Fox News Conference - Live Now [Maryland/VA Shooter]

FNC ^ | 10-17-02 | Fox News

[SunnyUsa]

yea, I don't live in Idaho.. I am used to ALL types here in NJ (and we have more than our share of islamics types)

But I just thought it was odd that EVERYONE I saw interviewed had an accent and not even spanish...they were from I don't even know where! (lol)

I remember thinking how odd that was....

[Timesink]

Re Emergency Broadcast Test, Here in NC, they ran a test last night on cable and airwaves during primetime. I've never seen it happen during prime time before...every station on the cable. Makes me contemplate that there is so much we don't yet know about regarding what is going to happen in this country over the next few months.

Since 1998, cable companies have been required to be part of the EAS just like radio and TV stations. And when they run their tests, they are required to air them simultaneously on ALL channels. (Otherwise, there wouldn't be much point, if you think about it. The idea is to insure that if you're stuck in your Lay-Z-Boy watching HBO instead of a local station, you'll still get to find out when the tornado's about 1000 feet from your front door.)

I live in VA and they have been cutting in with that emergency "test" that they said they're required to do once a month, every couple of days now. Hmmm...

No, they have to run the test once a week, and a slightly more complicated test once a month. (The monthly tests are the ones where you hear the robotic voice telling you "This. Is. Only. A. Test." The weekly ones are where you just get the blue screen and the deeply disturbing 110db beeps.) And the tests have to be on different days and at different times each week. And the cable system has to run their tests, while the TV stations have to run separate ones ... and it all adds up.

[Snowy]

Since multiple witnesses are indicating so many different details, perhaps the investigators are beginning to realize that they're dealing with coordinated, multiple shooters with different guns in a variety of vehicles.

My guess is that they realize it is terrorism, but they can't say that until after they catch them. An activated terrorist cell would really have people serpentining throughout the region. You would have backlashes against mosques, etc. Then, the police would be bothered with dealing with the resulting hysteria instead of trying to find these guys. It sounds as if there are enough LE in the area. Did I hear about 400? I would double or triple that number. LE has to flush these guys out while keeping the citizens moderately calm.

This is just a guess, but I believe that the minute these guys are caught, multiple cells will activate doing the same thing. Their mission is to invoke terror. With the D.C. snipers, the US has already experienced the "terror learning curve". The instant it happens in another city, citizens will immediately be as frightened as D.C. area residents. The shooters won't have to keep up the pace the D.C. snipers set. About two a week would be adequate to fulfill their mission...

So, how has everyone's day been so far? Beautiful day here. :)

[SarahW]

I think he was just excited by the situation.

If he was there he was interviewed by police.

His appearance actually might account for some reports of an olive-skinned individual in the area... not saying this is so, just that it is a possibility.

He didn't have any details about the car, the weapon, or the shooter. So if the police are discounting that eyewitness report, they are not discounting his (Mr. Massis')

[Peanut3193]

Just heard there is going to be a special "America's Most Wanted" on tonight regarding the sniper.

[johnb838]

Watching Moosebite....does anyone speak ebonics??</>

It could get worse. We had Lee P. Brown for PC and then he came back and became the Dread Pirate Mayor.

[Robert_Paulson2]

POST THE RULES...
You're a freeper... just hit the damned POST button and then ping us all to it with a tagline.

cheif mustafa is using the rules of disinformation...
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[midwesterner]

Something just seemed wrong with him kinda smiling while talking about a woman that he'd seen after she was shot. He had shifty eyes to the extreme.

[Kerberos]

"Just heard there is going to be a special "America's Most Wanted" on tonight regarding the sniper."

Yeah Yeah, John Walsh has already been on the networks this morning promoting the crazed domestic gunman angle.

[N. Theknow]

Well, FINE then!

Just chip right in and ruin a perfectly wonderful tin-foil party.

[r9etb]

How is a light colored Ford van that much different from a white Astrovan?

1990 Ford

1990 Astro

Later-model Astro

[Peanut3193]

Oh--sorry. I don't have access to TV here. Just heard it on the radio.

[LibertyGirl77]

Ask FReeper "Brytani."

[Palladin]

Yes, Sarah. I just read the transcript. He sounds to me like he may be Cuban, or from another Caribbean country. I had a Cuban friend who always used the phrase "in that moment". He seems harmless enough. Just a bystander whom Greta's producers grabbed up in time for her show. His account is similar to a dozen others.

The "unreliable" witness was, I take it, the one who gave the detailed account of staring down two occupants of a cream-colored van who seemed to want to "duke it out".

Bottom line--the cops have nothing--zero--nada--except the caliber of the bullets.

[Timesink]

Last week, our cable company ran that test FOUR times in one afternoon. Since 9-11, there have been more of these tests. I also suspect that they tend to run more if the news is bad. I have cable on my PC and I HATE when that thing goes off!

This sounds to me like your cable company is having trouble with its EAS equipment. (How many subscribers does your cable system have? Systems with less than 10,000 subscribers did not have to join the EAS alert system until just this month. So if it's a small cable system, they're probably just still tweaking the equipment.)

I would suggest just calling your cable company, asking to speak to the chief engineer, and just ask him point-blank what's up. Or you could email the FCC's EAS department and ask them if there's been an order to increase the tests: eas@fcc.gov.

[TexKat]

If LE is going to catch the guy, the last thing they should do is encourage him to lay low.

A lot of comments on this thread is negative to LE, well I think that the rush to judgement media deserves a good proportion of that negativity. They can't hold water. They are informing the killer or killers of LE every move. They will be the death of all of us one day. Sure there are things we need to know, but what we need to know is the thruth and not what the media and talking heads speculate. On Monday, a couple of hours before the HD murder, Jerry Nachman on MSNBC all but bet his life on the guy whose girlfriend had grazed him over the weekend and was under police questioning was the guy.

I believe this to be apart of the terrorist movement, we have the Portland arrest, the American soldiers shot in Kuwait on the same day the Maryland shootings started. I may be wrong, but I have always thought this is related to the terrorist.

[Aggie Mama]

Wow! Thanks for the pictures. Good thinking.