michigan the legislature has actually promoted bills which allow people to carry concealed weapons into church, onto school premises, into colleges. right. notwithstanding the evidence. notwithstanding the evidence, and they did that right after the clackamas shooting which also use assault weapons. you know, we had a murder a tragic murder/suicide with guns in a situation that might not have escalated to that kind of violence without guns. you know, what does it take in just the span of a week to get us to move? i was also really glad that the president brought up chicago because we can t only be focused on this tragedy in this particular community, but we have to look at the toll that guns are taking on our cities and the city of chicago is particularly besieged. this is a tragedy that crosses class lines, crosses racial lines, and we ve all got to be in it together. karen, one of the arguments i
profiler and joins me right now. clint you have some new details about what we learned through this press conference? well, i think a number of things, thomas. as you just shared, we know the number of dead and wounded now, unfortunately. we also know in any type of large traumatic situations like this, the phone lines, cell phone lines go down very quickly. and i think one of the things you learn from a situation like that is that if you re involved, if you re near that and you can t get a phone call out, immediately try to text anyone you want to contact. you can normally get through if you use your phone for texting purposes, even though it won t function as a cell phone. now, we know the likelihood that police had to respond to an active shooter. as one of your previous guests indicated, this is something we learned after columbine high school that shooting there. there was a time when law enforcement would show up at the scene of an active shooter. they would wait the 15, 30, 45
in the melee that took place this afternoon there. right now we still have no detailed information about the shooting suspect himself because of the ongoing investigation. they only released that it was a male. they won t tell us his age. they won t even confirm what he was wearing at this point. and there are reports about a certain outfit maybe that he was wearing, camouflage and a hockey mask. we re back with more after this. [ sniffs ] i have a cold. [ sniffs ] i took dayquil but my nose is still runny. [ male announcer ] truth is, dayquil doesn t treat that. really? [ male announcer ] alka-seltzer plus fights your worst cold symptoms, plus it relieves your runny nose.
try to, you know, contain that shooter into a particular area. i don t know if that was the occurrence today. like a lot of you, i was listening to the local coverage there on the ground of the shooting that took place in portland, oregon. we re going to be back with much more. but we do have confirmed a total of three dead, the gunman is dead and two people on-site are confirmed dead. have a good night. here you go. you, too. i m going to dream about that steak. i m going to dream about that tiramisu. what a night, huh? but, um, can the test drive be over now? head back to the dealership? [ male announcer ] it s practically yours. but we still need your signature. volkswagen sign then drive is back. and it s never been easier to get a passat. that s the power of german engineering. get $0 down, $0 due at signing,
point out. this one from gwendolyn daley. she says in the back room of a salon at clackamas town center, because there was a small shooting. wow. i m safe. fyi. another one from holly lynn b. who says trying to evacuate. oh my god, this is terrifying. at the clackamas town center. here is one from. shooting in the middle of clackamas town center. i m stuck in the back room of build a bear. again, this is just moments after the gunfire rang out. and we re getting these tweets in. again, this was a while ago. but definitely shows what folks were able to to tell the public. again, just seconds after the shooting. shooting in the middle of clackamas town center. i m stuck in the back room of build a bear. again, that was ry frisco. we also have several tweets from