with that being said, we activated our bomb squad, which is currently out on scene and trying to determine pretty much we re trying to clear out every room and every crevice so the public is rest assured if we open up that building later in the future. president biden and attorney general merrick garland, we know they are watching this one very closely, and cnn s dan simon, who is there in san jose. what more do you know, if anything, about these possible explosives? hi, alisyn and victor. this is a person who obviously came to the rail yard heavily armed, not only a gun and ammunition. perhaps he had more than one firearm, we just don t know. arriving early this morning with explosive explosives. we know authorities are currently investigating the scene, actively collecting evidence. this is going to take them some days, obviously, to complete this investigation. this is somebody who was apparently known to the employees. this happening at the beginning of a work shift
were essential workers. these vta employees helped us get through this horrific pandemic. they were showing up every day to operate light rail and buses to ensure people could still continue to go about their lives amid all the challenges of the pandemic and they were taking risks with their own lives in doing so. certainly our san jose police officers and sheriff s deputies responded immediately. obviously we ll learn more through this investigation about what exactly happened and how. but i can t help but think they may well have saved more harm from happening. and, of course, we ve got grief counselors already hard at work supporting families of loved ones who are suffering awful trauma at this moment. we re going to pull together. we re going to continue to work together and support our families of loved ones who have lost so much during this tragedy. we re going to continue to provide more information as this investigation unfolds. thank you. reporter: does anybody hav
families and the coworkers because we know that so many are feeling deeply this loss of their loved ones and their friends. the santa clara county sheriff said they would be holding another briefing later this hour. we assume that will have some more information about the incident itself, the suspect and number of people injured and killed. we ll bring you that briefing when it happens live. let me go back to lindsey reiser who were just hearing in the previous hour. she s in california near the scene. also joining us is a reporter from the san jose mercury news. he covers public justice and safety for the paper. lindsey, let me start with you. you know, let s start with what we know. take me back. when did we learn that there was an active incident? catch us up on the timeline. yeah, chuck. we heard shots fired calls around 6:30 this morning. within an hour, the sheriff s office was announcing the shooting was announced dead. like you said, a lot of details still left to
not confirmed. and family members are being advised to go to a county building. and speaking to the press, the mayor addressed the country s latest incident of mass gun violence. this is a very dark moment for our city and for our community. but we have already seen people pulling together in this very tough time. joining us now, lindsey riser who is san jose. and also said cedric. and so lindsay, what have we learned this morning? and we re getting a trickling of information with each of the hourly briefings here. so the call came in at 6:34 this morning and the sheriff confirmed that the suspect, samuel cassidy, is deceased. and i want to give you a geographic lay of the land. and this is the valley transportation authority, a major transportation hub for the san jose area about an hour outside of san francisco. and this is where the light rail trains, the buses, the shuttles are stored and dispatched out of every morning. a large number of employees work here, there
washington post. news that manhattan district attorney vance has convened a special grand jury that is expected to decide whether to indict donald trump. executives at the company or possibly the business itself should prosecutors decide to present criminal charges. that s according to two sources familiar with the matter. one legal expert and forler manhattan assistance d.a. says the prosecutors are convinced they have a case. that s at least how i read it. now warnings like that one may be what s forming the basis for new reporting from politico this morning about a cloud of nerves over the ex-president who added that this feels different than the legal issues surrounding trump because there s pressure on trump org cfo. allen weisselberg to flip. it s his involvement that makes this particular situation feel more real. and that the fact that they re dealing with a numbers guy with plain details on business operations makes people more nervous. of course nbc news reported t