again, trying to wrestle control of the narrative in that way to move past what everybody here is characterizing as a particularly dark and terrible moment in the city history. and they ve been trying to wrestle the narrative and in a couple of hours after the shooting took place from the very first press conference. david, one quick other note, we did notice while the press conference was taking place, that the flag there at the white house has now gone down to half-staff and the press did release a statement. you were noting earlier on by tweet. but hours later. yeah, the president this morning sending off a tweet as he made his way to the trump national government course for a round of golf that he had been in touch with the governor and the mayor and vice mayor offering federal support. we see this notice here again just a few moments ago indicating that flags are going to be at half-mast until june 4th of this week. i should say i believe that is thursday of this week. we lear
you. and david, i want to start with you. you ve been there just hours after the shooting stopped. what has this community been like since then? i imagine they re still in shock? absolutely. here fewer than 24 hours after this happened, reckoning with what happening and a number of vigils have taken place. so far a large vigil in virginia beach this morning and the governor was there for that. the overarching message here is the shooter s name was mentioned once during the press conference and the police chief said he won t say it again either and would refer to him as the suspect. and there is focus on looking forward and not defining the community based on what happened here yesterday at 4:00 in the afternoon. at that press conference as you just did, the names of those killed yesterday were read out and the police chief and the city manager both said over the course of the next few days, those in the community who didn t know those individuals are going to get to know them and lea