parliament hall. 22 other people were wounded, and 2 gunmen were killed. but, as we mentioned, the manhunt, three other terrorists are still on the run. the prime minister here in tunisia is calling their assault quote, unquote cowardly. these images show museum visitors running from the shooting scene, running from a man there actually here clutching his one child heading up the stairs another with another child continuing past them. lawmakers were working nearby when this gunfire erupted. one spoke with cnn by phone explaining that the gunmen first tried to enter parliament got into the shootout with security and then headed straight for the tourists. >> and we just heard gunshots and then we -- people workers from the administration of the assembly told us came to us and told us that we had to stop our work because the parliament was attacked from its main entrance and then the information that they had is that we -- the tourists went first to the main entrance of the parliament building and then when there were some gun fight between them and the police officers who were in the entrance they came back and went back to the museum and at the entrance of the museum. they shot a bus of tourists. >> i have with me now our cnn global affairs analyst. david, we'll chat in just a minute. let's begin with you as far as what you know. we mentioned this manhunt is under way. as far as these tourists these victims. where are they from and are any american? >> as far as we know no americans were injured or killed in this attack although there's still information coming in. what we understand from the tunisian prime minister is that 19 in total were killed. 17 of those believed to be foreign tourists. we do know a polish national and at least one international was killed as well but we're awaiting confirmation. spanish and french nationals may also have been killed but we're still trying to nail down these details, but as you can imagine every country is scrambling to find out if any of their citizens were involved. no americans fortunately have been reported killed but the state department did put out a statement just a little while ago with the spokesperson jen psaki condemning the attack. take a listen. >> we extend our heartfelt sympathies to the victims' families and loved ones. we commend tunisian authorities' rapid response and today's violence to help restore calm. the united states stands with the tunisian people at this difficult time and continues to support the tunisian government's efforts to advance a secure prosperous and democratic tunisia. >> now in terms of who carried out this attack two gunmen have been killed another three still being looked for but so far no one has claimed responsibility. brooke? >> atika shubert, thank you so much. i think of the genesis of the arab spring and all the hope spreading the region two years ago, and now you see thousands of these young tunisians, in fact is it the largest number of any foreign country going to syria to train with isis? >> i believe it's the largest in the region and it is a problem. i don't want to overreact. there have been two peaceful elections in tunisia, an overwhelmingly moderate society. but it's very striking and distressing, again. two gunmen maybe five gunmen are able to wreak havoc to get very large headlines, kill lots of foreigners. you know we saw this in sydney in ottawa in paris, probably all different groups involved but it's a problem that this pattern continues to happen. >> why target tourists here? >> it's very simple. it's to go after the tunisian economy. it's been a problem since the democratic governments took over and this will frighten away european tourists and that's a key source of revenue for the country and a slow economy means frustrated young men which, you know means more recruits for these kind of groups. >> for this part of the world here sort of a wedge in between morocco, libya and the egypt, when i think of the picture in my head of northern africa and a fairly solid government for this part of the world, correct, so when you talk about the economy, what would be the motivation for all these young people? are they lacking jobs? are they lacking direction? just trying to understand the why. >> tunisia was a very strag nant country before their longtime dictator was overthrown years ago. there's a very rural urban divide. tunis, capital, is incredibly cosmopolitan. there's cafes. you know, most people proudly speak french as well as arabic. >> looks beautiful. >> amazing and full of tourists. nearby there was a boatful of italian tourists from a cruise ship. >> right. >> right near where the attack occurred. condition tryside has had economic problems and that's where a lot of the young men come from that go off to syria. they are trying to exacerbate this divide which was a very clever attack unfortunately. >> interesting that you use the word clever. my question would be when you learn a little bit about the attack we know there were at least five attackers, and it seems fairly targeted. would you rate this on an organizational scale as very sophisticated? >> i think so. again, they are able to use small arms just rifles to kill this many people. this is not trying to get a large truck bomb in. it seems they went to the parliament first. that would have been a great high-profile but a real blow to the government and maybe they had a plan "b," it teams, to go at a very popular museum full of foreigners. >> again, still looking for three of these attackers. thank you very much. atika shubert, my thanks to you as well in london. back here at home we're getting reports of an urgent manhunt in arizona after several people were shot. we're told shots were fired at five or six different locations in mesa. this is including a restaurant. we go to paul vercammen. >> reporter: police at 8:30 this morning got a call near the east valley institute of technology in mesa. as you pointed out, brooke five or six locations involved including a nearby tri-city and what we understand now at least four people were shot perhaps one fatally. they are looking into that right now, and there's an active manhunt for the alleged shooter. we heard on scanner traffic that he was bald and may even have had changed shirts to disguise his identity. also a report of a carjacking near the place called the bistro a restaurant in the area and a very active search at this morning. the east valley institute of technology closed down. the students leaving said classes had ended for the day. >> please keep your eyes and ears on the situation in mesa. meantime caroline kennedy, the u.s. ambassador to japan, is reportedly receiving death threats. this comes just a few weeks after the u.s. ambassador to south korea was slashed by that knife. what's going on? we'll talk about that coming up. also ahead syria claims it shot down a u.s. drone as the pentagon gives a pretty interesting response. are u.s. secrets at risk here? and another fraternity in trouble this time over a facebook page allegedly showing pictures of naked women, some of them passed out. hear what some of these frat boys could be charged with. major: here's our new trainer ensure active heart health. heart: i maximize good stuff like my potassium and phytosterols which may help lower cholesterol. new ensure active heart health supports your heart and body so you stay active and strong. ensure, take life in. nobody told us to expect it... intercourse that's painful due to menopausal changes it's not likely to go away on its own. so let's do something about it. premarin vaginal cream can help it provides estrogens to help rebuild vaginal tissue and make intercourse more comfortable. premarin vaginal cream treats vaginal changes due to menopause and moderate-to-severe painful intercourse caused by these changes. don't use it if you've had unusual bleeding breast or uterine cancer blood clots, liver problems, stroke or heart attack, are allergic to any of its ingredients or think you're pregnant. side effects may include headache pelvic pain, breast pain vaginal bleeding and vaginitis. estrogens may increase your chances of getting cancer of the uterus, strokes, blood clots or dementia so use it for the shortest time based on goals and risks. estrogen should not be used to prevent heart disease heart attack, stroke or dementia. ask your doctor about premarin vaginal cream. you're watching cnn. i'm brooke baldwin. she grew up in a family truly of blitt call icons and the dangers that followed them. now the daughter of john f. kennedy is reportedly facing threats against her own life. caroline kennedy is the u.s. ambassador to japan and attended public events in tokyo and tuesday, and she certainly showed no sign that she knows what local media are reporting that tokyo police are now investigating threatening calls made just last month to the u.s. embassy there. reuters is reporting that alfred magalvie in okinawa was also targeted. david, first of all, i mean context for our viewers as well. you have the first lady michelle obama over there. bill clinton is there in japan right now. is there a greater threat to americans visiting this country now and why? >> brooke that's tough to say because there are just so many questions about the timing of these threats and about their credibility. this happened in february and now they have come out in local japanese press. some saying that they were phoned in by a male an english speaker, and there's questions about why are they coming out now and who is providing them with this information? you know caroline kennedy, one of the highest profile american diplomats in the world, if not the highest profile, everyone on a heightened state of awareness given what happened in south korea just a few weeks ago, brooke. tokyo police not saying anything. the u.s. embassy in tokyo not saying anything but the state department is saying quote, we take any threats to u.s. diplomats seriously. we take every step possible to protect our personnel. we are working with the japanese government to ensure the necessary measures are in place. brooke? >> you mentioned the u.s. ambassador to south korea recently attacked. gun -- rather knife, it was a knife to his face. what kind of security do these ambassadors have? >> yeah. that was quite horrific attack happening at a breakfast in the south korean capital a few weeks ago. he had surgery and stitches. he was bleeding in those pictures. the thing is it's handled case by case and they will never come out publicly and say such and such ambassador has this level of security. the state department spokeswoman just mentioned this in the daily briefing just a few minutes ago. she said they do review things day to day and week to week but to come out and explain exactly what they are doing would defeat the purpose. brooke worth mentioning neither seoul nor tokyo are considered high-risk postings so these two events the attack and the threats, however credible they are, certainly concerning. >> david malko, thank you very much. appreciate that. coming up on cnn, yet another college fraternity facing allegations. this one involving a private facebook page showing women, some of them passed out and missing clothing. among the alleged comments here on this facebook page a piece of forethought. lol, delete those or we'll be on cnn in a week. well we were right. that story when we come back. okay. yet another fraternity scandal, this one at penn state where kappa delta rho has been suspended and is now under investigation by the university and local police. members allegedly posted photo of drugs and hazing and partially nude women, some passed out and definitely in compromising positions. on this private facebook page officials say the page had 144 members, including some current and former students. a former fraternity brother tipped off police. penn state has suspended the fraternity for a year saying quote, the evidence offered by the facebook postings is appalling, inconsistent with the university's values policies and expectations. i've got sarah gannon with me who is reporting on this one. actually sarah, i guess do we have nancy? darren is standing by as well. sarah, to you first. start at the beginning as far as you have some of these guys behind the page some of the women on the page. many of whom police do not know who they are and have not been identified. >> a lot of them don't know who they are. a lot of guys are using nicknames and a lot of women, you can't see their faces and what police are doing is trying to track people down. police made a plea for anyone and everyone who knows anything about this to come forward. what we see here, you and i were just talking about this in the break. some of this is stuff you would expect to see maybe from a fraternity in college. boys pulling down their pants and showing their bare behind for the camera or you know girls exposing themselves clearly potion for the cameras right. >> right. >> but a lot of these pictures you can see, i want to show you some of these are women passed out, clearly unconscious and not knowing what's going on. >> hard to see what you're looking at. >> had to blur them out so we're not revictimizing these women. >> i saw them and there were clearly women not aware that pictures were being taken, number one, and then being shared on a private facebook page where i can tell you a lot of comments underneath these photos were just as disturbing as the photos themselves because the fraternity brothers were commenting on who their conquests were for example. >> disgusting. >> making fun of women who were concerned about some of their drunken hookups and would post text messages of concern you know from the women and then talk about them. >> disgusting. disgusting. darren a lot of these were nicknames used. police are trying toy. d. some of these men. once they do what charges could these young men face first of all? >> there's a variety of potential criminal charges that can arise here brooke. it could be on a federal, on a state or even on a local level, and what we don't know and one of the challenges that prosecutors obviously would face is first, identifying some of these victims. if any of them turn out to be under the age of 18 that's where the most significant legal problems can arise because there it becomes child pornography, and on a state level possessing creating or distributing that child pornography can land you in prison for up to ten years. on a federal level it can be even more as long as 30 years in prison. so that's potentially a significant issue as well as the lack of consent issues when we're talking about sexual battery or other laws that prevent somebody from being placed in a compromising position due to their intoxication. so there's a laundry list of potential crimes that can be potentially prosecuted as well as civil lawsuits that can arise for invasion of privacy. this can get very messy very quickly. >> let's messy it up a little bit more. let's take it a step further. here's what i'm also wondering, and, sarah, jump in if you need to. this was one of the private invite-only facebook pages, right? >> right. >> it wasn't anyone could click. you had to be invited to join. >> that's right, that's right. >> so to take it a step further, darren would be if i'm someone who is invited to join this website and i click like or accept or whatever i'm clicking on does that then mean i could get in trouble, too, that i thus would be condoning this behavior and these photos posted on this facebook page? you follow me? >> yeah completely. that's absolutely something that prosecutors would look at. it would be a defense to the charge if you said look i only viewed this photograph accidentally but if you've downloaded if you've displayed to other people and there's reason that you know or should know that the photos that you're looking at depict people under the age of 18 or over the age of 18 that haven't given their consent, that is potentially very problematic, even for the ultimate end user. >> and my other question would be and as you've pointed out and looked through these more than i've had to some of the women appear passed out, some women appear consenting but there's a whole caveat to that being what? >> the caveat to the consenting is that it appears that these were maybe sexting messages sent privately and then later posted without the woman's consent, and i'll give you an example of that. there was a prior private facebook page that existed, the same fraternity and they were caught by one of the women who found a topless photo of herself on this site because a brother had left it logged in at the fraternity house, and she found it. she threatened them. never went to police and threatened the fraternity. they took it down and started a new one, and the new one is what we see here so they knew that this was not good behavior and you can kind of you know gather from the search warrant, from the whistleblower. now, the whistleblower, a credit to him because police never would have been able to find this by themselves. private, invitation only. he had this and had left the fraternity and was able to stave the screen shots and bring them to police but if he hadn't been a member and clicked like like you said if he hadn't been inside they wouldn't have learned about this. >> thanks again. quickly, darren. >> it's so amazing that the college would respond or that the fraternity would respond to that version 1.0 by instead of pulling it down and change their conduct just to relaunch it as a 2.0. that's something that could really return to haunt them. >> behaving badly. darren thank you so much and sarah gannon thank you as well. appreciate it. next here on cnn, we have more on our breaking news. these three terrorists on the run after this attack in a museum killing 17 tourists during a hostage standoff. we'll talk to someone who heard about this terror threat months ago who was there. plus here at home, a manhunt is also under way for that active shooter situation. this person apparently opened fire at multiple locations in mesa arizona. we'll have a report on that unraveling live. stay with me. so we gave people the power of the review. and now angie's list is revolutionizing local service again. you can easily buy and schedule services from top-rated providers. conveniently stay up to date on progress. and effortlessly turn your photos into finished projects with our angie's list app. visit angieslist.com today. ♪ 80% of the poor in africa are rural farmers. 96% of them are doing rain-fed agriculture. they're all competing with each other; they're all making very low margins making enough to survive but not enough to get out of poverty. so kickstart designs low cost irrigation pumps enabling them to grow high value crops throughout the year so you can make a lot of money. it's all very well to have a whole lot of small innovations but unless we can scale it up enough to where we are talking about millions of farmers, we're not going to solve their biggest challenge. this is precisely where the kind of finance that citi is giving us is enabling us to scale up on a much more rapid pace. when we talk to the farmers and ask them what's the most important thing. first of all they say we can feed our families. secondly, we can send our children to school. it's really that first step that allows them to get out of poverty and most importantly have money left over to plan for the future they want. sunday dinners at my house... it's a full day for me, and i love it. but when i started having back pain my sister had to come help. i don't like asking for help. i took tylenol but i had to take six pills to get through the day. so my daughter brought over some aleve. it's just two pills, all day! and now, i'm back! aleve. two pills. all day strong, all day long. and now introducing aleve pm for a better am. you're driving along, having a perfectly nice day, when out of nowhere a pick-up truck slams into your brand new car. one second it wasn't there and the next second... boom! you've had your first accident. now you have to make your first claim. so you talk to your insurance company and... boom! you're blindsided for a second time. they won't give you enough money to replace your brand new car. don't those people know you're already shaken up? 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>> well you know all across the arab world since the arab spring broke out you've had islamist secularist divide. in tunisia, in fact they have avoided a civil war, unlike libya and syria. so even though people are generally quite despondent three years after the arab spring -- >> where it began, by the way. >> there is kind of -- which began in tunisia, yeah and generally the islamists and secularists have managed to get along reasonably well. there's definitely lots of divides in tunisia which could explode, but they have decided that they are going to chart the future without violence. but you have this minority which isn't -- i don't want to tarnish they all. the consensus in tunisia among the secularists and you have to take them hon more militarily and they have waged a campaign against them militarily. if you don't destroy them militarily there's no negotiating with them they will destroy everyone else. >> including more than a dozen tourists here at this beautiful museum in the capital of tunisia. thank you so much for jumping on the phone, journalist in tunisia a couple months ago. thanks so much. appreciate it. dolce & gabbana, talked about this earlier in the week their comments on in vitro fertilization and here to explain now in an interview with cnn. and the mayor of madonna's hometown. boy oh, boy, does she have words for her. talked some smack about where she grew up and now the mayor of her hometown responds live. stay with us. when you ache and haven't slept... you're not you. tylenol® pm relieves pain and helps you fall fast asleep and stay asleep. we give you a better night. you're a better you all day. tylenol®. the backlash from supporters of in vitro fertilization or ivf is building after fashion designers dolce & gabbana said the technology created, quote, synthetic children. celebrities like elton john vowed to boycott the brand because they used ivf to create their own families and this sparked the debate about non-traditional parenting roles. the fashion designers admitted they had some explaining to do. more on the conversation with dolce & gabbana? >> there's been a lot of great criticism and backlash regarding comments about ivf. there's been calls to boycott dolce & gabbana. do you stand by your comments? >> we love gay couples. we are gay. we love gay couples. we love gay adoption. we love everything is just an expressed point of view. >> a private point of view. i'm sicilian and have a very strong sense of family for myself. my company is family company and i believe in the traditional family. it's impossible to change my character for something different. it's me. for people it's freedom of choice for what you want. >> but the problem is that people attach us for this. this is not and it was not nice because i think in a different way from donico. >> in what ways? >> i believe in in vitro. >> you vice president ivf? >> yes. >> you don't. >> it's personal. >> today you don't need to support or not support. you think what you think. i think today -- >> it's not supporting. it's just your belief. >> but you don't judge people who use ivf, who have children through the process of ivf like elton john. elton john has come out. he's angry and has called for a boycott of your brand. >> i don't boycott elton john. i see him every day. i don't care. freedom. >> maybe we used the wrong way, synthetic, not synthetic for sure because it's not plastic. >> has it been blown out of proportion? >> yes this is true this is true. >> but for me we don't like the attach to say boycott for what? because you think i don't like you. is this correct? is this is not correct? we're in 2015. >> what would you say to elton john and other celebrities? >> the life is long. life is happy. >> you don't need to be angry for nothing. you need just to look our collection and you understand we are not -- >> if you make an error and in a second and attack you, i know. >> just for my clarification you're just saying you wouldn't choose to have children through ivf but you don't judge people who do. >> no no for sure. >> is that fair? >> yeah, of course. you choose what you want in your life. >> yeah. >> but you need to respect the different idea. >> dolce & gabbana sitting down with our own anna corwin. ♪ something in the way you love me won't let me be ♪ ♪ i don't want to be your prisoner, so baby why don't you set me free ♪ >> a little vintage madonna for you on a wednesday afternoon. of course pop music icon madonna, one of her very first music videos. that song came out in 1993 five years after madonna moved from suburban michigan to new york. madonna sat down with howard stern last week and chatted about her, quote, provincial hometown and staying true to madonna form she did not mind her manners. >> my house was not a fun place to bring people to number one. number two, we first grew up in pontiac which was a very racially mixed, mostly black environment and neighborhood and -- and we were -- we went to catholic schools and wore uniforms i just -- that was normal life to me and when i went to high school we moved to a suburb and it was all white, and we were living above our means. >> when you go to an all-white school though do you start to withdraw? >> well i just didn't fit in. i just felt like i was with rich people and i -- and i wasn't, and i felt out of place and they were members of like country clubs, and they had manicures and they wore nice clothes, and i didn't fit in. i felt like a country bumpkin. i was smart, but i didn't socialize really. i didn't have friends. >> why do you think that was? >> because i just thought everyone was an idiot. >> so -- so some of you may say, well what do you expect. this is madonna, but at least one man is saying don't you talk about my city that way. that man is the mayor of that suburb madonna was just describing mayor brian barnett. he joins me now. mr. mayor, welcome. nice to see you. >> thank you, brooke. >> i know you wrote this open letter to madonna. i read it. there was a part of it i really think it's more effective hearing it come out of your mouth than mine. do you mind? >> sure. penned this open letter over the weekend and part reads madonna, you've achieved unbelievable success, and while we appreciate your talent and achievement. we are and have been home to quite a few amazing people known for more innovative thinking than provincial even a top selling singer/songwriter. despite your distaste for us we have enshrined you in our community wall of fame at the van heusen museum. your portrait sits alongside one of the first women to graduate from the university of michigan in 1888 and one of the world's leading surgeons for nearly 60 years. a female trailblazer in the field of medicine at the university your daughter now attends. >> we'll get to that community hall of fame in just a minute but mayor barnett, as you point out, madonna has sent her own daughter to michigan to ann arbor for college. >> yeah. when i heard the remarks, you know i felt it needed a response. we have a community that's absolutely worth defending, and whether or not we're able to change madonna's mind anyone whose first exposure to rochester hills is via her comments i wanted them to know that there certainly is a very innovative diverse community in rochester hills, much more than she would suggest. >> mm-hmm. doing our due diligence. we reached out to madonna and have yet to hear back. let me just put that out there. i do understand over the weekend you wrote a couple of different versions of this letter and had a that it re-tweaked you, that's my word. i don't know if you would qualify it the same way. what about the community? do people there even care what madonna thinks about rochester hills? >> well i'm not sure they necessarily care what she thinks. i mean as i mentioned, you know we are proud of her achievements and the fact that she did spend time growing up in our community, but i think what our community is very proud of is our reputation. we were just recognized as one of the top ten best places to live in the entire country by "money" magazine so when someone takes a shot at you, at least in my opinion as mayor of the community, it felt like they were saying my kids were you goly and i wanted to respond to that. >> good for you. >> our community is strong and i think they have appreciated the response. >> good for you. if madonna were to you know poof out of thin air, call you up and say, all right, i'll take that invitation to come back to my hometown what's the first place you would take her? what would you do? >> i'd probably take her up and down the streets that she knew as a kid, to her old neighborhood back to her old high school and we've grown and changed as a community. we're quite innovative. rochester hills residents apply for and get a patent a day, iconic capital, all different types of houses of worship now and really changed a lot since the years she cheered at rochester adams. there would be no shortage of placed to show her the breadth and diversity of our community. >> quickly, mayor, does her picture stay on the community half name? 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you made this when you had long hair but knew what you looked like inside your head. >> you have chip on your face dude. >> i made short hair. >> is that you trying to tell us something? >> and i can't. >> why couldn't you? because you were 3? mommy and daddy didn't understand yet, did we? >> no. >> i wouldn't do anything different. all i want is to be a good mom. >> we don't know a whole lot of people with children as young as ryland who have gone down this road. yes, he's just a kid, but he's a kid that feels very strongly about something, and we need to open up our minds and understand that. >> that film's director joins me. nice to see you, welcome. >> thanks brooke. >> what a story. let's begin with in this clip ryland's mom points out that he was 3 years old and saw himself as a boy. he didn't understand at first. how do you document how these parents came to understand who this little child wanted to be? >> well you know the whiting are an incredibly brave family. they are standing up for ryland and are unwavering in their commitment for unconditional love for him, and so part of the process of making a film like that is working with a family who is willing to open their lives in this way. it takes a lot of courage, and so i was very careful and i followed hillary and jeff's lead in terms of trying to be sensitive to the complexities of their journey. >> mm-hmm mm-hmm. part of the journey that you see in this piece how these parents helped ryland make this transition. can you explain to our viewers what some of those examples are? >> absolutely. you know when a child like ryland who was 5 years old when he transitioned had a that simply means is that the child maybe cuts their hair or changes their pronounce n.ryland's case he had a gender neutral name so his transition involved you know a haircut and some new -- and some new pronounce, but really those acts are very simple but the act of courage to -- to support and affirm your child's gender identity when your gender identity doesn't match your physical anatomy takes a special kind of commitment and love for your child child. >> at the end of the film a mom says you can only do what you can do and hope people open their minds. i have to think of the people who would be watching this thinking this child is so young. how would the child now and how dare the parents help with this transition? how have the parents responded to those criticisms? >> you know i think there's a lot of confusion about the difference between gender and either sex or sexual orientation, right? your gender identity comes from between your ears. it's in your brain and your sex is your anatomy, right? and so i think that you know for -- for hillary and jeff supporting ryland and make sure he had a healthy, haney childhood was first and foremost in their mind and, you know it's what i hope by sharing this story, by sharing ryland's story, is that people will start to understand what being transgender mean, and it's really not a scary terrible thing. you know it's really scary and terrible is that more than 50% of transgender youth will have attempted to commit suicide before their 21st birthday and that is just -- that is truly, truly, truly terrible. >> yeah. >> and i think that having a loving and supportive family makes all the difference and could be the difference between life and death for a lot of these children. >> sarah feely is the filmmaker. for all of you who would like to watch this short film which is available right now on cnn.com, just go to cnn.com/digitalshorts. sarah, thank you. and we continue on to the top of the hour. you're watching cnn. i'm brooke baldwin. got to begin with breaking news actually in multiple parts of the world beginning with a manhunt under way in mesa arizona, where police are searching for a gunman they say who has shot at least four people. we're told the shootings happened across at least five locations, including a restaurant. law enforcement are giving a news conference right now. let's listen. >> finally, our thoughts and prayers go to the victims and their families and we hope for a recovery for them. we hope that we can have a positive outcome of this incident but as i said this is a work in progress and so i don't have any more specifics to offer to you. i know the chief has a few comments followed by detective

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