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Information about his situation in this apartment complex at this time. arthel: i understand. is it a large i understand that details are sketchy and you re doing your best there. i want to ask you this, if you could we don t have pictures of the apartment complex that you re standing in front of. can you describe the complex to us. is it a large complex? does it seem to be smaller? are there townhomes? give us an idea of what kind of complex this is. reporter: i would say it s maybe mid-size. maybe two to three story apartment complex. there s an office building and some apartment units connected to it, surrounded by it are a lot of single family residential homes and well-manicured grassy lawns and sort of a nice suburban community out here, what s called pittsburgh south hill. as i said, at this point it s very hard to know who he was living with or what his situation was in the apartment itself. the police and the bomb squad have not yet emerged so they re ....
Him at the time. a what? an assault rifle and three handguns in the facility. [ indiscernible ] don t know at this time. [ indiscernible ] do not know that at this point. how old is the suspect? he is a pittsburgh resident. i don t know his age at this point. what sort of precautions are being taken entering the apartment. we would take all precautions as we would with any search warrants. w.we don t know if other wes are in there. we would proceed with caution. is the bomb squad part of that process? we would put the bomb squad in any scenario like this where we would anticipate devices but we have no information at this point that there are i.e.d.s present. how long was he in the synagogue [ indiscernible ] approximately 20 minutes. what sort of condition is the suspect in? ....
Mean it. we need to wrap our around around them, let them know we stand with them. eric: amen to that. right now, president trump is on his way to rally in illinois that s set to start in the next hour. this comes after he gave a speech in indianapolis. when he started that he addressed the horrific shooting at the synagogue, he called it an evil act and said of anti-semitism, quote, that it must be condemned and confronted anywhere and everywhere. allison barber is in illinois, waiting for the president. hello,a allison. reporter: at one point we were hearing that the white house was considering canceling the rally. president trump says he didn t want to come here but he decided that he thought he should and we re expecting him here in the next couple hours. take a listen to what he said. you go with a heavy heart but go. you don t want to change your life. you can t make them important. these are bad people. ....
the officer that went to mercy is 27. and the fourth one at presbyterian, i don t know his age. he s younger than me. are they all male officers? yes. can you give us a breakdown of the [ indiscernible ] i would describe two as in critical conditions. they re in the i.c.u. right now, one of whom returned to the operating room. the others are doing well. we would not they re obviously seriously injured. i would not describe them as critical. [ indiscernible ] the other, a 5-year-old a 55d officer. yes. a he question for th questiol agent. can you talk, sir, about the caliber of ammunition and perhaps the weapon that was involved? i don t know the calibers at this point. we think one was an assault rifle and we know the suspect had at least three handguns on ....
Up evidence that will tie this guy to the horrific killing. in addition to that, what is very important, hasn t been said much, is part of the law enforcement teams, there will be psychological criminal profilers that will look at this guy s social media platforms, websites, they ll be talking to him, they ll find out what his makeup s all about. what s very important here is as we said earlier, is motive and was there anyone else who knew that this was going to happen. very, very important. so that s the road they re going to be going down. arthel: it s already been deemed a hate crime. it s a federal crime. there have been 11 people killed this morning. does that compound the investigation and possible charges? it does. joel was right on one point. this is a terrorist attack. now that it s a hate crime, a federal crime, it compounds the charges. this guy will go away for a long, long time. arthel: in terms of weapons, the agent said he had an assault ....