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art roderick is with us. as a former u.s. marshal, tell us how law enforcement reacts. they go toward gunfire, what they hear. they ll see possibly people running, fleeing from the area where they heard gunfire, but how else to they approach this unclear whether the gunman or gunmen happens to be in place. fred, we heard the term, unfortunately we are familiar with run hide fight. but also the fourth thing to get done is get witness statements and get an identification of the individual as soon as possible. you can see law enforcement in a ready position here, moving around. what they re fearful of is this individual is not in synagogue and gets out into the public, again as stated earlier, it is a residential enabled. the last thing they want is a hostage barricade situation at one of the residences. ....
Situation. as far as we know, no one has been allowed out of the synagogue thus far. authorities who did just take to the microphones are continuing to treat it as an active shooter scene even though one gaunman, one alleged gunman is in custody. sam, listening to people familiar with the synagogue and the neighborhood, it is a significant center piece of the neighborhood in squirrel hills neighborhood there of pittsburgh. everyone really is impacted here. yes. saturday morning, shabbat morning services are when jews as a community come together. and there are often children in the building during these kinds of services, so we don t know if children were impacted. i cannot begin to imagine how terrified they must be. there are some reports coming out that the suspect made anti-semitic reports. we haven t confirmed that. ....
Ideology, hateful ideology they re driven by or consumed by. they re going to do something now that s more difficult. going to an undefended synagogue. as we look at the images, most of the images we see of first responder vehicles of that of arrival. we haven t seen ems trucks that have departed with, say, the injured. is that unusual? is it likely anyone being attended to will take place on the scene as opposed to transporting? i think timingwise this event occurred around 10:20. we re an hour into it now. they might have been able to get develop it s out of the inner perimeter fairly quickly if they had this person, if they had an inner perimeter setup where they had this individual boxed in and made the arrest right away. they probably got those individuals to hospitals as ....
Before they say it is an all clear, before the concentrated efforts are on tending to the injured? they have to canvass the building. and tree of life synagogue, i have never been there, it looks large. there are multiple rooms in any synagogue. it is unclear whether the suspect acted by himself or others. now that he is reportedly left the building, they re likely looking to see if there s anybody else in there that may pose a threat. and simultaneously to your point, they re interacting with law enforcement across the country to share information on what happened and to perhaps share advice what to do with local synagogues. we may see other synagogues not just in new york city but just like the bomb targets, we know law enforcement went to other potential sites. i think we ll see that repeated. unfortunately, religious institutions, schools, malls. these are classic soft targets. sometimes the bad people, whoever they are, whatever ....
Local politicians. do you have security guards there during saturday morning services? how big a security issue for you guys? i m not a member of tree of life. i can t comment on their security practices. you have to talk to someone from the congregation. we heard that there s one in custody, the shooter in custody. hearing that and after what s been happening, how does that make you feel? now i m just sad. i don t know what to tell you. i just my heart goes out to all of the families. this should not be happening, period. it should not be happening in a synagogue. it should not be happening in our neighborhood here in squirrel hill. can you describe the situation at wilkins and shady? it is not just one synagogue, there are a couple of buildings. there s one building, there are several congregations that share the same building. ....