calling it terrorism because it would without a doubt impact u.s. saudi relations. and it s very disturbing. yeah. and that s an interesting note. i want to loop back to that in a moment. in the meantime, stand by. blaine alexander was at the press conference in pensacola. it was the first press conference we ve learned from the fbi officials since friday night some hours after the incident took place. blaine, we learned they are still acting as if this was an act of terror, but what more did we learn about the gunman and possibly accomplices? reporter: sure. you know, i want to put context around that. they said they are acting with the assumption that this is an act of terrorism. this is something that they do with all active shooting investigations, they said, because they want to make sure they have the proper resources to undergo this investigation. so that s how they re proceeding to make sure that they have the proper teams, proper resources
leads and interview hundreds of people including victims, witnesses, neighbors, and others. conducted searches at the school and residence as well as of the shooter s vehicle. we ve seized evidence from multiple locations including the weapons and ammunition, dockens and digital media. the oregon state police crime lab as well as the atf and fbi laboratories are well engaged in this effort to move forward with processing of this evidence. i want to let you know that investigators located one additional handgun during the search of the shooter s residen residence. bringing the total number of guns seized to 14. now to the officers involved this shooting investigations. i ve been asked to release the following information by the
like yesterday. the pain never goes away. every time you see another killing on the news, the wound gets bigger. reporter: at the justice department they demanded nationwide reporting of officer involved shootings and better police training in the wake of deadly force and call for other groups for independent prosecutors in shooting investigations. we have to change how we prosecute these cases. there should be a special prosecutor any time an officer is involved in excessive force or killing of an unarmed civilian. why? reporter: the mothers want a special force for these decisions. enough is enough. reporter: athena jones, cnn, washington. let s talk more about these