>> this is cnn breaking news. >> hello, everyone i'm anna coren. we begin with breaking news. police in chesapeake virginia are reporting multiple fatalities and injuries from a shooting at a walmart. details are still coming in, and we are working to get you the very latest information. again, police say they have responded to a shooting at a walmart in chesapeake, virginia. they report multiple fatalities and multiple injuries. well, let's bring in cnn

national security analyst juliette kayyem, and we also have neil franken joining us, a former maryland state police officer. juliette, let's start with you, what details are you learning? >> walmart opened two days before thanksgiving opened late. and so, you are going to have dozens of people, if not, more in a large facility of which they are new to it. so, they do not know what is going on. you have a shooter. we don't know if the shooter was an employee of the walmart, are someone who came in at the stage. there's conflicting reports. and at least several fatalities at the stage, including other injuries. so, what is happening right now is obviously making sure that threat is no longer. it seems that's the. case and now, you are in the family reunification stage. which is, the people who there getting out and getting with their families, or getting away from the scene after providing

witness testimony. and then you will have the identification of the victims, which is the horrible part right now, so close to the holidays. another mass shooting event in an open area that is almost impossible to secure, especially in states that allow -- that have more of a gun culture in other states, i guess, i will put it that way. but i law enforcement now is going to figure out what, presumably, is the motive at this stage of the killer. and whether he is alive or dead. we do not know that yet either. but another night in america, unfortunately. >> we are obviously looking at these live pictures of chesapeake, virginia, where we can see the police cars. they look like they have secured the area. neil, tell us, what would be happening on the scene whether or not the shooter as been subdued, whether he has a, dead.

we know that there been multiple fatalities and injuries. >> sure, there are some things that we know for certain about how the police will respond to such an incident. unfortunately, we have done it too many times. so, the first thing is to neutralize the shooter, to identify the shooter or shooters, find them, neutralize them, and then you have to take care of the injured. you have to survey the entire store, locate anyone who is injured. some may have left the store. but then you tend to those. and then becomes the arduous task of figuring out what happened. people are scattering, people are leaving the, store people are hopping on cars and leaving. and you want to do your very best to find anyone who is a witness to this. and then you have to go through the process of collecting evidence. and it is going to take a long time. this crime scene is going to be working for probably days. and so, collecting that evidence, again, finding out

what the motive is of the shooter or shooters, and then moving in a direction of but -- i think will prevent these from occurring in the future. i know we have been down this road many times before, and are probably going to have more. but we've got to do the work of prevention. >> neill, you have obviously attended these mass shootings in your career. i know that you have retired from the police force. but to look at these mass shootings, you know, week after week. what is going on, you know, would gun violence in america? but >> well, unfortunately we have a society where we have grown. many people are dealing with mental health issues. and not just dealing with these issues. but they don't know how to mitigate them. but we have just gone through a period of covid shut down for a couple of years, which has accelerated mental health issues. i'm not saying that that is the only reason. but as we investigate the shootings, we can come to learn

that in many of them, we are dealing with people who are suffering from mental health issues, unresolved mental health issues. and we are trying to deal with red flag laws, we are trying to deal with -- let me just say this. reasonable regulations should be background checks. there is no reason why both sides, both parties, all parties, can't come to some sort of agreement on this. that is a beginning point. we can do this. but mental health is a big part of this. identifying it, and then mitigating it for those people who are suffering from it. but >> juliette, let's talk about what happened on the weekend in colorado springs, with that gunman walking into that club, the lgbtq club, and just firing on the crowd. i mean, if it wasn't for that former army veteran who tackle that man, the gunman, to the

ground, there would've been so many other people dead. but you are talking about a society that, you know, we are grieving the loss of five people from the weekend, and now we have a another shooting. as you say, at a walmart, a supermarket, days before thanksgiving. >> that's right. and right before, that you had a killing at a virginia university, three football players. we are sort of now just in the cycle. and i think it is really important, to pick up on what neill said, in terms there are two solutions here. and if we focus too much on one of the other, we are not going to come to any solution. the first is of course the means. in colorado, the shooting was over within two minutes. and by fbi statistics, about 75% of active shooting cases and before law enforcement arrives. that's a fast they are occurring. and about 25% of them are over

within two minutes. so, these are multi fatality events that are happening because of the speed of the weaponry, the kind of weaponry we have on the streets. and so, looking at at least those weapons that would kill lots of people faster makes it almost impossible for a law enforcement to help. we don't know what happened tonight at the walmart. but we certainly know that in colorado, it took the bravery of an army veteran as well as others to stop the assailant, even though that response was relatively quick, just three or four minutes. and then you look to the motivation, whether it is hate, whether it is harassment, that leads to hate, which may be the case in colorado. or an employee issue. those motivations are also important. the data is clear, and the research is clear that people do not just wake up, get a gun, and shoot people. that they are talking about it.

they are well being or lack thereof is known by community. it's going to take people stepping forward. it's not just a matter of red flag, laws it's a matter of a community also recognizing the threat inside in terms of family members or others. both of those are -- will make things less worse. because they can't get worse. i guess they could hear. but both of them have to be focused on. what we have is gun rights activists sort of ignoring the means, right, they're not talking about the guns. and then we also have sort of talk about just one part of it. and it's important that the challenge today is how frequently they are occurring. how often they are occurring. and then also, how quickly the deaths are occurring. that is a relatively new phenomenon since the semi assault rifle ban ended after ten years, which was showing

good success by stopping this kind of killing. >> neill, if i can ask you about background checks, as you mentioned before that that is something that is desperately needed. public opinion will show that people are in support of something as basic as a background check. and yet, it is the politics that are holding this reform up. that must frustrate you to know and, to know that it is up to congress, at the end of the day, to passed gun reform. something that the majority of americans desperately want. >> you are absolutely correct. i live down in fort myers, florida. and i talk to people every day from the left, from the right, a lot of people from the right. i'm not one has disagreed with me about reasonable background checks. not one has disagreed with me about having the age of 21

before he can purchase a firearm. so, it is political. because the people want something done. and these are just a couple of things where we can begin. and it is reasonable. and again, as juliette set, there are multiple pieces to this. this is complex. it's not one or two things. but it's multiple parts to the solution. >> one of the things that we've seen, sorry to interrupt, is i teach young people's generation lockdown. coming of age, and they are voting. and neil and i are, older so we are not experiencing this phenomena. but what we put these kids through in terms of the only solution we would provide them is they are the ones who have the lockdown. this generation has come of age. they are in their 20s and 30s. they view gun violence much like climate change, as the threat. they do not worry about international threats. they are not worried about nuclear threats like i did in the 80s and 90s.

this is their nuclear threat. so, generation lockdown has come of age. and god bless them, in some ways. because i think that the unity of their response, which cuts across both parties, is that this is an unacceptable way to raise a generation of kids who are now voting. >> well said. >> for our viewers who are just joining us, let's update you. there has been a mass shooting at a walmart in chesapeake, virginia. it happened a short time ago. we are waiting for more details. we know that there are multiple casualties, multiple injuries, as we look at these live pictures, we can see that police seem relaxed. they seem to have certainly secured the scene. but we are obviously waiting for any updates from the scene. juliette, if we can talk about what happened on the weekend,

because that is obviously a mass shooting where we do have details. the gunman had told his but his mother, had threatened his mother that he was going to buy off a bomb some years ago. now, you would think that that alone would have raised a red flag within the community, within the police force. and yet, it did not. so, i guess this is two both juliette and two neill, are there cracks in the way that things are reported and then logged? why are these red flags not going up? >> in this instance, we know that the gap in the law which would require the mother to come forward and file a complaint, so, she calls the police. then she goes quiet. might have -- might have triggered a red flag law. there is a lot of variances in each law. and then there is the jurisdictional issue of whether that particle jurisdiction actually enforces the red flag

complaint. because you can have a law, but if you are police or others are not enforcing, it will not matter. so, what you had as an incident that less than a year passes. purchasing his own guns. his motivation is unclear at the stage. we have not seen the charges yet. we are meeting with hate of sometime. but nonetheless, that is essentially what happens. and so, once again, going back to what neill said, look, you can have laws, i want more laws, i want responsible laws. but you also have communities that are aware of this. and each case that are where this, and that we are dependent on them to make the judgment call for us that the person that they know might be a threat to others. and that is not an easy thing to ask. but it is necessary at the stage. none of these come at surprises,

when you look back at them, right. all of these guys you know had a lot of things going on. neil i can get you are they're cracks major flaws in the system? >> obviously there are. juliette spoke to some of those. i think a big part of this is it takes a lot of resources to track this sort of thing and it seems to fall into the hands primarily of law enforcement. but again for us to be really safe within our communities and safer within our communities, it takes the people within that community to get involved and be inquisitive, to be curious. but we seem to be moving further and further apart from one another as we go forward in time, not wanting to get involved, or stick your nose

into the business of someone else. but we have to know more about our neighbors, we have to learn more about the kids down the street and not just go in your homes and close our doors. but not get to the point where we report things it shouldn't be reported. we need more education on it, we need to know more about what to report, one of the telltale signs? there are a lot of cracks in the system and it's just going to take a lot of work and it's going to take our political leaders, politics aside and again to do those things that we know will make a difference. but it's not just one or two things, it's a multitude of things. i guess we're gonna have to vote or weigh into, boats and people out of office. >> yeah. neil franklin, and juliet kayyem, we certainly appreciate your giving us this context, this is a fluid moving story.

we're not looking at live pictures coming from chesapeake, virginia. we can see the site has been certainly taped off. there are ambulances, there are police cars. police are looking relatively relax. we don't know what has taken place inside that walmart other than that there are multiple fatalities with multiple injuries after another mass shooting in the united states, this time in chesapeake, virginia a short time ago. please stay with us. we'll have much more on this breaking news story in just a moment. it goes on clear. no mess. just soothing comfort. try vickcks vapostick. living with plaque psoriasis? otezla can help you achieve clearer skin. don't use if you're allergic to otezla. otezla can cause serious allergic reactions. it may cause severe diarea, nausea, or vomiting. otezla iassociated with an increased risk of depression. tell your doctor if you have a history of depression or suicidal thoughts or if these feelings develop.

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the latest on our breaking news out of chesapeake, virginia. police say it is believed the shooter opened fire at a walmart is dead. the authorities say when they went inside the store they found multiple people have been killed or injured. we don't know the exact number of fatalities but moments ago, police said it's likely less

than ten. we'll bring you the latest information as it becomes available. we now want to go to chesapeake virginia police spokesperson leo kaczynski he was going to join us he will have a little later in the show. let's move on to the suspect at the weekend mass shooting at a colorado lgbtq nightclub. he is now out of hospital and in jail. anderson lee aldrich is due for an initial court appearance in the coming hours and will face multiple murder charges. the district attorney says hate crime charges are also being considered. cnn's rosa flores is in colorado springs. >> new information is servicing about the troubling past of the suspect to govern gunman, 22-year-old anderson lee aldridge. >> our investigators are writing search warrants and looking at any type of items

such as computers and other technology. >> the suspect was caught on camera surrounding two policemen to a bomb threat incident last. here >> this is your boy, they've got to be. tommy >> one's mother called police on him, saying he had guns and ammunition according to authorities. but the place was not adjudicated and the file was sealed which means it would not be detected in a background checked. >> go in and come on in boys. >> the incident failed to trigger colorado's red flag all, raising questions about the strength of the tool that allows firearms to be removed from someone at risk from to themselves and to others. until the age of 15, aldridge was known as nicholas f. brink. he legally changed his name to anderson lee eldridge through the courts of san antonio, texas court records show. prior to that in 2015, the shooting suspect was the subject of an intense line volleying, with an online

parity page. cnn's found evidence of the mocking comments that spanned a five month period when he was 15 year old. the page, regarding wikipedia shows pictures of him, knocks his weight and engages of him and engaging in illegal activity. aldridge is a grant some of the hum randy vulpro, who originally compared the january 6th attack to the revolutionary war but later said he did not condone the violence or lawlessness that took place in january six. aldrich's family life is chaotic. he was primarily raised by his maternal grandmother, the ex-wife the assembly men, a spokesperson told cnn. and since the shooting, police have been trying to reach out to the suspect's mother, laura votel. police say they don't know where she. is >> she is not offered to come forward and speak with us. the suspect's mother received three months probation for intoxication and failure to report a crime to police in california, went aldridge, then

on his brink was just eight years old, according to court records it obtained by cnn. the court records show she made a false report in 2008 about a break-in and bradley are tent where she was tied up with kite string and duck tape. weeks later, she admitted to making up the entire incident because she was lonely and wanted and tension. in 2010, court records also show she sought custody of her son, than ten years old. when he was 12, his mother was again in trouble with the law. she was arrested for suspected arson in the charge was later reduced to criminal mischief. and rosa flores, cnn, colorado springs, colorado. >> more on our breaking news in just a moment. please stay with cnn.

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at 10:12 last evening. we responded to the walmart on sam's drive in chesapeake nestle for a report of a shooting. what's on scene, responding officers believe that we are dealing with an active shooter responsibly, switched our response tactics to that active shooter response which is well both within our training and within our area of how we do things. over the course of the next 30 minutes or so, officers went inside the building along the chesapeake fire department and were able to use a tactical response to provide aid to several injured persons. we've located several people that were killed by the gunman in the building also. a little while later, we'll able to determine that it was actually a single shooter and that should we believe he is deceased. >> selina, how many people have been killed? >> i do not have an exact number at this time. there's multiple fatalities

right now. >> leo, do we know if the police killed the shooter or the shooter take his own life? >> i do not believe so, but i'm not 100 percent sure but that right now. that's still part of the investigation. we're only about two hours after the incident. >> of course, but when police arrived at the scene, the shooter was inside. it was an active scene as you said. okay, so it would appear that he has got into some firefight with the police. do we know? that >> no, we do not believe there was a firefight no. >> how many police officers were called to the scene? can you give us an idea of logistics of numbers of how this took place? >> dozens of investigators. it's an all hands on deck kind of thing at this point. >> what about the number of injured? can you tell us about that?

>> we had multiple injured. i don't have exact numbers on that either. >> they have all been taken to hospital and are receiving treatment obviously. >> correct. >> is there any other information leal that you can share with us? i appreciate that this is a fluid scene, but anything else you can share with our viewers. >> we believe it was just the one shooter. officers are still on the scene investigating. it's gonna take several hours, several days probably. we're still actually looking through the walmart superstore, it's very large in size. persons could being here at the event and tried to hide, some are still searching the building for anybody who may still be inside, injured and it's still kind of a rescue slash recovery, but the investigation starts right now. >> okay. all right, leo we will leave you there for now. leo kaczynski from the chesapeake in police public information. we certainly appreciate the

update and let you get back to it. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> let's bring in cnn national security analyst juliette kayyem. we also have neil franklin, a former maryland police state officer. well you have both heard from the public of information officer from the chesapeake police. the shooter is dead now, but it seems that it was an active scene for at least half an hour. it was a lone gunman. there are fatalities, we don't know how many. there are injuries, we don't know how many. but it would seem that the police are still searching this large store to see if there are any other injured or dead. >> as leo kaczynski said, and this is what i figured. it's a super walmart, it's huge. people still may be hiding.

it's going to take them a while just to make sure that they have located everyone in the store. then beginning the process of identifying evidence and everything else. this is going to take a while. it's probably going to be active at least into the morning probably late into the day tomorrow. and again, being able to locate, people who are made it to the hospital, people may be transported by other people in the hospital, maybe other people, and there may be witnesses, they got a lot of work to do. >> juliet, what was your assessment of what leo said? >> they have not notified -- look we know how to read into these things. they've not been able to identified individuals, notify next of kin. that is their primary responsibility. i know we want the number, but the primary responsibility is

obviously to get people with their families, get the witness reports neil was saying. see if people went to hospitals on their own. you have immigrants for other people -- community members to come forward as well. as neil was saying in the earlier segment, it's a military community, so there's going to be that factor in as well. we just don't know who the victims are at this stage. that's primary. i will say one thing. it is never good when they cannot tell you the number, because that means they have either not sweep the whole area or the number, they're trying to figure out unfortunately how many bodies are in a particular room, who those individuals are. normally, if you got a shooting

with water to, you'd be able to know that. i also noted that he said the original calls they weren't sure it was an active shooter, then switch to the active shooter protocol and i had come to believe by 30 minutes that the assailant, the killer was not able to kill anymore. whether he committed suicide or something else happened in the rooms, we don't know. this is a big event with an unclear number of dead and families being notified right now. if you know your family member was there, you are standing right outside the parking lot waiting. >> and i presume as you said this is a super walmart, so this is a very large store. multiple rose, multiple places for people to hide. neil, your sense when you heard that this was an active scene for half an hour. tell us, how would police have

responded to that scene? with they've gotten straightaway? please let us know what takes place. >> and so, as he said earlier, it was all hands on deck. when the call went out that there was an active shooter there, and you had multiple agencies responding. now, the training is the same from one agency to the next nation wide. so no matter what department your from, he'll be able to begin the process of forming a team and systematically going through the store trying to identify the shooter. obviously you're listening, you're questioning people coming out and looking at the evidence. unfortunately you're looking at bodies, looking at injured people and you're trying to track down the active shooter or shooters. once those first officers arrived on the scene, they formed a team, maybe multiple

teams, they are going in. they're not gonna stand by like we've seen in other places. they're gonna go in and they're gonna do the job. that's probably what happened here. i would think, i'm not saying for sure, but i would think that it's if the shooter was neutralized by police officers i think that would've been reported by now. but again i don't know for sure, but two hours into this i'm sure that they would have that information to report that were in fact the case. >> so if police killed the gunman they would've reported that? your sense is that this government would've committed suicide? i'm >> i'm not saying that. i'm not don't know for sure, but it seems that maybe in the case. it happens quite often especially if they run low on ammunition or something else happens. or have we have seen before if someone else, a customer or a worker or someone else could've been involved in neutralizing

the shooter. that's also a possibility. again, we don't know for sure. >> juliette kayyem, neil franklin, we certainly appreciate your insights, your knowledge on these active shooting scenes. updating our viewers now that there have been multiple fatalities and injuries at a super walmart in chesapeake, virginia. we're gonna take a short break with more on our breaking news in just a moment.

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say that for sure. a still part of the investigation happened very quickly a lot of dynamics of people involved lot of officers. >> any clarity on the relationship. was it a customer? >> do not know at this point. we're getting a lot of information coming in and were investigating all of that, looking into relationships and all that. >> they're not an exact number of fatalities or injuries. >> i don't, i apologize. i do not have a range. just multiple fatalities,

multiple injuries. all transported to area hospitals. >> was a shooter male or female. >> not at this time. >> any other information because in all the family reunification center was set up. >> just that our family reunification center is 700 conference drive. if you're looking ceo all of one who might be working your shopping here to try to look at your loved ones. 700 conference drive. >> any idea how many people were in the store when this happened? >> i don't, this is obviously a large store, it's a super center. i don't have many square feet, it's very large. i don't know how busy was at the time. we just got a couple of days away from thanksgiving so i don't i don't know. >> what's it been like with all of you because walmart these are big. square footage, what's been like responding directly on

scene? >> as far as the investigation, it's all hands on deck type of situation. we have many of our investigators here and piece by piece, we're just taking a little bit of a time, we have plenty of time, stores closed, so we're going to investigate it until we get everything completely. >> -- >> new york state police, with some virginia beach police car what helping with traffic control. >> do you know how long was between the first officer arrived on the scene and the attacker -- i >> do not know that. first officer arrived they win in immediately, and i don't know when they started -- i don't. >> they said they were methodically clearing to store. looking for possible fatalities. another victims. well tell us about. about >> i think that's still

going on, abbott's biggest store as this is it, could be a lot of hiding places. person heard something, it could've run and hide. we're still are searching aspect of it. to locate other potential victims or people hiding. >> does it seem like the shooter was shooting randomly. >> i do not know. >> do you know whether or not the shooting was in one part of the story? >> i do not know. i don't know, i'm hoping sometime tomorrow. and looking into that. like he said were, just a couple of hours passed the initial incident, heaven is very fluid, very new now. >> next step for officers. >> correct. so clearing until we're confident the entire building is safe and secure and in the criminal investigation part starts. i can take days.

>> i obviously we have seen -- is there a comparison to what your officers are working with two others. >> i couldn't make a comparison i'm sorry. >> how are you all feeling right now? can violence and mass shootings, have course hampton roses no stranger to what happened in virginia beach. what do you make of this? >> it's sad. or a couple of days before thanksgiving holiday. it's just about time all-round for everybody. especially the victims. >> all the shoppers out of the? store >> shoppers, witnesses are contained. any more questions? anything else? good? i don't know when will do another update, maybe next couple of hours. i don't anticipate a whole lot

more coming out in the overnight hours. tomorrow we'll get something together and cutting off in their. all right? >> leon, thank you so much. >> we've been listening to leo kaczynski there from the chesapeake police. he's a spokesperson for the police there addressing the media on the scene outside that super warmer in chesapeake, virginia where a lone shooter walked into that super warmer shortly after 10:12 pm eastern time. it was an active scene for a half an hour. that's what leal told us a little bit earlier. there have been multiple fatalities and multiple injuries. he was unable to confirm whether is a police officer that killed the gunman or whether the government took his own life but he has concerned that the government is now dead. the injured have been transported to nearby hospitals.

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cnn will continue to bring you updates as they become available. one customer who was in will marching the shooting texted her daughter and her daughter shared a screenshot of the text exchange with her mother on facebook where she tells her mother to hide. her mother said she saw victims says i'm crying and i'm shaking the, witness told cnn. time just talked about buying turkeys for thanksgiving when his text came in. the mother has been reunited with her daughter. virginia senator mark warner has tweeted about the walmart shooting. he says he is sickened by reports of another mass shooting and he's monitoring developments closely. he says all of those to listen to guidance for local law enforcement and stay away from the scene.

let's tune our attention to the war in ukraine. a startling assessment from the head of ukraine's power group. this is a major russian attack last week cause colossal damage it power stations across the country. said 100 missiles were used on the assault on energy facilities. said now the greta stabilized, but the destruction is widespread. >> the scale of the damage is colossal. practically no thermal or hydroelectric stations have been left unscathed. if you to understand the scale of these attacks and what we have to deal with, practically all the major power stations have been damaged by missile attacks. >> as ukraine works to keep the power running, more aid is on the way. u.s. in the world bank are each expected to provide for a half billion dollars in assistance in the coming weeks.

and the opinion as announced two and a half billion dollars in financial aid. u.s. president joe biden has extended the pause and foreign student loan payments. a reporter is with the president in massachusetts and has this report. >> president biden's decided to extend the freeze on federal loan repayments for nova six months, as of all student loan or relief payment remains tied up in the. corsi's payments were expected to resume in january but, they said they will now extend the pause in those repayments until june 30th or until the supreme court makes a decision about the presidents forgiveness program. the president offered this explanation for why he called for the extension. >> it isn't fair to tens of millions of borrowers eligible for relief to resume their student debt payments all the students considered a lawsuit. for that reason, the secretary of education is extending the pause on student loan payments

will we seek relief from the courts. >> the president's student loan forgiveness program which could offer up to $20,000 of relief for eligible borrowers has been on hold for several weeks to do to some seven legal challenges. the biden ministration has out of the supreme court asking them to law for the implementation of the program while these legal challenges play out. now about 26 million people have applied for the student loan relief and 16 million of those loan applications have been accepted and approved. the department of education has notify people that they can't -- tightly currently tied up in the course. so many people have been facing questions about whether these student loan repayment would -- the president is saying they will offer them a bit more relief extending that pause until the summer. arlette saenz, cnn, traveling with the president in nantucket, massachusetts. >> thank you for watching cnn newsroom. i'm anna coren. we'll be back with more on our

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