members are expected to deliver remarks. >>> this morning we spoke to the santa clara sheriff laurie smiths and family interviews. they found two semi automatic hand guns and 11 magazines by the suspect's body. sheriff smith says they may never find a motive but they're looking. >>> 6:45. latest jobless claims report came out an hour ago. joining us with the numbers, elise preston, live in new york. good morning. >>od g ay for a little more than ten minutes. let's take a the big board. dow is up about 260 points. nasdaq is slightly down by about 24 points this morning. the number of americans filing jobless claims continues to decline according to the labor department. 406,000 people filed for unemployment benefits last week. that was better than expected and marks another week of claims hitting their lowest level since early days of the pandemic. michelle. >>> elise preston at cbsmoneywatch.com. thank you. >>> 6:46. let's check with gianna to see how that morning commute is shaping up. vta rail service is still shut down. >>> it is shut down, the light rail service, until further notice.

sheriff laurie smith says they do not know why samuel cassidy shot those nine people. they are investigating motive. san jose police are guarding his home here on angmar court in south san jose near the intersection with mclaughlin where cassidy lived. this surveillance video from a neighbor who lived across the street shows cassidy leaving his home yesterday morning. you can see him carrying a black duffel bag that he puts in the back of his white pickup truck. his house burned a little bit later. law enforcement is investigating whether cassidy set fire to his house using a timed device to coincide with the shooting. we spoke to his ex-wife. she said he would come home angry about work and in an interview with the ap said cassidy talked about killing people at work. she never believed he would actually carry out the threat. >> i would tell him that's how it is on the job, you have problems, and people may not like you and you may not like so and so for whatever reason. that's how it is. sometimes he did not like my sponsor would get more mad. >> reporter: an ex-girlf

so joining us now the santa clara county sheriff laurie smith, thank you for joining us. we really appreciated. i know you probably haven't slept much, but unfortunately overnight, we learned that, you know, we had 8 people who died and then the 9th victim died in the hospital. >> just so tragic. absolutely tragic. everyone is touched by this on including members of our department. it is. it's very difficult for everyone. and it was so tough yesterday. i mean, the scene broke out. you guys went in there when their shots fired. this is block away from your sheriff's office. tell me, you know how hard it was to get in the scene and then all the steps after that because i know it was just a long process of everything between the corner and then, you know, finding, you bomb material stuff like that yeah. what was immediate was the response into the building and shots were still being when our team with san jose entered and within a matter of confronted the suspect and. >> when our deputies confronted the suspect, he took his own life. >> 57 yul simulcast of his of employee he

sheriff laurie smith and her team have been on the ground since the beginning, since all of this broke. she took time to talk to us this morning about where they stand in this investigation. >> so we provide law enforcement services to vta, and our team had actually trained all vta employees what to do in an active shooter. they were told to run, to hide, or to engage the suspect. i don't know what they did, but i think they reacted as they should have and certainly with our entry team and able to extricate victims. that kind of protocol that we have in this county, i think what we did yesterday did save lives. >> when did you do that training? >> within the last year. >> what irony. >> actually an exercise in that building. >>> deputies were in the middle of a shift change when shots rang out and they quickly moved in. >> reporter: they did. according to the sheriff she told us when they got the initial call, they rushed to the scene. when they entered the facility the deputies heard bullets flying while they were trying to save lives inside the facility. obviously a clear sign of bra

and the sheriff laurie smith. we heard her say it loud and clear. those men and women entered that building shots fired. they were hearing shots fired and they still went in, and they pulled out those injured and they threw him those animals. they got him out, and they rushed him to the hospital. so at 1 30, what do we 30 minutes away from us? he was conference. i would love to hear an update on the conditions of those people who were injured because they wed. everyone deserves to know so we can send out those prayers to them and their family and support something else. i'm hoping to learn when we bring you this news conference live in about half an hour. now is the time that the first cruise arrived at the scene. we've heard a lot about the first call coming in at 6 34. i have yet to hear thesheriff's department pinpoint when first crews arrived, and if those men and women arrived, still hearing gunshots we talked about the fact that there's been so much research done on this topic. and you know you like we have here have gone through training as w

this morning on the "today" show sheriff laurie smith says law enforcement is still trying to figure out the motive for yesterday's shooting. >> what in the world could prompt someone to take this kind of action? we don't know at this point. >> he scared me all the time. he never said hi. he didn't say anything. he looked like a scary person. >> reporter: that was cassidy's neighbor was mentioning. agencies like the fbi and atf spent much of the day out here collecting evidence from his home on angmar court. the bomb squad searched the home for explosive devices. none found, or at least they're not reporting they found any. neighbors were allowed to return to their homes last night. reporting live in south san jose, bob redell, "today in the bay." >> you were out there yesterday, how much of that home actually burned? the inside.: i did the police did find a gas can and smelled gasoline, so the belief is that was the accelerant used to start the fire. >> good thing that didn't spread to other neighbors homes as well. thanks so much, bob. as this investigation continues to unfold, lov

the suspect, according to the sheriff laurie smith. suspect knew that law enforcement was there and then took his own life. this all started to unfold about 6.30. >> wednesday morning and there is also a second crime scene that is being processed right now. what we believe was a fire at the gunman's home an ad mark court that fire and that call came in around the same time as the reports of shots fired at the vta yard and when a law enforcement and the fire department got there. they were smelling gas and explosives and they believe that there were some bomb making materials and since this has been an active shooter investigation that has now brought in a lots of extra help from state and federal agencies, including the chp, the fbi, atf and homeland security that all comes in hand in hand with an active shooter protocol. again, we have 8 victims all died from gunshot wounds and that one suspect 57 old sam cassidy is dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. what we want to do now is turn now to our kron four's, dan kerman. he has been

now we just talked with the sheriff laurie smith and she tells us exactly what kind of guns were used by the shooter to kill his coworkers. take a listen. >> the guns were in the area where he took his life and they were 2 semiautomatic and he also had magazines that ammunition in them. and we know that he had those 2. i'm not sure if additional been found and they appear to be legal or, you i've seen the photographs they appear to be legal if they've been modified in any way. i don't know that at this point. but they appear to be the type that would be legal in california and i don't know about on the ammunition that type of ammunition or anything like that. >> and the and the department in san jose police immediately responded after receiving the shots fired call around 6.34. you're looking at a picture of cassidy right now. remember, this yard is just a block away from the sheriff's office. so they responded so quickly. the shooting took place in 2 separate buildings here where 40 employees were located at the time. police and deputies spent a majority of yesterday clearing the ent

santa clara county sheriff laurie smith says the sheriff's department and san jose police immediately responded after receiving the shots fire call around 6.34, yesterday morning she says that the shooting took place in 2 separate buildings where 40 employees were located deputies say once cassidy realize law enforcement arrived. he turned the gun on himself and took his own life soon after the sheriff's office quickly detected explosive materials at the rail yard but say. >> there's no danger now to the public. of course, they were able to safely go when they eventually had an explosives dog on scene in that detected. some type of explosive material at the crime scene. at that point the activated, the sheriff's bomb squad and they were on scene all day long. now the scene is very large. you know, there's 2 scenes one where i'm at right now to beat a rail yard and one at the home of the shooter home of cassidy. and that's where will tran is now there's still no news on the motive. the question everybody wants to know, of course, these mass shootings are always senseless and horrific b

as you know, very early wednesday morning around 6.34, is when santa clara county sheriff laurie smith says that they got the call of shots fired. shooting took place in 2 separate buildings were 40 employees were also there at the same time, deputies say once cassady realize law enforcement arrived. he turned the gun on himself and took his own life. the sheriff's office quickly detected explosive materials at the rail yard but say there is no longer a danger to the public. they spent a lot of time making sure it was safe and that's why they had the media and everybody. so far away. they had explosive dog on scene explosives dog on scene which detected some type of explosive material at the crime scene itself. at that point they activated the sheriff's bomb squad whose current who wasfon scene all day long. now the scene is very large, as you know, is connected to where will is that right now. in the meantime, all the family members are just mourning the loss. we heard just horrific devastating story from a man who lost his brother, his brother. he heard, though, was a hero inside tha

sheriff laurie smith says the guns appeared to be legal that were found on him. but it's unclear if they were modified in any way. cassidy was a current vta employee when he shot up the vta rail facility killing 9 of his co-workers. you just heard their names. initially it was 8 people killed. but late last night, one of the victims died in the hospital. the sheriff says there was no exchange of gunfire between law enforcement and cassidy. as i said, he turned the gun on himself as soon as he saw officers running in the shots fired call came in at 6.34 yesterday morning the sheriff's department in san jose police immediately got there. remember the railyard is just a block away from the sheriff's office. the shooting took place in 2 separate buildings where 40 employees were located at the time. it took a lot of time for law enforcement in the corner to begin processing the scene yesterday because police detected explosive materials inside so bomb squad and a bomb canine was brought out. they found explosive materials in cassidy's work locker. eventually the scen

we want to turn now to fill in some of those blanks the sheriff of santa clara county, laurie smith,d morning to you. >> good morning i'm sure its been a difficult night one in which you and your detectives have been working very hard. can you share with us what you have been able to piece together about what happened yesterday? >> we know that the suspect entered the facility and began shooting. and there were deceased in two separate buildings, which we believe he went from building to building. >> the suspect was an employee of the valley transit authority, the vta. at this point do you have any information that he particularly targeted those employees, or was this just an indiscriminate act of violence? >> we don't know specifically whether he targeted. i think that will come up in the investigation, but not certain right now. >> have witnesses described any interaction with the gunman as this unfolded? did he say anything, indicate anything? >> not that i'm aware of. he went through the building shooting. it was a short period of time before our deputies were able to confront th

the santa clara county sheriff laurie smith revealed today that the shooter carried weapons to work in a duffel bag. >> the suspect had 2 handguns on when the sheriff's office approached him and they semiautomatic. 9 millimeter handguns, but he also had 11 magazines in the had ammunition. and i'm in fact, they were high capacity magazines. each one had 12 rounds in it and he fired a total of 39 shots. >> the sheriff also said the shooter appeared to target some of the victims before taking his own life. and now let's talk about those victims here are the coworkers murdered in this senseless rampage. they are 63 year-old abdullah, the hob and done 29 year-old adrian za. 49 year-old alex fritsch 35 year-old jose de jesus hernandez. the 3rd. 36 year-old, laura slain. also, we have 40 year-old michael boorda met can 42 year-old paul mega and 36 year-old tab jeep saying 49 year-old timothy romo also killed. we're going to get to know these people. a lot more and we will start now with getting a closer look at paul de la cruz his family says he leaves behind 3 children. here he is pictured w

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talked with the sheriff laurie smith. she says the sheriff's department in san jose police. they responded immediately after receiving the shots fire call around 6.34 yesterday morning. and remember, this yard is just block away from the sheriff's office. so there's ponce time was quick. the shooting took place in 2 separate buildings were 40 employees were located at the time. police and deputies spent a majority of the day yesterday clearing the entire facility. it took time because not only did the coroner have to process the scene but before that they had to make sure it was safe to even get in there. they detected explosive materials. they had the bomb squad out here. they had a canine and they're making sure even safe to go in and process the scene. this large. she is also connected to a second at the shooter's home where a fire erupted about 3 minutes after shots broke out here. cassidy suspected of setting his home on fire potentially with some explosives that is still being the answers of why, you know, we talked with the sheriff earlier she said we may never know w

santa clara county sheriff laurie smith says once cassidy realize law enforcement arrived. he turned the gun on himself and took his own life. >> she says deputies did not exchange gunfire in addition to the shooting. the sheriff's office detective explosive materials at the rail yard but say there's no danger to the public. we actually had an explosives dog on scene. >> which detected to some type of explosives material. at the crime scene itself. at that point, we activate the sheriff's office bomb squad with currently on scene. and render any type of suspicious package in safe. at that point. tell you, it's going take a long time. to render these areas safe. they have to go through every room and every building to ensure that everything is safe. >> in addition to this beaty, a rail yard shooting location, local, state and federal authorities are investigating a second scene less than 10 miles away at the 1100 block of anmar court. that's where cassidy lived. he suspected of also setting his house on fire some time before the shooting. >> well, still a lot a lot of missin

smile, always willing to help his employees at the crime scene, said the clara county sheriff laurie smith, saying it could take weeks to uncover a motive. she says the lead shooter sam cassidy, was armed with three semi handguns around 6 30 wednesday morning, the 57 year old vita employees came to the authorities light rail yard near north first and san pedro and started shooting. he fired 39 rounds and carried 32 high capacity magazines loaded with bullets, the last of the nine people fatally wounded, died late monday night, and i saw that aftermath. and i saw the immense pain in the faces of the families and i heard their cries when they got the news, and it was utterly heart wrenching. and i felt immensely helpless. the sheriff's office says cassidy apparently targeted his victims telling one person i'm not going to shoot you, but gun down others, officials say he took his own life as deputies and law men and women approached. i know that our deputies and the officers that responded while the shooting was still happening are heroes they went in. they confronted the suspect, and when th

early wednesday morning, santa clara county sheriff laurie smith says the sheriff's department in san jose police immediately responded after receiving the shots fired call around 06:34am the deputy sheriffs from the sheriff's office they officers from san jose police department ran into the building was shots were being fired. and i know that it saved many lives smith says the shooting took place in 2 separate buildings were 40 employees were also there at the time. >> deputies say once kasey realized law enforcement arrived. he turned the gun on himself and took his own life soon after the sheriff's office quickly detected explosive materials at the rail yard but say there's no danger to the public. we actually had an explosives dog on scene. >> which detected to some type of explosives material. at the crime scene itself. at that point, we activate the sheriff's office bomb squad with currently on scene. and render any type of suspicious package in safe. at that point. i'll tell you, it's going take a long time. to render these areas safe. they have to go through every room and eve

sheriff laurie smith says the guns appeared to be legal. but it's unclear if they were modified cassidy was a current vta employee when he decided to shoot up the vta rail facility killing 9 of his co-workers initially was 8 people killed, but late last night one of the victims died in the hospital. cassidy turned the gun on himself once law enforcement arrived, police and sheriff's officials tell us there was no gunfire exchange between law enforcement and him. the sheriff's department in san jose. police responded very quickly at the shots fired call because remember, we're just a block away from the sheriff's office that was started at 06:34am, in the morning yesterday. the shooting took place in 2 separate buildings were 40 employees relocated the time. this is a massive scene and that's part of why it's taking so long to investigate. there's bodies found in both of the locations. police and deputies spent a majority of yesterday clearing this entire facility and it took a lot of time because before the coroner can get, it could get in

sheriff laurie smith has been also on site most of the morning personally overseeing the search for answers. we'll talk more about the investigation just a little bit, but first, let's go to our videotape. this was just a little bit of while ago in north san home. was evita officials gathered for this conference honoring the nine fellow employees who were killed monday morning. the name of each person was red, and some managers give testimony to the character and dedication each person showed as an employee, sometimes my demands could be under these enabled, but. paul always accepted with a smile, always willing to help his employees. they saw the immense pain and the faces of the families and i heard there christ when they got the news, and it was utterly heart wrenching, and i felt immensely helpless. and that was vita acting general manager, evelyn trend of the sheriff tells us the weapons used yesterday by alleged shooter sam cassidy were two semiautomatic handguns around 6 30 monday morning, the 57 year old cassidy, evita employees came to the authorities light rail yard near north fir

as the investigation continues, sheriff laurie smith talked to wanda vta employee who had returned to pick up a personal car. >> i just happen to be here and i talked with her the day of the incident because she was one of the witnesses. so, i just asked her how she was doing. >> reporter: that cache of weapons at the house is separate from what cassidy brought here to the railyard. investigators say he had three semi automatic handguns, more than 30 magazines of ammunition , and he fired off 39 rounds in all. >> laura, what about these guns we are talking about. do we know if they were registered to cassidy or if he purchased them legally, what are you hearing? >> reporter: dan, we asked that at the press briefing this afternoon. they say at this point, all they can say is they know that cassidy had at least some of those goals guns legally registered and legally purchased or they will investigate each and every one of them. of course, you had to remember, the ones in the house have been destroyed or damaged to some extent by the fire. we can also say those magazines of ammunition in

still active, ongoing, and what i'm going to do is i'm going to route this over to our sheriff, laurie smithll speak briefly on the incident and then we're going to move on to the next person from there. >> about the eight, does that include the gunman or not? >> say that again? >> does it include the gunman? >> eight victims and one suspect as well, so that's nine altogether. >> so there's nine. >> nine. eight victims, there's eight casualties from victims and one suspect casualty at this point as well. >> the building that they're at is 101 west younger avenue. it's a control center, and that's where they're at at this point. >> the fire. there's a fire scene. >> we're still ongoing and trying to figure out exactly if there's a connection or any information on that point. we're still trying to gather that information. information. >> reporter: was there ammunition at this location? >> i don't know. i'm trying to get more information. i'm going to hand you over to officer sherry smith. >> this is an active investigation and there are many components we're trying to discover. we mentioned th

santa clara county sheriff laurie smith says. >> once cassidy realize law enforcement arrived. he turned the gun on himself and took his own life. >> she says deputies did not exchange gunfire in addition to the shooting. the sheriff's office detective explosive materials at the rail yard but say there's no danger to the public. we actually had an explosives dog on scene. >> which detected to some type of explosives material. at the crime scene itself. at that point, we activate the sheriff's office bomb squad with currently on scene. and render any type of suspicious package in safe. at that point. i'll tell you, it's going take a long time. to render these areas safe. they have to go through every room and every building to ensure that everything is safe. >> in addition to this beaty, a rail yard shooting location, local, state and federal authorities are investigating a second scene less than 10 miles away at the 1100 block of anmar court. that's where cassidy lived. he suspected of also setting his house on fire some time before the shooting. >> now we still don't have a mo

and what i'm going to do is i'm going to route this over to our sheriff laurie smith who will speak verye're going to move on to the next person from there. >> sergeant, about the eight. does that include the gunman or -- >> i'm sorry, say that again. >> the eight -- >> so the eight victims is eight victims including -- and there's one suspect as well. so that's nine altogether. >> nine. >> so there's nine. >> there's nine. eight casualties from victims and then one suspect casualty at this point as well. >> is there a second scene? >> so the building that they're at is 11 west younger avenue. is a valley transportation authority hub center. it's a control center. and that's where they're at at this point. >> the fire. >> we're still ongoing and trying to figure out exactly if there's connection or any information on that point. we're still trying to gather that information. >> was ammunition found inside this -- >> i don't . >>> i'm going to route there over to the sheriff. >> first of all, this is an active investigation. there are many, many components we are continues to discover. we

sheriff laurie smith telling me at this point based on preliminary figures, authorities believe thised 39 rounds whenever he arrived here yesterday at this location during that mass shooting. this morning, she had confirmed to me some of the weaponry that was used, saying that the suspect had two pistols as well as 11 magazines, so a serious amount of ammunition that was brought here but the sheriff just confirming a couple minutes ago to me that they believe 39 rounds were fired. now, interestingly, the sheriff also said that it looked at this point as though the shooter may have targeted his specific victims. she told me that present at the scene, whenever the suspect was in the middle of his rampage, there was a local union official who did not work for the transportation authority, and according to the sheriff, that shooter walked up to the union official and said, quote, i'm not going to shoot you. and that person was not shot. of course, we know the people that were shot were people who worked here at this train yard, that leading authorities to believe this was an act of workp

bag that he carried there, perhaps even more disturbing, according to santa clara county sheriff laurie smith. it appears that some of the victims were targeted. >> that he said to one of the. people there. i'm not going to shoot you and then he shot other people. so i imagine there was some kind of thought on who he wanted to shoot. i think it was deliberate well planned. i think he was moving quickly. it certainly was well planned because he walked into his business i duffel bag that firearms and ammunition. >> yesterday we showed you this surveillance video you see cassidy there in his driveway about to leave his san jose home. that was wednesday morning the morning of the shooting and then this new surveillance video we've got tonight. it was released by the santa clara county sheriff's office. it shows cassidy on the premise. us of that vta railyard. you could see him will play again. top left corner. he's carrying that duffel bag as he walks. authorities say cassidy started shooting at building be on the west side of the facility and proceeded to walk towards building a on the east side

authorities have not said what kind of guns were used, but sheriff laurie smith says the gunman 57 year santa sam cassidy, shot and killed himself as deputies rushed in. there was active shooting going on at that time. there were victims shot in two separate buildings, but they responded. they responded the way that they should. they took their life in their hands. the bomb squad spent hours coming the vita facility for possible explosives. investigators are also cassidy's house a few miles away where a fire was set this morning. they were looking for explosive devices there as well. the shooter's ex wife says he showed signs of anger about his workplace going back years. experts say there are resource is that could help prevent violence. ktvu is jana katsuyama joins us now live with more on that part of the story, janna. julie certainly there's no single answer to stopping these mass shootings, but instead of saying that they are inevitable, some recent studies indicate that perhaps pain, maura attention to anger and anger management might be effective in trying to prevent some of the

they say he took his own life as law enforcement arrived, sheriff laurie smith tells us deputies did not exchanged gunfire with the man. the light rail yard is right next to the santa clara county sheriff's department deputies in the middle of a shift change race to the scenes and those actions are being credited with saving lives. late today. the bodies of several of the victims were still inside the vita facility while the bomb squad combs those buildings, a dog detected some pipe, some kind of suspicious device there. earlier we talked with a man whose wife works as a mechanic at the light rail yardhe gunfir. i'm ju in there, okay. what did the message say? um, methods that she dropped her phone and she's all right from running, she said. she's all right. yes, that i'm running. she dropped their phone from running. she's all right. she's using the coworker's phone. investigators are also combing the gunman's home looking for possible explosives. after that house was set on fire this morning, right about the same time of the shooting. we have live team coverage tonight. our crews h

they say he took his own life as law enforcement arrived, sheriff laurie smith tells us deputies dided gunfire with the man. the light rail yard is right next to the santa clara county sheriff's department deputies in the middle of a shift change race to the scenes and those actions are being credited with saving lives. late today. the bodies of several of the victims were still inside the vita facility while the bomb squad combs those buildings, a dog detected some pipe, some kind of suspicious device there. earlier we talked with a man whose wife works as a mechanic at the light rail yard