at the grand 16 theatre. bullets flying as the gunman described as a lone white >> we saw a lady with blood all over her leg. we all ran. >> reporter: police dispatched to the scene about 7:30 central time. witnesses describe the terrifying ordeal as something like a war, gunshot after gunshot as they fled for safety. >> chaos, basically. >> reporter: louisiana governor bobby jindal praising two teachers who were members of the audience. >> her friend literally jumped over her and saved her life. if she hadn't done that her front got shot and fellow teacher got shot. the second one, the one whose life was saved, she had the presence of mind to pull the fire alarm to save other lives.

>> reporter: actress amy schumer took to twitter, my heart is broken and all my thoughts and prayers are with everyone in louisiana. one witness described it as surreal. i'm told by louisiana state officials here, this morning, all indications show he showed up to the theater by himself and stood up as we mentioned, about 20 minutes into the film and began firing. he didn't turn the gun on himself until police officers had gotten inside the theater. that's when the gunman turned the gun on himself and killed himself. >> brief moments of horror. thank you for the latest on that. we know that -- the police know the idea of the gunman. what do we know about the man behind this senseless act. alexander field has that part of the story for us. >> we want to focus on the

victims, but there are questions about what motivates somebody to do something like this and who he is. we know this is a 58-year-old white man with some kind of criminal history dating back a few years. the details of his history not revealed. he died of suicide turning the gun on himself. when officers entered the theater what motivated him, it's a question they have not been able to answer. there are some answers we may never get. we'll see how the investigation unfolds. this is data about shootings from mother jones analyzed by cnn. it's something you have probably put together by now, a lot of mass shootings carried out by 64%, then blacks 16% than asian 9%. they are in line.

latinos are disproportionately lower than the populations. these are the faces and names of others. dylann roof abdulzeez is dead after opening fire in chattanooga, tennessee. this is another man who has been in the news the past few weeks, james holmes convicted by a jury. he is in the sentencing phase of his trial. a lot of people will look at what happened last night in louisiana and wonder was it is copy cat attack and what happened in aurora in 2012 when he opened fire in the screening of "dark knight." it's something investigators will be looking at. this is a name and face we have been talking about the past few weeks. >> those are the right questions. the couple distinguishing features as the investigation continues. one is age.

this man believed to be 58 years of age and the sequence of events. why did it stop as suddenly as it began unlike other shootings? this is the past the investigation will take. what was going on for the people who survived inside that theater who saw everything? we have a young woman who saw everything. katie joins us by phone. can you hear me? >> caller: yes, i can, can you hear me? >> i can. how are you feeling? >> caller: i'm grateful to be not harmed and safe. >> where is your head and heart right now in terms of what you made it through? >> caller: my head and heart are with the people who were there, who were injured, their family and the people who lost their loved ones. >> are you comfortable taking me through what happened in the theater as you saw it? >> caller: yes, that's fine. >> you are in there.

the movie hadn't started yet, this was previews, is that right? >> caller: sure, yes. >> what happens? >> we got there right when the previews were starting. we like to sit in the front row, next to the bar where you can put your feet up. we sat on the second row and sat at the end of that aisle, next to the stairs which is not usually where we sit. we were right at the end of the aisle because the movie was starting to fill up. >> who is we? >> caller: me and my fiance. >> what happens? >> caller: he went and got stuff from the concession stand. we never saw the shooter pass while i was sitting there. you have to have already been in the theater. >> you were where in terms of where the entrance and exit were? were you on the opposite end?

>> caller: no i was next to the exit to go back to the main part of the theater, not the emergency exit. the emergency exit was further down to the right. it was closer for me to go around the corner right around the wall where i was sitting. >> sure. luckily you were near an exit. what happens with the shooting? what do you see and hear? >> caller: probably about 20 minutes, not even 20 minutes into the movie and i hear a loud noise noise, a pop. i'm thinking someone set off a fire cracker to be silly. i turn and look over my left shoulder. as you are looking at the screen on the bottom right of the screen and the shooter was at the top of the left. i turn and look and i can see him firing off another shot. that's how i knew he was

standing up straight down and you could see the light from the end of his gun, almost like a flash. it looked like an older male to me mid to late 50s. couldn't really see much because it's a dark theater. >> you only have the light of the screen to help you. were you able to get a sense of whether he was shooting at anybody in particular? >> caller: it didn't look like he was shooting at anybody in particular but looked like he was shooting in front of him. we took that opportunity. he's not shooting in our direction, he's shooting straight down we need to go. we ran out of there as quick as possible. >> did the shooting continue as you were running out the door? did you hear it as you were getting away? >> caller: yes, i heard a total of six gunshots.

i know -- as soon as i realized what was going on after that first shot, wait this is an actual shooting. my fiance already had his hand on my neck pushing me out the door. as soon as you ran outside, we called 911 immediately and, i mean they were already there within seconds as i was getting off the phone. >> it was good you called 911 when you did. no surprise your fiance was taking care of who mattered most to him. you didn't see because it was dark but did he say anything? was he screaming anything or no? >> caller: nothing. never said anything that we could hear. we never heard him say anything. never heard -- i think a lot of people didn't realize what was going on. a lot of people were like --

somebody is actually shooting. >> i know it is a tight community, i have been there. beautiful people down there who take care of each other. it's not the kind of place you expect this. were you able to see any people that were hurt or hearing stories of people helping one another after you started to see injuries. were you there for that or you had taken off? >> caller: our main concern was get out of there and call the police. if they are not there and they don't know what's going on they can't stop it. as emergency personnel ourselves, we need to get out to help others. >> good that the training kicked in and you got the word out. thank god you and your fiance lived to tell about it. i'm sorry it happened thank you for helping us understand better what people survived in that theater. >> caller: yes, thank you. >> i hope you have a good weekend and put it behind you.

thanks for talking to us katie. >> they are going to hug each other closer now, aren't they? president obama has been briefed on the louisiana shooting. before last night's shooting occurred he spoke to the bbc about america's gun violence. he said the failure to get new gun laws passed has been the biggest frustration of his presidency. michelle kaczynski is in kenya where president obama will arrive. michelle interesting to see and heart breaking to see how the words played out today. >> reporter: right, especially since we talk about this place, kenya, there have been security concerns that were much talked about over the last couple days. what the president is being briefed on now is this yet another american shooting of innocent people in a public plait. right before he left he sat down with the bbc. this was before the shooting happened. again, he spoke out strongly about wanting to do something to

prevent gun violence. >> if you ask me where has been the one area where i feel that i have been most frustrated and most -- it is the fact that the united states of america is the one advanced nation on earth, in which we do not have sufficient common sense, gun safety laws. even in the face of repeated mass killings. you know if you look at the number of americans killed since 9/11 by terrorism, it's less than 100. if you look at the number that have been killed by gun violence it's in the tens of thousands. for us not to be able to resolve that issue has been something that is distressing, but, it is not something that i intend to

stop working on in the remaining 18 months. >> reporter: we have heard the president be outspoken on this topic, especially lately after the church shootings in charleston. one of the victims was someone he actually knew. after this the military shooting in chattanooga. at some point, we have to reckon with the fact guns are readily available and it happens for more than in other advanced countries. chris? >> thank you very much. now back to the shooting specifically in lafayette. it's close to the date of the movie massacre in aurora colorado. the jury in that case is weighing the death penalty for that killer. he shot and killed 12 people during "the dark knight rises." 70 others injured. >> people paying tribute to a

hometown corporate, skip wells. wells was one of the five servicemen gunned down in chattanooga. in the meantime republican presidential candidate scott walker putting his campaign on hold today to attend the funeral, one of the other slain marines, sergeant carson holmquist from wisconsin. >> we are all anxious to find out who was hurt how they are doing and why this gunman would do something so terrible. we are watching the story. we expect to get information from authorities during the show's duration. we are also going to try to stay on top of other stories as well. for instance in the new york times, a big development on political news dealing with hillary clinton. it's reporting a pair of inspectors general are asking to probe whether sensitive information was mishandled with the e-mail account of hillary clinton using during her time as

secretary of state. we are live in washington d.c. with the latest. the headline here is the language of the new york times has changed on this and it could make all the difference. >> that's right, chris. initially, the report said there was an opening up of a probe into hillary clinton's handling of the e-mail. now, "the new york times" says the story -- the department of justice is being asked to see if it was mishandled in relation to clinton's use of a private e-mail server while secretary of state. the state department and intelligence agencies made the request to see if the handling of clinton's e-mails was improper. sources confirmed that. a spokesman pointed out "the new york times" revised the story, then clinton followed appropriate practices in dealing with classified materials. you'll note some of the e-mails have been retro actively

classified that clinton used the private e-mail server during her tenure. it's been a major controversy dogging her campaign. they have not decided whether to open a criminal probe. clinton said she used the server because it was easier. she did ask for her 55,000 pages of e-mails to be made public. the state department is reviewing them to make sure no sensitive information has been released. so far, 4,000 pages have been made public. >> we'll certainly stay on this with you. thank you. republican front-runner donald trump returning to illegal immigration. the billionaire presidential candidate brushed off a question about a possible third party run saying he is confident he will be the republican nominee. dana bash is in laredo texas with the latest for us.

dana? >> reporter: good morning, michaela. this is not the trip trump originally planned. like donald trump is known to do he made the best of it. donald trump landed for the cameras on a plane that bears his name and got an unusually long motorcade to blaze a campaign trail to mexico. mobs of cameras captured a series of photo-opes. that is donald trump behind there. he's become a force in the presidential race. >> i'm the one that brought up the problem with illegal immigration. it's a big problem, a huge problem. >> reporter: before he arrived, the local border patrol union that invited him, uninvited him enroute. >> they envited me then told not to. the border patrol is petrifyied

of saying what is happening here. they have a problem here. trump met the city manager in laredo texas. >> i'm dpoung to steal him to run something for me. he's fantastic. >> reporter: not that they say eye-to-eye. >> the way to make the borders safe is to build a long wall? >> it's a federal issue. we have our comments on that. what are your comments? >> we don't think it's necessary at this time. we think there are other ways to work together with the federal government. >> reporter: trump did his fair share of sparring with spanish language reporters pressing about undocumented immigrants. >> you are finished. >> reporter: now, i had a chance to speak with the mayor and city

manager last night. they had trepidation about having these meetings because of course they weren't planned. the mayor told me he was glad they did. during a long car ride he tried to explain to trump why building that long wall was a bad idea. during the press conference he said he's not so sure you need the long wall maybe just in certain parts. maybe they did make an impact. >> he acknowledged he knows people are coming from other parts of the world as well. dana thank you very much. we'll check back with you in a bit. of course we are waiting on a police press for more information on what happened in lafayette, louisiana. it's worth looking at the shootings. what seems to be an epidemic in our country. if we don't ask now how to stop it when will we? that's next stay with us.

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we are waiting on more information. there is going to be a press conference coming during "new day." this is what we know a deadly shooting inside a louisiana movie theater. the country is on its heels. this time a 58-year-old gunman opening fire killing two injuring nine others and the familiar end of turning the gun on himself. this is three years after the movie massacre in aurora colorado. it's time to talk about why doesn't it ever seem to go away. let's bring in retired nypd detective harry and mark a cnn political commentator. good to have you both. the first thing that comes to mind in these situations is the ease of weapons. louisiana stands out in that regard harry. not many places where it is easier to get a gun basically,

you need a license to prove you are 18. do you think that is the root of the problem? >> i don't know if it's the root of the problem. listen i'm for sensible gun control. >> which means what? >> yeah, explain that. >> if you buy a gun, you have to have identification and background check. i'm for that. anytime, anywhere. if i buy a gun and sell it to somebody you have to have a background check on that person. i'm for that. that's where i stand with that as a police officer looking at it occurring. we don't know if he bought the gun legally or not. we have to wait and see. i am for sensible gun control. sensible. >> according to the times, guns killed more people in louisiana per capita than any other state. louisiana. is that -- why is it that we are

not having more of a conversation. look at aurora almost three years to the date. all of us woke up this morning, all of us. what happened in our country, again? why do you think we can't get to that issue? >> sandy hook that was the moment -- also this is the moment we realize we are not going to get anything done. dead children don't prompt sensible gun control, this isn't going to do it. sad and tragic a lot of powerful forces that don't want to see it. i'm not antisecond amendment, i support the right to bear arms, within reasonable limitations. i don't think this is because of a guy. i think we don't know what happened yet and we need to wait for a proper investigation. >> no matter what happened the same issues arise. it's compelling enough that it stalled the debate.

the media goes crazy about the massacres. they are a fraction of a percent of gun violence in the country. the real violence you don't care about at all in the media going on in the inner city guns bought illegally. that's the gun issue, not legal people with guns. >> everybody is afraid that the president wants to take guns away from everybody. all right? say that happens. say they make guns illegal, completely. who is going to have the guns the cops and bad guys. >> that would never happen in america. >> yes, it will happen you don't know -- >> a lot of people are worried about that happening. i don't think it will either personally i don't think it will ever pass in congress to take guns away from people. the fact is if he can't get a gun legally, there's always a way to get it illegally on the street. >> true. >> isn't there room for

conversations on this? it's all or nothing. >> all one. >> all one. all one. it seems like there's got to be a way there can be reasonable sensible ways to manage this. other countries have. >> of course. >> but they don't have it in their constitution basically. we do. >> that becomes an excuse. we have this constitution. >> it is there, mark. >> i'm not disputing it's in the constitution. i'm disputing it doesn't mean we can't have a conversation about thousand move the ball forward. we should look to other countries. france doesn't have this issue. >> we have admitted we have a problem. >> they don't have the freedom of having guns like we have. in england, it's hard to get a gun. it is so hard to try to stop it. first of all you don't go to

jail for carrying a gun illegally. in new york you have this law, you get caught carrying a gun. one year in jail. i never knew anybody who went to jail for a year for carrying a gun. we have to make sure we utilize the laws we have. in england, you get ten year ifs you use a gun. that's what we should do in the united states. automatic ten years. and there's parts in the penal law were there bullets in the gun, was it usable? doesn't matter. when you have a gun in your face you don't know. >> maybe look to england not just for how they have strong laws when you get caught with a gun, but romanticize, in england, you don't get to carry a gun. maybe it's not the worst thing. >> people have the right. >> you have culture t. way the supreme court has gone they have read in a privacy right to the right to bear arms. it is evolved. that part of the conversation

when talking the conversation one of the experts talk about or the thinkers talk about is why are you so violent. >> you can have a gun and not have violence. why are you so violent? why do people seek their glorious end. why not just kill himself somewhere else? why did he have to take people with him? >> a cultural violence and mental health. >> now, you talk about mental health too much and we have people in congress trying to pass a law and the lobby saying now you are painting it. we get caught up on things. >> i don't think people in europe for example, are more or less prone to violence. >> what's the answer? people kill people. >> you have a culture and someone that is ill and they have access that's a dangerous

trifecta. >> you can't find out if they have a psychological problem. this man had some kind of psychological problem in the past. we know he had a record in the past. how was he able to get it done. >> you don't sit down with people and take the time to vet them. that's the tragedy of the mass shootings. how did this kid get a gun? who let him do it? >> a lot of questions for us to look at. we will keep asking them. mark and harry, we appreciate your expertise z. tough to talk about it but important to do. we'll have so much more on the deadly shooting. we are going to go to the scene and speak to a city councilman. he is a local man and talk about the tragic shooting in his hometown of lafayette. atter to you? well, because it tells us something powerful about progress: that whether times are good or bad, people and their ideas will continue to move the world forward. as long as they have someone to believe in them. citi financed the transatlantic cable that connected continents.

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there has been a deadly shooting in lafayette, louisiana. a gunman opened fire killing two and taking his own life and injuring nine others. he's identified as a 58-year-old white male. police say 100 people were inside that theater during the

shooting spree. >> joining us now is lafayette councilman. it's with a heavy heart i greet you this morning. sorry we have to speak under these circumstances. >> thank you very much. we appreciate your kind words. >> i want to talk to you as a hometown guy. tell me about your reaction when wrou first heard about this. >> it was shocking to say the least. it's numbing. i grew up less than 500 yards from here we are a small community, very close knit. a lot of people know each other. it's something we see that happened somewhere else on the national news. it's just it's so terrible and it's devastating to be on center stage. >> hard to make sense of it isn't it? i can see the emotion in your face. >> sure is. sure is. it's senseless.

excuse me. it's terrible. we are used to dealing with natural types of catastrophes hurricanes stuff like that but nothing like this. >> to see this kind of pain inflicted by your fellow man, we don't know anything about him except he was a 58-year-old white man. we don't know if he was targeting anyone or it was random. >> for people who have lost someone -- specifics on information is important for closure. it's terrible. we are going to grieve as a community. you know don't treasure the thought of stuff happening like this on your watch while you are

part of the, you know establishment trying to create a good place. we are known for lots of great things. unfortunately, now, we will be on the list of things that are not very good at all. >> we know at times like this you spoke of this being a close knit community. we saw it in charleston where the community came together to heal. those days are ahead of you. let's talk about the community in terms of louisiana and gun laws and the gun culture, what can you say about that the fact that somebody would have a gun and walk into a movie theater when people are chilling with their loved ones having fun on a thursday night. is there a gun culture that's concerning to you in lafayette? >> not -- not so much in the context you are framing. i believe law-abiding citizens ought to have the right to have

firearms. the forefathers provided that for us in the constitution. if you want to outlaw guns only outlaws would have guns. it's a shame. in reality, if you took away guns then people who do this kind of stuff would just use a different method. >> do you have thoughts on how to keep guns out of the wrong hands, perhaps, is a better question. >> well there is a lot of processes in place. sometimes things get lost in the shuffle. i do believe, you know being on the local government here we often pass ordinances and laws continuely but i think a big part of the issue is to have vigorous enforcement of the laws we do have. >> okay. >> i think that's a place where we could be more proficient and efficient to pay more attention to that. >> do you anticipate this topic

is going to come up -- it's okay. it's fair and good to hear your opinion on it especially in the wake of this. do you feel this is going to come up in the city council to take a hard look at it with your fellow councilman? >> we will i'm sure have discussion. quite often, i get calls from people with concerns that are typically things we don't decide on a local level. you know we handle local issues. now, to what extent? we will discuss and try to or possibly create something to have an impact. that i can't say right now. but, we typically handle only local type issues nothing from a state level or federal level. so i'm sure we are going to have to have a lot of discussion because discussion is part of the healing process. people have a lot of questions

and, for some the more answers, the easier for closure and for some there will be no closure. >> that's a good point. we all mourn and grieve dichbtly. as i said our hearts are with you. we hope your community can link arms and heal together in the wake of this horrifying horrifying act of violence. thank you for joining us on "new day." >> thank you for your kind words. we are a vibrant community. we will get past this. it will take time but we have a tradition of focusing on the positive not the negative. i appreciate the opportunity to talk. >> chris? >> part of that positive will be figuring out how to make this less likely in the future. that's why there's so many questions about why this happened. we are expecting to get answers during the show here within the hours of "new day," we are expecting a press conference to get more information about the status of the victims, if it's still an active crime scene, was

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we are following breaking news. three dead including a murderer at a shooting in lafayette, louisiana. a 58-year-old white male, but authorities have not given out his name. we are waiting on more information from authorities. we know nine people were wounded out of about 100 people in the theater at the time. this happened during a screening of the movie "trainwreck." the film star amy schumer said my heart is broken and my thoughts and prayers with with everyone in louisiana. the u.s. military confirming that a man was killed two weeks ago. he was the head of the terrorist group's suicide and explosives

operation and he was linked to external plot attacks against the u.s. later this morning, john kerry will be in new york city speaking on the council for foreign relations about the nuclear agreement. skeptical senators grilled him on thursday. to be continued. an autopsy ruled that sandra bland's death a suicide by hanging. guards found her hanging in her cell two hours after she was last checked on. the family denies claims saying she was suicidal. the arrest was out of line. she was arrested after a texas police officer pulled her over for failing to use her turn signal. we are going to have more on the deadly movie theater shooting. first, the man on your screen the man on your mind donald trump makes a run for the border standing by rhetoric on

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we are, of course are following breaking news in louisiana and last night's movie theater shooting there. we will get to a press conference when authorities are going to give us information. first, a political shocker. did donald trump learn something on his border trip? the presidential candidate spent thursday touring the border of laredo texas as a setting. joining us anna-maria salazar and along with lieutenant general mark who commanded the task force iron in northern iraq from 2007 to 2009 and cnn military analyst. what is he doing here? first of all, he's handsome.

second of all, trump took a sharp jab against the general. we are going to deal with it. anna-maria let me ask you something. trump went down to the border saying that we need a wall around this entire country. i'm going to get mexico to pay for it. he was very worried about his safety listen to what he is saying. >> i'm going to the border tomorrow i may never see you again, but that's a minor detail. >> hopefully we'll see you later. people are saying it's so dangerous what you are doing, mr. trump. it's so dangerous. i have to do it. >> the question becomes, what is danger is, how he's distorting reality or what was going to happen on the border. he goes down there. he learns the crime statistics are better in laredo than new york city. he gets asked about the wall well we don't need a wall

around the whole place, just certain pieces. do you think exposure and dealing with the dynamics he's talking about may be changing it? >> i think that he was embarrassed to contradict his guest, the mayor of laredo who told him, you know what donald? we don't need a wall to cross the whole border of the united states. that's one issue. the other issue is when you get down to the border it does give you a sense as to how difficult the problem is and, two, the idea that you can -- that you can basically stop 100% the people crossing into the united states just by putting a wall up was made clear to him. i'm still confused chris, trying to understand what happened yesterday. i think he went down there to be able to get a photo-op to use for the rest of the campaign, there you go all the evil

mexicans trying to cross into the united states. he congratulated mexico saying they are doing well and then went into a very confusing description what the policy would be and whether he was getting support or not by law enforcement. the other thing was the photo-op, he was getting by border patrol. it was confusing. i don't know how useful it was for his campaign. i know he's not getting the hispanic vote. >> why not? he hires thousands and thousands of them. they love him. he says it all the time hispanics, they love me. >> well you know just watching that interaction with telemundo's reporter spanish speaking press is very important for the spanish vote in the united states. i don't think people realize how important it is. also you know there is this general perception that when he

made those comments they were very broad regardless of what he said that we are misinterpreting. he was very offensive. no matter what he does is going to -- he's going to be pardoned for that. the other statement he made he was going to take away all those jobs from the chinese and from the japanese and he was going to bring them back to the united states. the facts don't support it. you and i know this. facts are not important for donald trump. so you know he's going to keep on making comments and stumble and contradict himself. maybe it's not important to him. eventually reality does catch up with you. >> your turn general. the donald was talking about what he would do against isis. usually, he ends by saying oh what i'll do to isis. he got questioned and put a little bit. here is how the exchange went. >> you say send in troops around the oil field. the general said they had 30,000

americans, 60,000 iraqis during the war. al qaeda was still able to get in. >> i'm a better general than the general you are talking about, okay, then i'm a better general. >> general, you are dressed early familiar to donald trump. other than that what do you take that you are subpar as a general and his idea is far superior to what you did? >> i do have the red tie on chris, this morning. thank you for all the compliments on my handsomeness but michaela is better looking than you are. you have commented many times on this show about the ability of our leaders to be leaders. it's an interesting factor. i think this connects not only between iraq and what's happening on the mexican border but a key value of leaders is to have values. some are respect for other people humility ability to learn. in fact an empathy to hear

other people's ideas. when mr. trump started talking about what he would do in iraq it shows a lack of intellect and capability to understand the situation there. he's never been there. the same thing is true about the mexican border. he had a lesson yesterday when he went down there and stau situation there. i think this is an individual who is used to getting his own way and used to be very blusterous. he sees the world as it is not the eyes of a businessman. >> strong points. we greatly value your service, not just to cnn but the country. often, when you sell people's outrage, you can get lost in the facts and what they are. general, thank you for being here. you hurt me with what you said about michaela because it's true. have a good weekend to you both. what do you think about the issues what happened when the

donald went under the border and what he was saying about iraq verses the reality. post your comment on facebook.com/newday. it's a big story, we have a lot of news. we are expecting more information on what happened in louisiana. let's get to it. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. welcome back to your "new day." alisyn is off today. we are continuing to follow breaking news. lafayette, louisiana reeling from a shooting at a local movie theater. three people are dead including the gunman who took his own life. nine were wounded. police do not know why he opened fire. we are awaiting a news conference this hour. >> stories of heroism emerging. two teachers credited with saving lives as the shooting comes almost three years to the day after the shooting in aurora colorado.

let's begin coverage with ed. ed? >> reporter: good morning, chris. the shooting inside this theater here in lafayette, louisiana described by some as surreal and terrifying. we were told bay state police official in louisiana that this gunman came to the theater alone. >> police have the 16 on johnson street on lockdown. >> reporter: breaking overnight, a gunman opens fire in lafayette, louisiana. leaving at least seven wounded, some with possible life-threatening injuries and three dead including the 58-year-old male shooter who turned the gun on himself. >> we know identity of the shooter, we are not releasing it at this time. we are in the middle of this investigation and we don't want to affect investigators ability to do their job. >> reporter: 20 minutes into the

showing of amy schumer's comedy "train "trainwreck," it turned into a horror. a lone white male stood up and began shooting a handgun into the audience. >> we saw a lady with blood all over her leg. i grabbed my child. we all ran. >> reporter: police dispatched to the scene about 7:30 p.m. witnesses described it as something like a war, gunshot after gunshot as patrons fled for safety. >> heard the sirens and chaos. >> reporter: bobby jindal praising the heroism of two teacher who is were members of the audience. >> both were shot. her friend literally jumped over her and saved her life. if she hadn't done that her friend got shot. that bullet would have hit her