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searching for a motive just minutes from now, authorities in houston, texas will be giving an update on the investigation into >> sunday's deadly shooting at joel osteen mega-church. this comes as we're learning that the shooter used an ar 15 rifle that had free palestine written on it you're following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central >> you're in a few minutes, >> president biden will be sitting down with the king of jordan, the first aerobe, head of state to visit the white house since the october 7 hamas terror attacks on israel. this is a meeting that is coming at a crucial moment, negotiations for a pause in fighting between israel and hamas seem to be stuck. and just hours ago israel unleashed a wave of deadly airstrikes as part of an operation that freed two israeli hostages in rafah senior administration officials say the white house is deeply

concerned about the reported death toll. >> we >> know that president biden was already growing more frustrated with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu over how his country is prosecuting their war. we have cnn's jeremy diamond, who is on the ground there in israel. jeremy tell us about this really complex hostage operation. >> yeah, briana, for the better part of the last month, israeli military and domestic intelligence services gathered the intelligence they prepared this raid, the special forces trained for it and then overnight they carried out this dramatic raid, which rescue these two hostages, 70 year-old louis har all right. and 60 year-old fernando marman, 01:49 a.m. we're told that israeli special forces breached a residential building in the heart of rafah gaza's southernmost city. they had intelligence that these two hostages were on the second floor. they went there, they grabbed them, and then they escaped under fire. we're told

in it after that happens, we understand that the israeli air force began bombarding targets in that area to try, they say, to prevent hamas fighters in the area from intercepting this rescue operation. but we are also now getting a picture of the results of that bombardment, at least 94 people were killed in these overnight it strikes in rafah and not just hamas fighters, women and children. clearly among the dead and the injured from these strikes. but we did see the images today as well of the reunification of these two men with their families at this hospital, an emotional moment coming 128 days it's after they were taken hostage from their kibbutz near the gaza border >> yeah. unbelievable that they are back now with their families still so many left as hostages there though in gaza, and allies, jeremy, including the us and the uk, are warning israel against advancing into rafah with a broad offensive how is israel responding to

those warnings >> while the israeli prime minister is doubling down? i mean, you heard him yesterday on the sunday political shows talking about the military necessity of going into hamas's last bastion, as he described it, in order to win this war effectively saying that those telling him not to go go into rafah are telling him to lose the war. he is however, at least two rhetorically heating the united states concerns about the civilian population in russia. 1.4 million people, more than half of gaza's population now crammed into a city of normally 300,000 people. but he's not providing any a details as of yet. he says that the israeli military is working up a plan to provide safe passage for hundreds of thousands of civilians to escape north. but there are major questions about exactly how that could be accomplished in such a short period of time, as he says that he wants to capture rafah within the next month. and we know that further north there is a scarcity of humanitarian

aid. people living in squalid conditions. and so major questions about how to move so many people where they will go and what they will find when they move further north. brianna jeremy diamond live for us from israel. thank you for that report. >> alex, we're joined now by former us ambassador to nato, kurt volker, ambassador. thank you so much for joining us today. i do want to ask you about the former president and nato in just a moment. but on israel and gaza, the biden ministration is clearly worried about what is happening in rafah. we are reporting that president biden has privately expressed frustration with prime minister netanyahu do you think that there's a chance that netanyahu in this operation pushes biden too far and that there could be a rupture, a real rupture between the us and israeli governments >> i think it is possible. i know president biden is trying hard to support israel as much as possible in pushing

back back against hamas and defeating hamas but he is clearly under some domestic pressure to do more for the palestinians, provide humanitarian assistance and try to urge it israel to spend more effort taking care to avoid harming palestinian civilians. and this could, just, as you say, it, could provide a bit of a rupture there. i think what has happened here unfortunately, is hamas has used the situation expertly to turn public opinion against israel we should have actually supported israel swiftly and as much as possible to root out hamas as quickly as possible. because the longer this goes on, the more the attention is actually focused on israeli behavior rather than the continuing hamas behavior of being an armed group and holding hostage which isn't and so forth. >> do you think that israel should carry out these very complex rescue operations of their hostages, who they are so desperately trying to get back. even if it means that dozens, even scores of palestinian

civilians could be killed, as we believe happened in this case. >> yeah, well, obviously you want to do as much as possible to protect civilian life. but at the same time, the fact that these hostages continued to be held by hamas is both hindering military operations. it is incredibly disruptive within israeli society and their lives are at risk every day. so i understand very well why israel is engaging in these hostage rescue operations i hope that we are doing everything that we can to help them actually get them the right intelligence if we have anything there right techniques, equipment, and so forth, because the fact that hamas is holding these hostages in order to try to hold off israel and israel's friends and allies from actually pursuing the operations against hamas i excuse me. >> i do want to ask you about former president trump, who you

worked under as a special envoy. you were also, as i mentioned, the former ambassador to nato on former president trump's recent comments, he said that during a second term, that he wouldn't abide by the collective defense clause in nato known as article five. he went as far as to encourage russia to do whatever the hell they want to do to nato countries who don't pay their fair share, do you think this is campaign trail bluster or is this a look into how he would run his administration and his policy vis-a-vis nato. in a second term well, it's a very dangerous and disruptive thing today to say. and if you look at the context today russia is committing war crimes, they're attacking ukrainian civilians. their abducting children, they raping people we shouldn't wish that on anyone, least of all, our allies, who we do have treaty obligation to help defend. so it's very irresponsible thing to say. what would you want the leader of the alliance to say?

is that any attack on any nato ally will be met with the full force of all the allies in the alliance so that no one would be tempted to do so. we want to prevent war and that's what nato is all about, is preventing war it's very irresponsible thing to say now, as you indicate, he was at a campaign rally and he was bragging about what he allegedly said in the past. we don't know whether we really said that, but this attitude that we leverage our allies by threatening them i think is very much the wrong way to go about it. >> yeah all for 1.1, for all of the very core of the nato alliance. ambassador kurt volker. thank you very much for your time today thank briana >> we're watching several legal developments involving former president trump with potentially major implications for the cases against him. trump is in a federal courtroom in florida right now. his lawyers are trying to gain access to classified evidence in the mar-a-lago documents case and the clock is ticking on trump's legal team to file

an appeal to the supreme court over a ruling on his claims of presidential immunity. that deadline is today. all of that is a hearing gets underway in fulton county, georgia. the da there, fani willis, fighting subpoenas as a trump co-defendant, attempts to get her disqualified from the election, racketeering case. cnn's kristen holmes is near mar-a-lago in west palm beach, florida. christian, a crucial week here in court for the former president. he's treated his past court appearances like campaign stops. is that what he's doing here >> brianna, actually, it's quite notable. he is not doing that. he is not scheduled on your remarks. he has not tried to work the cameras in any way, called into meet any media outlets. and this is again, notable given the fact that he has roots keenly used. all of these various courtrooms stops as campaign events. we will remind you the last time because in federal court in washington, dc again, same setting, no cameras, no media availability is team reminded him over and over again. you're

not going to be seen. he said it was fine. and then the day of they all scrambled to get him in front of a camera because that is exactly what he used wants to do. he wants to send his message. now i will note in this case, in particular, he actually is very interested in what they are discussing today because what it comes down to is access to evidence. remember the core of this case is classified documents. this hearing today is a conversation between donald trump, his lawyers, and a judge over what he has access. do they want access to all of the classified evidence, evidence that's the prosecution, as well as some intelligence agencies don't want them to have. so this is something he clearly has his own vested interest in. he wants to see what evidence he himself will have access to. and as you mentioned, this is just one of many legal cases that are in the spotlight today that other big one being the supreme court. we are expecting that they will appeal, that they will go to the supreme court and file a motion to essentially believe block the

ruling from the dc appeals court that said that donald trump is not immune from persecution from any alleged crimes he committed while president this is something that they have told us they are likely to do. again, another part of this is that tactic we have seen from trump time and time again. once they push that forward, this delay, if it does go into motion, would then stop this case from going straight to trial. something we know trump's team does not want to do. >> yeah, we know that, kristen. thank you so much. live for us from west palm beach, florida. and turn now to defense attorney and lecturer at columbia law school, caroline polici or caroline, let's start from florida. trump's team arguing they should be able to see these documents. they're classified. >> do they have a valid argument here >> they absolutely do. brianna, in normal cases, criminal defendant is obviously entitled to see all of the discovery in a case of all of the criminal cases it's here that former

president trump is involved with. this case is actually the most simple on the facts and the law. however, this issue because they are dealing with highly classified information in these documents, this is really slowed down. the prosecution of this case. many of these documents can only be viewed if the person has a security clearance. we do know put apparently that former president trump has viewed some of these documents in florida in a scif. but for example, walt nauta does not have a security clearance and would not be able to view these these types of documents. so there are keeping heating interests coming into play here and it's a big mass. >> and we expect judge cannon to decide if the trial can move forward as scheduled at a hearing on march 1st. how could today's decision affect the timeline, especially if trump's goal is obviously for delays, you heard kristin talking about there yeah. >> judge cannon does not seem

to be in a hurry as it were to try this case she notably was reversed two times on appeal by the 11th circuit. she by all accounts, seems willing to delay the trial with respect to these classified documents issues. i do think we will see it slipping, not like for example, tanya chutkan, if you contrast in that case, the election subversion case, she really wants to get that that case moving. >> we'll see what goes first. >> we're also waiting for that expected trump appeal to the supreme court of last week's ruling in the federal election subversion case. do you think the supreme court will take that appeal up once it's submitted? >> yeah. >> i personally don't i don't think it's a decision that the court needs to take in that the reason the supreme court tends to take cases would be, for

example, like the colorado ballot case, where there are different opinions and different parts of the country can't have sort of dueling states in one state where and where he's on the ballot. one state where he isn't in this case, if the supreme court deny cert basically, the appeals court ruling would stand. president trump would be denied. that sort of sweeping executive permanent immunity that he was arguing for in the case could proceed. however, the issue do here, obviously is the timing, the way the appeals court ruled did sort of forced trump's hand to speedily file this appeal and made it so that he didn't file for an appeal on bonk. he said it's going straight to the supreme court. and then the other issue is whether or not that the supreme court, if they do take it, whether or not they would stay the case, meaning basically put a hold on the case moving forward because they could potentially take it, but have the case in before it as well. >> yeah. >> such a good point, many possibilities here. caroline polisi, thanks for being with us. we do appreciate it. and

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identified as 36 year-old genesee yvonne moreno and investigators have been at her home in the city of khan row, which is about 40 miles north of here. and according to a search warrant affidavit that we've obtained this morning, that alpher some new details as to exactly what unfolded here at this church. and as we've reported, were reno showed up here according to police, with a five-year-old child then started firing in this affidavit, it also points out that breanna had a yellow cord that is consistent with a detonation device for an explosive device, as well as other substances that are connected to explosive devices as well. however investigators have said they have not found any evidence of bombs or explosive devices here at the church or in the car that she drove here. but they continue to search her home for any of that kind of material. investigators also say in those documents that marino at one

point pointed the weapon that she brought, which has been told by us by a law enforcement source was an ar 15 style weapon and pointed it at the two off-duty officers that responded to the gunfire and they shot her in self-defense, according to this court document. and as you mentioned, alex off the top, we are expecting to hear from houston police investigators with the latest details on this investigation? and that is expected to happen here about 01:30 central time to 30 eastern. alex, hopefully a few more >> answers in that about what happened yesterday at the church and oven there and houston. thanks very much. brianna former president trump continuing to take credit for helping kill a bipartisan border deal that took months to negotiate. trump urge republicans to vote against the bill before details were even announced. and this weekend, he touted the bills demise on the campaign trail. >> this week, we also had another massive victory that

every conservative should celebrate. we crushed crooked joe biden's disastrous open borders bill mike johnson did a very good job and the whole group did a great job in congress he crushed it trump >> is promising that if he is elected president, he will shut down the southern border and carry out the largest deportation campaign in american history. we're joined now by brandon judd. he's the president of the national border patrol council which endorsed this bipartisan border bill that was negotiated with the white house democrats, republicans, and independents as well we're hearing brandon from congressional republicans, who they're not often at odds with your union, but they are when it comes to this border bill, i want to listen to senator marco rubio this weekend where he was on state of the union with jake tapper they say this is better than

nothing. it should become law. are you saying that the border patrol union is wrong >> yes >> that's what they still believe. they're wrong. it's not better than nothing what what do you what's your reaction to that? >> i wish he would explain why it's not better than nothing. i can go through point by point and explaining exactly why it's much better than what our current law is. i mean, it raises the bar for credible fear. it allows us to detain individuals. i'm sorry, single adults until deportation proceedings it speeds up everything it takes the judiciary out of this process and we know that the courts are completely and totally backed up. there's an awful lot of things that this allows us for, allows us to do. now, the main argument that you're going to get as it's going to say, that it codifies 5,000 apprehensions per day, but they don't discuss what are current laws? so again, i'm comparing this bill to our current laws. >> so he does say what he says and he credits that credible

fear the increased threshold for it, which would mean you have less people who actually qualify for asylum. but rubio saying it creates this asylum core. yes, you're completely right. so when you're are citing that 5,000 number are republicans who oppose the bill. >> are they being >> honest about what it does and how they're describing these provisions. >> i think the vast majority of the republicans that i've spoken with just haven't had enough time to dig into it, look at it. in evaluate the bill i've i had my attorneys immediately the moment that bill came out. and so there's an issue right there that is let's give it a little bit more time. let's look at this and but it got brought to the fore floor within a couple of days of being released. and so i think that the more they dig into it, i think that the more people actually look at this the more people are going to recognize there was an awful lot of good to this bill. there were there was some bad there's absolutely no doubt about that, which is why we said from the get-go, this isn't the perfect bill, but

there's an awful lot of good in there as well. >> but it seems like it's this effort is dead, that chance may not come up again, and i've heard from so many republicans who have said, we're never going to get this kind of deal again, that for many of them, they see this as a once in a lifetime opportunity. at this kind of reform. >> know, i don't think it's dead at all. in fact, i think it's going to come up again and again because the democrats know that they have to solve this issue, that they know that this is a very bad issue going to them. but i do think that this would have been a huge win for the republicans if they would have supported this, they actually would have been able to say, we forced the democrats do this. we force the biden administration to give us what we wanted. well, again, when you look at this, i know for a fact this would have driven down the flow if we would've gotten specific provisions that were in this bill, if we would have gotten that, it would have driven down the flow and we would be able to better secure the border today if we have this, you have been in dc for

well over a week i have. you been up on capitol hill trying to convince members of congress, as you see this bill. >> well, it's >> certainly you understand how these things will work. these provisions here. how's it going? >> so i'm not trying to convince anybody what i'm doing because i'm here letting them know this is the reason that we support this. here's the provisions in the bill that are very good and the feedback has been very good again, people understand that there's a lot of goodness bill, it was simply a matter of time. do we have the time? >> to dig into this? do we have the time to look at all of the specific provisions and how that's going to impact border security. and the more and more that they look into it, the more they're recognizing there was a lot of good in this bill former president trump mentioned you over the weekend. did you notice that? i did. okay. so he was telling a story about how previously you'd given him your top ten wishes for border policy and i'm curious when it comes to this

issue of the credible fear threshold tougher threshold for claiming asylum. where does that fall on your top ten wish list? >> it's probably number two. number one has to be catch and release. you have to stop, catch and release we don't stop that magnet. that people are going to continue to come. but then we have to stop the gaming of the loopholes, which is then credible fear. so there's a number of things that he recognized. there's a number of things that he did very, very well in office. and again, that's the reason why i continue to support him is because his policies were fantastic for the american people as it pertained to border security, i would argue that his policies were very good for the american people on nearly everything that he did. but border stream is i have not i haven't had the opportunity to speak with him i know that he has his reasons for for not supporting this bill. i have my reasons for supporting it. we can have policy discussions, we can have policy disagreements that's one of the things i really like about him. he you can disagree with him and he'll

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is allowing crime and lawlessness to spread. now we can do something about it by voting yes on prop e. a common sense solution that ensures we use community safety cameras to catch repeat offenders and hold them accountable. vote yes on e. community. indications that mental health played a role in an early investigation want to also ask the public not only

keep the victims in their prayers, the suspect's family, in our prayers, there was a lot of pain exhibited yesterday, and being felt today i want you to pray for the first responders the two gentlemen but neutralized the suspect yesterday, a tbc officer in hpd officer did not go to work sd morning planning to have to use their weapons they're suffering today. they need our prayers in our counseling. and in closing, let me thank the men and women of every agency that's represented up here today in some are out in the field i speak quite often about collaboration of our law enforcement agencies in our community i won't the public to know. i won't houstonians to know that we have every level of government represented here today, led by our fine outstanding chief finner the

scene yesterday was hectic. but people came together agencies, all the agencies represented law enforcement in our community at the state level and at the federal level. it's an ongoing investigation, but that's the way cooperation is supposed to work and to the houston community we feel as we stand before you today, the communities unity that's what great communities do. we don't start pointing fingers. we don't worry about who's going to get credit for work. we come together. this is a great community, great people. but with the first responders that showed up at the scene and it worked all night long. and have an ongoing investigation this keep our first responders. we want to assure reverend oh, steins church that we understand the trauma that they went through to those families,

we want them to understand. everybody was doing everything they could on the scene yesterday to re-unification of the families. we had families separated from their children so this is what collaboration in unity and dedication to public safety provides. let's continue to support the first responders will be very transparent as we go forward in with that message, i would like to yield to achieve finner thank you very much maire. good afternoon, everyone i want to first. thank all of my colleagues. and that includes all the men and women on the front line. the mayor hit some points of the collaboration and the difficulty in the scene yesterday, but very proud of everybody who showed up and we got everything under control i want to ask for prayers for seven-year-old kid who's fighting for his life. and

questions came up yesterday about him. and i think that what we need to do for him as its prey, he's still in critical condition fighting for his life. the last report i got 57 year-old male who was shot has been released. want to ask for continued prayers for him and his family and all families involved the leg would family and the mayor spoke on it, but i spoke to pastel stain this morning and he would have been here but his duty, his heart is with his congregation right now, trying to start the healing process. and we want to pray for them and i'll talk community. but as i said yesterday, i'll say it again. we go through tragic moments. but we're going to stand up as houstonians. as like we always do with any tragedy. but we wanted to come here and provide an update on on the incident of

yesterday and i just want to go over a few things. a few individuals who are here mare with my already spoke. i'm speaking cheap pena will speak the fbi sec. douglass williams will say a few words. tab see director kevin lilly will make some remarks. the update on the actual investigation is going to come from all commander of a homicide hassan well, follow up in spanish with commander hector garcia would probably just summarize everything that everybody is saying up here briefly. and then we'll go to a question and answers also want to acknowledge the director of dps, gerald brown is here. thank you. >> and also harris county sheriff egg gonzalez, and i'll district attorney kim august is here as well. and if i've missed out on somebody, you let me know, but a lot of work has

been conducted and just since yesterday and a lot of things are still going on, we will not be able to answer it every question information that we do have will share it which you have week, if we can, but let's just take that into consideration. also, want to close out by saying it's important as the mayor said, that our community, and not only religious institutions all of our communities we need the whole one another. >> in this >> moment at any other >> moment, we need to watch out for one another. and you'll see us out there. more visible presence but behind those bills, presence are true relationships, but we communicate every day with everybody in our community that we possibly can and will continue to do that. i'm going

to step aside briefly and bring up chief sound pinion thanks. troy >> thank you, mayor, for bringing this group together. i want to first extend my gratitude as well to all the agencies that participated in this incident. the ones that we collaborate on a day-to-day basis because again, it's not it's it's about those relationships that are built ahead of time that ensures and efficient response to these types of incidents when needed. also again, our prayers to the young child that was injured our community that that is suffering as traumatic for our community as well when these incidents happen. so but the purpose of my briefing here today is just to allay some of the fears that may be out there in regards to any possible exposure to chemicals that may or may not have been present at the scene. as we mentioned yesterday, in collaboration with the houston police department's bomb squad, or hazmat task force and

decontamination task force, where on-scene conducting tests on any of the products that may have been at the location the tests were completed, the preliminary tests were completed on scene i can safely say that there is no risk of exposure to any chemical or product that may have been present to anybody that was at the facility at it at the church, any of the first responders, anybody that came in contact or in the general vicinity, and certainly no danger to our community in terms of any hazmat products. the products on their own are benign. and their common products that we would see in other applications. so i want to make sure that we communicated that to our community. there was no risk of exposure or or ill effects we're hazard to our community as a result of any product that was out there. and we're going to continue our partnership with law enforcement. certainly my my partner in public safety,

troy finner and his team, until we complete this investigation. so turning back to ut, thanks. thank you. >> the asx best way than a charge, which rajiv. >> thank you, chief for. appreciate it. i first like to start by thanking all of the partners who are, who are here today for a seamless response to the incident yesterday. >> good afternoon. my name is doug williams. i'm the special agent in charge. parts of the fbi's houston field office unfortunately, we've always said that it's not a matter of if an active shooter event will occur in our city. but when that when was sunday afternoon just before his service at one of the largest congregations, not just in houston or texas, but in the united states we are extremely thankful for the quick response of the two officers. work in security at the church, at the time that

engaged the shooter? i think all of us here would agree that if it weren't for them, the number of casualties and victims would have been much higher there is no doubt, there is no doubt that their heroic actions saved lives the fbi has been assisting our partners at the houston police department with the investigation of the shooting at lakewood church, since it immediately happened? we'll continue to assist them for as long as needed. the fbi is working with hpd to follow all logical investigative leads related to the shooting as the chief just said it's way too early to determine a motive for the shooter's actions and we're not in the business of speculating our work is based on facts and evidence and we're still in the process of collecting those facts and evidence that process will take

time it is very common for the fbi to provide support to partner law enforcement agencies during an active shooter incident and in an immediate aftermath of a shooting the fbi has an arsenal of local and national resources at our disposal that we can deploy. these include technical resources as well as personnel resources such as agents investigative analyst, evidenced response teams victim service specialists, just to name a few yesterday, we deployed all those resources and will continue to support hpd for as long as it's needed. in the meantime, if anyone has information about sunday shooting at lakewood church that they'd like to share would ask that you please contact the houston police department and share the lead as day hey, are the lead investigative agency? again, the fbi is assisting and we will continue to assist our

partners here for as long as needed. thank you very much. thank you. >> jbc, director of kevin lily. >> thanks. >> thanks >> thank you, mayor. thank you. chief >> i'm kevin lily, chairman of the texts alcoholic beverage commission first, i'd like to offer my sincere condolences too. the congregation of lakewood church and a greater houston as the mayor said, our places of worship are both sacred and safe. and all texans grieve what happened at lakewood church yesterday and indeed, when the sanctity of a churches violated or any house of worship that is an attack on the very foundation of this nation. and we are so grateful for the action of our houston police officer involved, as well as tbc agent adrian herrera, who were the officers on the scene. and their actions working together to neutralize

the suspect as the fbi said, saved lives, the term hero has been used today and sometimes it's said flippantly. but i think what happened yesterday was the personification of heroism and valor. in which a total disregard for your own safety saving others before yourself cheap. i was talking to a couple of your deputy chiefs yesterday, as well as some the fbi agents. and they spoke almost in great respect of the fact that these two officers held their ground they held their ground in the face of rifle fire at point-blank range. and they continue to fire until the proprietor the perpetrator was neutralized and they did not yield and they

remained there as a wall agent herrera and the hpd officer involved or a gauntlet, they were a wall that existed between worshipers and terror, between freedom of religion and murder and we should all be mindful of the sacrifices that our men and women and law enforcement make every day, it is a profession of the highest honor >> i just thought >> this morning that if your son or daughter came into your living room tonight and said mom dad i want to be a cop i want to be in law enforcement >> you should receive that request with reverence and respect. >> because these individuals place their lives on the line for us, it is an act of service, unlike any other and so i would like to thank chief

fenner for your excellent excellent work. i'd also like to thank our maire. i have known maire wittmeyer for many years. and he and i don't always agree on everything politically and we've been on other sides of the fence. but i will say this for as long as i've known him he has always honored and respected law enforcement public safety, ladies and gentlemen, is one of the most critical things that we have and i would say this to elected officials that want to defund police two elected officials that want to demonize law enforcement. i say they do so at their own political peril and so we need to unify as a community to defend our men and women in the thin blue line so i would just like to thank all of you here. and to all the brave men and women to defend our city. thank you very much

>> amanda passing a homicide >> good afternoon. >> i'm >> christopher hosik, commander hpd homicide, also leader of our special investigations unit. last name ha ssi gi i just want to talk about the investigative steps where we're at what we've accomplished so far and what we're going to be doing moving forward. >> all right. >> please be mindful. we are approximately 24 hours into this investigation it's very fluid and the investigators under my special investigations the unit had been working around the clock and gathering information. this entire time. so sunday, yesterday, february 11 at 13:53 at 01:53 p.m. we had an individual pull up in front of lakewood church on the west side of the building off of timmins

>> she >> gets out of her white vehicle she opens the door pulls out the seven-year-old child out of the backseat, as well as a bag that is with her she goes she confronts a security guard who lets her in along the west side of the building at 13:55. pardon me? 01:55 p.m. she immediately starts firing inside of the hallway on the west side of lakewood church. she's in the hall, not in the sanctuary. >> multiple rounds are >> fired by her. >> at which point >> officer moreno, of the houston police department, working an approved extra job at the location, as well as tbc agent herrera return fire and the exchange is all there on the west side of the building in the hallway multiple shots

are exchanged by all three she eventually falls to the ground. the seven-year-old child falls to the ground as well from gunfire one gunshot wound to the head like, it's been mentioned earlier today. he is in critical condition at this time and at 14:07 to zero 07:00 p.m. she is pronounced deceased by houston fire department personnel other things that we know at this point in regards to the investigation are shooter is identified by a driver's license as genesee moreno 36 years old, hispanic female there are some discrepancies. we do have reports she use multiple aliases including jeffrey escalante. so she is utilized both male and female names. >> but through

>> all of our investigation to this point, talking with individuals, interviews documents houston police department reports, she has been identified this entire time as female. >> she >> her and so we are identifying her as gen-c moreno hispanic female there were two weapons of hers recovered on the scene, and anderson manufacturing ar 15, which was what she utilized to fire at the officers there was a sticker on the butt stock of the rifle that stated palestine. a sticker simply stated palestine on the but stock also within the possession of near her, what she brought in, according to video, and she had in a bag was a 22 caliber rifle by blueline solutions. she had that she brought that in. she did not fire that weapon we do have her

vehicle. we are in possession of that. we will be processing that and see if there's more evidence we want to thank our federal and state partners for their assistance in helping process the scene. >> we >> have uncovered some items. we do have some anti-semitic writings that we have uncovered during this process. but like i said, we are 24 hours into it. it is very new. we are getting new information as the hours change. and so we are going to be delving into that more. but we do want to stress that she acted alone. we do believe this was what we term a lone wolf lone suspect situation. we do not pollute believe this is part of a larger nexus. she's not part of a larger group or set of individuals we believe that genesee moreno acted alone >> we do >> have some facts that she was

put under an emergency detention order by houston police officers. we believe in 2016 we do believe that she does have a mental health history that is documented through us and through interviews with family members and we do want to stay that through our investigation. >> i >> mentioned anti-semitic writing. >> we do believe that there was a familial dispute that has taken place between her ex-husband and her ex husband's family and some of those individuals are of our jewish. so we believe that that is might, might possibly be where all of this stems from we ask anybody with information to please call the houston homicide department 7133083600 or crimestoppers at 713 two to two tips, t-i-p-s, if they have any information regarding mr. moreno or anything that could assist us with this

investigation >> thank you very much. like oh, questions until we translate and then we'll get everybody thank >> thank you. >> thank you >> when i started this what get mos that get no, second buying a key. i'll friends i represent but obviously the >> briefing now continuing in spanish there in houston we learn some new details in the case of this lakewood church shooting, one of the big outstanding questions had been, what was the motive of this shooter of this woman who went into this church between services and open fire with an ar 15 i'm getting a bit more of a clear picture there, perhaps there had been a familial dispute. we learned there from police involving her

ex husband, the ex husband's family, some of whom are jewish. they think this may be part of the reason why this is all >> this may be part of the motive. they say they found anti-semitic writings as well in the home of the shooter. and of course, so many questions and we don't know yet the identity of what we learned as a seven-year-old who she had taken into this church, who has been shot in the head during this process a boy in critical condition fighting for his life in the hospital? >> yeah. that's right. question is of course, as to what >> the relation is between this young boy in critical condition and the shooter who authorities there identified but as 36 year-old, genesee moreno hispanic woman. interestingly, they said that in the past she has used both male and female names, but felt confident based on a driver's license, that this is a woman who his name is

genesee moreno they noted that back in 2016, there had been an emergency detention order and that marino has a history of mental health issues as you said, brianna, there is some evidence of anti-semitic writings the officer there, the commander of the homicide division also saying that on the rifle, the ar 15 that was used there was a sticker that simply said palestine and that was one of two weapons that marino had in her possession. the second one was a 22 caliber for rifle so they didn't go so far as to say, we believe this anti-semitism is the motive or politics is the motive, but they did say that there is this history of mental health issues of anti-semitic writings and that the ex-husband and his

family are jewish. and that some of what we saw play out yesterday at lakewood church could have stemmed from this relationship. it appears to have fallen apart between moreno and to her and her ex-husband. >> let's bring in former deputy director of the fbi, andrew mccabe, who is with us. i wonder andy, what stood out to you in that press briefing? and we heard from authorities. >> well, a couple of things. brianna me first, the description of how she nonchalantly entered the building, pass the security guard in the process, walked into not the sanctuary, but into a hallway on the west side? the building took out a rifle and just began shooting, which absolutely chilling very, very lucky that that didn't take place in the larger room. more people could have been hurt, also took place, as we know in-between services. so probably we at a time of the wasn't quite as big of a crowd in there >> the information about >> her, what sounded like an

involuntary detention and possibly as a result of mental health issues it's very interesting to me, although we have not heard anything to date about how she acquired these weapons, who would certainly raise significant questions about if she had purchased these weapons after having been adjudicated to crt involuntary detention for mental health reasons, that would be at odds with the federal background check law that requires well disqualifies you from buying a firearm if you've been adjudicated a mental defective as it's termed in the statute. >> want to bring in john miller, our law enforcement and intelligence analysts as well? john the officers up there were heaping praise on these two off-duty officers, 128 year-old, 138 year-old, who managed to take down the shooter. but they also noted that the there was a security guard who let the shooter in. i'