hi ♪(whistling tune: "don't worry, be happy")♪ >> we realize what was happening and it was just chaos, chaos. the most horrific thing i've ever seen. anita: this is a "fox news" alert and we are learning a bloody attack in the walmart in texas at least 20 people dead and more than two dozen injured or the young gunman behind bars. the question at this hour is why good evening everyone i'm anita vogel in los angeles. >> it's nice to be with you at 11:00 p.m. eastern and at

9:00 p.m. in el paso texas. we bring you continue breaking news coverage of the shooting in el paso. here's what we know right now. it began this morning in the 10:00 el repetto first 911 call at 10:39 a.m. el paso time at the cielo vista mall gunman opened fire killing some the parkland in the moving inside. the attack happened with as many as 3000 shoppers and workers on site but a witness described the suspect as confident and manner of mission. when they had no chance to escape open fire killing people one by one. as clearly as you can see from this video of a police officer with his weapons in one hand and comforting a victim and another. this was an emotional day for

the police on the scene. >> we have 20 confirmed fatalities and we have 26 wounded. the ages and genders of all these people injured and killed our numerous and the age groups. the situation needless to say it's a horrific one. leland: he's describing the scene inside this walmart by law enforcement officials say the shooter left behind a manifesto before going on a rampage but declined to comment on the specifics. they said they are treating this as a murder case and investigating as well as a hate crime. anita: in the meantime we are

learning more about the suspected gunman. "fox news" will not show you his picture or give him any attention by repeating his name. police described him as a 21-year-old white male from allen, texas quite a distance from six hours from el paso. we have been watching investigators comb through the suspects last known address in allen. again that's roughly 600 miles from the scene of the shooting. one witness said the shooter was dressed in cargo pants and came in wearing ear protectors saying he looked as if he was dancing as they fired off round after round. >> i thought they were fireworks. my question -- my husband asked me if they were shots but i looked over and saw people trying to run saying there was a shooter. he was just mass chaos. leland: we will gather details about the night. we are getting life news

conferences from the police or the fbi. garrett tenney has been on the scene quite literally in the hour after the shooting and has remained in el paso all day. he is on duty as is the fbi evidence response team and others at the walmart a hind us. good evening garrett. garrett: leland vittert think it's important for folks to remember that there are still bodies lying on the floor of the walmart behind us were the shooting unfolded. coming up 10 hours ago now and what really stands out that we were talking about it earlier in these tragic situations you always have heroes. another example of that but i want to share with you. i just got off the phone with a witness who was in walmart with her husband when the shooting unfolded. they were in the produce section looking for groceries when she

said she heard the gunshots ring out pop, pop, pop. she started to see people running towards the back of the store. the scene that she described was a lot of parents with their children there and as the chaotic scene played out some of them got separated. they were trying to rush towards the backdoor to get out of there. she said she saw multiple people taking children that didn't even belong with them and running to the back of the store to get out of there while the shooting was unfolding. when i got outside of the store they started reuniting them with their parents. they waited there for roughly 20 minutes. the first few minutes while the gunshots were ringing out there was a break and then they heard more gunshots. she described a lot of elderly people out there. it was 100 degrees outside. they were in the shipping

containers they use. that's essentially where they were hiding out while the shooting was unfolding. these elderly folks were getting very overheated and she said others were walking back outside getting water bottles, making sure that they were going to be all right and that they did not pass out or get overheated. this is while it's unfolding just yards away from where they were. we continue to see story after story and examples of everyday people helping others while the shooting was playing out not thinking of themselves for thinking what can they do and that's what we have heard from officials today about el paso's. so kind of people that live here leland: it says a lot about law enforcement or the police chief said earlier at one point every man with a badge in el paso federal, state or local law enforcement and border towns in

border patrol dhs and others were on the scene some getting out of their pickup trucks clearly off duty strapping on a bulletproof vest grabbed a gun and run towards the sound of gunfire. care we talked about 3000 people inside of the walmart 10:00 a.m. on a saturday morning before school. there have to be so many families that are not -- that are still separated tonight whether it a their loved ones are dead or injured or perhaps not together. garrett: in addition i also spoke to a woman who said see hr children because she still physically shaking and in such a bad state she does want her children to see her this way but she's hoping to get there later

tonight. right now there's the children's grandmother. there are folks that come here in the last few hours looking for their loved ones. i shared with you in the last hour the story of angie inglesby 87 years old. her three daughters came here and one of them was just sobbing crying after her saying i just want to know if my mother is alive or dead. i want to know where she is. where can i find her body packs. >> i have to interrupt you for a second. we were able to turn around the picture that you tweeted out avante inglesby that is now up on the screen. this is the 87-year-old mother that her daughters were coming to look for her. in the past hour have you gotten any word on her from the daughters and have they've been able to locate her ex-

>> they were directed by the police together the reunification center to get more answers. they had already then they are trying to see if she was there waiting for her daughters. they are trying to work with the governor's office to try to get more information about where their mother might be and what her position is and if she is no longer with us how they will get her body to move forward for the funeral. symantec governor when asked about the political location of the shooting governor abbott saying there are bodies that have not been recovered and this is a time for mourning and not a time for politics. speaking of that it's times like this with when law enforcement and these are men who have seen the worst of the worst, they go into the walmart over and over again this evening. their cell phones keep bringing up the missing of the wounded and that the dead as their loved ones try to get in touch with

them and those in the aurora theatre and the synagogue in other places told me the worst part of their evening the night of the shooting that we are now in 9:00 p.m. in el paso is going to be the next couple of hours as the people cell phones die and their was no longer at the ringing. the batteries would run out in those phones and they would stop bringing and the horror with dead bodies and blood in you mentioned as people tried to get out the walmart would become totally quiet quiet. you are watching law enforcement come out. what are you seeing on their faces and what is the emotion you are picking? not seem much law enforcement coming out. they describe such a vast crime scene inside of the super walmart which is huge.

you can imagine the effort that is now underway to pick apart exactly what happened there. see mentioned it started out in the parking lot i worked its way to the front of the store and apparently from what we are hearing from witnesses who worked his way further back before exiting at some point and firing more shots before he left the scene. there's an enormous investigation underway processing this crime and they are fully involved and immersed in it and they are going to be for very long time. >> the house 600 miles away and alan texas has surrounded the police director the suspect surrendered to them just outside the walmart. garrett tenney on the scene in el paso on a very grim night of work begins. carrot thanks so much to you and

your crew for your work some of the most emotional times that have happened in that city of el paso, texas. we saw beto o'rourke the former congressman and current president of candidate back in his hometown to meet with the victims of this many of them are at area hospitals and many of whom don't know if their loved ones survived. their loved ones searching not only for reification that garrett talked about but also at hospitals and there are people in the hospitals were wondering where my kids, where my parents, where a man loved ones as they live their wounded. anita: leland that's right. it's a scene that we can imagine but i do want to point out the incredible reporting of our colleague garrett tenney on the ground today making you feel as if we are there bringing the stories of so many survivors and people coming to the scene to see if they could find loved

ones. he brought us so many incredible descriptions of that scene today and our hats off to him for his reporting. as you mention any of the survivors have been treated at the geltz all medical center. want to show you the chief executive officer joining us now on the phone. david thank you so much for taking a few moments to talk to us this evening. >> absolutely. i can imagine the scene at your hospital. tell us what this day has been like for you and your employees there. >> frank it's been surreal. this is something we prep for and hope that we never need to use it and never have to deploy these avenues but i can't tell you how incredibly proud of him if every single person and

things were executed absolutely flawlessly from the coordinate that effort from the nurses and the caregivers and local resources and hospitals being able to chip in. it was an incredibly proud thing for me to watch. anita: take us back if you will minor 10 hours ago now when the call came in. set the scene for us what was happening and what was that like? >> he was a normal day. a normal weekend day. we had doctors at the hospital and people enjoying their families and participating in normal weekend that duties and then we started getting these calls a very surreal experience that this was actually happening and this was the real deal. we were texting about this and he said this is the real deal and we went to work.

anita: do you know how many patients he received and what the conditions are those people tonight? >> we ended up receiving 11 patients from 35 to 82. we head to who were stable and all 11 are still at the hospital two were stable. we have nine better in critical condition and three that are extremely critical. anita: have you been able to talk to the families gathered in the waiting rooms just waiting every second for some kind of information about their loved ones and the status of how they are doing? >> yes we have. one of the more challenging things we have faced with the person coming in with no identification as they try to identify who they were to make sure we could get with these families who were just in such other reef, to make sure we

could express what was going on with their loved ones. it was challenging and it was difficult for us as well for all the hospital staff. we just don't know who some of these people were. we have been able to identify all 11 victims and communicate to their families. anita: do you expect all 11 to make a recovery? >> by the grace of god, yes. so far all 11 rights was i'm so incredibly proud of my team. we are level 2 trauma center capable of handling these types of crises. these patients were brought to the best possible pool place for this and by the grace of god i think all 11 will be able to recover. anita: imagine your health care workers, doctors nurses assistants and technicians are working throughout the night to help these people. how are they doing?

>> you know i think the adrenaline of this is definitely sustaining. folks who end up going to help you recognize they do so with unthinkable moments like this being a possibility so the team is doing such an exceptional job of caring for these individuals and frank lee for the patients we had in the hospital as well right now. obviously the days and weeks to come as it settles and what we will have them place grief counselors. look at some for family members but over the coming days and weeks as we process it having employee assistance programs in place to build the help us reconcile everything we are seeing around us.

it's so important to have those in place. david shimp chief executive of the medical center there in el paso, texas thank you so much for taking a few moments to talk to us this evening. we really appreciated and thank you to the doctors and nurses and health care work as there who abort tirelessly throughout the day to save these 11 people who came to the hospital. >> it's a privilege, thank you. leland: at times like this there is the commander in chief and our colleague says there is the console in chief. president trump tweeting about the shooting in el paso that only tragic and he said i there are no excuses that will ever justify killing innocent people. maloney and i give our heart thought prayers to the people of texas in and the leader of the state of texas governor greg abbott earlier today at a press conference talking not only

about the evil that has taken over his state and put his state into the unspeakable grief but the strength of texans who will come together and rebuild their city and their safety. suh texas and everybody in this community we must do one thing today and one thing tomorrow and each and every day after this. we must unite and especially i want to emphasize the importance of every man and woman black, brown, white whatever your race might he now is the time for texans to come together to support each other and help these families in need and to make sure that el paso is going to be able to take a step wh

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mall nearby. at 11 hours after the shots ring out victorious with us on the phone after she and so many others walk out with their hands raised. the police were running to the sound of gunfire. victoria we appreciate you being with us this evening. how are you holding up? >> hi. yeah well i'm finally home after what seemed like forever waiting outside. just to hear any news of what was going on. leland: we are seeing people walking rather quickly at the mall with their hands up. where police ordering you to lead -- leave that way? what happened? >> that's right what happened was i was at the mall right next

to the walmart where there was the most tech tip that he and we waited in the corner of the jcpenney store for a while. the s.w.a.t. team came in and ordered us to put our hands up and run through the building through dillards where we waited for about three hours for some word on what to do. leland: did you hear any gunshots? >> so, i did not hear any of the gunshots and after being out there for so long i got to talk to people who were in different parts of the mall. i just talked to this woman a particular who told me she heard gunshots. leland: what was the first indication you had that something was from? was the first indication

watching someone with a weapon saying but your hands up? >> like i said i was in the jcpenney store and first they announced they were going to close down the store and at first i thought it was something minor. they told us all to stay in the middle of the store and they told us to go into the corner and that's when a red flag went up and i thought something was not right. they announced that there was an active shooter in the mall and we had to wait there for further instructions. leland: what were you thinking during that time? >> i was so worried for myself and for my parents just because we have never ever been in a situation like that. leland: read their doing so before school shopping? >> we were there, actually we were there just for a birthday

present. we weren't even going to stop by but the last minute we decided to do. we were there for quite a while before it all happened. we saw a lot of elderly people out there waiting with us. el paso is triple digit heat so it was really a long time waiting out there. leland: really scary. victoria get talked to your friends throughout the day, your neighbors and others who were there. any impression you have a good day and how this is affecting for lack of a better word el pasoans and is everybody in that town feeling the grief and the loss even if they were at the mall? >> definitely. everyone is freaked out by what happened. el paso is such a safe place and

we would never have thought of something happening like this here in my hometown. everyone can agree that the smartest thing when these kinds of things happen it's having that license to carry. leland: it's a shattering thing that happens after events like this in town. everyone remembers life before this and after and we are awfully sorry that you and your city will have to live in a town and a life for you measure things in that way but fit sorry our thoughts are with you and your family and we are glad you are all right. god speed to your and your friends as you begin to process all of this. >> think you so much.

leland: know were they the mayor of el paso earlier talking a little bit about what vick doria said. there was absolutely no way to anticipate or to train as a mayor for what was going to happen today and the plan for how he would deal with the grief of the families of the 20 people that will now be planning funerals in that town. he said someone from el paso could never do this. noteworthy that the suspect that police now have in custody 21 years old is from 600 miles away. a little bit more in what police are saying about the suspect and why they are saying they are investigating this not only as a capitol murder case but as a capitol murder case but as a hate crime, when we come ♪ ♪

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leland: the "fox news" alert as we are learning more about the mass shooting in texas. that in a moment anita. anita: that's right leland. so many stories coming in so many more details. before we get to that but stick a check on the other news headlines tonight. we have rick -- nancy heinrich standing by.

to united airlines pilots were busted for being under the end their -- influence of alcohol or drugs. the flight was scheduled from the class go to the new jersey and it was canceled after the rest. we also learning the three people killed when a bluff collapse on them at a california beach world from the same family. it happened yesterday. according to family members they were at the beach celebrating up family members victory over breast cancer when a sandstone bluff broke off and crush them. officials are warning that the site is still unstable. six under protest and is the latest in the escalation of the government cracked down on dissent in russia. demonstrators have been demanding opposition cannot be allowed to register in city elections. there were dozens of arrests and a report that police beat multiple demonstrators with

clubs. that's the latest on the news headlines. anita: jacqui heinrich thank you so much for that. we want to chris babcock the editor-in-chief of the el paso herald post and he's joining us live on the phone. thank you so much for taking a few minutes for us tonight. >> thanks for having me. i appreciate the call. anita: we heard earlier tonight from former congressman beto o'rourke and he said generally el paso has maybe five murders per year. boy did that change today. how the u.s. the newspaper how do you write the story for tomorrow's paper? >> that's one of the hard things because again you never think it's going to happen in your community and as a news person uis have to have those contingency plans, what is that story going to look like and

i've been in this business from most 20 years. i have a narrative in my head about how things are going to be written but going to the mall, the mall is a half a mile from our studios, our offices so i was awake for another barricaded subject in the suburb when we got the first incident that happened that i was able to make it from the suburb to the mall in record time. once i was on the scene than narrative that i had in my head went out the window and it's just a matter of walking the community gently through what has happened. we have already had a couple of body blows here at the shooting in the number of people that were killed in the number of people that were injured in the course in the next 12 to 24

hours we are going to start to find out these are grandmothers came of these are toddlers and somebody's mother and father. these are the stories we will have to write and there's no way to forget that. anita: you never imagine writing those stories of 20 dead in the mass shooting. you know one of the things i have heard throughout the day is what a great 20 el paso is so i can imagine the shock reverberating throughout the community. i am sure you heard the mayor say this earlier the person that did this could never be from el paso. no one from el paso would ever do something like this. what about that? what can you tell us about the shooter and the motive and i was going to point out we are not mentioning the shooter's name on the "fox news" channel so if you know that, just leave that part out. >> believe me that was one of the earlier decisions we made. once you find out the i.d. he

wasn't going to get any press but as far as the community is concerned we do have the weekend somebody gets drunk or gets in a we have those types of crimes. we have those in el paso just like any other town. our police department law enforcement agencies make the arrest and by tuesday or wednesday they know who has died. in this case i was racking my brain to think of the last time we had something so significant and the last time from a news standpoint that this happened was in the early 90s. there was a nightclub shooting an after-hours nightclub where they closed the 4:00 or 5:30 in the morning and five or six people were shot even in that when they did find the gunman to 25 years later to have this happen and it happened and everybody in town knows. the mall was built in the 70s

and that was the first true shopping mall. it was a nikon. you have a walmart and a samsung all the restaurants are everybod. on a saturday the week before school starts as where everybody goes and not just el paso. it's 50 miles just west of those from our sister city which is on the border with us and they are people who come up from chihuahua city to shop at the mall. you see all these different license plates in the mall and you realize where all together in the same place as the community and then you have this happen. it's an overused word in a situation like that but it's just so shocking. anita: it certainly is so shocking and no question the shooter knew exactly the best place would be a madhouse with so many people shopping and there would be many people there families. let me ask you as a local news

reporter and i've worked in many small and medium-sized news markets around the country. the local reporters sometimes have the best ends with police departments into texas. can you share anything with us tonight that you have learned about what could possibly be the motive here behind the shooting? >> yes the chief spoke earlier and pointed to the alleged manifesto that was out there and has been widely distributed now this individual traveled over 650 miles. he was determined to hit the location that he wanted to make a point with. i'm not going to even discuss what's in this manifesto but as the mayor said and as the chief said and as our congressional representatives said it was hate. it was just a line hate and i heard another law enforcement officials say this gentleman drove for 600 miles past other

targets just to get to el paso. he was very driven to make this point and when you have someone from the outside of the community do that it's a mindnumbing and it's hard for anyone to wrap their head around that type of intense hate. again he drove 600 miles and apparently stayed in a hotel in el paso and woke up saturday morning and he knew what he was going to do. >> it's truly unbelievable. chris babcock editor-in-chief of the el paso herald post sharing his thoughts with us this evening. good luck writing that story tomorrow crispier thoughts are with you and the entire community. thank you so much. >> thank you and we really appreciate your support. we lin oftentimes we talk about

the worst part of humanity we talk about the suspect and his possible motivation and a police are investigating this as a hate crime per let's talk about the best part of humanity. hospitals in el paso sending and the urgent need for blood donations and people lined up quite early round the block in 100 plus degree heat to donate blood. stephen coleman in los angeles with more and how folks in el paso are coming together to help in and have folks across the country can help as well. >> hi whelan. texans showing up strong to help the victims of this tragedy. at least 26 people injured. take a look at el paso's response for the urgent call for blood donations the line wrapped around the outside of the donation center today in the sweltering texas summer heat and

keep in mind it was 101 degrees there one point of people still waited outside to donate lead. local media's reporting the people on the grounds that the donations they are now overwhelmed. they are telling me people to make appointments on line because more donations will be needed throughout the week are the el paso fire department thanking the committee on social media. thank you el paso for donating food, water ice and the support of the family reunification center. people who would like to make a donation may do so. that is a link to an el paso relief fund governor at -- abbott to remind people to -- >> people paying a lot of attention to this asking what they can do. i asked you to keep el pasoans

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today and spoke with reporters outside of a walmart just a couple of hours ago. take a listen. >> discussing -- disgusting and intolerable. it's not texans and we are going to prosecute it both as capital murder but also as a hate crime which is exactly what it appears to be without having seen the evidence yet. i don't want to get ahead of the evidence but we have to be very clear that conduct like that and actions like this, crimes like this are not who or what texas is and will not be accepted here. >> president trump expressed he would give governor abbott any resources they may desire in the aftermath of the shooting. leland back to you. we lin governor abbott in his words he wants to focus on memorials not politics and we will do the same in the time

being. david thanks so much. now we go to a retired commander with the los angeles police department. your thoughts. >> my thoughts from what i've been watching over the last several hours is the command-and-control component as a comparative for any critical incident could only look at specifically what's occurring across the country an active shooter law enforcement and the fire department's emergency medical services around the neighborhood have been concentrating on active shooter drills. command-and-control component we put in place as soon as possible to maintain situational awareness and to understand life safety destabilization and property preservation. we lin good thoughts. seems today as you look at

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leland: a fox news alert. in el paso, texas the investigation continues inside the walmart where 25 people dade today. we understand forensic teams and evidence teams are til inside. the bodies of those who died are still inside and will be for a while. anita as we talked about a couple times during the show. police who go into these scenes and spend time in them will tell you the eariest part is the cell phones that continue to ring -- ththethe eeriest part is hearine cell phones continue to ring as their loved ones are looking for

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>> we didn't realize what was happening. it was the most of horrific thing i have ever seen. reporter: this is a fox news alert. we are learning the sobering toll of a bloody attack at a walmart in texas. a young gunman behind bars. question at this hour is why. i'm anita vogel. reporter: i'm leland vittert in washington. on what is a sad night