Moose confirmed the shooting, giving details we already knew. Confirmed the death of the bus driver. Said at this point we have no BOLOs for vehicle or person. Said LE community is looking at this as similar to other shootings. When work is complete, that will be shared.
Now comes the message to the shooter, IMO. Unfortunately, I couldn't get all of it or get it word for word, but this pretty close:
We realize that the person or people have shown a clear willingness to kill people of all ages, races, genders, professions, at different times of the day and different days of the week.
There's that word clear again, which he used in a couple of answers to the questions, such as "I was trying to be clear that we have issued no BOLOs". It was just the expression on his face (fleeting, I admit) that he was pleased to be able to work that into his answer again. Maybe it's just his favorite word, but he uses it at every conference. And when he was admittedly talking to the bad guy(s), both times he told the media to play the message clearly and often. That is not normal English, so I think it's part of their code.
Then followed a "pep" talk, which I couldn't get verbatim because I was still trying to write out the above. My impression was that he believes or knows this is terrorism, but he's not allowed to say it. He said something about our freedoms and protecting the country. Hopefully, others have recorded it.
The Q&A was getting contentious. The press asked several times about reports that children are being specifically threatened and he refused to answer directly. He said he'd tried to real clear again that all people need to be on hightened awareness. He said any threats received were being discussed in the proper forum and that he wouldn't discuss them in a public forum.
Bottom line on this in my impression is that the politicians are in charge and they will cover up anything and everything that they possibly can.
One reporterette made him especially angry. She asked, "Are you in a more dangerous situation now?"
He very angrily looked away from her (like, "How could you even ask me that?") ignored the question completely and called on another reporter. This was not something she had shouted out. He had specifically acknowledged her, then ignored her question.
He said the next briefing will be at noon tomorrow.
Others also gave info about the victim, but you've probably read that by now.
Now I'll catch up with what everyone saw in the conference and try to catch that catnap :)
nuclear?
I think you are onto something. I heard one of the talking head experts say last night(?) that Chief Moose was probably using code words in his announcement. I'm not very familiar with the technique, but your observation matches one of the experts whose identity escapes me....maybe Ted Williams on FNC.
As someone mentioned above......nuclear might fit?
The word, "clear," is the Greek aJplou'" (aplous), which literally means single.