pronounced dead at the hospital. the film s director joel souza was also injured. you re looking at pictures here of the movie s star, alec baldwin, also a producer. stephanie elam joining us now. there are a lot of questions about what happened. how many answers do we have this morning, stephanie? reporter: there is probably more questions than there are answers at this point, erica and jim. what we do know, according to the santa fe county sheriff s office, is that they received a call shortly before 2:00 p.m. local time yesterday, a 911 call that came in saying there had been a shooting on the set. they responded to this movie set, which is on the bonanza creek ranch. and that s when they gofr disco that two people had been shot. the way they worded it was a prop firearm was discharged by alec baldwin. that s how they worded it. they went on to say they continued to investigate. they re talking to people who were witnesses who saw what happened.
dr. ali keshan, thank you. masks on and get vaccinated, america. there we go. follow his example. thanks, doctor. new questions about the health of queen elizabeth after buckingham palace confirmed the 95-year-old spent a night in a hospital this past week. royal officials were forced to confirm she was hospitalized on wednesday after a newspaper broke the story. the palace saying she was in for some, quote, preliminary investigations after she abruptly canceled a trip to northern ireland earlier this week upon advice from her doctors. a spokesperson says this is not covid related and that the queen is expected to attend the cop-26 summit in scotland later this month. still ahead, tragedy on set. actor alec baldwin firing a prop gun during a scene that somehow killed a cinematographer, injured another.
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for people yet. hasn t really sunk in. i would imagine that s two fold, right, the personal for anybody who had a connection with halyna and then it is also on the professional as to how this happened on a set. and those are a lot of the questions we also don t have answers to this morning. how much is that a part of the discussion? well, that s certainly a large part of it, i mean, this is obviously every filmmaker s worst fear, this happening on a set. and it is a thing, you know, we all know this happened with brandon lee on the set of the crow going back 30 years and we all thought that maybe after that, there would be changes made. and this kind of thing wouldn t be able to happen and so it is just it is stunning, yeah. i think everybody is just trying to find out what happened and how it happened and make sure it never changes again. what kind of changes are you talking about there, following for instance the lead you talked
no charges have been filed yet in this. we have a statement from the company that is behind rust about this incident and it says in part the entire cast and crew has been absolutely devastated by today s tragedy. and we send our deepest condolences to halyna s family and loved ones. they say production has been halted for an undetermined period of time and that they re fully cooperating with the santa fe sheriff s department with the investigation and they re going to provide counseling for everyone connect with the film. this movie being a western set in the 1880s, according to amdb, the set irony here, it is about a 13-year-old boy who goes on the run with his estranged grandfather after he s accused of accidentally murdering somebody. so just a very sad turn of events here. we still don t have all of the answers. but obviously the sadness here is that this woman, this 42-year-old woman, halyna