Transcripts For CNNW CNN Newsroom With Fredricka Whitfield 2

Transcripts For CNNW CNN Newsroom With Fredricka Whitfield 20190901

Of the people of the state of texas. Im tired of the dying of the people of the state of texas. Too many texans are in mourning. Too many texans have lost their lives. The status quo in texas is unacceptable. Police say the gunman acted alone using an a. R. Style weapon. Cnns ryan young is tracking these developments. Ryan, officials updating some of the conditions, leaving a lot of unanswered questions, but at least stressing that the investigation is intensifying. Reporter yeah, fred. And one of the things that stood out to us, that i talked about executing a search warrant as we speak, so hopefully well get more information about that search warrant, but something i want to zero in on as well. When we were talking to some people outside of this area, just citizens, that i are scared. In fact, hayed two women tell me, what do you do . How do you protect your family when Something Like this happens . This was a mobile shooter. When people were talking about it, that i had no idea where to go. That real fear sat out in the community. The real fear was realized when they found out it was one shooter. Thats eased some people. Were not sure what the police have been able to find out. When you talk about a traffic stop, thats something everyone has been drilling down. You have officers pull someone over for not making a proper turn signal and all of a sudden with a highpowered rifle shots are being fired at officers, and then the scary part, moving toward a movie theater. You had exasperated members of Law Enforcement sort of talk about theyll be ready for the neck one, but a lot of people pouring their heart and their prayers to the 17monthold who was hit during that gunfire and something the governor brought up. This is all of our worst nightmare, but thank god shes alive and relatively well. She goes on to say that toddlers are funny because they can get shot but still want to run around and play. She says that we are thanking god for that. Her mouth is pretty bad but will heal and can bef fixed. Thankfully it doesnt seem like her jaw was hit. Just lip, teeth, and tongue. She is having surgery tomorrow to remove the shrapnel from her che chest. Reporter were talking about a child here and obviously an innocent child involved in this. You think about the other victims involved in this and the brave Law Enforcement officers who responded to the call to stop the shooter. That dramatic video thats been playing ore and over all throughout the internet, people watching howl this all broke down, this has left a lot of people shaken. I think the most tense moment back and forth with the governor was people asking about the investigation and the ar15. There was a little pushback there. Were hoping in the next 30, 40 minutes well get more information from the police department. Lets forget its not been 24 hours yet, but hopefully they identify the shooter. Hopefully we can get more information. You can understand, fred, there are a lot of people taking a long look at this, especially after whats happened in the last month. I think the thing that stood out is the fbi officer saying well be ready for the next one. Thats sort of terrifying to hear. Very ominous, very frightening. While the police chief is saying while they know the identity of the gunman, he said he wouldnt give him the notoriety. He refuses to. All right. Ryan young, thank you so much. The question so many have, why did this happen . Cnn crime and justin reporter shimon prokopez. Shimon, do you know if police know . I dont know if they know what sparked this. But its important to me when the head fbi guy chris combs when he was talking and the local officials, theyre not entirely ruling out the possibility that the gunman planned this entire thing. There was some concern when they were speaking at the press conference that he was heading to this movie theater, sinnergy movie complex in odessa to perhaps continue his shooting spree, to target more people. Just imagine what that would have been like. There is the possible of perhaps police stopping him, maybe they prevented a much worse attack. I think all of those questions are still in the air. A lot still needs to be answered, and i dont think they know 100 . I think theyre working on different theories and different possibilities, and theyre not ruling any of this out, but its very clear. When you think about how this attack took place, how this all began, those key questions, he was driving. Police say they pulled him over because he failed to indicate that he was shifting lanes and for a turn signal. They pull him over. He has this rifle aimed through the back window, and as hes rolling away, as the Police Officers come out of their vehicle to approach his vehicle, hes rolling away and then opens fire on the officers. The fact that he had this weapon so easily accessible and ready, i think thats something thats certainly adding to some concern by Law Enforcement that maybe this was all planned, and thats the big question, i think, at this point. Wow. What an extraordinary circumstance that the instinct of the officer to pull him over for what Police Officials described was a routine traffic stop, a failure to use a signal with the appropriate distance, and that stop would have them zero in on someone who was poised do real harm to a lot of people. Yeah. And then actually did that. Yeah. And i think thats something that we have to consider here, and hopefully police will be able to get the answers to that. And could this stop . Could this by chance perhaps we dont know enough yet really about this traffic stop. But could this traffic stop have prevented a much worse situation . We have seen this happen before when Law Enforcement instincts, they see something wrong, they go in, they talk to someone, they pull someone over, an then day stop perhaps a much worse situation. And hopefully police will be able to, the fbi through all their work and local Law Enforcement, again, the Texas Rangers i think the fbi made a very good point there. Theyve spent a lot of time working with the Texas Rangers. Theyre very good at these investigations, so hopefully within the next few hours we can get some more answers and learn more look. I think everyone here wants to know more about the shooter because it can help us understand perhaps motive and what was going on in this persons mind. And that kind of information used to help prevent something else. Sure. You know, involving someone else. Right. And that is something, i think, were going to learn in a short time. I also want to note i know a lot has been made slrn i in the last hour about why didnt Police Identify this individual at the press conference. Chris combs, the special agent in charge of the fbi is well known in the fbi and in Law Enforcement as the guy who always insisted that and he started a campaign, this no Name Campaign in terms of mass shootings. He did not want shooters names in mass shootings. He just felt it gives them notoriety that they shouldnt have, and that has always been the concern here. So i think that is what we saw during that press conference is officials not wants to name him because they dont want to give him the notoriety, but i think that i ooher going to be coming with his name soon. And then there are others who say youve got to strike a balance because, you know, erasing that identity or concealing that identity could also sanitize, you know, the pers person, you know, and what they did, especially the heinous act they did. Youve got to strike a balance. Shimon, thank you so much. I want to bring in an active shooting expert gin kim. Thank you so much. What wstruck you in the press conference about what was revealed and what was not revealed. First and foremost i want to express my condolences for the people whose lives were lost and this tragic pandemic that we have, growing pandemic that we have in this country moving forward. They were they were. They gave enough information. Im quite surprised they did not a this point reveal who the offender is. I support the campaign. I support it all together. At one point it should be sooner than later, the community deserves to know who this is. My only thought would be that theyre still trying to confirm 100 who this offender is and everything about him before they send that information out to the public. And is it your is it your feeling that it is perplexing that they wouldnt . You do understand the reasoning on notoriety, but we had a Law Enforcement expert on earlier, juliet Juliette Kayyem there is a need to know so people are clear about who it was, what the motivation was, and how that kind of knowledge helps you identify anybody elses potential out there and it can be potentially damaging when you dont reveal enough about a gunman. Yeah. Exactly. That may be the point. Right now the fbi and postal Inspector Police are part of this investigation moving forward, one being federal. Unfortunately a federal Postal Office worker lost her life. On top of that, theyre looking diligently at every turn right now to not only understand and identify coconspirators and any information they may have had at the time. This event is not one of your typical shooter events were so used to unfortunately in this country. What has happen and what were used to is a confined location where the offender has some type of fortified grievous toward a location or brand and to execute that retribution toward that and manifest it in violence. Whats scary in this and watching the coverage yesterday is when the offender went mobile, that really, really, really heightened and brought this problem to another level. Yeah. In fact, the police chief underscored that. He said, you know, this is a different type of tirch shooter because he was mobile. Help underscore the challenges, you know, for Law Enforcement to stop this and stop him in motion like this. Yeah. And id like to hopefully know how this all started and deconstruct this and find out why that happen, and then youve got to think that offender made a conscious decision right there to murder two dps officers and then take off from there. What was going through that persons mind if he was on that escalation toward violence or the pathway toward violence, if he was en route to some plausible other any fanefarious or what happened. We dont know. I high pocket size this. More than likely he wanted to get away, and these random shootings that occurred toward these ran document innocent victims were to maybe complicate the scenario that Law Enforcement had to respond to to dilute the response to maybe increase his chances on escaping this event that he caused. All right. Jin kim, we appreciate your expertise. Thank you so much. My pleasure, fredericka. And our News Coverage of Hurricane Dorian continues. Were live in the bahamas where the massive storm is hitting right now. The latest traing of the storm, the entire state of florida also preparing to be next. Tech at safelite autoglass, we really pride ourselves on making it easy for you to get your windshield fixed. Teacher lets turn in your science papers. 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Were waiting for it to turn to the north. It may not happen for another day or so, and thats going to be crucial when youre talking impacts to state of florida and up and down the east coast of the United States. Were already picking up the storm on the miami radar. You can see the lightning in the center of the storm, the well defined eye as it moves over the island. What whats er what whats eerie is people will see sunshine in the middle of the eye. 20 inches of rain, not to mention the storm surge, 18 to 23 feet, even higher. As it makes a westward motion, its going to bend to the north eventually, but the state of the cone is still in uncertainty, meaning the center of the storm could occur anywhere inside this cone, and thats why its so important for our friends in florida to watch very closely with this storm before it makes that turn to the north because the hurricaneforce winds extend 30 miles outside the center. So even if it stays offshore a little bit, you could still get those hurricaneforce winds, very powerful winds. Also all of the storm surge thats going to come along with it, this could basically buzz saw the entire state of florida as it travels to the north. That could be the worst case scenario, meaning all of those towns up and down the state into georgia and the carolinas could get incredible amounts of damage. And so thats why theyre making call now, fred, to evacuate people out of florida. Its still several days away, but yu cant wait too long with this storm because its go ing to be on their doorstep in a matter of days. Right. So many past instances show if you wait too late, youve got millions of people on the road at one time, and you cant do it. Youve got to do it in phases like this well ahead of time. Jennifer gray, thank you so much. Appreciate it. Hurricane dorian made landfall on elbow kay on abdbaco island. Patrick oppmann has more. Reporter cars have flipped over, houses completely submerged under water and really a terrible scene there is what were hearing, and well certainly get more images as the day progresses, and well get more updates. Again, the storm living up to the warnings that bahamian authorities and others have been issuing all along and now it will be moving to where i am and probably stall out over here where i am, grand bahamas as a category 50. The maximum amount of land is some 30 feet. Some live at sea level, some below sea level, in lowlying areas in towns and poor neighborhoods here. If those people have not evacuated here, it can inundate those tounds. It may be over the roof line where many people live. Where we are is on the beach, but were on the third story of a building here. Its high enough we should be okay with this massive storm surge, but many other people, fred, this is a storm thats already cost people their possessions, their belongings, and hopefully it wont take peoples lives, but it certainly has that potential. Its the most dangerous storm the bahamas has ever had to confront. Wow, incredible. Patrick oppmann in freeport. Thanks so much again. Patrick reporting roughly 80 miles away in abacabacos, strucd flipped over. Its hit and possibly on the way to where you are, so be safe. Be careful, patrick, you and your team. Our breaking coverage continues. The entire state of florida is under a state of emergency. Well talk with mayor in one tong along the treasured coast. Are people taking this storm seriously enough . Applebees handcrafted burgers now starting at 7. 99. Now thats eatin good in the neighborhood now starting at 7. 99. Iand i dont add up the years. But what i do count on. Is staying happy and healthy. 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