Did have to do with a patient admitted in connection with this shooting. the hospital says it s unaware if any of that information was released publicly. back to you. shepard: anita vogel live on scene. thanks. the president coming up shortly to speak at the memorial service. we ll be live at the university of arizona as soon as it begins somewhere around :00 eastern, 7:00 central. there has been a lot of talk about whether the heated political rhetoric played any part in this tragedy. but, tonight, the white house tells us the president will devote most of the speech to honoring the victims. fox news sunday host chris wallace is live in our d.c. newsroom tonight. what have we learned, chris? well, what i talked to a top white house official this morning, shep. he said the president is very aware this is a memorial service. and he plans to spend the vast majority of his remarks focusing on the victims, both those who were killed on saturday and those who were wounded. also on the
Called him troubled young man. he said that he used semi-automatic pistol and all lawmakers should consider themselves on notice because there was a suspicious package left at congresswoman s giffords office but all lawmakers should consider themselves on notice. take a listen. anger, the hatred, the bigotry going on in the country is getting to be outrageous. unfortunately, arizona has become the capital. we have become the mecca for prejudice and bigotry. that is coming from the pima county sheriff. again, law enforcement officials have a job here tonight on the scene. you can see the police cars
as i said he was subject of some police interest in the recent past. [ inaudible ] i don t have any reason to believe that. [ inaudible ] well, we have a number of federal agencies whose chiefs are here in the audience as a matter of fact. we had atf, dea, ice. we had u.s. marshal. their representatives are here with us today. [ inaudible ] i m not a psychiatrist. but i have no reason to believe that the person was insane. was he unstable in i would agree with that. [ inaudible ] pardon? [ inaudible ] i can t talk about that. how quickly was law enforcement on the scene? within a few minutes.
Conference here. beyond the names, do we know the age, o the people in the audience [inaudible ] we have it but we re not releasing it at the moment for the reason i stated. [ inaudible [ inaudible ] the 9-year-old, was she with her parents in the audience? was she a relative to giffords? we do not have that information. this has been a very chaotic scene, as you can well imagine. that number of people who were injured or killed and they ve gone to different hospitals. so it s been very difficult for to us try to sort all of these things out. we re doing the best we can. and when we get the information that can be released, it will be released. a lot of is it available right now. [ inaudible
Alone. they re actively pursuing him now and they say they don t foe who he is and exactly where he is. they are on the hunt. in addition, we confirmed some of those who died and there is talk at least of a note left behind. the authorities will not talk about it. authorities have come to the definitive conclusion as they put it to us a short time ago that the congresswoman giffords was in fact the target of this shooter, that he set out in fact to kill her. now to anita vogel live on scene. the latest from there? reporter: a world of information, wealth of information coming from that news conference with the pima county sheriff. as you mentioned, perhaps the most significant development is they believe congresswoman giffords was the target of the shooting and they are looking for the second person involved, not the shooter but a second shooter involved, man in his 50s. they went on to talk more about the shooter, they