Dont know the path or exactly how the shootings occurred. Where were you when you got that phone call and your heart had to have dropped . So today has baeen we last our footage there. That was the superintendent going through and taking questions there for a few minutes. Let me go down to our nbc correspondent who has been on the scene for the last few hour, Tammy Leitner. What codo you feel like you kno factually and what are some of the Unanswered Questions youre trying to get answers to . Reporter first i want to take you through what weve been seeing the last hour and a half on the scene here. A very emotional scene. When we first pulled up, there were parents lining the street for literally blocks. Parents standing outside of their cars, standing on the side of the road, waiting for answers. Waiting for their children. Literally standing there, some in tears, some hugging each other, others desperate just to hear from their kids. And as the minutes and hours started going on, we
anything or is it random? we have seen a mix of both. in the terrorism space, we have seen a range of political, social, and religious ideologies be used to justify violence. we have also seen a number of these stoked still caustic attacks in the recent years where just mass violence is pushed. and ypg has spent so much time doing this quick reaction draw that you are seeing play out right in front of you. they are prepared for this. they know how to handle it. it is still very challenging situation when you have so many people in a very tight space and very limited visibility in terms of what happened. more similar to terrorist attacks in london. frankly, there are so many guns on the street right. now that s been one of the major issues for the eric adams, he said that he was going to try to tackle it, that the state of gun violence in the city, in fact, we saw
might be inclined to do. i think it will be tough in the social media space because if you look at social media at large, you are talking about thousands upon thousands of potential leads. somebody says something that someone doesn t like or maybe a negative thought one day. what we do tend to find though when you look at these cases, it is not surprising. receipt tr retrospect suffly we say maybe should have talked to this individual. but unless they are breaking the terms of service of the social media accounts, or actually committing an act of violence, there is very little that law enforcement can do. you can preemptively go out there. we have it in the terrorism space as well. you can go out there try to have a conversation with them, think through interventions. that s what i was thinking about. i know we have this focus on trying to deal with sort of get to potential terrorists before
it was not originally on the president s schedule that he would make this statement from the roosevelt room in the white house, but within the last half hour or so, the president wants to make a statement to the american people as they get ready for the thanksgiving holiday weekend. later this afternoon, he is going to have a much different ceremony pardonning the turkes s on this thanksgiving eve and very, very different session that usually takes place at the rose garden at the white house. but this is going to be a serious statement on national security that the president is about to make. paul cruickshank, as we await the statement of the president, and it is fair that the world, because of the crisis with al qaeda and isis, the world is on edge. yes, the world is on edge within the national terrorism space, but really isis has been getting into plots in a much bigger way over the last year. i mean, we have seen a string the of terer errorist at