emergency units going to the scene to get that situation under control. so we re working to reach out to people that were at this parade. we re getting tweets from people who were actually at this parade. what we re hearing and seeing from those reports are that someone, one person told us they heard 20 to 25 gunshots ring out at the beginning of this parade, which started at about 10:00 a.m. central time. that same person also told us that they believed to see someone who was bloodied and on the ground. we also know about two local lawmakers that were there. one of them was actually about to march in that parade, was at the starting point, and he actually tweeted this. this is congressman brad schneider. he said today a shooter struck in highland park during the independence day parade. my campaign team and i were gathering at the start of the parade when the shooting started. my team and i are safe and secure. we re monitoring the situation closely and are in touch with the
we still consider him to be armed and dangerous. at this time the information is there was one shooter. [ inaudible question ] we re still working on that. yes, sir. we re not going to go into the specifics of where the gun was recovered, but a firearm, a rifle was recovered. do you know the ages of those who passed away? we will have more information on that. we re working with the lake county coroner s office. they, too, are very involved in this investigation and we will be releasing that as soon as we can. thanks. we ll be back. we have six confirmed deceased and we have approximately two dozen that are seriously injured. thank you. we just got the breaking news update there from highland park police officials, now six dead as you heard, roughly two dozen people transported to hospitals after a mass shooting on independence day at the start of a parade. thank you for staying with us. i m victor black well. we are covering this from all angles. we ve got impo
this is not the usual gun violence and chicago. this is outside of the city. what is the quintessential north shore suburb. the fourth of july highland. there are reports the shooter took an elevated position. you can see from the video there s a strip of stores that run the main street in center of town. you can see tactical teams on the scene. we have reports someone was on the rooftop of some of those strips of stores or took an elevated position from a high rise possibly shooting out a window. wgn in chicago reports one person killed. chicago sun times says multiple victims from the shooting there. are different accounts saying as many as nine people have been shot in this incident. tactical teams have arrived. there s a big presence including state police an lake county sheriff. what you can see from the video with the police presence you can see the kind of things people would have brought to a parade folding chairs coolers abandoned as people ran from the scene.
floats. then it just opened up, that familiar, you know, semi gunfire. just a rain of shots. nbc s rehema ellis has been monitoring this. rehema, what do we know right now? reporter: not much more than what you talked about, steve, because this is unfolding as we speak. you pointed out the police are looking for a suspect. this event happened, this mass shooting happened just a short while after the fireworks, the fourth of july festivities, were getting under way. as you reported, there are reports of several people who were shot. we do not at this point have an exact number of how many people were shot or if any people were killed in this incident. as one person was saying there that we just heard from, people were enjoying a fourth of july festivity, a parade, in highland park. this is a community about 25 miles north of chicago. when they heard these sounds ring out. the guy was saying there, you heard a pop, pop, pop, and he said it was like a rain of shots that just
Another conservative conference attracted the attention of republican president ial candidates in des moines today. The national reglious liberities conference is taking place right now at the iowa events center. Jodi whitworth joins us live with more on what two candidates had to say this morning. Three president ial candiates spoke at todays religious Freedom Conference mdash; governors bobby jindal and mike hackabee. As well as senator ted cruz. All echoing each other. Saying peoples religious beliefs are under attack due to the governements control. 300810 the hope in america is not to grow up and have the government take care of you. The hope in america is to have the opportunity to raise your own kids according to your own beliefs the candidates each spoke for about 10 mintues each to a crowd of couple hundred convservative voters. Jindals stance on the democrats amendment right gained the most appaulse. While, huckabee told the crowd the governemnt takes away religious freedoms.