there is more explosives there. right now i m going to turn it over to dave with the fbi to talk about some parts of the investigation. thank you chief. so first off my name is my name is in charge of the nib in charge of the los angeles field ooffice. bowdich. first off we want to extend our true sadness to the families of the victims. there are many, many wounded and treated as we speak. this is truly a tragedy in our country and we will continue to apply all the resources necessary to assure that both us, the sheriff s department, san bernadino police department as well as the atf work this thing together to assure that we have chased down
so, terrorism is in play: let s bring in catherine herridge from washington our correspondent who knows all of the intel players. so what are you hearing tonight, catherine? well, bill, we have have just had a conversation with u.s. government official who has told us that the lead assailant has been confirmed as a u.s. citizen. they did not provide further information but they did also tell us that they had been working with a foreign name earlier and they believe, basissed on based on their review of records that that name has washed out. what caught my attention of the news conference is description of male and female suspect that were killed at that suv. the assault style clothing, the assault weapons. a handguns, and then also what they believe may be explosive devices inside that vehicle and then also at a suspect s home. a final point the fbi as the east coast has progressed and you rightly point out is becoming more deeply involved in this investigation and halsz not ruled
be monitored and that will be a big story for tomorrow. for tonight we re trying to find out who these guys are. and then as i said if it is a terrorist component islamic, that just blows this whole thing up into another paris situation where the president is under siege already and that becomes a big international story where is if it is just a local beef, then it s a local beef, it gets down into charleston, it gets down into fort hood and that. now, the the washington post is reporting also that federal law enforcement officials are saying they do not believe the shooting, they do not believe the shooting is an act of international terrorism. okay. these are initial reports that are coming out, which is why i warned everybody that speculating is very difficult. but, we have a name and the name is obviously a name that was on the police band and it is a muslim name.
spoke to them. and you spoke to them, why? because we were attempting to find out a were there any names in play and b once we could get a name like this. was there any way we could find any social media or other things that might lead us to believe that he left a suicide note or he did one of the other indicators after jihadist attack. they are prone to doing those final video episodes. when you heard the name faruq saeed? did you run him down or check him out? like i said it s a common enough name that no one i m aware of has yet come to a definitive answer. at this point it s only a name that was heard over the police scanner. it has not been confirmed. perhaps at the press conference they might do that. everybody is trying to find out whether this is a domestic terrorism like charleston, south carolina, where just in a rational crazy person goes in and shoots up a church full of people or, whether it s islamic terrorism because then the story becomes
repeatedly is this terrorism? i am still not willing to say that we know that for sure. we are definitely making some movements that it is a possibility. we are making some adjustments to our investigation. it is a possibility. but we don t know that yet. and we are not willing to go down that road yet. david the relationship between the two dead suspects? unknown at this point it. the name? how old you will approximately are they? i do not even know that. what about the third suspect? they were talking a third suspect? there is a third suspect and i don t know the disposition of that suspect.hat question to the chief. what i will tell you on any indications of terrorism or this investigation, i told a few of you already we will go where the evidence takes us. it s possible it goes down that road. it s also possible it does not. we re just not sure yet. and when we are fairly sure, we will let you know. do you have a motive for this? could this possibly be