that the next press conference regarding the mass shooting in mass casualty event out in monterrey park, california, will take place 11 am eastern. msnbc will be covering it and i want to thank you for watching the katie phang show. we ll be back next weekend saturday and sunday and velshi starts right now. good morning, i m ali velshi. we are following breaking news right now out of california. law enforcement sources they re confirmed at least ten people are dead after a shooting in monterrey park just east of los angeles. ten others were injured and taken to an area hospital. it happened last night around 10:30 pm local time. li county sheriff s homicide captain andrew meyer described the scene at a press conference just a few hours ago. when officers arrived on scene, they observed numerous individuals with location pouring out of location. screaming and the officers made entry to the location and located additional victims. the monterey park fire department responded
saturday night. leading into sunday, of course. police still searching for the suspect and saying this is a male shoe near who is outstanding. fled the scene. as you heard in that clip, people pouring out of this business. chaos ensued as police arrived on scene to those gunshots conducting triaging searching for anybody that may have been surviving. and of course, searching for that suspect. this is all made even more troubling by the fact that this community, a heavily asian community, about 65% of monterey park s asian. this was obviously playing host to one of the largest lunar new year festivals. in southern california, if not the country. massive two day event, tens of thousands of people flooding the streets. this would have been after that event. but we now know that the second day of this has been canceled. police have not described the motive, of course, at this