the way it should be. i totally agree, and if this is an issue that is that important to 87% of the american public, then they need to make the wish known at the bout box. if they don t have representatives that are carrying out their wishes with respect to this very important issue, that has traumatized americans, then they need to make those wishes known but making those representatives know that they may no longer represent them. that is not something that they can put on the backburner, if it is an important issue to them and family in the community, they need to let their representatives know. representative tory co-, i know you re talking about state representative lee, i want to play is calmest in that briefing. he s a republican whose district includes allen. he had a lot to say about the strategy to say sort of ago pacific we, watch. this community is home for
gunshots going by, they were close enough to hear them hide, take cover, or run away entirely. it just goes to show the incredible amount of fear and uncertainty that was present for the better part of an hour before authorities confirmed that the gunman was, in fact, killed here at the scene, a man? morgan chesky live for us in allen, texas. we ll check back in with you later on in the program. let s bring in julián castro, former secretary of urban development, also dr. any andrews, a pediatrician and the founder and ceo of their future, our vote, an organization that advocates for children s well-being state representative talarico, let me start with you before dr. andrews. i don t know if you had heard that soundbite from the woman there, who went morgan aster, what are you feeling or something to the effect, and
been a true country white response today. on scene, we saw all of our municipal police departments and fire departments and county agencies, the sheriff s office and constable deputies and our state partners and national partners. i appreciate from governor abbott on down that we ve already received calls from all of our partners across the state and from our senators. we appreciate that they stand with us and are part of the men and women of all of our law enforcement agencies, fire agencies and ems agencies that were there immediately today and have stood so bravely and courageously to protect our neighborhood and our community. we will, as a community, we will respond and get passed us together. we are going to hear next from our mayor of the city of allen, can fold. good evening, my name is alan mare can fold.
courageously to protect our neighborhood, neighborhood and community and as a community we will respond and get past this together. we will hear next from our mayor of the city of allen, can. my name is ken fault, i m here to read the briefing statement for the city of allen. today is a tragic day for the city of allen. our citizens, our friends and visitors at the allen premium outlets today. we are a strong caring community and we all want the victims and their families impacted by this tragedy to know we will wrap our arms around you and we are here for you. the city of allen pledges to offer complete support. we know you are grieving, we are grieving. rest assured, the nation and the world are also grieving. allen is a proud and safe city
don t want to put anything out there that you haven t been able to verify. and so, right now, whoever the spokesperson is going to be, which i imagine is going to be the chief of allen, he s getting all this information in, and his pio is trying to put it all together for him, so that when he gets in front of those microphones, he can make a c clear, concise statement and then decide how many questions he s going to take from reporters. and one of the officials said at the previous briefing about an hour ago that there were, quote, no firm numbers. i believe he was referring to fatalities. what did you make of that statement? you may have some people in pretty bad shape. you may people that are pretty critical, gravely injured. that would be one possibility. it could be that they haven t finished the search through the mall to make sure they found everyone who may be injured.