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but he knew he was in the bathroom and he was able to get out of the building, again, because these exit doors were working well. i can t tell you how thankful i am just to do that one task homeland security told us to do. because in the past you couldn t push through the exit doors? they weren t easily opened. they had safeties on them so they couldn t open either way. but now he was able to get out. i mean, he could be alive because of this. where were you when you found out this had occurred? i was heading up to the service. i m there every i was there last night for service. i go up there around 10:00 and in the morning and one of the vice presidents that i work with on facilities now that i stepped down, he called. he worked for city emergency management. and he said he just got word there s an active shooter at tree of life. go up there and see if this is true. i tried to get up. i only live a block away from the synagogue. i tried to get up shady avenue an ....
Among the injured are three police officers. and so, james, does this tell you that there was an exchange perhaps of gunfire between this gunman who authorities say is now in custody and these at least three officers injured? absolutely. we have somebody who has committed murder, attempted murder and assaulted police officers and responding law enforcement. people have been texting and saying, you know, who has purview here. would fbi have oversight for something like this. as we were watching the feed there, i can tell you, i saw robert jones who s the fbi special agent in charge of the pittsburgh division on scene. he s the former assistant director of the branch at headquarters. the fbi will assist in this case until there s a determination which we re probably moving that direction that this could possibly be a hate crime. these are murders. obviously these are state charges. ....
Here pretty soon. they ve gone through the building. we do expect the scene to open up for investigators to come in and start processing the crime scene. the other things we learned is that the shooter here, during th uttered anti-jewish phrases. certainly why police were taken him into custody. clearly this is now developing into obviously some kind of hate crime. so we d likely see the fbi come in and take over the investigation. let s listen in right now. be speaking, making a statement at the farmers of america. future farmers that have the big conference. we ll be making a major statement. it s a terrible, terrible thing ....
Very perilous time. when you talk to senior law enforcement officials, they will tell you what we re facing and what we re seeing on the threat stream, it s really scary what s going on. why you are making that point, year beiwe re looking at images. this is a large sin goynagogue e squirrel hill neighborhood. this is where a shooting took place earlier today. not long after services were to get under way. we understand they were going to be they were probably simultaneous at least three services taking place in this very sizable synagogue. police have said sources that shimon has spoke within confirming 12 people shot. three officers shot and four people had been killed. so continue with your thoughts. just to get back to that scene. to get back to what s going on. police have spent sort of the last several hours, couple of hours, going through, floor by floor, of this synagogue. ....
Also as the truth. getting that information verbally from him, trying to asset if there are other people involved, going around the areas, securing the area, finding out where he lives, his residency. they immediately want to go there, assess the environment, looking at the dimg tall footprints, looking at who he s talking to, contacting family and friends, doing all these things. you don t want to leave the scene until you really know what s going on and you feel comfortable leaving the scene. so them staying there and taking their time is a wise thing because they re trying to make sure they check all those boxes, not make it you can t make any assumptions, right? you can t assume, okay, we ve got him, good. also, how many weapons did he have? did he have any explosive devices? if you re looking at a large amount, there might be a question, well, did he get resources? did someone else help him? any other individuals involved? once you can say with some level of certainty, okay, we ....