officials will give us an update on any new developments. meantime, i want to bring in our correspondent, who is there, and bring you up to speed on what we know thus far. at least ten people are dead, another ten hospitalized after the shooting saturday night in monterey park. the los angeles county sheriff s department says the male suspect in the attack fled the scene and remains at large. california governor gavin newsom sharing his condolences in a tweet that says, in part, monterey park should have had a night of joyful celebration of the lunar new year. instead, they were the victims of a horrific and heartless act of gun violence. the deadly shooting happened inside a dance studio seen here, shortly after 10:00 p.m. local time during a lunar new year holiday celebration. the city of monterey park is about seven miles outside of los angeles. and is a predominantly asian community. the mayor of los angeles, karen bass, saying the news is absolutely devastating, adding f
we are deeply concerned that we will lose some of these patients simply because there is no fuel, so that electricity, so then the life saving support cannot be provided. in this picture we don t have to forget the frustration of doctors and nurses who are living an impossible situation where they know what to do to save people but they don t have the means to do so. the israeli government says that these facilities are being used by hamas, that they have tunnels underneath them, they have command centres there. what do your colleagues tell you about that, the ones operating on the ground? i can tell you what our colleagues in al-quds are telling us in gaza city. we don t have this kind of information, but the reality is hospitals must be sanctuaries for all, must be protected by all parties, and this means that hospitals need to have a way in, a way out, needs to get humanitarian aid and of course no one should ever use a hospital for any military purpose. so our whole call
chief wiese, if you want to talk about the initial response to the scene, thank you. we received 911 calls starting at 10:22 in the evening. the incident, as you all know, is very close to the police state. we were just wrapping up the final shutdown of the lunar new year event. i had dozens of officers here throughout the day and the evening at that event. our response to the scene was within minutes. i don t have the exact time. the initial officers responded, saw dozens of people exiting. some were injured, some weren t. we handled them as they came out, began to triage that. my officers put together a react team, and went inside to see if the suspect was inside. they were probably entering that business with a minute or two of