portrid and thank you for being here. let s talk about what we know and don t know at this point as we wait for this press conference to begin in the next couple minutes. tom, you had this suspect, you had him armed with an ar-15 style automatic rifle according to the law enforcement officials on the ground. this was apparently according to the attorney jim louis, legally obtained. that s what he told the south florida sun sentnel. what the process for legally getting that kind of gun? halle, apparently the shooter purchased that gun legally from a licensed federal firearms licensee. he was not a prohibited person at the time that he purchased that weapon. in other words, he had no prior felony convictions. he had not been adjudicated mentally ill so there was nothing prohibiting him from buying that firearm. darren, you heard tom there