, thanks so much for time tonight. that is it for american voices. i m alicia mendes, as we continue to follow this breaking story, and this press conference. 100 over two hello mehdi. hello, alicia. horrific day of breaking news. the worst kind of breaking news. we are now waiting for police press conference on the shooting in california. that is gonna be a very important press conference. it s good beaver in portland press conference, a lot of big questions still outstanding. mehdi, of course, this question of public safety. you heard representative shoe saying she had people come up to her all day saying, can i send my kids to school? then i go to another event that is planned. trying to reassure them. and then of course questions about motives i what is driving the suspect to commit this horrific. act and this a lot we don t know, mehdi, about the victims. we know there are ten people de
recovered at the location illa and alhambra. so with that, i will come back up for questions after the rest of our partners behind me speak. so i will turn out to the next speaker. thank you. i am congresswoman judy chu and i represent monterey park. i want to give my enormous thanks and gratitude to law enforcement for finding this shooter. all this afternoon, the community was in fear. thinking that they should not go to any events because there was a active shooter. but line forsman came out and they were able to find the shooter with not even 24 hours passing. so i really have to think l.a.
heroes. they saved lives. this could have been much worse. the weapon that we recovered at that second scene, i am describing as a magazine fed semiautomatic assault pistol. not an assault rifle but an assault pistol that had an extended, large capacity magazine attached to it. and that is the pistol that was recovered at the location illa and alhambra. so with that, i will come back up for questions after the rest of our partners behind me speak. so i will turn out to the next speaker. thank