american population, it should be jarring to everyone that that same population accounts for something like 60% of all religious-based hate crimes. >> the adl, the anti-defamation league says anti-semitic incidents are up nearly 400% since october 7th. new york's governor kathy hochul announcing that a person is in custody in connection with anti-semitic threats against jewish students at cornell university in ithaca, new york. that's just one of several incidents on college campuses across the country since the war began, and it's not just anti-semitism that's on the rise. it's also islamophobia. the council on american islamic relations says complaints of incidents targets muslim americans have increased nearly threefold since october 7th. and thanks very much for

joining us. erin will be back tomorrow. i'll be back here live tomorrow in tel aviv starting at 4:00 p.m. eastern. also for "the situation room" starting at 5:00 p.m. eastern tomorrow. "ac 360" starts right now. good evening. this is the aftermath of an israeli strike today in the densely populated jabalia refugee camp. the u.n. says it's the largest such camp in gaza. one eyewitness described the scene to cnn as horrific and said, quote, children were carrying other injured children. we warn you, the next video is disturbing. many of the wounded and dead were taken here, the hospital closest to the camp. witnesses telling cnn they believe a large number were killed, but we can't independently verify the actual number. the idf confirmed the strike and said they were targeting and killed a top commander of hamas in gaza. hamas denies the commander was even there. we'll have more on that in a moment in a conversation with the representative from the idf.

israel also said today that there were more strikes north that destroyed hezbollah targets in lebanon. and tonight there is late word that secretary of state antony blinken is headed back to israel friday. he is also expected to visit other countries in the region as well. not clear yet which ones. a spokesman for what hamas calls its military wing, meaning the people who planned, launched and committed the october 7 terror attacks says his group will free some hostages that they kidnapped in particular foreign nationals. no indication when that may happen. only a claim that it would happen, quote, in the coming days. joined now by cnn's nic robertson by the gaza border in sderot, israel. what do we know more about this air strike? >> we know the idf were targeting a senior commander from the hamas, that he was involved in the october 7th attacks, that he was actively planning more operations against israel and had been involved over the past two decades in other attacks, significantly

2004 in ashdod, an attack that killed 13 israelis. they say when they targeted him, he was with a number of other hamas members. this does seem to fit the footprint of what the idf is describing as the ground operations inside gaza, that the troops on the ground when they identify hamas targets, they call in airstrikes. this was a massive air strike by all accounts, multiple impacts on the ground. the crater is very deep. we do know some of the air strikes designed to detonate in the tunnels that hamas hides in. we don't know if that was the case this time, but the idf indicated that he was hiding in tunnels, hiding behind civilians. but the devastation in this densely populated refugee camp in gaza is the biggest of the eight refugee camps there, more than 110,000 people living in that very tiny area, very densely populated. and the local hospital,

indonesian hospital, the director there saying literally, they were having hundreds of casualties, dead and wounded. they were treating them in corridors, on floors, the hospital completely overwhelmed. the image is one of massive destruction. but the idf very clear saying they were targeting this hamas leader. hamas has come back, though, and said that he wasn't there. they're not saying if he is alive. they're not saying where he was. they're just saying he wasn't there, anderson. >> and what are we seeing -- or what are you seeing in terms of air strikes where you are right now? >> fighter jets overhead right now. we've seen helicopters it appears firing missiles into gaza this evening. there have been very heavy detonations that we're hearing of heavy artillery being fired in. john, if you can swing the camera around here, you can see some white lights there. now that scenario that was pretty dark until the last few

days. that we believe is now an illuminated sort of gateway, if you will, into gaza, that the idf is illuminating. this appears to be as close to the erez crossing, one of the principle crossings into gaza. this appears to be flood lighting to better enable troops to come and go into gaza. they wouldn't have flood lights on if they thought hamas was around there. i think this shows that the incursion into gaza is now one that has a well established beachhead, if you want to call it, breach in the border to gaza there. we don't know how far the troops are getting into gaza, how far they are into gaza city precisely, what are they doing. are they all on foot? are they on tanks or armored fighting vehicles? what we've seen in bases closer to the board, we've been further south along the border here, there are troops and combat vehicles forming up in columns, getting ready to go, getting ready it appeared to go into

gaza and reinforce. and that is the message, the idf is conveying tonight. this isn't over. they call it difficult battle space, a difficult one to fight in. they're not after creating civilian casualties. but they are not -- and you can hear it, stopping this incursion, anderson. >> nic robertson, thank you. we have more on the camp itself by one of our reporters who had recently been there. i'm joined by the international spokesperson for the israeli defense forces. colonel, as you know, hamas denies the commander in question was at the refugee camp. i know the idf has intelligence that he was there and that he was killed. how can you be sure? >> yeah, he wasn't in a refugee camp. i agree with the hamas on that. he was in his tunnel complex under a populated area, which is where hamas terrorists hide trying to use civilians as their human shields. and yes, i can confirm that he is dead, just like we have confirmed the death of more than

50 hamas operatives with names, locations and their military importance and their position. also, ibrahim biari is dead, along with dozens of other terrorists. and frankly, i wouldn't trust a single thing that hamas say, whether it's not who's alive and who's dead. and any situation about hostages and practically anything else. >> what is the calculation the idf makes in deciding on striking area that you know is heavily populated? i ask this, because in war, soldiers make calculations in targeting -- you know, in targeting a person, is this person's worth the loss of civilian life? are they important enough that it's worth a certain amount of civilian loss? and these are cold -- it's a cold calculus to make, but all militaries make this. can you just talk about how those decisions are made or who makes them? >> yeah. they are made, as you say

correctly, during wartime. war is horrible. the things that happen in war are never good and never positive. and unfortunately, we find ourselves in this war after we were attacked by hamas. what we're doing now is striking back at hamas and striking at its military facilities. in every combat in urban terrain when there is still presence of civilians, which by the way have been called on us to evacuate for more than two weeks, this is northern gaza. we've called on them to evacuate. about 800,000 have evacuated. 300,000 or so still remain in the area, which is regrettable. but in any case, the calculations that we do, like any military, what is the importance of the military target, and how can that promote the achievement of the aims of the war, and what is the estimated cost in noncombatants. and then you try to decide balance between those who.

i can tell you that there are dozens, if not hundreds of strikes that we avert in the early planning stages, or even once they're being executed, because we see that the balance between the military importance and collateral damage, as it's called in military speak isn't good enough. and then we avert the strike or we decide not to do it. or we give advanced warnings, or we call ahead. we do all kinds of things. but the bottom line is it's always relevant. in this case, a senior important combatant commander of hamas that was running operations from his bunker complex underneath that neighborhood, that is why he and the other terrorists were struck. and yes, he is a confirmed killed to the best of information that we have at this time. and hopefully soon we will be able to get our hands and weapons on more hamas commanders. this guy, by the way, was one of the planners and the executers of the october 7 massacre as

well. >> how many hamas leaders does the idf believe are in gaza? >> excellent question. very relevant, and really at the top of the focus of israeli intelligence. where are the commanders? how many of them have gone incognito and trying to embed themselves in civilian population? how many are trying to flee from gaza using tunnels and other ways? very, very relevant, and really at the top of our information requirements. we are monitoring that. at this stage, i cannot say here what our assessment is, but we are aware of the common phenomenon with hamas, whenever the going gets really tough, they will send expendables from their point of view to try to fight off forces, but the seniors we will find them perhaps elsewhere, maybe in qatar, maybe in other locations. but in relative safety, usually the cowards that they are, they

will leave palestinian civilians to face the consequences of their aggression, and they will have the rank and file continue fight while they take big checks of money and leave the area. unfortunately, not the first time that happens. but it's part of the calculation that we're seeing. >> colonel jonathan conricus, thank you. >> thank you. >> joining me now from cairo, melissa bell, who want to the rafah crossing today where aid is still stalled. and in southern lebanon, john wiedeman who visited the jabalia camp this past may. ben, the idf says there were hamas tunnels in this camp and they killed a senior hamas commander. when were you last at this camp, and was a hamas presence evident there? >> i was last there in may after another round of fighting between at that point islamic jihad and israel. and no, there was no obvious hamas presence there. what was obvious was that this

was one of the most densely populated of gaza's eight refugee camps, and more than anything, what you would see in jabalia was lots of children, more than anything else. certainly not any hamas fighters walking around. i've been going to jabalia for years, going back to 1993. and what always struck me going there was how many children were there. in fact, among journalists who regularly covered gaza, they always said you're going to jabalia? watch out for the kids. there are so many of them. not hostile, not aggressive in any way. just simply you had to manage the children while you tried to do your work. and this is -- you have that spokesperson for the israeli military. anybody who watched the footage coming from the scene of that air strike would have been

struck by how many children were on the scene, how many dead children were being pulled out of the rubble. so perhaps there was a hamas tunnel deep underneath the jabalia refugee camp. but on the surface, there were people, there were civilians, there were children who were struck in this. and cnn was able to speak to eyewitnesses. they talked about children pulling wounded children out of the rubble. one man who saw the strike said it felt like the end of the world. anderson? >> melissa, do you know how much humanitarian aid actually got into gaza today in the south? >> well, what we saw today, anderson, was a bigger proportion of aid getting through a 24-hour period than we've seen over the course of three weeks since this war began. in all, there are 217 trucks with 57 extra who made it through that slow trickle in the

rafah gate through into the enclave. just to be clear, while that is a bigger proportion than we've seen so far, anderson, it is a tiny proportion of what is needed to meet the needs of the people inside. in fact, one aid worker described it as a drop in the ocean. to give you an idea, the u.n.'s children's agency says there is currently just 5% of the water needed in the enclave to meet the needs of the people inside. and so ever since israel has declared this full siege, beyond the bombardments that ben was talking about, essentially what you're looking at is a policy of starvation, and that is close to where we're now getting inside gaza. >> what is the latest, melissa, on whether the rafah crossing will ever open for whether it's wounded civilians to get out of gaza to be treated or the palestinian americans who have been stuck there now for more than throw weeks. i don't understand who's

preventing the palestinian americans from leaving? because there is families who have been waiting there for weeks. >> that's right, who headed there when this all began in the hope that they'd be allowed through. it's certainly what they heard. in fact, we are starting to begin to hear some word of movement on that. so a little increased aid has gone in. and what we're hearing is that for the very first time, 81 wounded palestinians will be allowed through the rafah gate and to a field hospital that has been set up some 15 kilometers away by egyptian authorities. so that is good news to be at least for the first time, for the first civilians to be able to head out of gaza. they've been entirely trapped so far. and to your question about the dual nationals, there are so many hundreds of them inside the enclave. we're beginning the hear there might be some movement on that front too, although no confirmation for the time being that will happen tomorrow. we're starting to hear that some of those internationals will make their way out. the difficulty here i think is

first of all, the very intense negotiations that have had to take place between hamas, israeli officials who keep a control function at that gate. it is their inspections that is making the entry of the trucks so slow, even at that within gate that leads on to egypt rather than to israel. it also takes their agreement for the civilians being able to get out. it takes egyptian agreement. bear in mind egyptians have been very reluctant to open the crossing. first, they don't want to be dealing with a refugee crisis. second of all, they do not want to see the forced movement, displacement of the palestinian people into the sinai desert. so they've been very wary about this. the negotiations have been painfully slow, but we are beginning to hear that there will be some movements. some of the nationals will be able to make their way out. bear in mind to add to the difficulty you have the question of the consular services that are going to have to be set up, sometimes for people who have no documents. this is an extremely difficult situation to deal with at the gate. but of course there are very

desperate people on the other side of the crossing, just hoping they're going to be able to get through, anderson. >> on the northern border with lebanon, what are you seeing? >> well, it's been relatively quiet today. yesterday we saw a lot of back and forth fire between israel and hezbollah and other groups. significantly targeting further into the territory of the other side. but by and large, i mean, the situation remains very tense. we've seen that hezbollah today had a funeral in one of the border towns for the 47th of its fighters to have been killed so far since the 8th of october when hezbollah joined into the fight so to speak. we've seen almost 30,000 people who live along the border on the lebanese side moving to safer

ground further north. and a lot of the towns and villages along the border are largely abandoned at this point, because people fear that perhaps worse is to come. anderson? >> ben wedeman and melissa bell, thank you very much. still to come tonight, more on the northern border with israel. fears of an expanded war. north of israel in lebanon, daily fights. jim chutsciutto has our report coming up next. an update on shani louk who was 23 years old when she was terrorized and killed by hamas. you may remember her near naked body was tossed into the back of a pickup truck. she was paraded through gaza while crowds spat on her and shouted god is great. her mother held out hope she might still be alive, but shani was confirmed dead this week. we talk to her mother ahead tonight.

as we were discussing before the break with ben wedeman, there is continued concern that as israel's military pushes farther into gaza and casualties mount, the already daily skirmishes to the north in lebanon with hezbollah could grow more violent. today intercepted a missile launched from yemen, which israel obviously doesn't share a border with. jim sciutto has more.

>> reporter: israeli soldiers gaze north toward lebanon. what they fear could be the next front of this war. and, in fact, israel and hezbollah are already exchanging fire across the length of the israeli-lebanon border. idf howitzers firing on hezbollah targets and hezbollah firing back. virtually every village we visit along the border has come under fire. when you travel along the israel-lebanon border, you see things like this multiple times a day. the smoke rising there, the flames from a strike just across the border inside lebanon. not clear if that was outgoing fire from lebanon or incoming from israel. we did just hear from the idf -- and there is another explosion as we're speaking. and we heard of another exchange of fire just a couple of miles down here. that wall you see along there, that marks the border between israel on this side, lebanon on the other.

the threat comes from further afield as well. today israel said its high altitude missile defense system fired for the first time since the october 7th attacks. responding to a missile launched by houthi rebels in yemen. israeli officials see one nation behind all these attacks, iran. >> translator: there are many actors who are acting at the behest of iran, including the houthis, who are trying to challenge us and to distract us from the war in gaza. we remain focused. we are focused on the war in gaza. >> reporter: gaza remains the main thrust, but the idf is attacking inside lebanon and syria, multiple times a day. this strike, the idf says, hit hezbollah infrastructure. funerals held for the last two days in southern lebanon. hezbollah saying nearly 50 of

its fighters have been killed since the clashes began. >> jim sciutto joins us now from northern israel. what are iranian officials saying about the clashes between proxies and the idf? >> the consistent answer from the iranian foreign minister has been these are the independent acts of forces, resistance forces it calls them hamas in gaza, hezbollah, and lebanon and others in iraq and syria. and while it is true that these groups operate with some independence, that of course denies the fact that it is iran that arms them, that supplies, for instance, the missiles that the houthis were firing today in the arms and the training to hamas and hezbollah and others. and we should also note that even as iranian officials deny responsibility for these attacks, the iranian foreign minister noted that he has recently visited those fighters and the leaders of those groups in iraq, syria, in lebanon, and each statement we've heard from

iranian officials has included a threat of its own. we heard the iranian foreign minister warn that israel has crossed red lines and warn again that everyone will pay a price for israel's actions. of course, sounds very much like threats. and it is the u.s. view that none of these groups operate without, we should say, anderson, iran's at least tacit approval for these attacks. >> jim sciutto, jim, thanks. joined by a reporter and middle east expert who covers politics and foreign policy for axios. thank you for being with us. i'm wondering what you are hearing about the ground operation in gaza in terms of how many israeli troops are actually on the ground, have they gone to gaza city yet? >> good evening, anderson. i don't think they're in gaza city yet. i think the plan as it is right now is to basically encircle gaza city both from the north,

from the gaza beach and from areas that are northeast of gaza city, and from the central gaza strip with forces coming in from israeli territory into gaza and going then north to gaza city. so basically, gaza city will be encircled. we're talking about more than 20 thousand israeli soldiers right now in gaza. i think something around three armored infantry divisions. this is a very big force. >> you reported earlier that hamas claims it's going to release some foreign national hostages in the coming days. is it clear to you how calculated their releases are in terms of propaganda or trying to weaken international support for israel? how well-organized are their rel releases? >> well, i think it's -- it can be both. meaning there is a possibility that hamas will release some foreign nationals, as it did in previous weeks.

it released two american hostages, and then two israeli hostages. ands it's possible they will release more. on the other hand, what hamas is trying to do with those releases is to basically send the message to israel that if it goes further into gaza, it is putting those hostages in risk. and by the way, anderson, we're talking about almost 240 hostages in gaza. hamas is not holding all of them. we have to remember that. hamas is holding the majority of them. it holds the majority of the soldiers, but it does not hold all the israeli civilians that were taken hostage. and this is why hamas has a problem to give the list of hostages, because it doesn't know who they are. >> i also saw some of your reporting that has not gotten a lot of attention, and i think it's fascinating. israel is not paying the

palestinian authority in the west bank tax revenues that they are owed under accords that were signed. can you just talk about why they are doing that? because it seems -- i mean, it seems clearly designed to weaken the palestinian authority at a very time when tensions in the west bank are skyrocketing. >> yeah. it seems to me. maybe the word you were looking for is crazy, because that's what it is. israel is right now in a huge crisis in gaza in a war with hamas. and at the same time, the israeli minister of finance, one thing that he needs to deal with right now is to basically suspend the transfer of the tax revenues that israel collects for the palestinian authority who is the rival of hamas in the west bank. those tax revenues, why are they so important? because this is the money the palestinian authority uses to pay salaries to its security forces. if those security forces don't get paid, they will not do their

job. if they don't do their job, there will be more terrorist attacks against israelis in the west bank and the west bank will also escalate. and the biden administration asked israel through several channels and also the secretary of state tony blinken today publicly in a hearing in the senate, told them you need to release the money. tomorrow there is an israeli security cabinet meeting. this issue is going to come up. but this is really a self-inflicting wound in the moment where israel really doesn't need any distraction than the war in gaza. >> yeah, fascinating reporting. barack ravid, thank you so much. >> thank you, anderson. coming up, 23-year-old shani louk was attending the nova music festival when she was taken, later seen in this video in back of that truck, partially clothed in gaza. the idf has now confirmed she was killed. a conversation with her mother, ricarda, next. my sport propels.

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[ cheers ] yeah! woho! running up and down that field looks tough. it's a pitch. get way more into what you're into when you stream on the xfinity 10g network. again, our breaking news tonight. hamas claims it will release some foreign hostages in the coming days. more than 230 hostages remain missing tonight. some families have received obviously the heartbreaking news that their loved ones were killed, including now that of shani louk. she was attending the music festival on october 7th when the slaughter began. her remains were identified from a bone fragment from her skull. sources involved with her identification told cnn. shani louk was just 23 years old. people first heard her name because of this horrific video,

her in the back of a pickup truck, gunmen, their legs draped over her, holding on to locks of her hair, chanting god is great in arabic, people in the crowd spitting on her while she is face down, not moving. the leg of that hamas fighter draped over her. i spoke to her mom ricarda the very next day, one of the very first families to speak out. even after seeing that video of her daughter, she remained hopeful. ricarda louk joins me again tonight. thank you for being with us. i'm so sorry for your loss. when did you hear that shani had in fact been identified? >> on sunday night, the military knocked on my door, and they told us that shani is not with the living anymore, and they identified a piece of her skull to be from her by her dna, and an essential piece that a human

being cannot be without this. so this really -- >> have they actually been able to return her? >> no. >> have they actually found her? >> no, no. the body not. we cannot do really a funeral. there is no body. that's the -- the body we see on the video, that we know of, that she was already dead when they transferred the body to gaza. so we assume it's there. >> i mean, so many people got to know you, got to know shani, and obviously, this is just devastating for everybody who knew her and loved her. what do you want people to know about your daughter?

>> yeah, i -- as i said previous, also my daughter was very lively and she liked to dance and she liked music. she was very creative, an artist. and she just loved life. she loved people. she had a really big heart, and she was always happy, especially the last years traveling a lot, meeting new people from all over the world. and she was really a big open heart. yeah. and it's a pity that it ended really like this. she didn't deserve it. >> you -- you were so focused on gathering any information you could on doing everything you could, as any parent would. and to have it suddenly all stop is -- this is all so

unthinkable. >> yeah. it was real really a long hard three weeks. looking for any clues, being optimistic. and we had always hoped that she would return to us, no matter in what situation. and to be three weeks in the unknown, and you have no idea what's going oranges where she, what condition, really, no signs and no information from the public. from the government, nothing. it was very difficult, and i don't wish this to any -- any parent, any family member. yeah. >> you had thought you had gotten some possibly positive news at one point, and you and i spoke. somebody i think maybe who had a contact in gaza had said that it was possible she was in a hospital. did that -- >> yes. >> was that just not the case?

>> yeah, we don't know. we never got really a firm confirmation. nobody could give us really approval for this. maybe the person just got mixed up or, i mean, he didn't say he saw her personally. he just knew that she was there. but it would be also there is another one, not shani. >> is there anything else you want people to know? >> i just want the people -- i mean, we will cherish her how she was, the beautiful, joyful person she was, but we have to remember that there are still so many other hostages there, and they need to be freed, and they need to be freed as soon as possible. and everybody needs to set the right to get them free. it's really a terrible feeling to be in the situation where you don't know anything and you don't know when they're coming out, if they're coming out,

no -- to be really blind of all the negotiations of what's going on. and just wait and wait. it's terrible. on one side, i'm happy that i have some kind of closure, even if it's a bad one. but at least we know she didn't suffer in the end. she was celebrating until the last moment and had a good life. but we shouldn't forget those other hostages. they need to be freed as soon as possible. nobody needs to be in this situation. >> i am really so sorry for your loss, and thank you for talking to us. >> thank you. next, here in the u.s., in some cities on college campuses, posters of kidnapped israelis have been put up and then torn down, touching off clashes. that story is next.

today on capitol hill, fbi director christopher wray warned lawmakers that anti-semitism is reaching what he called historic levels in this country. wray said it's in part because the jewish community is targeted by foreign terrorist, also home-grown and domestic violent

extremists. >> in fact, our statistics would indicate that for a group that represents only about 2.4 of the american public, they account for something like 60% of all religious-based hate crimes. >> still, wray added this is not a time for panic, but a time for vigilance and to report anything suspicious. tensions are obviously high following the hamas attacks. here in the u.s., even simple posters drawing attention to the missing in israel are being ripped down in some places. randi kaye has more. >> no, no, no, no. you'll be all over the news. you will be all over the news. >> reporter: in new york city, an ugly confrontation over the removal of a poster of one of the hostages kidnapped from israel. >> you're surprised to show your face. >> you are not allowed -- >> reporter: after a few moments, the people walked away from the scene. >> good luck. shame on you. >> reporter: that's broadway producer james simon, using scissors to take down a poster

showing one of the more than 200 hostages. after removing the poster, simon crumpled it up and tossed it in the garbage. when "the new york post" published the video, simon told the post he took down the flyers for the purpose of keeping the city streets clean and not for anti-semitic reasons. according to the post, he also apologized for offending anyone. cnn reached out the simon but did not receive a response. the posters were designed by a few israeli artists who were visiting new york city when hamas gunmen attacked israel. they say they identified 220 hostages and confirmed their names with their families before making the flyers. but that they never expected their work to become a flash point, like this incident at boston university. after a student who said she is jewish took down a poster. >> why are you -- what's your point? >> what's? to show where the hate is coming from in this country. most jewish peoples don't feel

safe. >> you're supporting occupation, an illegal occupation that has been happening for 75 years? >> you're not condemning terrorists? that's what is wrong. you should be ashamed of yourself. >> reporter: on what appears to be a campus in san diego, watch as one man tries unsuccessfully to block another from ripping down the posters with hostages' images. >> you can't stop me from taking this down. i'm not vandalizing. you put up this shit. >> reporter: beyond the posters, tensions are rising on college campuses over the war. at tulane university, a brawl broke out after a palestinian demonstrator tried to burn an israeli flag. at cornell university, jewish students were threatened with death over the weekend. and at harvard university in cambridge, massachusetts, a pro palestinian rally clashed with supporters of israel. all of this has communities on edge and businesses on edge. in miami, a dentist was fired

from his job after being captured on camera tearing down one of the kidnapped posters and crumpling it up. he told reporters his intent was to promote peace and de-escalate the situation. he told cnn -- >> i've been wrongfully mislabeled many things. and i find it very disheartening to be labeled as anti-semitic when i come from a semitic background. >> reporter: with each poster that comes down, the artist making them tells cnn they promise to put up 10,000 more. randi kaye, cnn. still ahead, more questions, but few answers about the warning signs leading up to the mass shooting in maine last week. we have new reporting that some of the red flags raised about the gunman before the massacre, next.

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showing there were warning signs raised in the weeks and months lating up to the massacre much it raised more questions we tent u still don't have answers to. schem shimon prokupecz joins us now. i want to play a clip of something you were asking the m maine governor the other day. >> we know that there is an alarming concern from the law enforcement community that activity and information here was ignored. and the simple answer is why was that done and are you concerned about that? >> i think those kinds of facts are yet to be determined. you are making assumptions. aim not willing to make assumptions. >> what have you learned since that press conference? >> well, we were there to question her about our reporting we had obtained information that police had been to his home in september from the sheriff's office. they were at his home just six weeks before all of this happened. checking on him because they got a call from someone at the army reserve concerned about his mental state. they went to the home three

times. and one of those instances on november 16th his car was in the driveway. that white subaru that he used to get around was in the driveway. yet they did nothing. they knocked on the door. they thought he was inside but didn't follow up in any way. they spoke to his family because they got this call saying that this army reserve person was concerned he was going to do a mass shooting. he was having a psychotic episode. there was stuff going on in his life. they went to do a welfare check on the home. we were there to question the governor about where is the accountability? where was the law enforcement folks checking in on him, following up, because, obviously, there were indications he was having some trouble in his life. he had access to weapons. at that point the military had removed his access to weapons. and so simply she just was gbeig evasive and wasn't answering our question. >> is it clear now? >> essentially, most people feel

they went to the home, spoke to the family, the family indicated he was having issues, but somehow he may not have had access to weapons. it's not entirely clear that that's the case because there is now more information that a friend of the family has told police that he had a key to a safe where the weapons were. so there is a lot of questions that need be answered by law enforcement. just the overall why wasn't there more follow-up and why weren't they checking to see where he was to try to get him help, take him off the treatment. >> there were documents released about potentially about him target -- like why he targeted -- >> yeah, so one of the things they are looking at for motivation, he thought that the folks that the bar, the schemengees bar and the bowling alley were somehow involved in saying that he was a pedophile. this was something that was going on in his life. for some reason he thought people were talking about him, calling him a pedophile, and sew

thought that was being sort of -- that the folks at the bar and at the bowling alley were doing that. and so that's perhaps what police are saying why he was targ targeting those locations. now to colorado. authorities say another potential mass killing was averted when a man armed with guns and explosives was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot. found in a women's bathroom. the sheriff says his body was found saturday morning before the park was set to open. investigators say it appears he illegallyered sb the park before to closed the night before and according to the sheriff there was a note on the bathroom wall where the armed man was found that read i am not a killer, i just wanted to get into the caves. they say there is reasonable suspicion n it was lininked to . we'll l be right b back.

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