baldwin, where we see the news conference is beginning as the local officials there are going to brief us. so joel, i m going to ask you just to stand by as we try to process this horrific event and get more information on what exactly happened as well as perhaps the names of some of the deceased and others, information that authorities have not yet begin to us. federal authorities are calling this a hate crime that bowers allegedly, 46 years old stormed in yelling, must kill the juice when he opened fire, this following anti-semetic rants apparently on his twitter page going back quite a long time. let s now listen to authorities filling us in on the very latest.
knock on the teenager s door and talk to the parents, or they can reach out. can american authorities do that without so called probable cause? can they do a welfare check? can they knock on the door of someone when they see these types of things on social media? is that a violation of the 1st amendment? that s just it, eric. that s the biggest obstacle; right? everyone has a right to say what they want, via social media, in public, however, that s a problem a lot of law enforcement agencies are faced with. 1st amendment right, how do you know if someone is saying something, if they are going to act out on it, if they are not going to act out on it, if they are being extreme on social media, we don t know. again, it goes back to a manpower issue. how do you have that many officials looking into the posts? eric: to make a case, do you need that? do you need more information that someone is going do something? you can t yell fire in a theater
press conference tomorrow and at that time a representative from the medical examiner s office will be there. [ indiscernible ] there are no children among the deceased. [ indiscernible ] i m sorry? [ indiscernible ] i don t believe so. were they present? we are still talking to many witnesses at this point so did the gunman shout anything before he opened fire? we don t have that information at this point. are local synagogues in pittsburgh on lockdown at this time? i don t know about lockdown. we will certainly make sure the information is passed so they can take necessary he precautions. should people of the jewish faith in pittsburgh be worried or on alert or do we think the threat has been we think the threat has been eliminated. we don t think that anybody has been associated with this gunman. we ll continue to look at all angles in the conduct of the investigation. if i could follow up on that. pittsburgh bureau of police have been notified of n
if you could, set the scene for us. reporter: we are in the borough of baldwin, about 12 miles from the synagogue in squirrel hill and there are several police and fire units here as well as the allegheny county police bomb squad. they have closed off a section of the roadway to traffic, more and more news crews are continuing to arrive here, perplexing residents in what they say is usually a pretty sleepy, quiet, residential suburban community. the apartment complex that they are trying to enter is located pretty close to a volunteer fire department station out here. we re having a hard time getting a close view because they blocked off so much of it. but that s what the scene looks like here right now. earlier today police had started checking out another address linked to the suspect about maybe eight minutes away. that didn t turn out any leads. this apartment complex is believed to be where he was
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