that breaking news out of texas. snipers opened fire during a protest against police brutality. five officers are now dead. it is the deadliest single attack on law enforcement since 9/11. thank you for joining us. >> it is a horrific morning in dallas and abc7's jessica castro is following all the newest information coming in about this attack. >> reporter: the dallas mayor said the fourth suspect is dead. he died as police used explosive to blast him out but it's still unclear how he died. two civilians were shot and

earlier officials thought it was just one. five law enforcement officials have died. six remain hospitalized right now. two are female officers. we've also confirmed all the victims that were killed were men. also right now, detectives are just starting to process the massive crime scene in downtown dallas. several government build rgs closed and will be throughout the day. within the past hour, a sweep of the area was completed. no explosives were found. also while you were sleeping, the president has commented, calling the shootings a despicable attack and promised federal help. downtown is still swarming with police officers right now. a complete investigation is under way. reporting in the newsroom, jessica castro, abc7 news. i'll check in as soon as we get updates. >> hard to believe for another morning this week we're waking up with such awful news. we'll continue to follow it throughout the morning for you. massive protests in oakland as well. 880 at one point completely blocked, that reopened overnight.

first weather and traffic. hi, everybody. everybody's going to get a little sweat wet this morning if you're traveling around. the driz sl more widespread. no real heavy rain on our doppler. the bay bridge, the deck looking a little moist compared to where it was yesterday. as far as our 12-hour day planner, 52 to 58 this morning, 60 at the coast, another breezy and chilly day. sue? you're waking up to a b.a.r.t. delay, 20 minutes in the fremont line, the richmond direction due to some track maintenance that lingered over between bay fair and san leandro. expect those delays to linger. they are recuperating so we'll check back. ace train number one on time. muni, everybody looking good there. golden gate bridge, look at the sheen on the roadway. it's very drizzly and foggy and may limit your visibility here as well, but traffic is light at this hour with four lanes in the southbound direction. right now, the doors to

oakland police headquarters are boarded up. just some of the damage left behind after protests against police brutality went into the night. all lanes of 880 are back open. abc7 news reporter amy hollyfield is live in oakland. about a thousand protesters were on the highway? >> reporter: they just reopened it around 1:00 this morning. protesters shut it down for protesters shut it down for several hours. they shut down interstate 880 in both directions for about five hours around broadway. protesters chanted, set off fireworks, even climbed on top of big rigs that couldn't go anywhere. this started around 8:00 last night and brought traffic to a halt. there was also damage done on the city streets of oakland. a few businesses had their windows broken out and there is graffiti throughout downtown, most of it anti-police messages. police say they made one arrest.

back here at oakland police headquarters, look at the damage that was done here. they broke out the front door. it is now boarded up. there is red paint splattered on the doors to represent the bloodshed from police violence. building has graffiti on it we can't show you because of the choice of words. police tell us the good news in all of this, no one was hurt. amy hollyfield, abc7 news. >> at this point, we will take that good news. thank you. in minnesota, authorities have identified two officers involved in wednesday's fatal shooting of philandro castile during a traffic stop. both have been with the same police department for four years. they have now also both been placed on standard administrative leave. castile, the 32-year-old black minnesota man, died of multiple gunshot wounds. yesterday hundreds of protesters gathered outside the minnesota

governor's rez depositisidencer. beyonce's reaction to the deaths with a moment of silence deaths with a moment of silence last night. #altonsterling an and #philandrocastile have been tweeted millions of times. john lemg tweeted out these dallas shoot rgs horrific. killing these officers is morally reprehensible and completely counter to keeping us safe. lebron james stwetweeting out, are all hurting tonight. more violence is not the answer. abc news is planning a special report at 5:30 when the dallas police chief will bring us the latest. we'll have that on abc7 and our app. download it and enable push alerts. we will send you updates as soon as it gets started. more local news to the south bay. a symbol of how much need there is for some families even in the

heart of silicon valley. parents are lining up this early in the morning to get school supplies for their kids. abc7 news reporter matt keller is live in san jose. >> reporter: many have lined up overnight. you can see how many people are out here in front of sacred heart community service. they want to be the first in line to sign up for this backpack giveaway. the charity says the need has increased over the years. five years ago they distributed 2,100 packs. this year they have enough spots for 3,300. >> it's a combination of the cost of living. san jose hatz the third highest rent in the country and a lot of parents do want their kids to be prepared that first day of school, and a backpack is really the beginning. >> reporter: here's video from last year's giveaway. sacred heart says the students they serve come from schools that do not have access to as many resources and support of those in more affluent communities. today is the only registration day. the giveaway is august 12th. they still need to m collect

backpacks and supplies. sign up on our website, abc7news.com. san francisco police are looking for the person who set off an illegal firework inside san francisco general hospital. abc7 news was at the hospital as police surrounded the facility yesterday. some people reported that they thought they had heard a shooting. a officers searched the building and eventually found an explodeded m-80 firecracker on the fifth floor. no one was hurt. a stanford law professor who called for the removal of a bay area judge is calling on you, the voters, to help him get out of office. judge persky's sentence of swimmer has been controversial. we spoke with those leading the effort to have the judge removed. she wants it on the ballot next year. >> the voters of santa clara

county will have the opportunity to weigh in on the question of whether judge persky has exhibited judicial bias to the point that he can't be relied upon to rule fairly. >> landis dover says the recall effort cannot legally begin until april 2017. persky will be up for re-election at that time. dover expects to easily get the 80,000 signatures she needs. we're eight minutes after 5:00. what we're going to do is start with current conditions. mainly in the north bay. let's zoom up there and show let's zoom up there and show we're in the mid to upper 50s, 57 cupertino is about 52 degrees. here's what's going to happen today in san jose. average high is 83. we'll top out at 76 between 2:00 and 4:00. 6:00 this morning, about 58 degrees. watch the colors. orange, 80s, yellow, 70s, 60s,

green. tomorrow you can see the cooling trend, but notice sunday it starts to warm. in fact, we'll get back to average in the back half of the forecast. i'll show you that coming up next. here's sue. some of your drive times if you're heading out coming up on 5:10 on your friday morning commute, moderate out of tracy into dub palestinian, about 35 minutes. antioch into concord looking great. same with san rafael all the way to san francisco. not bad at all. here's the bay bridge toll plaza. no metering lights yet. golden gate fields into the city, about 15 minutes. green is good. here's the flow of traffic out of tracy we were telling you about. we're hoping for friday light. we are continuing to track that breaking news out of dallas where the city's still in shock over the murders of five police officers. at least two snipers opened fire during a protest over police violence and the downtown area is still on lockdown as police deal with a continuing threat. more on that of course.

also coming up, coyotes in the south bay. they're not entirely uncommon. but now with four different sightings in two neighborhoods sightings in two neighborhoods folk

as we are tracking the breaking news out of dallas, we want to give you a look at the front page of this morning's

"dallas morning news." hopefully we can get photo up there. it says "ambush" -- that's not it either, but this is from the oakland police department paying tribute to their comrades in dallas this morning. the same also happening with san francisco police tweeting out their condolences. can't show it to you right now, but in any case, the front page of "the dallas morning news" has a really stunning shot of the -- of a police officer who is hugging a woman it appears inside the front door of a hospital. i've tweeted it out if you want to take a look at it. >> this tweet as well, santa clara county sheriff's office, our hearts and thoughts are with the community and families of dallas pd and of course of d.a.r.t. as well. >> there has been a lot of response on social media. if we can show you a -- okay. we're having some problems bringing up some of these foe toes but we will put that together and give it to you a little later on. in about 15 minutes we are going

to have a live report from dallas. we expect to hear from the police chief there and the mayor. all that new information as soon as it happens right here on abc7. other international news. a super typhoon is battering taiwan's east coast this morning with heavy rain and whipping winds. take a look at what happened to this man. yikes. basically sucked through a store door there. he appears to be okay. officials say two people have died. at least 60 people injured. the typhoon is forcing flight cancellations and evacuations. more than 15,000 people had to leave their homes. that storm expected to weaken before it makes landfall in china tomorrow morning. scientists believe another big earthquake is likely to hit the bay area in the next three decades. usgs believes there is a 72% chance of at least one quake with a magnitude of 6.7 or higher by 2043. you can take a look at the map. it shows how likely each fault line is to cause a quake. for the first time unknown

faults that have not been proven are included in this map. usgs scientists want communities to take steps that will reduce injuries, damage, and disruption. the state department is restarting its internal investigation of clinton's private e-mail server now that the department of justice has decided not to pursue charges. john kirby says he can't provide specifics about the investigation or give a time line for the process. people living in two san jose neighborhoods are getting visitors the from the hills above them, and those unwelcomed visitors are suspected of killing two pets. abc7 news reporter david louie shows us what's being done to prevent more attacks. >> reporter: mimi the cat was found on the next-door neighbor's lawn with what officers say were characteristic signs of a coyote attack. the neighbor was shocked. i heard that, you know, coyotes do attack animals and such, but, you know, you never think it's going to happen right there in your own front lawn. >> reporter: there are now two cases of suspected coyote attacks in the country lane

neighborhood of west san jose and on swiss drive in south san jose. it's believed coyotes are coming down from surrounding hills using creek beds to enter residential areas. residents have said they've seen the coyotes on their streets and in their yards. >> my husband as seen a coyote too early in the morning, just kind of walking down the street. >> reporter: that concerns pet owners such as katherine goldberger whose cat likes to hang out in the driveway and front yard. >> we have two cats who are out and about, and i'm just really worried that they could be in jeopardy. >> reporter: san jose animal care says this is coyote breeding and pup season. the animals are hungry. >> looking for food resources so, you know, some of the things we always tell citizens is to make sure they don't have any sort of trash out with food or any sort of food in the area they can eat and they'll start to get used to the area. >> reporter: there are plans to post warning signs to alert the public to take care, including keeping cats indoors and walking

dogs on a leash. in san jose, david louie, abc7 news. taking a look at our local cameras this morning, wet roadways and pretty windy this morning as well. >> i used the windshield wipers several times this morning. the driz sl more widespread. 87 at shark tank, cloudy, a little drizzle, about 59. the clouds will linger like yesterday and the breezes will keep us cooler than average. our best chance of drizzle even measurable tomorrow morning. it will also be our coolest afternoon. we'll get back to average or what summer should be as we head towards next week. over the next three hours, just drizzle, no organized areas of rain out there. temperatures low to mid-70s in the south bay, los gatos, morgan hill, gilroy, flirting with 80. maybe a touch warmer on the coast, between 58 and 60. low to mid-60s downtown, south

san francisco, sausalito. mid to upper 70s through most of the north bay, santa rosa northward some 80s. east bay shore, mid-60s from berkeley and oakland. low 70s around fremont and castro valley. as we move inland, 77 at san ramon, the cool spot. the warm spot, mid-80s in antioch and brentwood. for the game this evening, a chilly one at at&t park. diamondbacks in town, 7:15. 57 dropping down to about 55. here's my accuweather seven-day forecast. tomorrow you'll see the heavier drizzle in the morning affecting our afternoon temperatures. a little warmer with more sunshine sunday and sixty at the coast, 70s around the bay. near 90 inland. hi, sue. good morning. 41 b.a.r.t. trains but we do have a delay. not all on time. the richmond direction of the fremont line due to some track maintenance between san leandro and bay fair. that's been picked up but there is residual delay. hopefully that recoups soon. ace trains on time, no problems

with muni or buses or rail, i should say. and walnut creek is moving nicely, some brake lights around the turn at north main towards highway 24. you're looking at about a seven-minute drive from highway 4 to highway 24. >> thank you, sue. a small bunch of grapes in japan has sold for more than $10,000. the grapes are ruby romans. they're grown on the central coast of japan and are typically the size of ping-pong balls. bunch that was sold came out to $360 per grape. wealthy people in japan often pay these prices for seasonal fruit. yesterday's auction, though, was a record high. that better be real good. >> the good thing about gripe graips is you can freeze them, you can have one later. >> yeah. all right. facebook is testing a new way to bring the internet to remote parts of the world. ceo mark zuckerberg has posted these pictures on his personal page. new technology called open cellular, and it can fit inside

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we are waking up this morning to the deadliest single day for law enforcement since 9/11. snipers opened fire on a group of dallas police officers. five officers are dead, and right now more are in surgery. we are waiting on an abc7 news special report on that shooting. >> any moment now we mr. will bring that to you. a lot of new information is emerging on that shooting. let's get to abc7's jessica castro with what we've learneded in the last 30 minutes. >> we are awaiting information from the dallas police chief right now expected to talk at any moment. minutes ago we learned that there may be more suspects out

there. police in dallas are being cautious, and that comes from the dallas mayor, who is speaking to media. the numbers have also changed for the people injured. it's now 12 officers confirmed shot and two civilians. among those, five officers are dead. the mayor says all of the dead are male officers. two female officers are among those hospitalized. also new this morning a fourth suspect is dead after a shoot-out with police that ended only a few hours ago. three other people are in police custody. and while you were sleeping, president obama spoke out about the shootings, pledging federal aid to dallas. new numbers coming in on the rally itself last night that was taking place at the time of the shooting. 800 people were in attendance. there were 100 officers patrolling at that demonstration. that's the latest. back to you. so far one of the fallen officers has been identified, this man, officer brent thompson. he served as an officer for d.a.r.t., that's dallas area rapid transit. cnn is reporting that officer

thompson got married to a fellow officer just two weeks ago. the 43-year-old is the first officer to die in the line of duty for d.a.r.t. since the agency was founded in the '80s. sky 7-hd above interstate 880 in downtown oakland as at least a thousand people blocked the lanes of the freeway. you can see them making their way through the lanes. a dangerous situation for sure. fortunately, no one was injured. this is in response to the shootings of african-american men in minnesota and louisiana. chp didn't get the freeway cleared until 1:00 this morning. one caltrains sign board was set on fire. abc7 news reporter amy hollyfield has a live report on those protests. she'll join us in a few minutes. we're covering all of that for you, but a quick check of your weather and traffic. >> mike nicco, good morning. >> good morning, reggie and

natasha. driz sl our main player this morning. cloud cover and temperatures in the mid to upper 50s. drizzle just about everywhere through probably 9:00 then it tapers. we're starting off in the 50s, near 60 around the coast, 70 around the bay and 80 inland. here's sue. the san mateo bridge where traffic is looking good as you're traveling from the causeway up towards the high-rise, a little foggy here. we had some drizzle on the lens earlier. that's lifted a little bit. traffic is looking at about a 12 to 16-minute drive across the span to get over towards foster city from hayward. 880 to 101. speaking of 880, it is back open after demonstrators in oakland blocked the freeway for hours. our local protests against police brutality was mostly peaceful, although they definitely left their mark. abc7 news reporter amy hollyfield live in front of police headquarters this morning. amy? >> reporter: reggie, the city of oakland has some cleaning up to

do this morning starting here at its police department. you can see that protesters shaltered the glass on the front door and threw red paint on the building. there's graffiti that we can't show you. the messages are anti-police with foul language. >> think. think. use your brains. use your brains. >> reporter: then protesters pledged to shut it down and they did. marching over to interstate 880, they shut down traffic in both directions. this was around broadway at about 8:00 last night. they lit fireworks while they were up on the freeway. they danced, climbed on top of big rigs that had nowhere to go or couldn't go anywhere, and some protesters also pray. >> tonight they have an emergency to go to, i say my people have been in a state of emergency for hundreds of years. >> reporter: there was damage on city streets as well. some businesses lost some

windows. police tell us they made one arrest at the smart and final where the window was busted out. protesters did do damage throughout oakland but were not violent, and police say no one was hurt. reporting live in oakland, amy hollyfield, abc7 news. >> thank you, amy. some police departments are ordering their officers to pair up on patrols now following the dallas shooting. the order is in effect in san jose as well as seattle and houston. law enforcement agencies across the country are sending their condolences to dallas. san francisco police sent out this tweet expressing sympathy to the people affected by this attack. >> a facebook post from san francisco police right now. there we go. california highway a patrol says thinking of those who died in the line of duty in dallas. a black band wrapping across badges from dallas pd as well as dallas area rapid transit. >> let's talk about how we got to all this. new details about the two police shootings wednesday that left

two black men dead in louisiana and minnesota that led to these protests. last night there was another shooting in baton rouge that injured three people. the shooting happened near where 37-year-old alton sterling was killed. police shot him while responding to a disturbance call about a man with a gun. later wednesday night, 32-year-old philandro castile was shot. his girlfriend was in the car with her daughter live streaming it on facebook. >> minnesota's governor is turning to the justice department for an independent review. yesterday the governor apologized directly to castile's girlfriend. >> i can't tell you how sorry i am for the terrible tragedy for you and your family. >> i don't want you guys to be sorry. i want y'all to be more careful. >> we want justice! >> the governor later said that he believed if there were white people inside that car instead of two black people this would have ended differently. a remarkable statement. the fbi says they will like hi get involved in this case.

>> we are anticipating an abc news special report any moment where the dallas police chief are will speak about the attack. we'll bring it to you live on abc7 as well as our abc7 news app. you can download it and enable push alerts. >> i can see there are people stepping up to the podium in dallas. >> that is not the video you're looking at right now. >> are we able to go to that so we can hear what the mayor and the police chief are have to say? there we go. let's see what the latest is on the attack in dallas. snipers firing police officers, five have died. seven officers injured. two civilians were hurt. that is the major of dallas right there. one of the shooters has been killed by police and three suspects in custody. let's listen to the mayor. >> i want to thank the fbi.

i want to thank the governor, lieutenant governor flew in last night. the president called me from poland. and all your commentators have wished us well and are praying for us, and i want to say from our heart we feel that. and so thank you. i am now going to tell you some not good news for you reporters. that is we've got a criminal investigation going on, and our number-one job is to make sure the citizens of dallas are safe so we're not going to tell you anything about the suspects or answer questions on that. we will when it's the right time. now is not the right time. but a lot has happened in the last five or six seven hours since we talked early in the

morning and i want chief brown to give you an update on that. i'm proud of him. he's been working so hard these last few hours. we've been with families and trying to make sure the city is safe this morning and i believe it is. chief brown. chief brown. >> thank you, major. we're hurting. our profession is hurting. our profession is hurting. dallas officers are hurting. we are heartbroken. there are no words to describe the atrocity that occurred to the atrocity that occurred to our city.

all i know is this must stop, this divisiveness between our this divisiveness between our police and our citizens. to update you on what's transspired since we last spoke, let me walk through the standoff that had occurred or that was occurring at el centro on the second floor, the college there second floor, the college there in downtown dallas. we cornered the one suspect and tried to negotiate for several hours. negotiationses broke down. we had an exchange of gunfire with the suspect. we saw no other option but to use our bomb robot and device on its extension for it

to detonate where the suspect to detonate where the suspect was. other options would have exposed our officers to grave danger. the suspect is deceased. as a result of debt tating the bomb. the reporting that the suspect killed himself is not accurate. we've confirmed that he's been deceased because of the detonation of the bomb. our hostage negotiator did an exceptional job getting this suspect to talk before he died. during the hours of negotiating that eventually broke down. i want to share with you some of the comments from this suspect. the suspect said he was upset

about black lives matter. he said he was upset about the recent police shootings. the suspect said he was upset at white people. the suspect stated he wants to kill white people, especially white officers. the suspect stated that we will eventually find the ieds. the suspect stated he was not affiliated with any groups, and he stated that he did this alone. the suspect said other things that are part of this investigation so that we can make sure that everyone associated with this tragic event is brought to justice. so, as the mayor said, we won't

expand on -- any further on what other suspects we have interviewed or looked at or their status until we get further into this investigation and get closer to a conclusion of what and who are all involved. let me just say some closing comments about dallas police officers and d.a.r.t. police officers. some of the bravest men and women you'd ever want to be associated with. you see video footage after video footage of them running toward gunfire from an elevated position with no chance to protect themselves. and to put themselves in harm's way to make sure citizens can

get to a place of security. so please join me in applauding these brave men and women who do this job under great scrutiny, under great vulnerability, who literally risk their lives to protect our democracy. we don't feel much support most days. let's not make today most days. let's not make today most days. please, we need your support. to be able to protect you from men like these who carry out this tragic, tragic event.

pray for these families. i spoke with the families of the i spoke with the families of the deceased and the injured. they are not having a good time trying to deal, absorb this, trying to understand why. and they need your prayers. so, please, join us in helping us comfort the grieving officers' families. and i trust that soon, because we're working very diligently processing the crime scene to find evidence to bring any other suspects to justice that were a suspects to justice that were a part of this, our strength during this trying time. thank you. >> i want to add that there are public safety officials that

protect our cities and our institutions all across america every day that aren't police officers. and we lost one of those last night. a d.a.r.t. officer was one of the victims. and i just want to take a moment and say the professionalism of the d.a.r.t. organization was great, and i appreciate better school police officers, campus -- college police officers, standing shoulder to shoulder with our police officers, and that's the way we were. chief brown told the vick ims' families last night and the police officers that he was a man of faith. and i am a man of faith, too, and that we need prayers and prayer is good.

so today at 12:00 at thanksgiving square, a leadership group of interfaith ministers will be leading us in that prayer. i would ask that if you're at your home or at your office or at your school, to join us today at noon in that spirit of prayer to bring our city together and our country together to heal wounds not create them. thank you. any questions that were not any questions that were not off-limits? [ inaudible question ] >> the injured officers, most have been released. there are some that will need follow-up. i'm not going to go into any detail of what types of

injuries. their families are being very private for obvious reasons right now. but, again -- excuse me. what's the question? i'm sorry. [ inaudible question ] yes, they'ring to better. some have been released. some of their statuses, they're still needing more treatment, but they're being very private about any further details about their health. their health. [ inaudible question ] so we have to be right 100% of the time in the way we police this city. suspects like this have to be right once. they don't have to work very hard. to do cowardly acts like this, to snipe at our officers from elevated positions and to ambush

them from secreted positions around corners. all that hard work is not for naught. this city has shown great support for this police department. the mayor and city council has supported this department and these officers and we expect that to continue. and this community, i'm born and raised here. dallas is a great city. our officers will continue to put themselves in harm's way to protect these great citizens. >> i want to brag just for a second for -- if anybody hasn't heard us say this. this police department trained in de-escalation far cities across america did it. we are one of the premier

community policing cities in the country. and this year we have the fewest police officer-related shootings than any large city in america. so we are working hard to improve and there's always room for improvement. but we are best in class, we feel. feel. [ inaudible question ] no. i'm not going to be satisfied until we've turned over every stone. we've got some level that this one suspect did do some of the sho shooting, but we're not satisfied that we've exhausted every lead. and we're not going to be satisfied until every lead is exhausted. so if there's someone out there that was associated with this, we will find you and we will prosecute you, and we will bring you to justice.

[ inaudible question ] we're not counting or expanding on who or how many. we're going to keep these we're going to keep these suspects guessing. [ inaudible question ] >> i'm going to let chief brown make any strategic decisions. but i think it's important for citizens to realize that we want to give everybody their freedom of speech. we've been through several protests in the last five or six years, and they've all gone in a safe manner.

but the chief makes decisions at times that people could be critical of. de-escalated too much. you put too much body armor on. if we're all being critical of those things, just think about today. this is what you're risking if you don't do it right. and so from a policy stand point, we are, we believe, in the right to protest peacefully and these were peaceful protests till this happened. but we also have to believe in keeping our police officers safe, and i know i'm going to redouble my efforts on that. redouble my efforts on that. [ inaudible question ]

>> again, i want to expand on the mayor's comments. the freedom of prets, the freedom for speech, the freedom for expression are all freedoms we fight for with our lives. it's what makes us who we are a americans. and so we risk our lives for those rights. and so we won't militarize our policing standards, but we will do it in a much safer way every time. like we chose to do it this time. we had an adequate amount of officers at this scene, and we were blocking traffic and doing all the things to protect people's right to protest. people's right to protest. and their free speech. we are not going to let a coward who would ambush police officers change our democracy. we're not going to do it. our city, our country, it's better than that.

better than that. [ inaudible question ] >> can you say at all stability problems and just wouldn't or opening to the act or something more organized? can you talk about that? >> all of those questions would be speculation to answer. we can't get into the head of a person that would do something like this. we negotiated with this person. they seemed lucid during the negotiation. he wanted to kill officers. and he expressed killing white people. he expressed killing white officers. he expressed anger for black lives matter.

none of that maybes sense. none of that is a legitimate reason to do harm to anyone. so the rest of it would be speculating on what his motivations were. we just know what he said. that's what he said to our negotiators p. >> guys, thank you. we still have a lot of work to do. we're going to take off. >> a lot of information there from the mayor of dallas, mike rawlings, and police chief david brown, first saying they would not talk about the suspects but then going into great detail about the shooter who was killed by police after several hours of negotiations according to the police chief last night. he was killed by a bomb robot that was exploded in the vicinity of where the shooter was. this shooter said before he was killed that he was upset about the black lives matter movement, that he wanted to kill white people, especially white officers, that he had placed ieds around that area, although police so far have found no explosives. a lot of questions to be answered right now. brad fwart, our former fbi special agent, now abc news

consultant. brad, when you -- first let's talk about the decision that police made. had several hours of negotiations, then made this decision, they had no other options left, they had to send a bomb in. >> correct. what you have going on is he threatened explosives that he believed that they potentially had explosives either on him or near his person. and so the last thing the s.w.a.t. commander is going to risk is another officer getting hurt. so i suspect that was the call. we're going to send in a robot with an explosive. i guarantee you the negotiator talked at length to try to talk him out of there, and that went nowhere. >> meantime, some confusing statements there from the police chief. we have that statement from the shooter that he was not affiliated with any other groups, that he was acting alone, yet you saw the police chief say they're not taking any option off the table at this point. three suspects are still in custody.

at times he seemed to suggest that more than one shooter but in play. >> i think that is correct. and the reason, george, you don't tell the media what you're doing is there are names, places, locations they are headed, and they don't want to give that person advance notice. i also think, reading between the lines, that the chief still doesn't know really what he has here yet. he has one dead shooter. he's got three people in custody. are they really part of this? are they -- did they know about it? he just may not have his arms around all of this at this point. >> from what you know about the scene last night and perhaps you can't answer this, does that appear that kind of damage could have been done by one shooter? >> yes. when you have an assault weapon with a high-capacity magazine and you are basically -- you have cover. his cover is he's presumably in a parking garage or at least elevated, and the idea that you're shooting down the officers or civilians, you have no idea where the bullets are coming from.

you're dodging, you're running, and so you're basically sitting ducks until he gets stopped. so to answer your question, it could be one shooter. >> okay. a lot more questions to be asked and answered. brad garrett, thanks very much. pierre thomas, our seen your justice correspondent. pierre, though statements from the shooter who has now been killed, upset about black lives matter, wants to kill white people, especially white officers, that immediately turns this into a federal civil rights investigation, no? >> yes. that will be looked at. we're expecting we may hear from the attorney general later today. one thing that struck me about this situation. you have someone saying he wants to kill white officers, white people, reacting to what we've seen take place in minnesota and perhaps baton rouge. but these situations are very fluid. they have these three suspects. they want to know more about them. sometimes people that you think are suspects, they wash out. but clearly they suspect there

was another shooter. they need to resolve that. but this is a major piece of the case here in which they have a person that they know did this or part of it, and he's given them a motive. the key now is did he have a support. that is what law enforcement is all over right now. my sources are saying the key now is to run down these leads to make sure there was not anyone else supporting him who may not be in custody. >> and you have federal investigators on the scene as well now, the atf, justice will join this? >> fbi is going to assist in this investigation. again, they need to make sure that this is not beyond this group of three. maybe those three will wash out. again, very fluid situation. sometimes people you think are suspects end up not being. tu fwu fact some of these suspects are being tightlipped gives them pause. >> and would make them believe they have a lot more to run down with these suspects. pierre thomas, thank you. john carl now, our chief white house correspondent. we've already heard from the president twice. the president said he would come

back out as we learn more. some key information here right now about the possible motive of this shooter. >> the president is on a four-day trip throughout europe. no word on whether that trip could potentially be cut short. we do expect to hear from him again. also you see this reverberating on the political scene. donald trump has canceled two campaign appearances he had scheduled in miami, and hillary clinton has canceled a joint campaign appearance that she had scheduled with vice president biden. and, george, when you think about it, president obama's very first campaign appearance with hillary clinton was postponed after the orlando shooting. so back-to-back events. >> so much violence and so many different cities all across this country with so many different motivations behind it. john carl, thanks very much. we are going to return now to our regular programming. for some of you, that will be "good morning america." a full report tonight on world news. get the latest nutz anytime at

abcnews.com. i'm george stephanopoulos. i'm george stephanopoulos. have a good day. it is a terrifying morning. it's been a remarkable few hours here. >> we're having obviously trouble with our cameras right now. we just finished watching an abc news special report. we heard from mayor mike rawlings and the dallas police chief. they gave us an update on the shooter who passed away, who died during that shoot-out. he died from a police explosive device. also more about what the shooter said and the fact that both donald trump and hillary clinton have canceled campaign events today. we'll keep tracking the latest on this information. we have abc7's jessica castro, who has been in the newsroom as well, gathering the latest details as they come down. to the left of them, when we were watching that news conference, we saw there was a map. it showed a large yellow area, and that is the city center in dallas. that is still