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jonathan dienst still with us. i know that you have a couple of jobs tonight but i wanted to get your first reaction, and of the information that we learned of, your thought? >> my thought, the 11 fatalities is a new number. >> up by three. >> no children. somewhat of a relief, and a bit of awe in terms of when you hear the stories of how law enforcement went and confronted a heavily armed ar-15 holding suspect, who's blasting bullets at innocent people and at them, and they're risking their lives, and going in there to save as many people as you heard, some of the folks at that news conference saying, it would have been a lot worse if not for the actions of those officers who went and first confronted that suspect and when they were risking their own lives to stop them. >> let's underline that. because of the injured, four of the six were officers. >> that's right. and they are all going to be okay. they're all stable. >> doing fine is what the doctor said. >> right. questions for that one of the victims sounds ve

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andrea. >> i think that we have jonathan dienst who got that picture, geoff. so before we go to the east room, the president has not started speaking. jonathan? >> yeah, hi, andrea. so that photo of the suspect is from a prior assault. three law enforcement officials are confirming that is the man who they believe is the suspected bomberer who mailed the pamckages from florida and connections with new york. there was dna material found or some sort of forensic material the on one of the envelops that wound up being a match in a database that led to this arrest. there is active work right now, and the initial theorys is a lone actor, but now there is concern that others may have known or helped, and there is a large manhunt and search under way for any possible others who may have assisted him in connection with this mail bombing that has been sent to new york, california, washington, et cetera. so the investigation is still very active. it is still possible that he is a lone actor, but they are running down every other lead to see if others knew or might have i

joining me now on the phone, jonathan dienst who has brought us a lot of information today. i understand you have more to share with us. jonathan, what do you have? >> basically, we can provide you with the update and summary of what law enforcement knows at this hour. they are learning a lot about the suspect given his activity on the social media, including apparent anti-semitic statements towards the hebrew sheltering and immigrant aid society which is a new york city-based organization on fifth avenue which helps bring in refugees at times from the middle east to various communities. and he apparently had posted some hateful and concerning messages a couple of hours before this shooting incident. so that is something that has law enforcement here in the new york area now running around to follow up on those possible leads. in pittsburgh, obviously the concern is for the officers and the worshippers who were in that synagogue given the multiple fatalities, given the weapon that was used, the ar-15, and this clear appears to be a hate crime detectived toward congregants at

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and we know that according to authorities that have talked to jonathan dienst and also tom winter thatple in all were shot. we know that three of those were law enforcement. and we're waiting for confirmation, but it appears that the number of fatalities is eight, nine or ten. but we're waiting to get definitive word on that. the suspect is we think maybe wounded. but is in custody. and now of course as you know the authorities are going through the building just to make sure that no one else was involved. that is standard procedure in something like this. and to make sure that there are no other victims. so it hit two purposes and that what is happening. >> absolutely. and to your point, you're citing the statistics and of course we like to get all our facts and figures correct and have them corroborated before reporting them, but it speaks to chaotic nature of the situation liabilitilike this, so we will wait to see officially the level 6 carnaof here. and they are still sernlgt positi -- searching the synagogue. there are three areas there. and right now the police there are using a

but law enforcement people that i've talked to, pete williams has talked to, jonathan dienst has talked to, they have all been clear that all of these packages went through the mail and at this point as we first reported here yesterday law enforcement people are looking to see whether some or all of them were actually mailed from the state of florida. so that is something that is being looked at closely at this point. and obviously as we continue to get packages and devices, the vehicle that you are looking at on the left, even if that bomd went obomd -- bomb went off, all the evidence would be contained. and the more packages that law enforcement is able to get, the more opportunities they have to get evidence and get clues that could lead them to the person or people that wheare doing this. so that is the key focus of this investigation. we don't have an indication that they are looking at any specific individual, but these investigations are fast moving and can change on a dime. >> on the left side, you talked about that in effect bomb truck essentially. over the last 24 hours or eve

and we had mentioned that earlier, and so, that reporting from my colleague pete williams and jonathan dienst, and again, repeating ceasar cyock jr., current cannily living in florida has been r arreeen arre connection to the bombing probe, and we know that we have a press conference at 2:30, a and little confusion as to whether or not a criminal complaint is ready on him yet, but we will get the court documents as soon as the folks over in the federal prosecutor's office can get them to us. >> does he have a record? >> this person is believed to have a prior record. there's a little bit of confusion about that record, about some of the things that he has in the past, and right now, the nbc news investigative team, we are pouring over the records, and we will be able to, we will be able to get that. and in addition, we have, and we may have a picture of a prior arrest, and white male in the 50s, and we then circled that the around to 56 and now we can name the person as cesar sayoc jr. taken into custody, and this the van belongs to him or something that he drives or in connection to this, th