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Transcripts for CNN The Lead With Jake Tapper 20240604 20:54:00

The gunman was under as a teenager, they re not allowed to legally purchase guns. the baker act allows them to be examined up to 72 hours when they re undergoing a mental health crisis. they said there was nothing indicating that the gunman couldn t own any laws. do you think this law, people with severe mental health problems, a danger to themselves and others, gun laws, do you think it s strong enough? jake, we re just weeks away from passing a permitless carry statute in the state of florida. absolutely they re not strong enough. this intersection leaves loops available so we end up with people who don t need to have guns, don t need to have access to these kinds of weapons and they get them. we re also in a place where the kind of divisive rhetoric coming from some of the people in leadership, when you come especially when it deals with issues with the african american ....

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Transcripts for CNN The Lead With Jake Tapper 20240604 20:08:00

Today. and they ll have technical teams that are out there that are looking at that information right now. i m sure if it was on campus, there is a very intricate system of cameras that probably allow immediate access to the data to the officers that are investigating. and we do have a good partnership based upon the vehicles that i ve seen in the area. you have the state police, you have the campus police, you ve got the chapel hill municipal department. so people are all working together on this. there is going to be a command post set up. that information is being fed to the command post. but as you re managing an incident like this. there is the incident, which is critical, making sure everybody is safe and your office is safe and doing everything that is humanly possible to maintain safety. on the other side of it, there is the messaging that you re giving out. you see these young kids leaving the dormitories and buildings being herded out with hands in the air. that s upsetting t ....

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Transcripts for CNN The Lead With Jake Tapper 20240604 20:02:00

Boston police commissioner ed davis. ed, right now this is an unusual situation. moments ago local schools around the unc campus at chapel hill were clear to dismiss students. what does that tell you about what might be going on right now? it could seem to me, although i m a lay person, if there were wore yours of an active shooter situation, they would not be dismissing students? yes, i agree, jake. it seems as though the situation is winding down at this point in time. but it is sort of a worst case scenario situation. you have an incident that occurred and you clearly have either a shooting incident or an armed person. they believe was very dangerous. they ve locked everything down. now they re starting to clear those places. but they don t have their hands on the suspect. sometimes these guys get out of ....

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Transcripts for CNN The Lead With Jake Tapper 20240604 20:01:00

announcer: this is cnn breaking news. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper and we start today with some breaking news. a shelter in place warning at the university of north carolina, chapel hill. authorities say there is a, quote, armed and dangerous person on or near the campus. the governor roy cooper now pledging all resources to capture the person he is characterizing at the shooter. moments ago a law enforcement source told cnn that federal law enforcement has responded to the scene but at this point, there was no information, at least not yet, about anyone being shot. right now we re getting information in about a situation where somebody is armed and dangerous. but we do not yet know if anybody on the campus in chapel hill, north carolina, has been wounded or shot in any way. we re going to go now to former ....

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Transcripts for CNN The Lead With Jake Tapper 20240604 20:03:00

The area and they re on the run. other times they hunker down in place. and so this real uncertainty, especially in the immediate vicinity of where the incident happened. you have to keep that place locked down until you could clear every room, every area where the suspect might be hiding. if you could rule out that he or she is in that is not in that area, then you could start to to open things up. and the peripheral areas are easier to open up an the actual scene of where the incident occurred. commissioner davis. stand by. i want to bring in nick valencia who is covering this for us. and what is the latest? what do we know concretely about what, if anything, happened on campus or near campus today. we know that the university sent out an alert shortly after 1:00 p.m. to indicate that there was an armed and dangerous person on or near campus. and then a lockdown went immediately into effect and we ....

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