what bullet caused the death and what gun fired that bullet. sometimes that s not always possible, if you have a ricocheted bullet that gets mangled and then hits bone and other hard material, it could get mangled beyond the point of being able to be examined ballistically. under normal conditions they should be able to differentiate between shotgun pellets versus the weaponry or assault rifles that were used by the s.w.a.t. team. and so that s what we know. two women were taken to the hospital, two of the hostages described as having nonlife threatening injuries. the male police officer in the hospital also nonlife threatening wound in the his face from gunshot pellets, another woman taken to the hospital with a gunshot wound to her shoulder and another 35-year-old woman taken to the hospital as a precaution. tom, we ll stay on top of this story. that s it for me.
police are getting ready for this news conference. we re standing by about 5:34 a.m. in sydney right now. they were really concerned, though, about the news media airing these social immediamedi from the hostages. explain their concerns and why most of the international news media accepted the police s requests. this has been a standard operating procedure for as long as i have known. when you have somebody holding hostages issue the police want to be the only negotiator. they don t want this person getting a bigger sense of themselves of reaching out with a bigger message and getting pressure from the outside. they want one-on-one negotiations cutting off the lines of communications, getting news agencies to agree to that was helpful in the situation as it almost always is. tom foreman monitoring the social media aspect of this crisis for 16 hours. plus only how we re beginning to learn details. we re standing by for a news