Stone senior historian and the Executive Director to our institute for the study of Warren Democracy Dr. Rob satino. Rob is the author of 10 books has been involved with basically every Content Aspect of the museum since he joined us a few years ago, and were very fortunate to have them on our team and have him kick off this opening session. I will be joining you all after the conversation. To handle the q a session, but for now rob take it away and lets get the conference started. Jeremy collins. Thank you very much. Its a really good to be here to kick off this international conference on World War ii all digital format this year, and were really really looking forward to it. Im looking forward very much to this first session of Todd Depastino holds a phd from yale university. Hes the author of the Awardwinning Book on Bill Mauldin called Bill Mauldin a life up front, which if you havent gotten a copy you should and the Executive Director of the Veterans Breakfast Club a pittsburghba
moving near the shopping center. but the grocery store, of course, will remain closed for the foreseeable future as well as some of the adjacent businesses to it. obviously, a lot of questions heading into that news conference which is scheduled to begin in just about 30 minutes. namely, officers operating motive as to why the shooter went into that grocery store and started opening fire. will they disclose the identity of the suspect? and will they name the victims who died in that shooting? of course, we know that officer died. nine additional others that were inside the grocery store. of died, of course, when all when the gunfire erupted, you have all the people in the store dashing for the exit. some people going towards the back of the store. literally jumping off loading docks to safety. i want you to listen now to a mother who talked about her harrowing ordeal as she escaped with her son. take a look. i just looked at my son. i told him in between shots, by the fou
takes a bit to show you all of them. authorities released the names of all ten killed in the shooting yesterday. they range in age from 20 years old to 65 years old, all of them going about their lives, some at work, some customers, one of them, a 51-year-old police officer. eric talley, who leaves behind a wife and seven children. he was the first officer on the scene, and he was killed in the line of duty. while this investigation is really just getting under way they were still processing the scene, they last they removed the last victim from the scene, they said, at about 2:00 this morning. while that is still under way those who witnessed the horrific attack, they re just trying now still to make sense of what they lived through. what i saw was a terrified face running towards me. she was a woman, you know, shorter than myself, and the first two shots happened. i saw her face and her running down the aisle towards me. i turned and kept up with her, and we all ran dow
live. in boulder they arrested the suspect in a shooting. cops seen leading a man handcuffed out of the store to an ambulance with blood running down his legs. bill: one victim name so far. his name is eric talley. a police officer, father of seven. one of the first officers on the scene. he was 51 years old, joined the force at the age of 40. dana: he was one of hundreds of officers who surrounded the store yesterday as terrified shoppers tried to escape the gunfire. we were at the check-out and shots started going off. i said run now. we have three seconds. start hearing bang, bang, bang, bang. it was definitely panic. a lot of people didn t know exactly where he was. these were people going about their day doing their food shopping and their lives were cut abruptly short. i promise the victims and the people in the state of colorado that we ll secure justice. my heart goes out to the victims of this incident. i know there are people out there waiting for an a
father of seven. we have more questions about who the other victims are, the day s first briefing with investigators on the ground begins. we re going to bring that to you live and we re talking to a witness that ran for his life in the chaos. this mass shooting in boulder comes less than a week after the multiple shootings outside of atlanta where eight people were killed. as it all happens we re live on capitol hill where a prescheduled hearing already set on reducing gun violence is about to begin any minute. good morning, i m hallie jackson with steve paterson, garrett haake, and special agent executive katherine switz. bring us up to speed on where the investigation stands right now. we know it is expected to last three or four more days. yeah, hallie, it s early. while we may expect to hear new light shed on the suspect, the victims, the motive, the motive that he used to fire that weapon, we still need to know more from police about a timeline as well. police saying,