investigation, and what they bring to the table is, simply the ability to help trace the gun, the firearm that was used here, and recovered at the scene. tear also -- if the santa barbara sheriff office needs it, they can provide some evidence analysis help. the fbi offered its assistance. it's not clear whether the sheriff office needs it. they mentioned at their press conference at 2:00 a.m. they were looking to, for the help of the california justice department crime lab to help do some of the analysis here. now, in the next few days they're going to look not only at the shell casings, kyung mentioned, also there were several crime screens. nine, i think the sheriff said. they'll look at those in the next couple of days and some of the video evidence, some of the writings of this person who is believed to have carried out she's shootings and trying to see whether this explains perhaps his motivation. we know from looking at some of

this video that he had expressed, the person believed to have carried this out, expressed some loneliness and being rebuffed by women. perhaps that explains it. we don't know. that is obviously something that will take a few days for investigators go go through, fred. >> evan perez, kyung lah, appreciate it. much mow ahead on the deadly shooting in california, and next, other top stories we're following, including pope francis' historic whirlwind trip through the holy land.

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exchanged fire with the suspect after arriving on the scene. the gunman fled, but then police caught up with him and exchanged gunfire again. the suspect drove off, and then crashed into a parked car. he was found dead with a gunshot wound to his head. it's unclear right now if he killed himself or if he was shot by deputies in that exchange of gunfire. and overseas. pope francis is now on a whirlwind three-day tour throughout the holy land, and on his trip he will shake hands with religious and political leaders in three cities and deliver at least 13 speeches and homilies. earlier today the pope visited the jordan river, where many christians believe jesus was baptized. he described his trip as a pilgrimage of prayer. but as becky anderson explains in the middle east, politics is never far behind. >> reporter: fred, the first of two full-on masses just being completed behind me here at the

sports city stadium. 25,000 christians here in the audience. 1,400 kids getting their first communion. this has been one of the highlights of this, the first day of this whirlwind trip. now, the pope billed this tour as a pilgrimage of prayer and said it was xristrictly religio not political, but in his first speech just before this mass at the palace with the king of jordan, king abdullah, he ak naug acknowledged with deep regretted the continued tegss in the middle east are and called for a peaceful solution to the crisis in syria and for a just solution to the israeli/palestinian crisis. year hearing people cheering at the pope leaves the stage. he is traveling with two old friends, a rabbi who co-wrote a book with the pope and a sheikh who leads argentina's muslim community. this is an interfaith dialogue. peace between israelis and

palestinians has been one of his main foreign policy proclaimants, as it were, in his first year as pontiff. he's on record as saying he supports a two-state solution. so this is a religious pal, but believe me it will have a political edge. fred? >> becky anderson, thank you so much. now to the volatile situation in ukraine. tomorrow people go to the polls to elect a new president. ballots are being distributed, polls set up. the election comes in the midst of separatist violence, and maybe a hopeful sign what looks like russian forces moving back from the ukraine border. ukraine's prime minister says tomorrow we will prove to the world and first of all to ourselves that it is not possible to intimidate us. our jim shuuto joins us live from danks -- danske.

what's as stake in these elections? jim? >> reporter: what's at stake is really a unified ukraine. earlier today i was just down in the square here in donetsk, still a statue of lenin. and the pro russian separatists were declaring a new republican calling it a novo rocia, joining don necessary k rea d don yes k region. trying to deny people a vote in tomorrow's election. we trample outside of this city, polls not more than a 20, 30-minute drive and found spriftists, militants raided those polling stations burned all the ballots, broken the ballot boxes, and then we met one of those militants who showed me this. this wan an order issued by the

self-declared donetsk republic ordering all polling stations closed in effect denying the people to vote. this is what's at stake. for the whole country is can ukraine be united going forward? there are real challenges in the eastern part of the country. these militants, the declaration of a new republic, but also violence threatened against people who do choose or attempt to vote tomorrow in the presidential elections. >> oh, my. very volatile situation still potentially. very violent. jim shuuto, appreciate that. thank you. some of the other big stories crossing the cnn newsdesk. under pressure from the white house. congress and veterans, the v.a. ordered a system-wide review of all of the v.a. hospitals processes to speed up care to veterans. an internal memo obtained by cnn says the veterans health administration "has developed a coordinated system-wide initiative to accelerate care to

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all right. hours now after that deadly shooting spree last night in california, at least one lawmaker from that state is offering condolences. talking about congresswoman lois katz giving this statement now. "we are all grieving over the lives claimed in this senseless tragedy last nice in isla vista.

now is a time for this community to come together, pray for the victims, give strength to those injured and support all who were touched by this unconscionable act." so that deadly shooting spree north of los angeles. it is one that has investigators focusing on the motive. the sheriff says a gunman shot and killed six people while driving through that college town of isla vista, home to the university of california santa barbara, and the santa barbara community college. so the gunman is now dead, and seven others are wounded. earlier i spoke with robert johnson, with the uc santa barbara student newspaper, and he actually witnessed one of the shootings last night. >> i was on, standing on the corner of two of the larger streets in the area, and then first i heard some popping sounds in the distance and i

originally thought it was just fireworks or firecrackers, because it's not uncommon to hear that in this area. but soon after a black bmw passed through the intersection where i was, and continued down the street heading away from me, and then i heard a's positiving sound that sounded like it came from the car and i looked over at it, and i remember thinking, it was -- it sounded like it backfired and i remember thinking it was strange, because it was a brand new car, and then there was a second popping sound from it, and then by that point it had reached -- it was right outside of a -- convenience store, deli, that it looked like there may be eight to ten people headed outside in front of it, and then at that point, someoneinside the car started firing upon that crowd there. >> and so, robert, when you saw this vehicle, you know, you described it as a black bmw going by, and you figured out this is where that sound was

coming from, was it traveling fast? was it doing very slow? do you recall? >> it seemed to be going slower than you normally would go on these streets here. i mean, they are heavily trafficked with bikers and pedestrians, so most people don't drive fast around here, but it seemed to be going markedly slower. >> were people scattering? once there was a realization this is gunfire and not what could be the usual fireworks in the neighborhood, was there panic? describe -- people's reaction. >> i saw him fire upon that group in front of the store, and then they all -- everyone being fired upon jumped up and tried to get inside the store, at which point i turned around and started running the other way. >> and this is a holiday weekend, and i understand some, you know, students are still at the school. you know, in session, or they haven't gone away for the weekend or even home.

was it particularly less crowded in this area compared to most other weekends? or quite the opposite? >> it seems like it was a little less busy than it normally is on a friday night. yes. >> and then -- once people realized, you know, this is a shooting, and you described how some people responded, was it an issue of even some people, some students, some of the pedestrians trying to help or come to the aid of those who had been hit? >> i can't answer that question, because, as i said earlier, as soon as i realized what was going on, i -- i was with my friend at the time and we went into his apartment and then from there we couldn't really get a good view of the street. >> okay. and then, robert, now this morning, many hours after, you know what took place last night, what are you feeling like this morning?

>> i've actually been awake for the last 25 or so hours. so i'm just really tired now, and i guess i was actually at the press conference that the sheriff held, and there's still lots of questions to be answered. they haven't released any names yet. so i think everyone is just confused about what happened and everyone just wants answers. >> all right. confused. that's what a lot of people are feeling, particularly those in that community who were eyewitness to what took place last night. so how should, or how can many of them cope from here? jeff gardere is back with me now from new york. he's a clinical and forensic psychologist. jeff, you just heard from one young moon says there's a feeling of confusion. he feels confused, even though he was part of it, saw it, and that's what a lot of others are feeling. so how do you help a lot of these young people process what happened? >> well, the first thing you have to do is stabilize the situation, and i believe law enforcement and school officials have done that.

and then the very next thing you do, of course, is offer them a ka authoricatharsi catharsis. with the schools, counseling available, able to talk about what's going on. but the young man on before me really brings up something that is vital. getting the proper information. what happened? was this a student? was it someone they may have known? someone from the community? someone outside of the community? so before they can get rid of all of that confusion, the only way to do that, of course, is to get as many facts as possible, and that will begin to come out as it is right now. >> and you mentioned the counseling. how noornt important that is. a statement from the university of california, santa barbara. it says the university has been making -- has been making counseling services available for students throughout the night, and they set up emergency housing for displaced students.

the yufuniversity is also setti up a call center for parents and students with questions. what do you suppose many of the questions are going to be? whether it be from parents or students, as it pertains to this? meaning the gunman is now dead. of course, don't know why he did this, but it's a matter of, you know, kind of moving on. moving away from what took place? >> well, the parents, of course, want to know that their kids are okay's they want to know whether they were close to the shooting. did they have a friend who may have died? is there anything that they could do? are think children afraid and, of course, the kids will be asking their parents, telling their parents that they may be okay or they need to come home, or they need help of some sort, or they may be displaced. of course, again, the university is making housing available for those students. but i think, fredricka, this is going to be a long, drawn out process. the school is going to have to educate them about ptsd. this is what you get when you have been in a traumatic

situation. afraid you may have been hurt, or you know someone who's been hurt or lost their lives. and so they have to educate them what the symptoms will be in the next few days and, of course, as the names are released of the people injured and killed, now it becomes even more traumatic, and then you start the process again of the counseling, of the grief counseling, and, of course, the religious services. all of those things will help in time, but this is something that is going to be an ongoing process of trauma and healing, trauma and healing. >> uh-huh. and, you know, you talk about information. the sheriff says, you know, he believes this gunman was a madman, and that this was, you know, premeditated, an event. how will that assist people in processing what took place, or how might it actually, i guess, provoke new fears, you know,

about perfect strangers, or even people they know? >> well, there are no safe havens anymore. schools used to be the safe haven. the idyllic settings where our children discover themself and their individuality and individualization away from parents. so it's a very scary world. there's no place to hide, and i think what this will tell people is, look, there are a lot of folks out there who have emotional issues. this person may not have been a schizophrenic or a bipolar. may have been a personality disorder. someone who was more psychopathic than anything else. and, therefore, there's not much that we can do about that. we could look at the red flags, the isolation, the hate, anger, blaming society, and try to give these people help, try to socialize them a little bit more, but what it tells us is, these things are random, but we have to be atertentive and reac out and help people who feel they've been isolated or are actually isolated in society.

>> jeff gardere, thanks so much. >> pleasure. heading back to southern california live in the next hour for the latest are on the shootings that have left six dead, plus the gunman. ameriprise asked people a simple question: in retirement, will you outlive your money? uhhh. no, that can't happen. that's the thing, you don't know how long it has to last. everyone has retirement questions. so ameriprise created the exclusive.. confident retirement approach. now you and your ameripise advisor can get the real answers you need. well, knowing gives you confidence. start building your confident retirement today.

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