To keep you online. Only from xfinity. Home of the xfinity 10g network. Im sara sidner in tel aviv, israel, where we are learning a significant progress on the negotiations to release the hostages held by hamas, and this is as the israel troops are continuing the targeted troops in gaza on the ground. Im john berman in lewiston, in maine, where any moment we will get the update from Law Enforcement on the manhunt on the man accused of killing 18 people here. Authorities are now examining a gun, a cell phone and a note he left behind. Im kate bolduan in new york, and we are learning more about the lives lost in this horrible tragedy. So many families torn apart, and so many children left without their parents. The heartbreaking details are coming in this morning about the 18 beautiful lives. This is cis cnn news central. All right. We have a twominute warning about 2 30 ago for a News Conference that is supposed to happen here in lewiston, maine, and the Law Enforcement largely, and the state police and the Public Department of safety, and a while ago the mayor of lewiston, i asked if there is a active manhunt this morning and his answer was absolutely. The manhunt is some 700 miles in the search for robert card the 40yearold man suspected of opening fire at two locations, killing 18 people here. We are learning more about the lives lost, and we should note that moments ago, we learned the identity of one more individual joshua seal who was taking place in the cornhole tournament for the Deaf Community at the bar behind me, and now several victims it seems to me that were part of the Deaf Community on wednesday nights where they played cornhole at the bar here. We are told that this man, he was a lead interpreter for the deaf for maine governor janet mills when she held her daily covid briefings, and again, this News Conference is set to be held any moment. We will listen in. It is sauschuck, the director of okay. She is just talking about the logistics of the News Conference and it is really going to begin any second, and while we are waiting for this to begin, omar, i want to go to you because you are where the shootings just began in the just in Time Recreation CenterBowling Alley, and give us a look at the shelter in place orders. Yes, one, the shelter in place orders are continuing, and when you asked the mayor of lewiston if this is an active manhunt he says yes, it is, and that has to be bittersweet for the people in the community, and that means it is active and that means they are doing everything they can to find this person as quickly as they k and still on the other hand, it is a manhunt and they dont have an answer to where this person may be. As you mentioned, we are just as close adds we can get to the Bowling Alley where the police said that the shooting began wednesday night, and minutes after the shooting began that he made his way the 40yearold suspect robert card made his way to where you are, john, towards that bar and grille and continued that shooting spree, and at least 18 People Killed in total. When you are talking about just where they are moving and as far as the investigation goes, because there is two separate planes of investigation here. One is the obviously manhunt which is priority it seems to be for Law Enforcement, and the other is trying to investigate why this happened, and going to the home. We know that last night, Law Enforcement was outside one of the last known addresses of the suspect. There is a lot of activity there with the fbi and other Law Enforcement with the spotlight on the homes and speaking on the loud speakers and come out with your hands up, and this is more of the Standard Operating Procedure for executing a warrant as opposed to actually someone being there, and that said, the investigation continues. We know that they recovered a cell phone and a note left behind and the likely pieces of the investigation to piece together, and the coast guard is helping to monitor by air and by water, and partly because his vehicle was found by a boat launch in a town nearby where we are in lewiston, and so this is a multi faceted approach to try and figure out where this person may be. Another aspect of this that we understand is that the family of the suspect has been in touch with Law Enforcement. All right. Omar, this News Conference appears to be starting, and so we will jump in to listen. From the operational standpoint, and what happened overnight and where we are going from here. And before that, i want to ask chief st. Pierre to come up, and touch on the lewiston experience overall. Chief . Thank you, mike. Good morning, member of the media and public watching closely as the Law Enforcement is continuing to work diligently on the rapidly evolving investigation. The safety of the community is paramount. I want to assure all that a tremendous amount of Law Enforcement manpower and time and effort is being utilized around the clock, and literally around the clock in every effort to apprehend the suspect as well as to safeguard this community. As the chief of the Lewiston Police department, i am extremely thankful for the communitys outpouring of support in this tense and trying time. I extend my deepest appreciation for all of the Law Enforcement partners who have responded from literally, literally around this nation. Again, i will ask the community to be as patient as possible with this process. Realizing that there are many, many moving parts in coordination of efforts involved between multiple agencies. We will attempt to provide as much information as possible as this investigation proceeds forward. Would also like to acknowledge and thank the many businesses, Restaurant Owners and individuals who are providing meals and other Essential Items to support the investigation of this magnitude. Following this Press Conference, details will be shared regarding counseling locations, where somebody can make a donation if necessary or asked, and the hosting of several different vigils. On behalf of the hundreds of Law Enforcement officers who have descended upon our great city in the last three days, we want to extend our heart felt support and the sympathies of the victims and the families involved in this senseless tragedy. Thank you, and i will turn it back over to mike. Thank you, chief. I appreciate that. For starters, i want to make sure that we take a moment to acknowledge the victims, the families and how this is negatively impacting the state of maine, the city of lewiston, and really the entire country. We know that when these things occur around our country, we are all so incredibly focused on what happened, and then we try to get to the why. There are certainly times when we cant quite figure out the why, because every one of these situations is so tragic, and so outside of the norm that it makes it difficult for Community Members of all types and all locations, east coast and west coast and it does not matter to fathom how these things can occur in the greatest country in the world. So, we are going to continue to work towards that, and as a piece of this, i wanted to come in and really speak to the partnership that we are committed to have with you. As we start to really flow into the operational period, we have more of the pattern to see what we are doing day in, day out, and i want to commit to you to have a Morning Briefing every day at 10 00 right here in this location, and as you can imagine, some of the briefings may be longer than others, and i wanted you to know that you will see us in the morning, and so, we will go over what happened last night, and talk about the plan of the day is, and ill speak to that plan of the day here in just a second. I would also say that we are certainly going to be considering the Afternoon Briefing as well if something new came up or if we believe would be helpful for you know and the communities to know, then we will get back to you, and either way, you will receive a communication from the Pio Shannon Moss saying that we will have a brief or not, so you can know what your day and afternoon will look like as well. So i would also say that these daily briefings as you can say are more operational in nature, and that our families and communities and loved ones are always in the forefront of our mind and certainly in our hearts, but we do want to talk to you about this is what we want to do and what we did and that is incredibly important to you and you will share that appropriately with your viewers and readers, and that is going to help everybody start the healing process. I know that information is power. You also know that there are going to be times when i cannot give you all of the information that you need or certainly that you want. That wont be done, because we are not going to tell you, but it is because of the operational standpoint or tactical standpoint, and there are Safety Concerns for the First Responders and we all have for the Community Members. Please, keep that in mind, and i will go back to the q a kind of period. We want to allow that opportunity. We will try to do the best we can, but if in my mind the mass starts to be ten questions and i cannot answer nine of them, that is counter productive to a certain extent, so we will try to frontload as much information as we can with these particular sessions. So that is kind of the plan moving forward. And to speak to todays briefing in particular, i would tell you that the overnight hours, and we are on 24 7, and we will be until the suspect in this case again is brought to you justice. Overnight, our officers, our investigators, and when i say our i am talking about the local, county, state, all of the partners are continuing to work 530plus tips and leads that have come in from the general public from the number of communities and number of relationships, and as you can imagine, they vary greatly depending upon that individuals knowledge of what happened and what they want us to do about that. So we are continuing to check those things off of the list as we go. We are also continuing to do searches at the two primary venues here. The one being schemengees bar and grille and the other being the spare time Bowling Alley. It is going to be easy to say, what is taking them so long to work the scenes, right, because everything that we watch is solved in an hour, and it is all taken care of, but in order for us to do our jobs, to be professional about what we do, and be respectful of the victims and the families that we are working with, and the process within we work, we have to take our time, and we are going to be processing every square inch of these facilities, and not only do you have the victims in question, but every one of those rounds that were fired have to be investigated and every cartridge on the ground, and the vehicles in the parking lot needs to be investigated and everything we have to be careful and professional, and that is what we are committed to do. So i expect that we are days away from completing those particular investigations, those particular crime scenes. So you will continue to see us at those locations without question. And because of that, there are also affidavits, and affidavits are the first step in a Search Warrant or arrest warrant or whatever that looks like, and so we are continuing to draft the affidavits ultimately for Search Warrants around any kind of Digital Media that we are hoping to attain or investigate, and that could be phones or computers or video from any locations, and the officers continue the work on that material. And so that is a lot of the stuff overnight, as well as using that 3 00 or the 4 00 in the morning, using that time frame to plan out what the next day is going to look like. So we are trying to get some people rotated through for the operational periods, and get them some rest, and now, plan what the next day is looking like. We have a Morning Briefing that kicks off that we need a team to do this or that, and this is who the team leads are, and this is the process, and then we let the folks loose to go do good work, and we will try to share some of the information with you. So, as we discuss that, and we have some maps and additional other information up here with us right now, i will talk about a couple of these locations here to the best of my ability. You can see that there is a lot of us here, and this is not ideal as far as the maps go, but if you are looking at the Boat Launch Overview for example. This dot right there, that is the Lisbon Boat Launch Ramp that we discussed and that is where the suspects vehicle was located the white suv station wagon, and so we have had the three primary maps, but this qr code here, and whether you can get if from the seats or come up after the fact, it will give you the digital version of those so you can have it readily available, and you certainly understand how that works bush we are talking about the boat launch area, and that particular location is 501 lisbon street, pejebscotlanding is at this location. We have some of the friends from the media out there in that area now. What happens in this general location today, we will be putting the divers in the water along the Androscoggin River, and that going to be looking like a couple of things. The very first thing that you will see is the Air Resources flying over this particular area, and they are looking to see what can we clear from the air, and do i have to put divers in that area or can i tell from the top based on the current and how muddy the water is and all of those things, and can i see to the very bottom here. That is going to start this entire process, and then some screening and some divers actually in the water who may start on this side by the boat launch, and they will continue on this side. I would envision at some point that we will be moving over to these particular locations here for ground searches as well. So that is going to be looking like a bunch of different things. So they could be dragging a diver behind them literally while the diver is checking for evidence, checking for potential bodies and i would also say that while this is going to be looking like a major focus today with a lot of people, we have a lot of other irons in the fire, so i am not saying that the suspect or we know that the suspect is in the water and that is what we are doing, but i am telling you that you will see activity in advance and we have nothing to hide in that regard at all. So then you will have some sonar also utilized here and that can be looking like a couple of things, a remote operating vehicle, an rov as the divers would use, that and that is going to be looking like a pod under water looking for sonar and looking for shadows and could be a log or anything, and the divers, and the dive team, and this is teams from all over the place, and the Maine Warden Service is involved in this, and we work with them, and the maine State Dive Team is going to be leading this initiative, and that is what we will see here with a couple of types of sonar, and then along the shoreline, you will see a line search if you will, and this is literally the officers online as they are working shoreline, and of course, they are looking for the evidence, and looking for anything that may help them down the road. Now i say that youll see this, because for us, we want to make sure that we are working with you so that there is a Church Parking lot across the road here, and there is also some parking available on this side of the road marked vladi who is main p. O. For the officers here, and the warden in this area tos a zi. So if you decide that you want to go to the location to pick up the video to see what they are up to, there is some Parking Opportunities here. This 196 can be busy. This area here happens to be low speed at least that is what the speed limit is, so we will be around there to keep it as safe as possible, but we want you to be mindful not to standing on the railroad trestle, and we want you to get the coverage, and be partners with you, and however, you are not going to be able to have full access of the site, and this is common sense. We want to make sure that you can do your jobs, and we can help you to facilitate that. You will see a bunch of people in the area 531 lisbon road. A couple of the other locations, if you start here, this is the Bowling Alley scene, and this red dot is where that is, and you all understand that, and we will have additional officers there checking woodline and continuing to do those sweeps, and the searches, and there was a lot of shots fired there, and we want to have all of the evidence humanly possible, and this is far from ideal considering it is directly behind the podium. Can you slide it to the right . Well, we are jammed in here with the wall. I apologize, if you cant see that. But you can look at the qr code there, and all of these things will have a Quick Reaction force, or qrf, and so we will maintain the security here, and as you k