he will be followed by matt foster, the special agent in charge of the nashville fbi office, and thenhville fire department chief director william swan will speak to some operations taking place on second avenue. chief john drake? >> thank you, don. good afternoon. this morning around 5:30 a.m. officers responded to a call for shots fired in the downtown area. specifically 2nd and near commerce. they encountered an rv that had a recording saying that a potential bomb would detonate within 15 minutes. officers, upon hearing that, decided to evacuate the buildings nearby. so they began knocking on doors, making announcements, having emergency communications communicate with everyone to get people safe. shortly after that, the rv exploded. we had one officer that was knocked to the ground. another officer is fine. [ sirens ] currently what we have going on now, we have k-9 dogs out partnering with tennessee highway patrol, federal partners and we're sweeping the downtown area just as a precaution to make sure that everyone is safe and that any service that is needed we can provide that.

i want to turn the stage over first to assistant special agent in charge, matt foster of the fbi and special agent in charge from the atf to explain the resources the federal government will bring to bear on the situation. matt? >> thank you, don. the fbi stands with the city of nashville today in this very tragic christmas day event. this is our city, too. we live here, we work here, and we're putting everything we have into finding who is responsible for what's happened here today. as part of doing that, there are investigative leads to be pursued, also technical work that needs to happen, and we're standing with metro national police department and our federal partners and state partners to bring every resource we can possibly bring to bear to find out what happened here today and to bring those responsible to justice. the investigative leads i'm sure you understand is not something that we can talk about as we continue to pursue every tip, i would ask the public to go to www.fbi.gov/nashville. where an online tip submission process has been set up. please tell us what you know. we

. >> mike: that is matt foster, the fbi assistant special agent. chris, can you translate what he was saying to us, obviously not wanting to tip his hand too much. >> this is sort of a belt and suspenders approach to the investigation. that is they will gather as much information as they can on their own but they would sure appreciate some assistance from the general public. has anyone seen that vehicle? i think what they are looking for, that's a pretty distinctive rv. someone has seen that rv. once you get it out there someone will call and if they haven't already. i will go out on a limb here and say that i think the fbi and investigative team here are on to some very strong leaves as we speak and they are very astutely not putting that out right now. >> mike: that recording telling people, if they can hear it to evacuate, what does that tell you about the suspect behind the attack? >> my background, i spent some time in iraq working bombings there. terrorists are looking for a mass casualty is. you don't put out a warning and say get out of the

the lead in this education and i want to turn the stage over 1st to assistant facially in charge matt foster of the f.b.i. especially in charge mickey branch of the a.t.f. to explain some of the resources that the federal government's going to bring to bear on this situation now. thank you don. the f.b.i. stands with the city of nashville today. in this very tragic christmas day that. this is our city to live here and we work here. putting everything we have into finding who was responsible for what's happened here today. it's part of doing that there are investigative leads to be pursued and there's also technical work that needs to happen and we're standing with the metro national police department and our federal partners and our state partners to bring every resource we can possibly bring to bear to find out what happened here today. and to bring those responsible to justice. the investigative leads are you understand not something that we can talk about. as we continue to pursue every step that would ask the public to go to w w w dot f.b.i. dot gov slash nashville. w w w dot f.b.i. dot

he will be followed by matt foster, special agent in charge of the national fbi office, and then national fire department chief director william swan will speak to some operations that are taking place on second avenue. chief john drake. >> thank you, don. good afternoon. this morning around 5:30 a.m., officers responded to a call for shots fired in the downtown ar area. specifically, second and near commerce. they've also encountered an rv that had a recording saying a potential bomb would detonate within 15 minutes. officers, upon hearing that, decided to evacuate the buildings nearby, so they began knocking on doors, making announcements, communicating with everyone to giv get people safe. shortly after that, the rv exploded. we had one officer knocked to the ground. another officer is fine. [sirens] currently what we have going on now, we have k-9 dogs, all of them are out. partnering with tennessee highway patrol, our federal partners, and we are sleeping the downtown area, just as a precaution, to make sure that everyone is safe and that any services needed, we can provide that. wit