which law enforcement moved, we want to keep all options open and don t want to get hyper focused, and the alacrity, the speed they moved in, this is hate crime and since it is a hate crime it comes in under the federal umbrella and the fbi steps in as a lead investigative agency. it doesn t mean that they are not collaborating with state and local partners but the social media is huge, we live in a society of impulse, good people who exchange idea does it, and so do evil people. the fbi will go through with the law enforcement partners and piece it together. and everything now in the 21st century, there is a footprint, that every time you walk down a street, in manhattan, you are on camera. and every time you pass through an easy pass lane, every time you pass by a police car with a license plate scanner, any time you open up the computer, that digital footprint, especially since this individual is somebody who seems to have used social media, is going to be exhaustbly searched throug
synagogue. we know that there are multiple deaths. at least six people have injuries. four of those injured are police officers. the suspect is in custody. and actually at a hospital being treated for injuries. 46-year-old robert bowers. the pittsburgh safety director says, and i m quoting now, the scene is very bad inside. the president of the united states calling the deadly shooting terrible, and will address the shooting again later on today, he says, with a major statement. cnn s nick valencia is tracking the developments for us. nick, what more do you know? reporter: we can still say this is a live scene but according to the public safety director in pittsburgh, there is no active threat in pittsburgh, and they are telling people in the residential area of squirrel hill to remain indoors and for those who don t have business or don t belong in the neighborhood to stay away. this is what we can tell you happened earlier this morning. according to the web site, tree of life synag
the 1996 law that clinton signed that made it a crime to interfere with people s exercise of religious freedom and then in 2009, the act that obama signed, enhancing the earlier act by clinton, makes these cases much more simply prosecuted. you have to prove that the person engaged in using a force or the threat of force, directed at people, who are exercising their religious rights, it seems to me pretty clear, from what we know at this early stage of the investigation, that that case should be easily made by the federal prosecutors, working with state and local law enforcement, to supplement their evidence gathering processes. but i wanted to add something, fred, if i may. yes. with respect to what we know or don t know about what was in the synagogue at that time. what we have heard is that there was a baby naming, so it is
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