law enforcement experts and also emily coleman who is a reporter with the northwest harold, fox lake, let me come back to you quickly. talk to me if you can about the relationship between police and people who live in fox lake? how would you character that relationship? >> i mean -- i don't think that you could classify there as being any issues. a lot of communities out here, this is actually where a lot of officers live. so, you know, these tend to be pretty solidly pro law enforcement communities. >> how are people there on the ground that you have interacted with, how are they reacting to all that's happened in that city today? >> i think people are just shocked. i've heard from a couple of people that it is just kind of surreal to hear your hometown on major television networks. it isn't something i don't think anybody expected to happen here. >> erik fogel joins me now. a retired maryland state police sergeant who specializes in training blood hounds. jim cavanaugh is still with me and so is clint van zandt. let's talk about the role of the blood hounds here. again, as clint poi

for more on this developing story, i want to bring in emily coleman, reporter for northwest herald theremily, thanks for being with us. give us a sense of things as you see them. it seems like officials don't have a lot of information to work off as they continue to hunt suspects. is that your read? >> yeah, it seems like there's a lot of unknowns at this point. the big question is what are they keeping close to their own vest. i mean, there are plenty of circumstances in investigations in which they don't tell reporters things because they don't want that getting out any further, but at this point, yeah, the descriptions that we've gotten, it doesn't seem like they're working off of a whole lot. >> they're looking for tips, though, imploring people. >> yes. >> to let them know if they see someone acting suspiciously or if one of the men were to tell someone about the incident. >> that's correct. and they're asking people basically, one of the detectives at lake county sheriff's office said no tip is too small. >> they want people to be proactive and send those in. we're also hearing rep