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>> it was a normal wednesday. we were at the bar having fun, dancing. and then all of a sudden, you hear like the bang bang. gun shots. >> i heard the gun shots. i turned around and i saw him shoot a couple more times. within a split second, everyone yelled get down. >> we thought it was a joke. sounded like firecrackers. >> the gunman was throwing smoke grenades all over the place. >> so i ran to the left of the dance floor where the back door is. everybody was piled on top of each other. it was silent for a couple seconds. and then all of a sudden a couple guys that were closer to the bar, they got us and started running for the back door and said he's coming. >> he kept firing. i ran out the front door. i heard chase being thrown out the window. people were trying to get out the window.

>> my friends started slamming them against the windows so we could get out. that's how we got out. he broke the window. they broke the window and we climbed out. >> some were injured on the broken glass. the suspected gunman, a 28-year-old marine corps veteran. the shooter used a glock handgun. but the gun had an extended magazine that is not legal in the state of california. a heart breaking scene outside the hospital where family members waited for word on their loved ones. some have now received it. our chief correspondent jonathan hunt live at the scene in thousand oaks. >> shep, good afternoon. the borderline bar and grill a couple hundred yards behind me here remains at the words of the sheriff a horrific crime scene.

there's blood everywhere the sheriff told us. earlier today, the first 911 calls came in and witnesses we spoke to in the early hours of this morning talked of a man clad entirely in black shooting a security guard at the door and walking in, throwing smoke grenades and shooting anybody he found in his sight. it was obviously a terrifying time for the 150 to 200 mainly young people that had gathered there simply to drink and dance as they do every college wednesday at the borderline bar and grill. listen here to one of the witnesses talking about the flight to get out. >> he didn't say anything at all. he just started shooting. i should have stayed until he changed his clip.

i was worried about my boy. it was just some low life taking lives that shouldn't have been taken. >> the gunman has been named by officials as 28-year-old ian david long. he's a u.s. marine corps veteran, served in afghanistan from late 2010 to mid 2011. fbi and sheriff deputies teams are going through his house right now in nearby newberry park trying to find any clues as to a motive. we know, shep, that he had mental health issues. the law enforcement authorities here were in fact called to his house in april of this year for disturbance. he's apparently inside screaming and throwing things and neighbors called because they were concerned. as part of that response by law enforcement, a mental evaluation

team went to the house, but they did not find any reason to hold him or to take any further action at that point. they did talk about the possibility of him suffering from ptsd as a result of his combat. but shep, as any mental health expert will tell you, there's so many that come back from afghanistan and iraq and the other wars with ptsd and they don't necessarily pick up a gun and carry out a mass shooting. so while it may prove to be a contributing factor, it doesn't explain why ian david long carried out this massacre, shep. >> shepard: jonathan, i'm so sad to report that one close to us has a victim in his family. >> yeah, adam housley is a former fox news correspondent. his brother, eric, who i can tell you personally is a

wonderful man and a wonderful family -- i'm sorry. i'm trying to get the statement back from our producer here. eric's daughter, elena, was at the borderline bar and grill last night. she did not we now know survive. adam housley and his wife, tamara, have just put out a statement. it reads in full, shep. "our hearts are broken, we just learned that our niece, alaina was one of the victims of the borderline bar in thousand oaks. alaina was an incredible woman ander with devastated that her life was cut short in this manner. we thank you for your prayers and ask for privacy." again, a lalaina housley lost h

life in that bar. among the families, the family of sheriff's sergeant ron helus, one of the first three law enforcement personnel to arrive at the scene, shep. he heard shooting, he ran straight in through the door, was met face to face by the gunman who fired several bullets at him and later in the hospital. sergeant helus succumbed to his wounds and died. the sheriff talked about him emotionally earlier today. listen here. >> we lost a great human being. it's part of the loss, again, of the 11 other victims in there and all part of the suffering that we're all going to go through as family members and parents and brothers and sisters on this tragic senseless loss of life. >> one more point about sergeant helus, shep.

as he arrived or was near the borderline bar and grill, he was just doing a normal nightly checking call as he always did, apparently, with his wife. he got the active shooter call. he said to his wife, i have to go. i love you. shep? >> shepard: jonathan hunt reporting from the mass murder scene in thousand oaks. police officers, firefighters and other first responders saluted the sergeant who died trying to save people in that bar in an astounding and heart warming sight it was. a hearse carrying the body of sergeant helus from the hospital to the medical examiners in ventura, a long line of police cars and deputies on motorcycles escorting the hearse and by the hundreds and hundreds and hundreds along the busy freeway. you can see on this overpass here. some others that serve. stand in salute.

sergeant eric boucho worked for the ventura shear's office and was a friend of sergeant helus. sir, thank you. so sorry. what can you tell us about him? >> he was just a true professional. you know, i told people earlier, i'm not surprised at all that he was the first one in. that's just the way he was. truly dedicated, dedicated public servant. served with the highest standards of professionalism and a gentle, patient guy. yet he was always a student of the process, always honing his skills. he was a member of our swat team for many years. he was a firearms instructor, a defensive tactics instructor. i have no doubt that he went there with the intention to stop

the threat and save lives. and he -- i'm sure his actions were tactically sound. at some point you have to go through the door. unfortunately the suspect was ready. just -- it's an unspeakable tragedy. obviously this tragedy the idea hearing gun shots and running to them with no backup to do whatever you can with very little protection and losing your life in the process. it's just so honorable and unbelievable on some level.

how was he such a hero? >> that's who he was. he literally trained for these kinds of things his hole career. he experienced other critical incidences. certainly nothing of this magnitude. again, as a member of our swat team, he was a very talented investigator. he worked in our narcotics task force for many years. even though he was a year aware from requirement, he worked just as hard on his last day working as he did on his first. he was that kind of guy. truly dedicated. i -- processing this is really difficult. probably the emotions will come later when we're wrapping things up here. but i -- he was truly a cop's

cop. a great guy. you know, he took up fly fishing a few years ago and would go up in the sierras with his son fishing. it just saddens me that he's not going to get to enjoy that in retirement. my heart goes out to his family. his son, his wife. it's not supposed to happen this way. >> shepard: no, it isn't. one of the safest cities in all the land. sergeant eric bushow, many things. deepest condolences. >> thanks, shepard. >> shepard: our reporting continues after this. for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won't raise their rates because of their first accident. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ smile dad. i take medication for high blood pressure and cholesterol.

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to provide any comments on her condition. we know she suffered a fall while working here last night. she went home after the fall but after experiencing pain and discomfort throughout much of the evening, she checked into the hospital this morning. tests showed she fractured three ribs on her left side. she was slated to attend justice kavanaugh's ceremony this morning. president trump attended the ceremony and as did the acting attorney general, matt. despite her age, now 85, we know she's a very active exerciser, known to work out with a personal trainer multiple times a week and also said in the not too distance past, shep, she's

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critics today are highlights his july 2017 interview about cutting funding for robert mueller if his boss, jeff sessions, was out. >> i can see a scenario where jeff sessions is replaced and that attorney general doesn't fire bob mueller but reduces the budget so low that his investigation grinds to an absolute halt. >> when the president asking for session's resignation, this video that occurred there with the red tie shaking the attorney general sessions hand as he departs, whitaker takes over his job, session's job as well as the russia special counsel investigation. sessions march 2017 recusal as you know from the russian probe drove a wedge between himself and the president. the counsel to the president said the justice department's shakeup is not about disruption. >> i think it's very commendable and notable that the president is looking for a continuum by

having the chief of staff for the attorney general, been there over a year, be the acting attorney general until a permanent replacement can be nominated and keeping his job as the deputy attorney general, mr. rosenstein. >> law experts called for whitaker to recuse himself based on tv interviews and tweets are without a legal basis. >> there's a difference between a lawyer as a commentator and as an acting attorney general. >> within the last couple hours, house democrats on the judiciary committee have asked the republican chairman to convene an emergency hearing on the appointment of the acting attorney general, whitaker. what is key here really is the timing and the issue of control. timing is clear from last 48 hours that things are moving at a very a paid pace. the control issue, the democrats can't get that emergency hearing as a guarantee until they have control, which is still two

months away in january, shep. >> shepard: catherine herridge reporting from washington. the white house says jeff sessions leaving the trump administration is not a constitutional crisis. the fox business network's blake burman reporting live at the white house. >> hi, shepard. one white house official told me earlier today, there's not a rush to find a permanent replacement for jeff sessions and there's not a timeline either. there were a lot of comings and goings here today as the speculation ramps up. lindsey graham was here meeting with president trump. i'm told the two discussed at one point the new opening. graham says he has no desire to be the pick. chris christie was also on white house grounds. we're told he was here to meet with jared kushner on prison reform. rod rosenstein also at the white house today. he left about 10, 15 minutes ago. we're told he was here for

something completely unrelated. matt whitaker, a vocal critic of the robert mueller probe, now the acting a.g. he got the interim nod over rosenstein. the white house says that kept the department leadership in tract and the russia probe is one portion of whitaker's new job. >> we're also there to represent the united states in all of the different court cases. so we're dealing with immigration and health care. matt whitaker is being briefed on a variety of topics, including mueller investigation. that's a very smart part of what the department of justice is doing. >> sessions, by the way, isn't a good-bye e-mail to his colleagues and this is how it ends. "no matter what your role at the department and no matter what your task, i hope that you will remember that you're helping us in our mission to protect the american people and the rights we hold dear. i'm grateful to have served with people of your caliber and may god bless you and your families.

keep improving, getting better and more productive. the final words from jeff sessions. >> shepard: blake burman reporting from the white house. mixed reaction from lawmakers after the justice department shakeup. mike emanuel live on capitol hill. >> good afternoon. leading house democrats say they want to see all relevant paperwork to a range of senior officials. we ask that you immediately provide us with all orders, notices and guidance regarding preservation of information relating to these matters and investigations and fellow house democrats are promising action. >> we have more resources and recourse than we did on monday. we won the majority in the house. so the days of looking the other way are over. so we can first pass legislation to protect mueller, try to build momentum in the senate where they already have legislation out of the judiciary committee. >> jeff sessions served in the

united states senate for 20 years representing alabama. today a senate democrat said the attorney general deserved better. >> jeff sessions should not have been fired. mueller should be protected. we've got to get this investigation done the where it has credibility by the most credible person, bob mueller. all of this stuff has to come. >> on the house side, retiring bob goodlatte said thank you to attorney general jeff sessions for his work to our country. he will leave a strong legacy and where his successors can continue to build a strong law enforcement apparatus and implement the president's national security and criminal justice policies and the retiring house oversight chairman said the timing may have been a surprise, but his departure is not. >> it was going to happen. i knew it was going to happen after the election. i didn't think it would happen before the votes were counted. he's a better dead man walking

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>> some of the people in the bar in thousand oaks, california last night where a shooter killed 12 people were also at the music festival in las vegas where a gunman shot from a hotel room in mandalay bay and killed

58 last year. trace gallagher reporting. >> country nights are popular at the borderline night and grill. among the regulars that show up every week are the route 91 survivors, people at the route 91 music festival in las vegas last october during the worst mass shooting in u.s. history. last night when the shooting started at the borderline, there were dozens of vegas survivors inside. nicholas champion was among them. listen here. >> it was about a year and a month that this happened in las vegas. route 91 mass shooting as well as probably the other one. it's a big thing for us. we're all family and unfortunate will this family got hit wise. >> it remains unclear if any of

the 11 victims were vegas survivors. in the hours after the attack, there was some concern about that. watch. >> there's a handful of people that i have not been in contact with because he was really worried about them. >> because there's been so many mass shootings in the past 20 years, it's a genuine phobia. numerous studies have been done to ease people's fear. the national safety counsel said your odds of dieing in a mass shooting are 1 in 110,000. we don't have information on the odds on being in a location where a mass shooting but to be involved twice in 13 months is astonishing. in june of 2012, 24-year-old jessica gowey survived a mass mall shooting in toronto only to be killed a month later in the aurora colorado theater shooting.

shep? >> shepard: trace gallagher reporting. sarah joins us now. she lives across the street from the bar in thousand oaks. her daughter's friends were there during the shooting and one is still missing. thanks for your time. i'm so sorry. >> thank you, shepard. >> i understand it was late and you were getting ready for bed. is that right? >> yeah, we were getting ready for bed. the older kids were out for the evening. a bunch of college kids come out to borderline. it's a 18 and older age group. the ones that aren't able to drink legally can still go out and hang out there. the music stopped, which was unusual. i thought maybe they wrapped up early and i should be preparing dinner or a snack for the kids. instead, there were sirens.

i started to go outside to see what's going on. i live 30 seconds away. my daughter called, said lock up the house, don't go anywhere. there's an active shooter at borderline and they don't know where he is. i said how do you know this? are you there? she said no, i'm not there. i didn't go but my friend is there and i talked to her. she's hiding in the bathroom. so i just put on my jacket and ran outside. i came to the intersection pretty much after the first responders went inside. there was a wave of injured kids that were coming my way, missing shoes, missing clothes, holding their friends. it was like a war zone being evacuated. like taking soldiers out of a battlefield with the kids

screaming for their mothers. there was two boys in front of me that found each other in this chaos. and they thought each other was dead. when they found each other, they wrapped their arms around each other. you're alive! you're alive! where is my friend? she got shot. they took her. we have to go and see if she's okay. they took off. half of the kids got in their own cars and took themselves to the hospital. thank god for the first responders, for the two officers that came. they saved lives. the rest of them that were in there. sadly sacrificed one of their own. but you hear about cops sometimes not doing what they should do. these guys did everything that

you pray they would do. they didn't hesitate. they were so fearless. there's going to be a lot of stories of heroism that comes from this. this nightmare. >> shepard: sarah, have you heard anything about your child's friend? >> my daughter spoke to her while she was hiding. we haven't heard anything since. there's been no answer with her phone. i know that a lot of these kids ran and left a lot of things behind. we're praying that's the case. we don't know yet. >> shepard: wow. what will you and your family take from this? is there anything? sounds like the unending and undying respect of the people that went in that building like

her heros. >> they are heros. there's heros that were inside. a story of these girls that were hiding in the bathroom. they came running to me and they were crying for their mothers. i said take my phone, call your mothers. they were telling their moms the stories of how they were hiding in the bathroom. they heard the shots getting closer and closer. the bathroom door opened. a gun barrel came through the bathroom door. they thought they were next. but it was an officer that took them to safety. saved their lives. >> shepard: sarah silikula that live as cross the street from the massacre in thousand oaks. no words. our thoughts will be with you. our reporting continues after this. a migraine hope

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>> shepard: the mid-terms are over but not every race is settled including in florida where we appear to be headed for a recount. bill nelson facing off against rick scott for that senate seat. scott holds the lead by less than half a percentage point and in florida, that means a mandatory recount. the secretary of state there is set to make a decision this weekend. phil keating reporting live from doral. >> shep, in 15 minutes at the top of the hour, miami-dade county's elections canvassing board will convene here at the building and start going over all of the ballots and numbers submitted tuesday as well as the provisional ballots that were turned in as the late-arriving mail-in ballots, this is happening all over the state today and tomorrow. and then by noon on saturday, all 67 county canvassing boards must admit their unofficial results to the secretary of state in tallahassee.

provisional ballots are for people that voted tuesday but didn't have i.d. and showed up to the wrong precinct. every single vote counts especially this year in florida. the florida race for senate between republican scott and bill nelson keeps getting closer. right now scott leads by .22%. that's under 18,000 votes out of 8.1 million votes counted. that seems to be headed to an automatic recount. that will probably be official saturday afternoon. leading late tuesday, governor scott called the race over. nelson has not appeared since tuesday and never conceded he lost. the florida governor's race has gotten into the automatic recount threshold under half a percent. right now ron desantis leads democrat andrew gillum by .47 of a percentage point.

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workers still have to count hundreds of thousands of ballots. dan springer reporting live from phoenix. >> shep, martha mcsally's lead grew to 17,000 votes but this is far from over. 16% of the entire statewide vote is yet to be counted. today we received the first lawsuit. it was filed late yesterday by the republican party in four counties. it alleges that the process being used to verify mail-in ballots when the signatures don't match is not the same across the whole state. some counties throw them out if the vote can't be verified by election day. maricopa county and three others are calling voters that dropped off the ballot on election day whose signatures don't match to verify if they voted. republican party leaders call it fairness. democrats say it's voter suppression. the party chair just said the republican party is doing everything they can to silence

thousands of arizonans. that's wrong. interestingly, a prominent republican, cindy mccain, seems to agree. she tweeted the arizona gop, i am one of those mail-in ballots. i was under the impression that my vote was always counted. of the 620,000 votes yet to be counted, most are in three counties with maricopa being the first critical at 475,000 votes to this point, kristen sinema has an 8,000 vote lead in maricopa. if that grows she will be tough to beat because her lead in pima is growing. we're expecting a big vote drop at 5:00. shep? >> dan springer reporting from phoenix. in georgia, the democratic candidate for governor, stacey abrams is not dropping out of the race despite her republican opponent declaring victory. the republican candidate, brian kemp resigns his current post as

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♪ >> shepard: the treasury department is reporting new sanctions targeting russia's occupation of the crimea the crimean peninsula. vladimir putin invaded and took over that region from ukraine in 2014, against all law. the u.s. does not recognize russia's claim over it. these new sanctions come just days before president putin and president trump are set to possibly meet face to paris. rich edson reporting live from

the state department. >> good afternoon, shep. the treasury department is targeting ukraine officials that they say are responsible for human rights violations and companies that have benefited from russian annexation of crimea. in a statement, the treasury department says that our sanctions are a clear reminder that efforts in investment in normal relationships with those operating in crimea will not be tolerated and are subject to u.s. and e.u. sanctions authorities. this is as the russian government is pushing for the u.s. to pull back on sanctions when it comes to the annexation of crimea when it also comes to sanctions on the 2016 election interference, and also for the poisoning of a former russian spy in england. in fact, the united states is putting more sanctions on russia for that area according to the state department. >> shepard: richardson reporting from the state department. i should say that a republican dude and judge in texas lost his bid for reelection, the very next day, he released nearly alf

the defendants who appeared before him including minors accused of violent crimes, that is according to the reporting of the "houston chronicle." this judge asked defendants one question, and it was this "if i release you, will you go out and kill anybody?" casey stegall reporting from dallas. >> prosecutors inside the courtroom say that they cannot believe what they were seeing unfolding right before their very eyes. republican judge glenn devlin has responded over the 313th district court in houston for eight years. he is known for being tough, and favoring incarceration. well, instead, those witnesses said that he showed up the morning following the election after losing to his democratic challenger and simply started releasing defendants on his docket if they answered "no" to the kill question that you talked about. then reset all of his cases to next year when his counterpart takes the bench. prosecutors say at least seven people were released.

four of whom were facing aggravated robbery charges. and in a statement to fox news, the harris county district attorney says "we oppose the wholesale release of violent offenders of any age. this could endanger the public." now, i have called the court today for comments, no answer. and reportedly he did not show up for work today. we are also trying to get answers as to whether or not his actions alleged actions violated any sort of judicial canon. and if so, what would be his sentence? >> shepard: casey stegall reporting from dallas. you reporting now on the massa care and thought i was in oaks california. authorities have been working -- no, not yet. authorities have been working to identify the dead, and notify the next of kin. we have been informed that they will have a news conference at 1:15 standard pacific time, that is 15 minutes from now. we will have live coverage here

on the fox news channel. after our reporting, we will have a fox news update on facebook watch, it is a minutes long newscast with unique content that streams live on the facebook watch home screen just a few minutes from now. was concluded as is available to you on demand. i am shepard smith. fox news, new york. ♪ >> niel: we are live in thousand oaks california, providing an update, and maybe some answers as to why a 28-year-old ian david long went on a shooting rampage, killing 12 people at the borderline bar and grill, before taking his own life. the white house lowering the flag to half-staff in honor of the victims and what has become almost a ritual in this country. welcome, i am neil cavuto, that conference moments away. and here with the very latest. hello, jeff. >> hi, n