spot? reporter: it sounds to us that it was confined to that conference center. they opened fire and then they left on their own, because they were gone by the time police arrived. nbc news has spoken with the husband of one of the victims, one of the survivors, who s in the hospital, and he is relaying the information that they came in, did not say a word, and started firing and then left. so it was all in that conference area. we saw those horrific images, though, after the shooting, where triage centers had been set up in the middle of the street to help the victims who survived. obviously, so many victims. we ve got 14 dead and 17 wounded, so many people who are in the place, in the space where the actual shooting occurred, and hundreds more people inside that large facility. blake, you mentioned about the device which the police chief said tonight is believed to be an explosive device and obviously you said law enforcement is treating that matter with extreme caution. do we kn
town. i was actually at a community center where families were waiting for loved ones to be bused back from the facility where the shooting occurred. and a lady there talking to people on the street said she had heard that there was a sighting of the suv that the suspects were in in a different part of the city and she got this through a text of a friend who was there, said that they re in a lockdown in this other part of town. so i went to check that out. so i was driving to this other part of san bernardino and on my way, i noticed i saw two or three police officers with li t lighligh lights blazing, heading in a different direction, and i thought, i wondered what was going on. police were crawling all over town, hundreds of police cars were all over the place, but this seemed like something my reporter s instinct kicked in. they turned ton san bernardino avenue, a big wide street, and the next town east of redlands.
pickup truck, just trying to get out of the building, out of that area, and he drove them, and all were wounded, drove them to the end of the street where firefighters were waiting, they unloaded the pickup truck and several victims got out of them. unfortunately, one of them that they put down in the triage location where i was, ended up passing away. wow. reporter: but it was a very chaotic situation when i got here. it was something that you always say as a journalist, you want to be professional and do your job, but you can t help but try to want to help these people. i lent my cell phone to a couple of the workers who wanted to call their family and loved one to tell them they were okay. so when you arrived, the gunfire you were hearing were from the perpetrators? that was a law enforcement response that you were in the middle of? that was the crime, that was the initial shooting by the perpetrators? reporter: i believe so, rachel. i was still about a half block away whe
they believed to be the suspect s vehicle on the suburban street in redlands, about two miles from where the initial mass shooting took place. we still don t have official word on who those people were. we ve received no information about their identity. but, we do know, according to police, that there was a gun battle with those suspects, on the street, in that gun battle. police say that one officer was injured, but it was not a life-threatening injury, and the two people, there were two people in that suv who were either killed by police or who killed themselves. but they were dead, apparently, of gunshot wounds inside the suv. police said that one of those people is a male and one of those people is a female. they said nothing else about them in terms of identifying them, other than to say they were dressed in assault-style clothing and that both of them were armed with a assault rifles and with handguns. they made it seem like at least those people were each armed with at least tw