learn the threat and the motives behind the maryland shooting. steve, they tolds they continue to interview the suspect. it s important to have a suspect to interview in hopes that they can glean motive. really the conversation has shifted in the last several months since the park lds shooting. we understand there are various motives for these things. we understand that our police are getting better at responding to them. we understand we are getting better at covering them. we understand that people have drills. annapolis city had an active shooter drill just the other day. ultimately, the problem does seem to remain too many people with too many guns who are able to do too many bad things with them. ali, i would say that, you know, very important for this investigation to unfold and for information to be made available to the public. because you know, while i have been a big proponent of more gun regulations because i think that
often not. and you look out, and here is a big newsroom, big, open newsroom with glass windows all around, on three sides, on the ground floor. so it couldn t be more open or vulnerable. there is not a shred of security. nor has there been any sugg of the need for it. i think that s interesting point terrance because you call it vulnerable and after we hear of a shooting like this it becomes obvious to us, why wouldn t there have been a more hardened environment? but that s what we think of everything, these cars that ram people and kill people in the streets we then they of hardening it. it vulnerable by all standards or vulnerable in 2018 when people shoot offices up? exactly. all i m trying to say is it is a very open scene and a man
a reload. remarkably fast. the police didn t confirm exactly but he said it was a minute to a minute and a and a half. this was something you and i talked about earlier. these days in active shooting situations, many of which you and i have been unfortunate to have been on live tv to cover. the first response is a patrol officer, pa local police officer. it s not atf, it s not even a s.w.a.t. team. no. it s patrol. i mean you get the call on the radio, man with a gun, shooting, and you know, you are responding. you get time to get your long gun, or your tactical shotgun out of the car. you get another officer and in the active shooting drills you are going in to engage the shooter. i worked with anne arundel police. they are a very good force. they showed it today.
response command like we see in new york city, you bring in those type of folks to engage, to engage in that type of an incident. in a situation like this, as soon as you know you have to at least engage them, get them to stop shooting at innocent people. as an officer it s very dangerous, very scary, but you ve got to go in, engage that be person. find a way to stop the threat. that s what i hear on training with a number of law enforcement agencies is identify that threat and stop it. and you have to meet it right away, try to end the shooting. that s apparently what happened here. we have been told by four senior law enforcement officials that as soon as first responders engaged the shooter, he surrendered to them. that s a good sign. want to talk about the deputy chief mentioned a device they were looking at. i reported that for the last hour or so. there was some sort of a device in a package, in a backpack.
this is the kind of experience where when you have a shooting everyone reports to the scene and you determine who is in charge afterwards. right. i have spoken with steve shoe. he is pleased with the response not just the fact that first respond prers there within 60 to 90 seconds. but since then, as you stated the response from the maryland police, the fbi, atf, ann argeds county. the transit authority. and as county executive shoe explained to me, currently the anne argeds police are in charge of the scene and as of now of the investigation. just want to bring you up to speed with the information that was relayed to us by the n.y.p.d. thats deployed counter-terrorism teams to media organizations in and around the city stating these deployments are not based on a specific threat but out of an abundance of caution until we