gun violence. sir keir starmer sets out his party s position on brexit the opposition leader says labour will not be campaigning to take the uk back into the eu. and halo by name halo by nature the cockpit invention that saved the life of a formula 1 driver this weekend, in a spectacular crash at silverstone. tonight with the context, from tel aviv, political analyst dahlia scheindlin andjim murphy, former secretary of state for scotland and now managing director at arden strategies. hello and welcome to the programme. breaking news this evening six people are known to have been killed and 31 others taken to hospital in another mass shooting incident, this time during an independence day parade in the state of illinois. the incident took place in highland park, lake county, 50 kilometres north of chicago. the gunman is thought to have been firing from a rooftop position towards the parade. police say a high powered rifle was recovered. but the gunman, said to be white
emergency units going to the scene to get that situation under control. so we re working to reach out to people that were at this parade. we re getting tweets from people who were actually at this parade. what we re hearing and seeing from those reports are that someone, one person told us they heard 20 to 25 gunshots ring out at the beginning of this parade, which started at about 10:00 a.m. central time. that same person also told us that they believed to see someone who was bloodied and on the ground. we also know about two local lawmakers that were there. one of them was actually about to march in that parade, was at the starting point, and he actually tweeted this. this is congressman brad schneider. he said today a shooter struck in highland park during the independence day parade. my campaign team and i were gathering at the start of the parade when the shooting started. my team and i are safe and secure. we re monitoring the situation closely and are in touch with the
we still consider him to be armed and dangerous. at this time the information is there was one shooter. [ inaudible question ] we re still working on that. yes, sir. we re not going to go into the specifics of where the gun was recovered, but a firearm, a rifle was recovered. do you know the ages of those who passed away? we will have more information on that. we re working with the lake county coroner s office. they, too, are very involved in this investigation and we will be releasing that as soon as we can. thanks. we ll be back. we have six confirmed deceased and we have approximately two dozen that are seriously injured. thank you. we just got the breaking news update there from highland park police officials, now six dead as you heard, roughly two dozen people transported to hospitals after a mass shooting on independence day at the start of a parade. thank you for staying with us. i m victor black well. we are covering this from all angles. we ve got impo
ladder that was attached to the building. he fired, climbed back down and somehow got away. a rifle was recovered at the scene. the atf is tracing the firearm. the way this works is, they will trace the firearm to the original owner. if it was sold to other people, they will trace that as well. and then the atf will visit that owner or owners to find out if there s any link between that person and a potential suspect. high pressure s police commander is urging people to shelter in place as authorities search for the suspect that is still at large at this hour. we re talking five hours after the shooting. this comes two weeks after the president signed a bipartisan gun law that is meant to dwell the scourge of mass shooting in the united states. the president condemned the shooting and offered support to members of the high pressure community. we expect him to speak any moment during his fourth of july address. we have fox s peter doocy is at the white house with president bid
behind, but that does not indicate he does not also have a weapon with him. police say he likely fired on the festivities from a roof top, a roof top he climbed up on to attached to the building and used what s described as a high powered rifle which was recovered at the scene. the tragedy comes less than two weeks after president biden signed a bipartisan gun law meant to help prevent mass shootings in the u.s. the president eluded to today s shooting in remarks last hour barely eluded. our senior correspondent mike tobin is in chicago with the latest on the deadly parade shooting. mike, good evening to you. reporter: good evening, trace. this is obviously a big development now that anyway have made the identification of bobby e.crimo iii. there is stuff coming up on social media now. this individual does appear to have left a footprint. we ve got to go through and vet it all before we relay it to you. law enforment said they will provide us a picture. they said he was dri