But time is running out. What you get is a surprisingly top cal political thriller. Good afternoon, im jake tapper. Any moment now were expecting a briefing on the latest from ft. Hood, texas, where investigators are looking for any clue about the state of mind of the man who shot and killed three fellow soldiers there and wounded 16 others. Today were hearing from the family of the shooter. Specialist ivan lopez. They seemed just as hurt and confused as anyone else. Today rick perry and senator ted cruz visited the wounded patients. Five have been released with one more expected to leave soon. The office of senator john cornyn sent us a picture of a note from one of the Wounded Soldiers written to the medical staff which reads, sir, hows everyone doing . Let everyone know im doing good. Well get through this as a family team. Investigato investigators searched the shooters home but anyone wanting an answer came away sorely disappointed. Were hearing from the shooters father today, pam
They are receiving patients. They dont have a number. This san active and ongoing situation. I want to get straight to our pentagon correspondent, barbara starr. Whats the very latest can you tell us . Reporter what were hearing is that there are, in fact, multiple injuries from this incident which began perhaps looking at the clock just over an hour ago when the first reports came in of an active shooter at fort hood. The army very efficient information. Multiple injuries. At this point all indications are this situation is still an active shooter. Weve been on the phone with various people. We know who were at fort hood. They are still hearing sirens. They are being told to shelter in place, to lock their doors, to stay away from windows. This servicing on fort hood from battle hardened combat veterans to families who live there, who have children. It is a very large sprawling base, security personnel, erin, have responded on multiple fronts. Security, Army Security personnel on the
Scene at this moment despite the fact they do say the shooter is dead, they say it is still an active scene. For the second time in five years, this is the chilling way that most people learned once again that something was terribly wrong. Being told shelter in place. That is what nearby residents heard. This is what one eyewitness saw. They are actually escorting a group of of soldiers out of a building now at gunpoint. Everyone is coming out with their hands in the air, required to drop down to their knees. A group of soldiers like five, ten . No. Mass soldiers, men, women and children. There are children present with us at this time. There are civilians in civilian clothes. They are asked at this time to get done on their hands and knees, face down at gunpoint. The support Operations Building is the building theyre being escorted out of. The police are going in and s. W. A. T. Is going in. They still are being held at gunpoint at this time face down. Police are. On the ground . Yes.
Their lives. We start in northern florida. Morgan radford is in jacksonville where the storm has passed but residents are worried about rising waters. Morgan . Nicolle, residents are worried about those waters. You can see how high they are on me right now. Im 510. Theyre already up to my knees and expected to get even higher. We move from gainesville to downtown jacksonville. These waters are expected to rise four to six feet throughout the day. I want to introduce you to angel here. You live is it this building here . I live on the second floor up there. Where the dog is. So explain to uwhat was the water leff like just a few short hours ago . The water level was above these upside down picnic benches you see up to the steps. And the waters were crashing against the windows. You see here, it broke the stucco off the side of the building. It was hitting pretty hard. I want ben, our awesome cameraman, just to show the water here. I want our viewers to really understand. The river has l
Inquiry is focused at least in part in his work on his fathers firm intel group, where he had a hand in the daytoday operations. But the younger flynn is known for pushing that conspiracy known as pizzagate, regarding a sex ring and a washington restaurant. The similar outrage provoked a gunman to fire shots outside the restaurant, yet flynn still tweeted this outside the investigation. Quote, until pizza gate is proven to be false it will remain a story. In reaction to the investigation tonight, President Trumps special counsel, ty cobb, says it did not impact the white house with regard to any cooperation with the special counsel. That is what this guy said. Anyway, the report that flynn is the subject of the investigation comes in the middle of new charges that his father, the senior Michael Flynn had deeper foreign involvement than previously known. Democratic adviser Elijah Cummings is probes the matter about the power plants in the middle east, as well as a trip to saudi arabia t