he was with us from the beginning he was supposed to be on the show for something unrelated and this happened. you and i talked about whether or not this might be a targeted killing of journalists. we don t have that information right now. what we do know is that the n.y.p.d. deployed kou counter-terrorism units to media organizations in new york. the president of the united states has said the media is the enemy. asked about the president s criticism now, just on his way back from wisconsin the president and his staff, sarah huckabee sanders, said the president and his staff do not believe violence is acceptable in any situation, and we stand by that. but, clint, let s just call a spade a spade. the press is under some pressure. and for the moment, you can t put out of your mind the fact that this was a shooting at a newspaper. i don t know what i wish it to be. i don t want it to be a domestic situation. i don t want it to be somebody
bit open-ended there. sure. we know he was taken into custody, the shooting this afternoon happening at 2:34 p.m. is when first responders first got a phone call about this shooting that was occurring. we ve been told that he used a shotgun. in addition to that, there is some sort of a package or some sort of a bag that he may have had. a little bit fuzzy as far as the particulars on that, that there is something inside of that that police are a little bit concerned about. we heard at the last press briefing, ali, they were still clearing this scene. so we believe that the bomb squad is going to just take a look at that to make sure there is nothing in there that could further injure law enforcement or anybody at the scene. they will look to clear that. then obviously the evidence recovery technicians and the detectives whether go in to do the crime scene work that they need to do. at this point we don t have an identification on the suspect. a white male in his 20s or 30s. describ
the country, including new york city police protection is now being deployed to media organizations in the event there is some connection between this shooting and the targeting of journalists. terrance thank you so much right, i heard my only colleague john miller confirming that. he did say it s out of an abundance of caution. there is no unique evidence that that is the case. there is a growing hostility toward the media in this country, there is no question about that. there was a call from a right wing activist yesterday to gun down journalists but we do not know of any connection between those things. but there is protection. to your point about it being a vulnerable newsroom at least tonight there are some newsrooms in america that will be marginally less vulnerable we would hope. thank you for joining us. i want to invite congressman anthony brown who represents the district where this shooting happened. congressman we have had a good amount of information in the past ten
take care of that target inside there during an active shooting. . [ overlapping speakers ] say it again? did he shoot through windows or doors? i can t answer that right now. that s something gaes going to be determined by our investigators as they go through and process that crime scene. it s going to be a very long night. we anticipate another update at 8:00. any information that s new i will give out then and make sure you have all that information and any updates awe go along. how many victims are in the hospital? we can confirm that five have been are deceased. we are still working on injuries for you guys to get a good number. so we are working on that. but it s estimated around three. tell us home people were in the newsroom when this happened. i don t know how many. but i know we have approximately 170 that we were able to safely evacuate out of that building and transport to meet safely with family and friend at the annapolis mall. 8:00 will be our next updat
briefed on this investigation. in addition to that, the bomb squad this is kind of standard practice a little bit routine he had some sort of a package or perhaps a backpack on him. they are going the take a look at that now just to make sure that there is no actual device inside of there that may cause harm as they begin to sweep and go through this scene that happened apparently at the newspaper there in annapolis maryland. based on reports we have gotten from reporters who were there at the time of the shooting. we know the suspect is a white male, believed to be on the younger side, in his 20s or 30s. that s most of the information that we have that we feel that we can bring to you about him at this time. sure. i m going to stretch a piece of that information just to be clear, top. we put something out there. i want to address this a little bit. the police said they are not releasing information about a motive. we don t know if they have got a motive but there is talk about t