keep the attention on of the world on thepgmselves. how do you resolve this? you know why it s difficult. it s peaceful. the question about the safety of the officers and the individual involved. if you re a ground level here, you could resolve this now. but despite the frustration with this individual, you can t afford to risk their life or their health so they ll sit there and be very cautious. the secondary issue to take hours to resolve is i got go back to my old life saying i need identification here because that is a name because i want to know things like social media profile, what this person said in the past. i mentioned a moment ago, an indication of whether they re part of a group and planning something further. this issue resolved quickly s. there a secondary issue with some affiliated group do see later today or tomorrow? i doubt it. but you can t believe that until you prove it. sure. well, we ll continue to monitor the breaking news here. there is liberty island on j
criticized gay marriage and abortion. we do not know at this point whether that has anything whatsoever to do with this case. but it s very obviously something investigators will be looking at, trace. trace: yeah, his social media footprint will be scoured. jonathan hunt, thank you. let s bring in terry here, a former assistant director of the counter terrorism task force. he lost the unabomber investigation. you see a lot of parallels with the unabomber and this bomber in texas. the unabomber went on for 18 years, this guy left a big trail. we re talking about receipts that investigators followed. surveillance video. his online, social media profile. what do you make of this whole spree where he literally walked into a fed ex store and must have known there were people watching? it s very interesting, trace. he had a disguise.
along with the sense of mourning is the growing sense of outrage that balls were dropped, red flags were missed. first on his social media profile, the suspected shooter had extremely disturbing posts over a period of years including snapchat images of him cutting himself on the arms and saying he wanted to buy a gun. add this to the fbi call to the tip line, january 5th, a caller close to cruz said this man, cruz, is disturbed. he s unstable. he has a gun. he wants to kill people. i m worried he s going to shoot up a school. that is of course exactly what happened just six weeks later. the suspected shooter, 19 years old, made his first court appearance. the public defender said he is likely to plead guilty, this in order to avoid the death penalty. finally, the building behind me, that three-story building where most of the shootings took place, where it housed ninth graders as of wednesday, florida
this 19-year-old into their home. they said on new day this morning, they said they didn t notice any violent tendencies. they did notice depression, seeing that the gown man s mother died in november, but no signs of violence. now that we re picking apart the social media profile, it s maybe easy to see. it s not so sure those signs were readily apparent before the shooting yesterday. jessica schneider for us in washington. joining me is colton habb, a 17-year-old junior, a student who lived through this massacre. colton, thanks so much for being with us. first, i need to say this, we re so sorry, so sorry you had to go through this yesterday, but we re proud of what you managed to do, not just for your self-but for others. so explain to me what happened a little bit after 2:00 this morning. what did you hear? around 2:20 i heard a fire alarm go off. that morning around 9:30-ish, we had a fire alarm. that was a scheduled fire alarm.
someone s social media profile, look through their computers and figure out what this was all about. they still do not have a motive or know why he had all this tannerite in his car and that is what s frustrating them. they re asking people to speak up. if you have any sort of interaction with this man to come forward and talk to authorities about it. even if you think it s no big deal, they want your help because they want to decide as they re putting together the timeline of this man s life whether or not it s something that could help them figure out what could have caused him to be do something just so horrific. stephanie elam, thank you. let me bring in someone now who knows exactly how these investigations work. tom 2010 tes is a senior law enforcement analyst and assistant director of the fbi. first things first, on this note in the room with the calculations of the distance and the trajectory from the 32nd floor from the shooter, what does that tell? you does it tell you he