. >>> joinings us by phone is ken aldman, he is a howard county executive. ken, are you with us? we have talked to someone inside the lines, actually in a command week with police as they first got there. tell me what was happening when police first got there. >> this is the kind of thing men and women in law enforcement have to train for. since columbine we have seen these kind of shooter incidents, so we train all the time with our tactical team, state police, our neighboring jurisdictions. in fact we had trained here in the colombia mall before, trained with mall security. so our folks got here very, very quickly, both patrol officers and our s.w.a.t. team which happened to be very close by, on another assignment, so we're very proud of the work that they have done. obviously our deepest condolences go out to the family members and loved ones of the victims. we will be doing a press conference, the chief and i in just a few minutes at 4:00 to give people an update. i did hear your coverage about people coming out of the mall. >> right. >> the mall has now been cleared. so the