jewish faith, a newborn boy eight days old. when you think about the unfolding tragedy, that is police officers, we seem them walking with heavy weapons and dealing with families that are grieving, families that lost loved ones and families that don t know whether they ve lost loved ones, as the scene is being contained, what are police doing to try and identify the victims and let people know, your family member was hurt, your family member was killed, your family member is okay? first thing that happens normally in these scenes is the preservation of the crime scene, leland, that s where the medical examiner will be called to the scene and they will start processing the scene. they ll try to identify as many individuals on the scene as they can and what law enforcement will try to do is get information out to the loved ones before the information is provided to the public. this is one reason why you saw earlier the mayor there acting out of abundance of caution just
happening there. and former prosecutor david dipietro joining us live from fort lauderdale, florida. thanks for your time and being flexible. we know we booked you to talk about something entirely different, but thanks for sticking with us. can you tell us what s likely going on behind the scenes right now in terms of law enforcement? we know that local law enforcement were the first responders on the scene, but i can only imagine that now pour soon hereafter we re bringing in state level, bringing in the feds. can you tell me about that process? absolutely, on a case like this, it goes from an act of crime to an active crime scene. law enforcement has a tough job. they have a scenario where some of their brothers were wounded or are dead and innocent people are harmed. this is where the seasoned homicide detectives will come in. the ones that come in and secure
that if anyone has any information regarding the investigation that they also call that (412)432-4400 and that will put you in contact with the fbi. can you tell us what the situation was in there, how many people were inside? i don t have that answer. i do not want to give you my understanding is there was a service occurring. [inaudible conversations] that is correct. however, we are setting up a very hard perimeter around the crime scene and we ask, you know, individuals to stay away from that, so there will be a very secure presence around the crime scene just to protect the integrity of the investigation. [inaudible] i don t want to get into that. you think he acted alone? i don t want to get into that. right now what we have is one subject in custody from the scene whether or not as all the
first thing law enforcement did when they broke on the scene was to secure the surrounding environment to make sure that everybody who lives nearby or works nearby sheltered in place. tell us about that. what that means. it s not exactly shelter in place what you re looking for. always remember that even a modestly powered firearm common ly handgun, they re going to penetrate household construction materials god forbid if you re in a situation where people tell you to stay inside. you don t want to stay to the side of the house, you go to the basement or somewhere with cover. a bullet can go through sheet rock. you want to go to a police somewhere more secure in your home, your office or in your store and to make sure that if
enforcement started moving to try to process what was happening at that scene and so this is a coordinated effort. since 9/11, leland we have found that law enforcement officers are federal, state and local law enforcement officers have coordinated for these kind of unfortunate events. leland: all right, ted williams, we appreciate it, standby for a second, 1:00 o clock eastern time to reset for those just joining us. we are about 3 hours now in continuing coverage of the shooting at the extra of life synagogue in pittsburgh, pennsylvania, 10:00 a.m. eastern. eastern part of pittsburgh, one person described it as the greatest neighborhood in america, gillian, in terms of what was there, predominantly