>> dana: good to have you. we hope to have you back. thanks for watching a press conference with me. thanks for joining us, everybody. i will see you on "the five" and a couple hours. i am dana perino. here is shep. >> shepard: it's 3:00 in dayton, 1:00 p.m. in el paso. noon in gilroy, california, where we have just learned startling new details about the mass murder that happen there last week. we are going to take time today to talk about those who did not make it out alive in dayton and el paso. those who pushed others to safety or were out for a drink or buying food for their family. when people murdered them. we will remember them as our reporting begins now. >> announcer: breaking news. "shepard smith reporting" live from the fox news desk. >> shepard: the killer had a hit list of political parties,

both of them, and religious groups. not the one from dayton, not the one from el paso. the one from gilroy, california, who shot up the garlic festival there last week. the new details from investigators are stunning. moments ago we learned the fbi is looking into the deadly shooting in northern california as a domestic terrorism attack. investigators say the gunman there killed a 6-year-old boy, a teenage girl, and a man in his 20s before killing himself and now they say the shooter has much bigger -- had much bigger aspirations. these updates come as we learn more disturbing details about the pair of mass shootings over the weekend. more of those on a moment. first, the breaking of elements out of gilroy. trace gallagher has them live from the west coast newsroom. >> we are talking about political affiliations on both sides. religious organizations.

the police chief in gilroy saying the exact motive remains unclear and for right now the police chief and his early going in this investigation is pushing back on reports that the shooter was motivated by white supremacist beliefs. listen to what the chief said. watch this. >> include religious institutions, federal buildings, courthouses, political organizations from both major political parties and the gilroy garlic festival. even though the threat appears to have been mitigated by the subjects death, the fbi has a responsibility to notify individuals and organizations of potential threats or acts of violence. we are in the process of notifying those groups. however, we will not be releasing or confirming the names of any specific organizations. >> he is kind of pushing back on this whole idea that this was

motivated by white supremacy. that said, shep, police are interviewing santino legan's relatives, associates, scouring his social media footprint where he certainly posted numerous things that appear to champion the white supremacist movement. they have also pulled out numerous hard drives from a residence and walker lake, nevada, where they also found thumb drives, empty ammo boxes. the "los angeles times" essay the house was his primary residence. we also know that 19-year-old santino legan was heavily armed as he went to the gilroy garlic festival without police intervention he could've taken dozens of lives. police saying that legan fired 39 rounds and police fired 18 rounds, striking legan several times. >> the information regarding the weapons, how prepared was he?

>> we know that he had a 75 round drum magazine that would fit into this weapon. we recovered that, and it had 71 rounds left. he had two 40 round magazines on his body for the weapon. he had two 40 round magazines on the ground and he had 140-round 140-round -- one 40 round magazine near him. >> he was shot a number of times by police. they believe he was able to take his own life because he was wearing a bulletproof vest. a rifle scope, flashlight, shovel, they were found in a backpack in a creek below where the shooting happened at the gilroy garlic festival. police say none of the three victims who died were killed by friendly fire. they were all killed by the shooter. clearly going over his

social media footprint will be key in this investigation to find out exactly what his motivation was to go on killed three people and injured numerous others. >> shepard: so strange. police say he had variant competing violent ideologies. thank you. the new revelations about the massacres into other states. at least 31 people killed in the shootings in el paso and dayton. investigators in texas say the man accused of posting a racist anti-immigrant screed online before he killed 22 people at the walmart there may have ended up there because he was hungry. they say he drove about ten hours from the dallas suburb to the city right on the u.s.-mexico border and got lost. the feds investigating the shooting is a domestic terrorism incident and considering charging the suspect with hate crimes in addition to capital murder. and then in dayton, we are

hearing from a couple of the shooters' ex-girlfriends who say he showed patterns of troubling behavior to put it mildly. investigators that he killed nine people, including his own sister, outside a bar. a woman who dated the shooter in high school told "the washington post" newspaper that he spoke to her about dark, evil things, as she put it. dark, evil things that he heard in his head. and warned he may someday hurt people. another woman who dated the killer in college says he showed her a video of a mass shooting, talked to her about mass murders, and performed in a band known for songs with sexually violent lyrics. she said they both struggled with mental illness and she got treatment but she says the shooter did not even ask for help because of the stigma. >> this isn't about race. this isn't about religion. it's none of those things.

this is a man who was in pain and didn't get the help that he needed. >> shepard: from nbc's today show. president trump scheduled to visit both cities tomorrow. we'll head out to ohio in a few minutes. first, garrett tenney and el paso this afternoon. >> investigators say this point in their investigation, all signs point to this being a hate crime. fss county sheriff even said the shooter came here to kill hispanics. we are starting to hear stories from some of the survivors that seem to support that idea. one example of that is chris grant, who was here at walmart shopping for groceries on saturday when the shooting began. and, who is a 50-year-old african-american, told the el paso times that he saw the gunmen allow white and black shoppers to leave the store while he targeted hispanic shoppers. grant could have escaped but instead he stayed, trying to distract the gunmen by throwing bottles at him. for his heroism, grant was shot

twice in the ribs and the 50-year-old is now recovering in the hospital. it's also becoming more clear that the 21-year-old gunman wanted to be caught and he wanted credit for this attack. police say after the shooter left the scene, he identified himself as the shooter to an officer. this video shot by a witness shows him being taken into custody about a block away from the store. >> shepard: how is the community remembering these victims? >> a number of vigils are scheduled for later today. the first victim, the youngest of the victims, that was last night. family, friends, and strangers gathered to honor and remember 15-year-old javier rodriguez. he loved to play soccer and his friends say he loved to make people laugh. >> i can't help but feel angry that this young man was robbed of his potential, robbed of his future, and robbed of his life because of someone's unfounded

hatred. however, i know that if i truly want to pay tribute to javier's life, anger has no place in honoring his memory. >> is the city prepares for 22 funerals, it's also preparing for the visit of president trume first lady tomorrow. is a lot of mixed emotions about that visit. here is the city's mayor. >> represent the office, the mayor of el paso, texas. is not a political visit so in that capacity i will fulfill my obligations as mayor of el paso to meet with the president and discuss whatever our needs are in this community. >> shep, the last hour, the border network for human rights announce that as of this morning, more than 17,000 residents of the area have signed a letter calling on the president not to make that trip here. a lot of folks that we've spoken to here, they say they respect the president coming in his role as commander in chief but are

struggling to reconcile that with a lot of the language the president has used towards the immigrant community. >> shepard: garrett tenney, thank you. less than 30 minutes from now, police and dayton are set to give an update about their investigation into the mass shooting that happened there. first, a moment to remember the lives cut short by a gunman at a bar late on a summer saturday. megan betts, the shooter sister, was it to regret as a visitor center in missoula, montana. beatrice curtis, longtime friends tell "the washington post" she was one of the most generous people they knew. helping needy families by school supplies. t.j. mcnichols, his mom told the local newspaper he was like a big kid, a gentle giant who loved his four children and talking to the family. along with bringing them to the

movies. nicholas kumer, he helped cancer patients and was working towards a master's degree in cancer car care. a man who immigrated to united states a few years ago to escape violence in africa. a family spokesman described him as humble and quiet. lois ogles be. devoted mother of two children, including newborn baby girl. derrick fudge. he was a family man who loved his dog, lucy. monica brick house. friend said she was like an aunt. a friend described her as a very positive person. logan turner. his mom told the local paper he

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>> shepard: continuing coverage of the mass shootings over the weekend. waiting for an update from police in dayton, scheduled to begin in minutes. mike tobin is on scene. >> from high school, moving forward, we have heard from plenty of people who say this gunmen displayed threatening, disturbing behavior. he even talked about his own mental instability. >> his darker moments, yeah, he said he had hallucinations, voices in his head that scared him. i wouldn't say other people put him in that dark place. it was his own issue. i don't feel others ostracize him. people were afraid of him and i

feel that was valid. >> shepard: ohio governor mike dewine proposing a number of reform starting with mental health care, giving families the ability to put up red flags if someone is showing disturbing behavior, has access to weapons. he wants to create more access to mental health care and give schools the ability to interven intervene. >> is clear that the assailant while in high school clearly exhibited antisocial behaviors and antisocial behaviors that should have alerted anyone who knew about them that there was a problem. a serious problem. >> governor dewine is also proposing more stringent background checks, increase penalties for anyone who uses a weapon during the course of a crime, illegal ownership of a weapon and for buying often for someone who shouldn't have one

in the first place. >> shepard: any word on what we can expect from this briefing in a couple minutes? >> of course the briefing will include the latest on the investigation and keep in mind we've been through so much of this but this is still a very new investigation so there can be some new information there. the last time we had a briefing from police, it was before all of these revelations about the years and years of disturbing behavior in the accounts, particularly coming from the dayton daily news, that police were informed about this disturbing behavior. anticipate some questions to the police about that. >> shepard: the mayor they are not at all happy with the president's remarks and we will hear more on that from john roberts at the white house. we will get to that news conference as it begins. a tit-for-tat over travel. uruguay and venezuela are warning its citizens against visiting american cities in the wakes of the shootings. it comes days after the state department downgraded or glazed travel status because of increased crime there.

the department has warned americans against going to venezuela so now those governments are warning their people against coming here. stocks are back in the green today after rebounding a bit from their worst day of the year. we will get a live report from the new york stock exchange as we watch the last hour of trading, but first, we continue to remember some of those who died at the el paso walmart when a gunman massacred shoppers as they picked up groceries and back-to-school supplies. david johnson died while protecting his wife and 9-year-old granddaughter in the checkout line, according to his family. his son-in-law told reporters that johnson pushed his loved ones out of the way so that they can hide as the shooter gunned him down. family members say jordan anchondo shielded her baby from the bullets while her husband, andre, jumped in front of both

of them. both of the parents died. the little baby survived, broken bones but no parents. arturo benevides was an army drr who is said to have loved telling stories about his days in the military. leo compos and his wife had just dropped off their dog at the groomer and decided to make a quick stop at walmart, as routine as any day ever until when leo and maribel never came back to pick up the dog, family members traced their car's gps and found it was in the walmart parking lot. in the middle of it all. with all that usaa offers

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carrying the singer pink and hew burst into flames after a crash landing in denmark. everyone survived. danish media reported that happened last night and pink were just performed in norway was not onboard. no word yet from the singer or from investigators on what caused the crash. a fox surgeon. stocks bouncing back to a degree after the worst market day. a lot of look at the dow. up about 278 or so. it's been above 26,000 here and there from time to time. yesterday's plunge came after china's latest move in the trade war with the united states. some of the stocks that took the biggest hits yesterday are leading the rebound today. fox business network reporting live from the stock exchange. >> good afternoon. after the worst trading day of the year, you can see the dow is trading up by 267 points.

it's been a volatile session. we started higher. went into negative territory. we came back. that's exactly what trader said they expected this morning. what happened overnight is the central bank of china stepped in, stabilized its currency to bring some calm back into the marketplace. this was after the united states, remember, called china a currency manipulator. there still a lot of questions for traders, investors. what happens between now and september when the trade talks resume with china? are we had china's mercy in terms of how they want to maneuver their currency? we see drops like that in the market when they do? with u.s. companies under pressure right now dealing with all of this, are they going to start to see an impact on the bottom line? that's why you're seeing the volatility and answer those questions not really entirely clear with the uncertainty out there. then of course there's the fed. we have discussed it before. september rate hikes pretty much fully baked in right now. the market wants it. the fed hasn't exactly said what it's going to do and now traders

are saying they want a december rate hike as well. before the meeting. >> shepard: china backed off last night. do we know why? >> the saying that parents will sometimes say, it's going to hurt me more than you are whatever the case may be. china is a position where i can make this kind of currency move and it helps on the export side but of the same time, they're going to be places where it falls into trouble when the currency is so weak. for example, servicing debt, bringing its purchasing power and buying power debt. china and the central bank is very well aware that it's got to dance on a very fine line here and find the balance. it's about them just as much as it is about us. >> shepard: jackie deangelis. will watch the markets in the final hour. thank you. a bullet fired from an ar-15 rifle can do a lot more damage than one from a handgun. it can shred muscles and shatter bones and turn organs into pulp.

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>> shepard: fox urgent. police in dayton are about to give an update on the deadly mass shooting outside a bar there. we know the mayor is going to be there and make remarks. we know the police chief will be there to answer questions. the biggest question of the day of course is about motive. why did this young man outside the bar gunned down all those people and what do they know about his bigger plans? this news conference scheduled

to start directly. we'll take you there live. president trump is set to visit both dayton and el paso following the mass shootings over the weekend. some of the people who live in those cities as well as lawmakers in those cities and counties and states say they want the president to stay in washington. the white house says president trump plans to visit with victims' families, survivors, and first responders, the first lady going along with him. john roberts reporting live from the white house. john. >> good afternoon. the details on the ground of the president's visit in el paso and dayton are going to remain off the record. white house not giving away any details as to exactly where the president is going to go. there's a lot of debate over the visit, president trying to tamp down some controversy with his statements on twitter. the president tweeting today: "i

am the least racist person. repeating the presence denunciations of white extremism. one member of congress is urging the president to stay away. congresswoman virginia escobar, democrat, 16th congressional district in texas includes el paso. here's what she said about the president's visit. >> he's not welcome here. he should not come here while we are in morning. i would encourage the presidents staff members to have him do a little self reflection. i would encourage them to show him his own words and his actions at the rallies. >> el paso's republican mayor who has quarreled with the president in the past earlier this winter over crime statistics in el paso says that he will welcome the president, adding the caveat "in his official capacity as mayor." listen to what dee margo said. >> he's he's coming here on

wednesday. i want to clarify for the political spin that this is the office of the mayor of el paso in an official capacity welcoming the office of the president of the united states which i consider is my formal duty. >> the mayor of dayton, nan whaley, democrat, not exactly thrilled about the fact of the president is coming to her city tomorrow. >> he's made his bed and he's got to lie in it. his rhetoric has been painful for many in our community. i think people should stand up and say they are not happy if they are not happy he's coming. >> white house officials all day today pushing back against accusations and criticisms by democrats that the president is somehow responsible through his rhetoric at least in part for the shooting in el paso and also

being very critical of democratic presidential candidates were raising money over their criticism of the president. white house officials pointing out that the dayton shooter appeared to espouse leftist views on his twitter account and saying no one is blaming democrats for what happened in dayton, so why are they blaming the president at least in part for what happened in el paso? shep, emotions are running high on all sides of this and it's going to certainly hang over the president's visit tomorrow. >> shepard: john roberts of the white house. thanks again. we are watching events in dayton. we are expecting this news conference to begin. we are led to believe it is to begin shortly. we believe we have enough time for a commercial break first. before we do that, remembering more of the victims from the weekends mass shootings, young and old, grandparents and grandchildren gunned down while shopping at the walmart in el paso. javier rodriguez was only 15 years old.

see him here? the youngest victim in this massacre. his soccer coach says he was a dedicated athlete. his family told reporters he was about to start his sophomore year in high school and was shopping for groceries with his uncle. before he was shot dead. 88-year-old angie englisbee, described as a strong and blunt grandma who raised seven kids all by herself and loved watching general hospital. moments before the shooting, she was on the phone with her son but told him she needed to hang up because she was on the checkout line. it was the last time her family would hear from her. gloria marquez was at the bank inside the walmart. her husband said when he saw news about the shooting, he called his wife to tell her to take cover. she didn't pick up.

>> shepard: as we remember the 31 people who died in the mass shootings over the weekend, there are the victims still in the hospital, some very badly injured. over and over, emergency room doctors have described the carnage that high-powered rifles can inflict on the human body.

a radiologist who treated victims after the massacre in parkland, florida, told the atlantic the high velocity bullets ripped through muscles and bones and left exit wounds the size of oranges. she said one organ looked to her like an overripe melon smashed by a sledgehammer. lieutenant colonel justin or is a military orthopedic surgeon. he's been treating patients at dell solved medical center in el paso. on behalf of everyone here, thank you for the incredible work you do to save lives. thank you. that's all. >> good afternoon, shepard. thank you for having me on. i appreciated. >> shepard: twitter is exploding. that's what twitter does. could you help people understand what the difference is between these assault rifles that for a while were banned in these --

and these shootings went down until it sons headed in that it went up 200%. can you tell the difference in what those guns do versus others. >> the best way to describe it is not in terms of labels but in terms of velocity of the round. low velocity bullets versus high velocity bullets, high velocity bullet, what you might see it is certainly going to cause the potential for more soft tissue as well as bony destruction. i can't really comment on exactly what type of ballistics we saw in el paso on this past saturday which was a terrible day, but what i can say is we did see a tremendous amount of soft tissue and bony damage, at least in the musculoskeletal patients i took care of. consistent with a high velocity type around. >> shepard: generally speaking, the high velocity rounds does different things to the body that a low velocity

around. >> that's correct. >> shepard: regarding recovery. for people who have received gunshot wounds from high velocity rounds. how much more difficult is it and what kinds of different complications are there? >> as as an orthopedic surgeon, what you will see from high velocity rounds is more bony damage, more soft tissue damage and it's the soft tissue that's most affected and puts the patient at high risk for potential amputations, potential infection and it makes limb salvage a little about more difficult than what you might see with the standard low velocity rounds. i worked at the medical center here in el paso. we have a partnership or recover their orthopedic trauma called on the weekend. the types of injuries that i saw this past saturday and the type of situation that we witnessed during the mass casualty event

was similar to the types of events you might see in a combat theater. >> shepard: i keep reading, doctor, that the work that is done at the astounding level 1 trauma centers across the nation, so much of the training for those doctors came from the battlefield. >> that's correct, shepard. if you look at some of the changes, some of the evolutions over the last decade in mass resuscitation that we see in level 1 trauma centers, as well as how we deal with a lot of these tremendous musculoskeletal injuries, the civilian world certainly taking those lessons we learned from the military over the last 18 years of conflict. >> shepard: we always hear, especially an old-school police beat reporter, no matter what's happened to you, if you can get to a level one center alive, your chances are damn good. what happens in the early going in that level 1 trauma center that saved so many lives?

>> yes, sir, that's a great question. we saw that on display this past saturday at del sol medical center. within 20 minutes of getting the word we had a potential mass shooting on our hands, the entire hospital had mobilized in the emergency room and the most amazing thing was the number of people from the community that poured into del sol medical center to try to help in the effort. it's the protocols that hospitals have two immediately triage patients, figure out who are the emergent patients, the urgent patients, get them to the operating room as needed immediately. that's what we saw happen on saturday and that's why we were able to maximize the potential for lives saved. >> shepard: friends at level one centers tell me we drill for this all the time. it's our hope in our prayer and our wish that if it actually happens some day it goes just like the drill. did it? >> it did. you're right.

you hope that you never have to be in those scenarios. i've been in those scenarios before overseas in combat theaters. the weight of the folks here at this hospital responded on saturday was second-to-none. all the drilling and all the practice for this event really paid off and allowed us to maximize the lives saved on saturday. >> shepard: lieutenant colonel justin orr, a hero on the battlefield and here at the hospital. can't thank you enough. >> thank you for having me. >> shepard: i mention we're waiting for an update from dayton. they are running a few minutes behind. imagine, i mean, the hospital. good grief. the police department as well, trying to get all the information together, making sure everything they say is exactly right. the world is listening in -- and watching. we are waiting to hear from them. when it happens, we will go there. 24 hours a day, whenever they are ready.

first, the first black woman to win the nobel prize in literature and one of the great american authors, toni morrison, she has died at the age of 88. her publicist wrote a statement that she peacefully passed away last night's fronted by friends and family after a brief illness. toni morrison didn't publish her first novel until she was nearly 40 years old and then went on to write a handful of award-winning books and essays. one of her most famous works called "beloved," the story about a former slave who killed her baby so she too was not enslaved. that won the pulitzer for fiction and made its way onto the silver screen. >> i can't see why you're holding onto us. >> she's the one.

she's the one i need! >> here in this place where flesh, flesh that weeps, laughs, dances barefoot in the grass. >> shepard: from touchtone pictures. before she became a world known author, toni morrison worked at a -- as an editor at random house where she helped bring to life the works of other black writers, including gail jones, angela davis. in the year 2012, president obama awarded toni morrison the medal of freedom, describing her novels as magical. >> toni morrison's prose brings us that kind of moral and emotional intensity that few writers ever attempt. from "song of solomon" to

beloved, toni reaches us deeply using a tone that's lyrical, precise, distinct, inclusive. >> shepard: toni morrison said in her speech, we die, that might be the meaning of life. but we do language and that may be the measure of our lives. toni morrison, nobel laureate, great american author, legend of literature, was 88. i'd like to take a moment to address my fellow veterans,

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>> shepard: here's one for you. they were once one of the biggest acts in all of las vegas. siegfried and roy and the white tigers they loved. her magic act was a mainstay on the strip for years. one night the audience watched in horror as a tiger bit one of the performance on the neck and damaged his -- i should save dragged his limp body off the stage. it was their final show. that was 16 years ago, 2003.

in all that time, siegfried and roy have not said a word about any of it. that just changed. laura ingle live in our new york city newsroom. >> of course it was a moment in time that changed everything for the iconic las vegas performers, and now we are hearing about it from the duo for the first time. both insist the incident was an accident, not an attack. they were seemingly unstoppable with their run at the mirage. they are speaking out in response to accusations from a former trainer that was working with them on that night, octobe. he claims there were mistakes made during the show the trigger these 400 pounds 7-foot long tiger to go after roy, pouncing on him and dragging him offstage by the neck there lawrence says roy used his arm to steer the tiger back into his body instead

of walking him in a circle like he usually did, adding "his face was right in the midsection. by roy not following the correct procedure, it fed into confusion and rebellion." siegfried telling abc news for the first time his partner had a stroke on stage which prompted the tiger to lunge in an attempt to help. >> the tiger was waiting to get his treat. he said no, no, no. the tiger went on top of him and looked around and he didn't know, like his face was what, what? >> the duo gave the rear interview before a reunion with cast members from their show in las vegas. >> shepard: what else have we heard from the trainer?

>> chris lawrence came out with the story in the hollywood reporter saying that he's been suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder since the fateful night, adding that roy had a diminishing relationship with the tiger, which he thinks it was a factor. siegfried says he has no idea why lawrence came forthwith his story now. >> shepard: laura ingle in our newsroom. thank you. iran's president with a warning, don't test us. >> translator: peace with iran is the mother of peace. war with iran is the mother of all wars. >> shepard: the iranian president speaking alongside the foreign minister. last week the trump administration passed new sanctions on zarif as a person. iran started taking over tanker

tankers. that iran's president now says if washington wants to talk with tehran, it needs to end the sanctions first. ellison barber reporting from the mideast newsroom. >> iran sees that sanctions as economic terrorism. the trump administration says it's necessary to do harsh sanctions to get iran to come to the table and renegotiate the nuclear deal. iran's president hassan rouhani spoke in a live broadcast, state tv and he warned in his speech that he war with iran is the mother of all wars. he called the u.s. actions criminal and suggested shipping in the strait of hormuz might not be safe. >> translator: if you want safety for your soldiers in the region, security would be for security. you cannot blemish our security and then expect security for you. peace for peace, oil for oil.

>> roughly one fifth of the world oil travels through the strait of hormuz. >> shepard: thank you. the mirror is coming out in dayton, ohio, for the news conference. cavuto will have it beginning now. >> neil: thank you, shepard. the mayor will soon be out there to talk to those who want to know a little bit more about the nine killed and the 27 injured in dayton. let's go directly to the mayor, who is not a fan of the president coming to her city. let's listen. >> good afternoon, everyone. w