good morning. i'm victor blackwell live in el paso, texas. christi paul is in atlanta. and this is a tragic weekend in america. two communities asking the question, why, after two mass shootings. here in el paso, 20 people killed, 26 injured. we will talk about what happened here in a moment. there is also what happened in dayton, ohio overnight. nine people killed, another 26

injured. with 29 people dead, this is one of the deadliest weekends in recent memory. but we have to put a marker in this moment that we can't say for sure. because we're trying to remember how many mass shootings there have been. dozens of people killed in events like this over the last several years. we'll talk more about the active scene that's happening behind me as investigators and crime scene analysts collect evidence in what will be a prosecution as the shooter, the suspect, i should say, has been taken into custody and is cooperating with investigators. but there is also what's happening in dayton. to get the latest on that, let's go to my colleague, shimon broke possession, in washington. what did you learn? >> reporter: significant new information. as bad as this was, victor, with

the nine dead, this could have been for worse. there were thousands in the area. there's bars, restaurants. thousands of people in this area at the time of the shooting. what we learned is that the shooter, he came with a lot of fire power, a long gun, possibly an assault rifle. we have heard a lot about ar-style weapons. it's possible that in this incident, though the police will not say exactly what kind of weapon was used, but it is similar it seems to what we have seen in other shootings. there were high-capacity magazines. he had ammunition, lots of ammunition. so it is believed he was prepared to take out a lot of people. he wore body armor. the police were able to get to the scene and engage the shooter

in just a minute, saving perhaps lots and lots of lives. here's the mayor describing all of that just moments ago. >> time and again, i, as mayor, have been amazed by dayton first responders. if they had not gone to the shooter in under a minute. think of that. 26 injured, nine dead, hundreds of people in the oregon district could be dead today. again, we don't know the thoughts of the shooter at this time. we know he had body armor and had high-capacity magazines and extra magazines. clearly the question has to be raised, why does dayton have to be the 250th mass shooting in america. 250. that's the question. >> reporter: the police and fbi trying to figure out motivation.

there are possibilities that the event in el paso could have sparked something in this individual. that is all something part of the fbi and police in dayton, ohio are going to be looking. again, you know, we talk about this so much in these kinds of mass shootings. police train for this. we see extra police in populated areas where there are a lot of bars and restaurants. having the police there and able to respond so quickly obviously made such a huge difference in all of this, victor. >> shimon prokepecz. i have with me. condolences to you. this is your home. these are your neighbors and friends. a little more than half a day on, 18 hours or so, what are you

feeling? >> it is still kind of surreal. somebody has lost a loved one. nobody is prepared for something like this. we are resilient, and this incident will not define us. we are totally unique, by cultural, by national community. we have been around 350 years. it will not define us. but it is a tragedy that no one prepares for. i'm not sure it's going to get easier with time until we get through these funerals. we're going to persevere. >> we were talking about just a moment ago you went to the middle school to sit with families who were waiting for word. tell me about that moment, if you would. >> well, it's tough. talk about getting emotional. they are still waiting. the police are still processing.

waiting for identification. you want to make sure they are doing it correctly. it's a crime scene. you want to make sure they gather all the evidence and everything is lined up. nobody is prepared for this. but we will -- we will -- we will survive. we will persevere, and it will not define us. first responders got the call at 10:39, 10:45 they showed up and 11:06 he was apprehended. we are one of the safest cities in the nation and we will remain one of the safest cities. >> do you know if the deceased are still inside the building? >> i understand there are some that they are still processing. they are working to identify them as fast as they can to notify families. >> you said this will not define this community.

does it change el paso? >> well, something like this will cause us to come together, to rethink about a lot of things. we need to remember how we are going to treat our fellow man and love our families. it's no different than what some of us felt after 9/11. a big change. i'm sure that will affect us here. as i said, we will grow and learn from this. but it will not define us. this is a wonderful family-oriented place. >> people were in line to donate blood. they were waiting in line to get an appointment to donate blood next week. >> they are generous. they will do whatever is necessary. this fellow came from out of el paso.

i do not believe an el pasoan would have ever done this. >> brian stelzer said manifesto may be grandizing this too much. it was just a creed written on some message board. they are trying to determine if it is linked to the suspect in custody. but according to the writing, el paso is what is wrong with the country, the blending of races. to that ideology, you say what? >> i say that he's deranged and he does not know -- this is what makes our country great is our binational culture. we are 84% hispanic in el paso. 2.5 million people. i don't want to be anywhere else in the united states but right here. this is a special, special area.

>> dee margo, you have a lot of people who need you. thank you for spending a few moments for us. we talked a little bit about the work that is being done to determine motive, investigating the writings found online, social media. and also this physical investigation happening 600 miles from where we are standing in allen, texas at the suspect's home. that's where we find our brian todd. brian, what are you seeing there? >> reporter: right, victor. a swarm of police and fbi agents at the home of the shooter, 150 yards behind me around this bend here. police have been here all night and all morning. fbi agents from a forensic team have been in front of the house going in and out of the house. they parked a forensic truck right there and are bringing evidence out of the house to examine the way these investigations unfold, victor, we can assume they are going through any possible electronics that the shooter might have left there, cell phones, computers,

anything that he might have done electronically, possible weapons he might have had in the home. this is a home of a relative who he was staying with. again, there might be possible clues inside the home as to whether anyone else was in on this with him. there are no indications at the moment that there was anybody else. but there could be some clues to that effect that they might be wanting to look at. as far as the motive, i heard you talk about the manifesto, on 8chan, investigators say they believe he wrote a racist rant about four pages long against hispanics and immigrants, blaming then for taking jobs in the u.s. and the blending of the cultures in the u.s. on that same manifesto, he had a quote saying i'm probably going to die today. and another quote saying i'm nervous as hell but i can't wait any longer. that was posted 20 minutes before police got the first calls of that shooting at the walmart in el paso.

again, clues speaking to motive here. police are still going in and out of the home here. what they don't know is more specifics about the planning. how long did he plan the attack. why did he approximatic that particular target, walmart that is 660 miles away from here, a nine-hour drive? was anyone else in on this with him and could that have been communicated through that message board, 8chan? those are things investigators are still looking at, victor. >> certainly a multi-faceted complex investigation happening at several locations. brian todd at one in allen, texas. two mass shootings this weekend, 29 people killed, injuries of more than 50. we will check on dayton, ohio after the break. and you should be mad at simple things that are unnecessarily complicated. but you're not mad, because you're trading with e*trade,

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i'm victor blackwell live in el paso, texas, outside walmart where 20 people were killed here, 26 injured. the sun is coming up this morning. and this community is getting a fresh look at itself in the wake of this mass shooting and how this will impact this community. we spoke with the mayor who said it will not define this community. the question is, will it change it and what will this mean moving forward? as we are getting the fresh look at sunday here in el paso, so is dayton, ohio, where there was another mass shooting overnight

just after 1:00 in an entertainment district. here is video. you see police cars there, police investigating. we're told there are images of people injured on the ground. people running for safety. it was a kchaotic scene as well. we have heard details from the mayor, nan whaley. a man went in with a long gun and just started shooting indiscriminately. let's go to james gagliano to understand what we heard from the mayor. when we hear from the mayor, james, this shooter had additional high-capacity magazines and body armor, it sounds like he was just going for body count. >> victor, exactly. to your point, last night on air, i suggested that on 9/11 the attack on the u.s. came from outside the u.s. now these attacks that seem to

be proliferated, they are happening on the inside. look, the fbi studies this. as far as active shooters go, a study put together between 2000 and 2013 entitled "the study of the preattack behaviors for active shooters in the u.s." why is that important? well, we want to look at preattack behaviors to attempt to disrupt or mitigate when these things occur. how do you prevent them? we talk about the flash to boom. meaning, was there something that should have given some indication that this individual in el paso and this other individual in dayton, ohio, were going to commit a heinous act like this? here's a couple of quick points from that. of the observable stressors, are we missing them? are we not sensing, you know, the old see something, say something, that somebody is moving toward violence. number two, 70% of all of these active shootings that happened between 2000 to 2013, they took

a week to plan. somebody had to have seen something. somebody had to have at least gone some type of indication this could have happened. number two, only 25% of these active shooters are diagnosed with mental illness. that means 75% of them are not mentally ill. number three, on afternoon, each active shooter displayed four to five concerning behaviors. that's where we have to do the enter diction, whether online in the hate-filled chat rooms, somebody spouting off in public, or somebody saying something to family, friends. we have to operate left of the boom, victor. >> reporter: certainly some of those answers are a little closer at hand in the case in el paso pause they have a suspect. we're told he is speaking with investigators. we don't know the degree of that cooperation, but we know they are conversing. so clearly similarities between

the mass shooting in texas and the one in ohio. but the difference in ohio, that suspect, that shooter is dead. talk about how much more difficult it will be to find out the motive when you have a suspect who is not available to give any of that information. >> certainly. throughout my fbi career, victor, you always wanted an opportunity to talk to the perpetrator of a crime. you always wanted the opportunity to ask them in their own words what was behind it. look, a lot of times the subjects clam up, lawyer up and don't say a word. but sometimes in these instances, my experiences are these folks are proud of what they've done. they want to talk about it. they want to broadcast it. they want the word to know what their cause was. now, we >> tony: why, especially in the el paso case. i think he made some indications that he was preparing to die during this -- the conduct of this more risk mass shooting.

folks get cold feet. sometimes they commit suicide. sometimes they leave on their own volition. obviously earlier this morning in dayton, ohio, police got on the scene in one minute. that is a rifle chambered with high-capacity magazines. 20 or 30 rounds in each of those. additional ammunition, as the mayor pointed out. the cops are heroic. as horrific as it is, victor, 26 casualties, nine dead thus far in dayton. it could have been mind-numbingly even worse than that. >> yeah. considering that this was all taken down in less than a minute, according to local officials. james gagliano, thank you so much. we heard from the mayor of

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welcome back. i'm victor blackwell live in el paso, texas, at the scene of one of the two mass shootings this week. we have heard from president trump on the shooting here in el paso several times since it

happened. and now we are hearing from the president on the shooting overnight in dayton. let's go to boris sanchez traveling with the president in new jersey. good morning to you. what are we hearing from the president? >> reporter: hey, good morning, victor. we just heard from the white house that president trump has been briefed on the smooth in dayton and he is monitoring developments. he tweeted god bless the people of el paso and god bless the people of ohio. he wrote the fbi local and state law enforcement are working together in el sass toe and dayton, ohio. information is rapidly being accumulated in dayton. much has already be learned in el paso. law enforcement was very rapid in both instances. updates will be given throughout the day. he is set to return to washington, d.c. 4:00 p.m. today. no word that he is going to go

back sooner. he often makes statements before he departs his estate in new jersey. we will see what the president says later today. >> boris, thank you. we are awaiting a news conference from the del sol medical center where some of the people were shot here in el paso were taken. you can see a live shot of the podium being set up. as soon as that happens, we will take you to that live. in the meantime, i have texas state representative cesar blanco with me. this is his district. he said he shopped at this walmart. so you are familiar with this community. but this now crime scene behind us. thank you, first, for being with us. our condolences to you. this is your community. >> it is. >> your neighbors and friends. >> it is. >> what are you feeling this morning? >> first of all, our condolences

to the victims and families in dayton. miles separate us, but our grief unites us. so be strong dayton. something like this is just shocking. it is the 250th mass shooting. el paso is 249. it is unfathomable these things continue to happen. i was at a family reunification center, which is where i attended school as a kid. it is just tragic. we must do more as elected officials to make sure we are protecting innocent people and our citizens here in our country. >> one of the elements of reunification, customs and border protection tweeted out that people, if they are

concerned about there being some operation related to what happened here, that they should not be because there were some fear that people would not come forward or make themselves known, their presence known in relation to being in the country undocumented. >> sure. >> is there some degree of mistrust? el paso is home to childhood detention centers. this is where this administration's policies. there is naturally going to be fear and folks not trusting necessarily. clearly this gunman's motives were racially motivated. we have seen his manifesto, which has been a common turn

used as an in vision va in our country. immigrants are scared. and scenes here are scared of what could happen now. today is sunday. people will be going to church. people are afraid to go to church. >> because of gathering in a group. >> people just don't know what could happen in public places. >> in el paso, because one of the things that this city is boasts about and is so proud about is the degree of safety. >> according to the fbi, we are one of the safest cities in america. it is unfortunate that this type of mass murder has occurred in our community. >> what's the first step to getting back to that degree of safety, that feeling of security?

>> it takes community leaders speaking out in public. we must not be deterred by these acts of violence. we must continue to go about our lives and win. we need to take a close look at what we value. is it machinery or human beings? that is the most important thing. >> no one suspects something like this will happen in their community, near their home, places they are familiar. have you had time to reconcile

el paso with mass shooting? being part of that group with all the communities we have covered, that yours is one that is covered? >> most of my family lives in and around this area. i grew up in these apartments across the street here. i sent my mom a message and asked her to check in via mass text message to account for everyone. that's our new reality. thankfully everyone was okay. for 20 individuals who have been killed here and 26 others fighting for their lives, that's not the case. thank you so much for being with us this morning. a new reality. that's a phrase that we have used and have heard in this city they are ta ugg about in dayton. we have talked about in communities that have suffered through mass shootings before. will anything change? we'll have that conversation

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we are continuing to follow breaking news this morning live from el paso, texas. 20 people are dead, two dozen injured at a shopping complex

there. the fbi opened a domestic terrorism investigation, according to a source familiar with the investigation. former senior fbi director and expert on active shooting situations. catherine, thank you for being with me. can you hear me? >> i can. can you harry me? >> i can. nine people died in dayton, ohio. 26 were injured in a matter of less than a minute when a shooter started shooting about a high-caliber high-capacity gun. we know that the police intervened within less than a minute. i want to get your reaction, first of all, to the response from police in dayton who happened to be trolling thpatro

area. i'm sorry. i have to shift gears.3 let's listen. >> now the real care is happening and continuing to make sure that the 11 victims we have received are continuing to progress. i'm going to ask dr. flaherty to share a little bit morepatients. dr. flaherty? steven flaherty. i'm the trauma medical director here at del sol medical center. our thrauts and prayers are with the victims, their families, people taking care of similar patients and our colleagues across the country in ohio going through the same processes. we have 11 patients come to us yesterday. they ranged in age from 35 to 82 years old. eight of them are in stable

condition. three of them are in critical condition. many of them were brought to the operator room. we took seven patients to the o.r. yesterday. they received a variety of procedures from a number of different specialties. some of them undergoing procedures by multiple specialties during the same setting. we anticipate that a number of patients will need to return to the operating room over the course of today and next week. perhaps one or more times. i would like to give you insight into the care that was provided and how we have been positioned to provide excellent care to these patients. it takes an entire system of

care to provide the best chance of survival to patients who are injured so acutely and suddenly. the care begins at the site, by friends, family members, bystanders. many who have no medical training at all. we're extremely grateful for the stop the bleed course promulgated by the american college of surgeons and has been taught so successfully throughout the el paso community by both the border rep and the del sol. thousands of people have been treated in the maneuvers to provide life-saving care at such a site as happened yesterday. it is important to recognize emts, firefighters, and law enforcement, the first responders. providing care at the point of

injury, starting their successful journey through the medical system, getting patients to us alive. del sol medical center is a trauma center. that means this hospital has established i was through the american college of surgeons and the state of texas to meet a higher standard of preparation of availability of resources. it is a tremendous commitment put forth by hca health care and del sol to be ready for one patient let alone such a large volume of patients arriving at one time. so we are ready at any given time to take care of a trauma patient. but when faced with notification that a large number of patients coming, it changes the situation. and immediately we begin the

triage process. what's going on in our operating room? who really needs to be there? can we be ready for the first patients going to arrive? we start at first confirmation of injured scene of patients. we need to be prepared four the number of providers it would take to provide their care. it is incredible how people came from home on their days off, dropped whatever they were doing and came here. doctors, nurses, support staff, administrators, everybody came immediately to del sol medical center to do our job and help us provide care. we had community surgeons come to the hospital on their day off. we had a surgeon from the

medical center come over to assist us. dell sole has a unique relationship with the united states army in its coordination of care with the providers, the surgeons over at william montgomery medical center. they have of course the requirement to deploy and they work over here on a regular basis to help ensure their sustainment of their skills to be ready to go to iraq, afghanistan, and other points around the world. self of them came to the hospital yesterday to help us. we are incredibly grateful for their support. the care of the patients will be ongoing, as i said, throughout the week. was a long night, a long day. large volumes of blood and blood products were used.

i know that the blood centers here in town had a tremendous response from the community. people coming out offering to donate blood. extremely critical. that's the life-saving force that we give to people. there's no value in putting saltwater into a patient who is bleeding blood. the teams are going to be busy. all of the nurses, the support staff, the surgeons, the anesthesiologists. even the non-surgical providers, our medical colleagues came from all points in the hospital to say how can we help you as you were taking care of these patients yesterday. we're extremely tkpraeufl for their assistance and support in the care of the patients throughout yesterday. thank you all. i will turn it over to you,

david, in case any questions. >> i think the comments that the governor and mayor made about el paso as a community certainly resonated. i don't know they were felt stronger anywhere than here at del sol medical center. the team of care providers that came together for the 11 patients was nothing short of exceptional. we do anticipate likely at least one of those patients being discharged today, as some of the other stable patients as they wake up, as we assess their situation, we'll evaluate when they can be discharged home. again, please make sure we are keeping the thoughts and prayers of everyone, specifically for those most critically injured patients as well as their families. happy to open this up to questions.

>> -- can you speak to any of the wounds or injuries? are we talking how many people have been shot multiple times? have there been amputations in can you speak to the specifics of some of the treatments and wounds seen by the surgical teams? >> i can't speak to all the specifics. again, we're treating the individual patients for the needs that they have. yes, ma'am? >> we have heard from people who may still be looking for family members. do you know if all the patients here have been in contact with families or have in some way had their families been notified? >> yes. all the patients we have here have been. that was a very difficult process. patients were coming to us with no identification. obviously completely unconscious and our ability to be able to identify them was not an easy thing. we were able to work with the families and were ultimately able to identify all the patients. >> this question is for you, dr.

flaherty. i know you mentioned that you are prepared -- or trained, rather, to respond to something like this. when you see the large number of patients coming in, as you mentioned, what is going through your mind if you react to that? >> yeah. it's a difficult situation, of course. training is critical for helping to shape that response. so it's very important for everybody to understand that there is an entire inf infrastructure that prepares for these kind of events. in account tpa, we recently had an exercise where we did a mock drill of what if there had been an active shooter in the city? how would those patients be distributed in the city, how would the hospital respond? we actually brought people into the hospital to do a dry run of a situation just like that before. so we had been through this before without the real patients. but as you know, when this happens for real and it's not

just an exercise, there is a lot of feelings and emotions that come into it. it is hard to prepare to. and i think that, you know, what we do is we focus on our job. we try to rely on that concept of muscle memory. okay. i did this before. this is what i was strained to do. this is where i go and this is what i'm supposed to do. but when the patients are there in front of you, there's always the emotional overtone. and we have to do what we need to do for the patient at the time. and take some time to think about it and, you know, the entire health care team really needs to go through that process of understanding the emotional reaction just a little bit later. we're very grateful to the help that david shimp provides to us with those kind of people that can come in and talk to the staff and understand and talk through that process. >> yes?

>> how is the team doing in terms of sleep? were a lot of them up through the night working on patients? what kind of rotation are they on now in terms of trying to get rest to resolve that situation? >> sure. the flaherty, you had an hour and a half worth of sleep last night. you look pretty darned good for that on camera, sir. but generally speaking, the teams are rotating through and making sure that they are getting the rest they need and still being able to provide for the patients. >> were all the victims -- >> i'm not entirely certain. >> dr. steven flaherty talking about what it is like for them as they take in so many people. and what struck me, and i'm sure struck you, he talked about a recent mock drill they had done for a possible mass shooting,

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i'm victor blackwell live in el paso, texas, outside of the scene of where 20 people were killed, 26 injured in a mass shooting here but there is also the second mass shooting this morning in dayton, ohio. happened overnight. nine people killed. the shooter there also dead. and 26 injured there as well. i have on the phone with me mayor nan whaley of dayton. good morning and thank you for being with us. >> good morning. >> let's start here. nine dead, 26 injured and we learned this could have been so much worse if not for the police officers, the first responders who acted so quickly. talk about that, if you would.

>> yeah, the police were on the site. the oregon district in our city is a entertainment area with a lot of young people that come there every single weekend. and so we have regular police presence there. the shooter had an ar-like -- hold on. an ar-like assault rifle on him and he was -- had body armor. what is amazing is within under a minute our police officers had gotten to the shooter and stopped the shooting. and i just really think if they were not there and if they were not able to be so -- so amazing at their jobs, how much more loss of life we would have had in this city, it would have been incredibly worse this morning. >> what have you learned about the -- anything about the potential motive of this shooting? >> we have no information yet on

the motive of the shooter. >> okay. do you know at all if what happened here in el paso has any connection to what happened in dayton? if it is the inspiration or even if what happened here accelerated the timeline of the shooter in your city? >> we do not have any information on that yet this morning. >> is this just -- is this just a state investigation or has the fbi become part of this investigation? and any terror nextus. >> fbi has been on scene and part of the investigation from the >> okay. and you mentioned the weapon, the rifle. he also had high-capacity magazines i understand. there are questions about what should and should not be available to the public, that should be legal.

do you believe these high-capacity magazines should be legal in the state of ohio? should there be a ban? >> i've always been a long proponent of the ban on assault weapons. when your city is the 250th mass shooting that has happened in this year, i think it has to beg the question what are we going to do? it is not a -- in highland, they agreed on background checks and 90% ohioans agree on that so actions could be taken that are not being taken. and, look, i have calls from dozens of mayors across the country because we've all been through this and the question is when are we going to have enough. >> dayton now the 250th -- site of the 250th mass shooting this

year. you're now, as i talked with a representative here, this year, yes, i talked with a representative here in texas about joining this club of other cities with shootings like this. aurora, parkland, what we saw in orlando. as a mayor, how does that feel this morning? >> this is always a situation that you never want to be the mayor that gets this call in the middle of the night. but you know that it is likely -- any more you know it is likely going to happen. and so unfortunately this group of mayors that have had this happen to their community continues to get bigger and bigger as every day goes on. because something has got to be

done. >> the president tweeted about the shooting in dayton after we heard from him of what happened here in el paso. you have spoken to the white house or heard from the president. >> i have not heard from the president this morning. >> let me read what we're seeing from federal lawmakers there in ohio from senator sherrod brown, he has tweeted as ohio wakes up this morning to the news of this horrific attack, connie and i are filled with sadness for victims and their families and gratitude for the police officers who responded to the scene and the medical professionals caring for the injured. from congressman mike turner, my daughter and family friend had just entered the tumble weed connection when the shooting began across the street. both reports of the visible dayton police presence before the shooting and the bravery they witnessed as officers ran toward the gunshots. i should say that senator brown will be a guest of jake tapper this morning on "state of the union." and finally to you, mayor, does

this change dayton? >> yeah, i think any time these incidents happen will change our community because we have people who have family members and friends who are no longer with us because of senseless gun violence. and the question is when is this country going to have enough. i have to leave now. >> all right. thank you very much. mayor nan whaley speaking with us this morning. christy, this is hard to come up with the words to describe what the country has faced in the span of 13 hours. 29 people killed, 52 injured, and we have to research to determine if this is the deadliest 24 hour-span because there have been so many mass shootings across this country in recent years.

>> and pointing out it could have been worse had it not been for the first responders who are credited with taking down the dayton shooter in less than a minute. victor blackwell and christi paul, thank you so much for spending the morning with us. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >> hello, i'm jake tapper in washington where the tate of our union is a combination of horrified and enraged, enraged by the lack of effort by our leaders to do anything about that which continues to horrify us which today is the latest awful news. two mass shootings in this country about 13 hours apart. first on saturday, a massacre in el paso, texas, a 21-year-old gunman, terrorist, opened fire at a walmart killing at least 20 people and injuring 26. that suspect is in custody and the fbi has opened a domestic

terrorism investigation