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in monterey park, a suburb just east of los angeles. let s get right to cnn national correspondent camila bernal on the scene this morning. it s very early in the investigation, but what do we know right now? reporter: yeah, amara, boris, information is very limited, but as you mentioned we just got confirmation from the l.a. county sheriff s department that nine people have been killed. we know this shooting happened around 10:22 last night. there are homicide detectives on the scene already. and we also know from the sheriff s department that the suspect is a man. we do not know whether or not that suspect is in custody or they re still looking for that person because, again, information has been extremely limited from authorities. we have been waiting for a couple of hours now to get that information. and there is someone here from the sheriff s department that is expected to talk to the media fairly soon. so we are waiting for that information. the streets in this ....
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Under these circumstances. so you re hearing these details. there is a male suspect. it s unknown whether he s on the run or in custody. nine people killed in this downtown neighborhood, a suburb of l.a. what stands out to you given those details? so right now what we know, three things stand out to me. the first is, of course, events around the lunar new year, anyone who has done celebration like this or been to one, it s quite chaotic and noisy and difficult to know what s going on in realtime. so, as we saw the evening unfold, it wasn t even clear where the mass shooting was. was it at the parade or at a club? and so we ll get details like that. but that s a chosen target because of the confusion factor. you re just going to get sort of mass response and a lack of clarity. so we ll wait for that. the second is, of course, anything around the chinese lunar new year or chinatown, it ....
Setting the tone there. this is what senator lindsay graham said moments ago, not only is this a sad tragedy, but he hopes it s one that will get the president to reconsider. to those who lost their lives today in syria, you were defending america, in my view. to those trying to work together you are providing the best and only hope to your country. i hope the president will look long and hard at what we re doing in syria. there s sadness and also confusion in washington, from the state department and the pentagon, how does that confusion factor and we ll go back to clarissa with what s happening on the ground. there s confusion here, john and our allies and partners and the kurds who are casting about for some more reliable partner which is why they ve approached assad and the russians and the confusion about what we re doing and on what time line has not helped us at all and in our view has made our troops more vulnerable on the ground there. this is a time for decisions and i ....
Rallies are for his base. and they are for the purpose of getting people to vote in the midterms. so when he says, you know, when he talks about immigration, when he talks about build the wall, build the wall, bill the wall, you can see that it fires up his base. in terms of the energy he s trying to push forward here. so what i do want to hear from you on this, raul, is an add on to this. the gop claims voter fraud threat fuel worries about ballot access in november. that s the title. basic i.c.e. is looking at immigration records for voter registration. let s add on what immigration might need. which is hugely problematic not only in the fact that the actual instances of voter fraud are very rare, but just the fact that an agency is conducting these types of checks and investigations, there s a confusion factor. there s a fear factor that does have the effect of scaring ....