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With the shooter as the shooter was coming into the mall. okay. all right. we also have new images coming. in these images show swat team members that are entering the mall or at least entering that property. we did hear from the police chief that swat teams were involved here. what would be their role in a case like this? they re working as teams. you see the teams going in. that s one of the teams i was speaking about from the different jurisdictions that would go in as a four or five person team. they re the ones clearing the stores. it s very well originganized systematic certainly certainly search in the mall. each team has a specific assi assignme assignment. they would go to j.c. penny, ....
Montgomery county, u.s. marshall service, alcohol tobacco firearms and explosives that are part of these teams that are clearing this entire mall. as i said, it s about 90% clear. they re meeting with the member ever on the the of the criminal investigation bureau. so again, methodical as tom and i were talking about it, slow methodical process, but it s one that has to be done just to make sure that that whole mall is cleared before they can move on and process it as a crime scene. and of course, as they continue to investigate, the police chief saying there at this juncture it s unclear about the motive. unclear whether there was an argument prior to the shooting. unclear about the relationship between the shooter and the victims in this case. and of course, there continues ....
They re not releasing identification of these bodies as yet. we have team coverage under way right now. our own erin mcpike who is there outside the shopping mall. we have our security analyst, mike brooks, who s checked in with us, and checking his sources. we also have former fbi employee tom fuentes, also with us. back with us, in fact, now out of fairfax, virginia. so, tom, while the police chief made it very clear they are not ready to give an all-clear yet. there are still people inside. this is a methodical process, there is to be very careful. while the police chief said she confident there was a single shooter, it s still unclear whether anybody else involved in this crime may still be in the mall. so give us an idea of just how law enforcement works together on this, because there are many jurisdictions involved here, and how howard county police take the lead to try to make sure that everyone they re in contact with in the mall is an innocent ....
Talked to a couple there for an hour. but they re methodically letting people out of the mall and taking them on buses to other locations, fred, but that is still ongoing. we re supposed to have another press conference at about 4:00 this afternoon when we should get nmore details. the police chief wasn t ready to give more details because the investigation is still going on, obviously. okay. erin, just to explain to viewers. there is a great delay between our communication. there s nothing wrong with your television set at home, but earlier, the police chief talked about the fact that he can t release the gender, even the names or identity of the bodies, but he said they are most certain that it appears to have been just, he says, in his words, he s confident there was a single shooting, a single shooter involved here and that the other two people, we don t know the stories as to how they were victimized in this case, but this is what he had to say earlier about the victims and ....
Mall, this has obviously been a tremendously trying few hours and we ve seen a lot of patient shens. we d ask that people continue to bear with us. this is an active crime scene. is it going to be an active crime scene for some time. another briefing around 4:00 with more details and potentially when the mall will reopen. lastly, i want to thank our brave men and women in law enforcement here in howard county who rushed into the scene immediately. this was an incredibly well-run, thoughtful operation tactically with a lot of help from our neighboring agencies. we ve had help on the ground and continue to have help on the ground from virtually every police department in our region including the state police. now i want to bring up our police chief bill mcman who has been leading this operation on the ground. ....