ambulance by ambulance. unsure if they would be taking fire themselves. extraordinary work and we see it time after time for people in the first responder jobs. thank yous for that. we want to dig in to what was going on behind the scenes. i m joined by jim cavanaugh and tim kelly, jim, i want to start with you, let s talk about the guns he may have been using. experts that have been listening to the videos that witnesses were taking from the scene talk about the bullets fired one after the other. automatic weapons are hard to come by in the united states, certainly since they were banned from purchase in 1986 or so. you can get them as long as they were registered before that, grandfathered in, but could he have used an automatic weapon
incident. they train for any type of incident like this that can occur, but they re very well trained for this. their vehicles are tricked out with this high powered gear. these are kevlar vests and helmets, and med units they take in. they re trained to enter into these active shooter situations. they re wearing vests and helmets and taking their kits inside the these situation. last night they were put in the position they were going into a situation, unsure if that shooter was still very active. they went in with first responders and immediately began to triage. more than 500 people wounded hundreds taken to local hospitals many dozens at a time. that s the situation they were dealing with, saving lives by the minute, trucks by trucks,