multiple fatalities, beware of active shooter, god bless all. we re waiting to learn about the motives behind this. no eyedy has been reported for the shooter, no motive, but we know it s the largest conservative majority synagogue in the squirrel hill neighborhood and has hundreds of jems and waiting for them on the scene there. we re learning that this is one building, but four congregations share the building and it happened at 9:45 during prayer service this morning right in the heart of what for jewish families is shabbat service and most were going to spend time with families. when you look at the
future. we cannot accept this violence as normal. now, i m hearing from my sources that police on the scene are looking at a suspect vehicle, they re looking at a green hyundai accent. reportedly they have a name that they are considering, but we don t know if the name they re looking at now is just the registered owner of that vehicle or a possible name of the suspect, waiting on new information, of course. this is still developing and we ll bring you any updates as we hear them. have you heard anything from carnegie mellon? you mentioned that the university is in the vicinity and that law enforcement had them on virtual lockdown and everybody was sheltering in place. have they put statements out or have you spoken to anyone there? i haven t gotten an updated statement from them in the last half hour or so. the students were initially alerted to the situation by way much text messages on their phones. still trying to figure out if those text messages were sent out through a univer
the sadness that becomes overwhelming now in these communities. people who all know each other, a synagogue like this will walk to services on saturday morning, and now you have friends and family all rushing to the scene to see if their loved ones are alive, to see if their loved ones were injured. often times during this situation, cell phone networks become overwhelmed. people drop cell phones as they run out in the chaos of the shootings and over time, we will endoubtedly hear the stories of heroics by people not only law enforcement who as we know ran to the sound of gunfire multiple times and engaged in multiple shootouts but undoubtedly they ll be heros who were there on saturday morning to worship and practice their faith who were called upon to sort of perform inhuman and unhuman
time like this and really what you have to do is think about, as you look at the scene, the police there who secured it and we ve talked to experts now this becomes a crime scene and then the families rushing in, those who were at the synagogue and ran out and wondered what happened to their loved ones inside or those who are in that surrounding neighborhood who had friends and family there attending services this morning, on shabbat most holy and happy day, and now all of a sudden we have this. i want to bring in jeffrey finkle stein. he s got insight into the congregation and community here. he s the president and ceo of the jewish federation of greater pittsburgh. jeffrey, our heart goes out to the community there in pittsburgh, thanks for taking time to join us. tell me your reaction to what you re seeing this morning. i am i was at home, i actually just returned from israel yesterday afternoon and
system. sometimes schools have a push alert for developing situations for children, student, rather, to be kept abreast of a situation, so i m going to stop you. carnegie mellon university on their website now, shelter in place has been lifted. all activities for today remained canceled. our thoughts and prayers with our communities and those affected. jacqui heinrich following the story from new york. some breakup from our overhead pictures as we return to some video from earlier as the s.w.a.t. team moved in in pittsburgh. gillian. we want to bring in former trial attorney david dipietro. he s joining us from fort lauderdale, florida. david, thanks for your time this morning. what do you make of the latest we re hearing from the scene? i think what we re going to see next is this suspect s going to be put in a room that s going to be recorded and you re going to have probably two detectives go in and try to solicit and