>> my name is glenn hendrix, the chairperson of the board of directors, glenn hendricks.and love goes out to the bta family, the organization and what they've had to go through. i could not be more proud of the vta organization. as i drove here i saw vta buses out on the road, this is just a horrible tragedy that has occurred. one piece of information, the event did happen on the vta light rail yard, it did not happen in the operations control center. it did happen on the yard. i want to go ahead and let people know that as of noon today, vta light rail service will be suspended and additional bridges will be put in place. so we will continue to provide service to our county residents. the reunification here is here at 70 west where people can get together and get information about their loved ones. >> i'm sorry for your loss, what kind of security is on the parameter? >> i will let someone answer the question later. we are so sorry this event happened, we are there for you. vta is in the process of getting grief counselors in place to help them. as i said, vta is a famil

. >> reporter: vta's board chairman glenn hendricks. >> vta is a family. people in the organization know everyone. this is a terrible tragedy, and we will do everything that we can to help people get through this. >> reporter: family members showing up to find their loved ones. >> i've just trying to get to my wife. >> the mayor of the city of san jose. >> reporter: the mayor of san jose joining law enforcement to express his sympathies. >> this is a horrific day for our city, and it's a tragic day for the vta family, and our heart pains for the families and the co-workers. >> reporter: multiple agencies including the fbi assisting in the ongoing investigation. >> the fbi's role in this investigation is to provide aft tans to the santa clara sheriff's office, to provide evidence, response resources. it is a fairly sizable crime scene, and it's going to take a while to process. >> all right. we're talking about multiple places and scenes including the shooter's own home that was set on fire this morning. of course, that raise more additional questions. this

glenn hendricks. ok, i'm gonna try and see if we can hit at everyone can hear me. >> i want to thank everyone for being here. after a terrible tragedy of yesterday. it is so inspiring to see so many people out here to show your love and respect. for the vta family. and i just really want to thank you. i'm going to be brief in my comments. and i have 2 things to say. the first is i have a request to all of you. when you're out and during your day around the county. and if you see a bus driver or you see someone with the pta vest on wave and smile to them. this this month. the power over smile is awesome. the second thing i would do is i'd like to share something with you. in my family. we started it. not a tradition, something we do. we write high kuz. and so as i went home last night after the day and i needed to deal with my own thoughts and emotions. i went

. >> mister glenn hendricks is the vta president. >> my name is glenn hendricks on the chairperson of the pta board of directors g l e and h e n d r i c k s. so horrible. tragedies happen today. and our. the hearts and love goes out to the beaty family. the organization. and what they've had to go through. i i could not be more proud of the tape organization as they drove here. i saw the tape buses out on the road. as i said, this just a horrible tragedy that has occurred. one piece of information the event did happen on the beat. a light rail yard. but it did not happen in the operations control center. it did happen on the yard. i want to go ahead and let people know that as of noon today, the tea a light rail service will be suspended. and plus bridges we put in place. so that we continue to provide service to our county residents. and also just want to remind people that the renewed reunification center. it's here at 70 west heading for where people can get together and get information about their loved ones. thank you very i'm sorry for your loss. let someone handle that question

. >> very emotional glenn hendrick, vta board president, talking about today's shooting massacre saying the vta is like family. a very difficult time. we want to show you the timeline what have happened. the suspect arrived at the vta yard and was the identified as daniel cassidy at 6:34 this morning happened that's when 911 calls in about an active shooter. and then two minutes later there was a fire reported at the suspect's home, located ten miles away from the vat yard in downtown san jose at younger. kris sanchez joins us live now and what we're hearing is eight people dead, and the suspect is dead as well >> yeah, eight victims, there's always a question whether that includes the gunman aren't and it does not. we don't know whether or not that person turn the gun on themselves or whether there was an interdidn't with police. i'm looking at my watch it's it 2007 will be:20 right now and we're expecting another briefing and an active shooter situation, mass marblity situation is always very complicated by at this point we know that there's an interesting -- possible expleasive devic

cassidy and sam cassidy killed himself when the eriff's deputies reildi we heaseveral ofy idthe vta glenn hendricks talking about what has happened to this family over the past few hours. >> we are asking customers to be patient with us as we work through this event to try to recover our service, and they also want to thank all of the law enforcement that is been involved in their quick reaction and the way they have been dealing with everybody involved by this and once again i want to say how terribly sorry i am and i want to thank everybody in the vta family who has been so affected. >> reporter: vta right now is shutdown and they put in buses and places where that light rail facility is but at the moment they are securing for facilities. three bus yards and the headquarters and out of abundance of caution the security teams began to sweep all facilities with bomb sniffing dogs and those we talked about earlier from the atf and as of 5:00 of those dogs are still working inside the facilities out of an abundance of caution and it is unknown at this point what exactly the service is and when it wil

. >> i am glenn hendricks, chairperson of the board of vta. >> our thoughts and love go out to the vta the organization and what they have had to go through. i could not be more proud of the vta organization. as i drove here i saw vta buses out on the road. as i said, this is a horrible tragedy that occurred. the event did happen on the vta yard, but it didn't happen in control center. it happened in the yard. as of noon today vta light rail service will be suspended. additional bus bridges will be put in place so we continue to provide service to our county residents. the reunification center is at 70 west where people can get information about their loved ones. thank you very much. >> sorry for the loss. what kind of security is on the premise daily? >> i will let someone handle that question later. [ question inaudible ] >> we are so sorry this event happened. we are there for you. vta is in the process of getting grief counselors in place to help them. vta is a family. people in the organization know everyone. this is a terrible tragedy and we will do everything we can to help peop

also noteworthy here as well is that we heard from the individual who's actually representing -- glenn hendricksresenting the transportation authorities there. he did say that while this did happen, it did not happen in the control operations center for these trains, for this light rail system. he did say that it was at the maintenance yard, this is where they maintain the trains, this is also where they are deployed from. he also said as of noon local time, so about two hours from now, service will be suspended because so far they've been saying that service was not impacted by what has transpired there this morning. but they are going to have other ways for people to get back if they need to. but yes, they're saying they're just getting light rail up and running for the day as they were starting off just another workday as people are trying to get back to work now that many people can go back to work post -- as we come to the end of the pandemic here. so those were a couple of the main things that we've learned if here, the main thing being that we now know that the shooter was a man. that's t

. >> reporter: glenn hendricks, honoring the nine victims today with a moment of silence. together, and we want to do everything we can to support each other. >> reporter: investigators are now uncovering more about the 57-year-old man who killed nine co-workers wednesday. the sheert, identified as samuel cassidy, reportedly fired 39 rounds at the scene, and may have targeted specific co-workers. detectives located three millimeter hand guns at the scene. they also found bombmaking material in cassidy's employee locker. >> we had our canines there, and they did a search. some of our dogs alerted on what was his locker inside were precursor things for explosives. ingredients for a device actually. detonation cords, things like that. >> reporter: a dhs official told cnn customs and border protection officials detained him in 2016 after a trip to the philippines and found notes about hatred towardis his employer, books about terrorism, fear and manifestos. a neighbor says footage shows him leaving home with a duffel bag wednesday morning. the neighbor saw he saw cassidy's hou

i reached out to glenn hendricks, who is the chair of the vta. we reached out to representatives at the vta. i reached out to mayor liccardo. we've offered any support. and obviously to the law enforcement who responded and to the health care responders who really have done an extraordinary job. but we're waiting like everyone to hear the facts and my heart is just with those who are grieving. and then what your last guest said, i mean, the fact that you can have in this country a gun that can take many lives in seconds and that this keeps happening in community after community every other week and we still haven't done anything in congress is outrageous and it's personal. it's personal every time it happens to your community. and i've been in congress for almost five years and since i've been in congress we haven't passed a single thing on gun violence. we need to really do something in this country or we face these kinds of incidents again and again and they destroy lives, they destroy communities, and those lives can't ever come back. >> in fa

i'm going to introduce you to glenn hendricks.he valley transportation authority president for the board. >> hello. as we've all scene, there is a horrible event that has happened, a terrible tragedy. significant loss of life which is just horrible for our vta family. our thoughts and love goes out to the vta family, to the employees who were at the yard and everyone else who is a vta employee and their family members. i do have a number to give out. this is for vt employee and family members only. 408-321-7550. again, this is for vta employees and vta family members to be able to call. 408-321-7550. i just want to say how proud i am of our vta family. the stress that they're going through, the friends and family that they know, this has just been a terrible event for them. i also want to say that our light rail service will be stopping at noon today. we'll be putting in place a bus bridge to continue to provide service to our county residents. as we mentioned, the reunification center is inside. i've been in there talking about d