faced an avalanche of resignations of top cabinet members over the last 48 hours following multiple scandals for his government though he didn t directly mention those in his departure speech. have a listen. and i want you to know how sad i am to be giving up the best job in the world. but them s the breaks. johnson giving no timetable for when he will leave office, saying only that it will be announced next week. let se bring in nic robertson who is live outside downing street. how will this work? what happens next? and how quickly could there be a move? the immediate sense of what is happening is being played out right behind me right now. cabinet members walking in for a cabinet session with boris johnson. the attorney general walked up the street, just gone through the door. she s already put her hat in the ring to be one of the contenders to become next prime minister. she just smiled when a colleague asked her that question. boris government is now a caretaker pr
a weapon that can fire like that, at that speed w that power, that velocity, does that make your job as a law enforcement officer harder? absolutely. you know, no doubt. first of all, my understanding, the weapon that was used in the mass shooting was a smith and wesson mmp-15, which is an ar platform, semiautomatic rifle. it is chambered in 2-2-3 and 5-56-6. those weapons are capable of defeating the average police officer s body armor. obviously i am concerned about a firearm that cuts through my body armor like a knife through butter. the subcompact or kell tech sub2000, the weapon that was presumably going to be used in the follow-up shooting, like you said it is a pistol carbine, it has a folding stock, easily concealable. that in and of itself is very concerning to a police officer.
was still inside. as you heard just a moment ago, they found 12 pipe bombs inside and they found what amounts to a laboratory of other equipment to continue building more pipe bombs, more ieds, improvised explosive devices. then a tremendous amount of bullets. they found 2,000 plus nine millimeter rounds, presumably for the hand guns, and then 2500 plus 223 rounds which would be for the ar-15 and the m & p 15. those are two weapons that are called the long guns. those are the ones that were presumably used in the attack in the carnage and in the murders that took place. i m currently outside and it looks like there s not much activity but the truth is that it s all going on inside. one of the agents who has been involved in this came by a short time ago. i said not to compromise your investigation but how many
new details we want to share with you on the attack of the los angeles national airport and how it went down. 23-year-old paul ciancia shot a tsa officer at pointblank range and then he left, but then he came back moments later to shoot him again. his weapon of choice from smith & wessen, a .2223 caliber m & p 15 assault rifle. and the tsa officer that was killed, his wife is devastated. he would have been 40 next week. i am truly devastated. we are all hard broken and will miss him dearly. paul ciancia was shot in the