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Aired July 23, 2016 - 05:00   ET

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[05:00:23] HANNAH VAUGHAN JONES, CNN ANCHOR: Terror in Munich as an 18-year-old man goes on a shooting rampage at the busy shopping center. We're learning new details now about the shooter.

And also developing this morning, disturbing new evidence about Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, did the pilot practice a suicide route?

Plus, the Democratic duo, Hillary Clinton makes her vice presidential pick and hits the trail with her new running mate later on today.

Hello. And welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world. I'm Hannah Vaughan Jones here in London. And this is CNN NEWSROOM.

Police say a single gunman killed at least nine people in Munich, Germany on Friday evening. However, they are still unsure about a number of open questions who this man was and how and why he carried out this attack. At first, police thought as many as three shooters perpetrators may have been responsible. But investigators believe now that a man who apparently killed himself near the scene is, indeed the lone suspect.

This amateur video shows a man dressed in black who appears to be holding a gun. However, it's not clear if it's the shooter in question. The gunman started his rampage at a McDonald's restaurant before crossing the street to Munich's biggest shopping center, the Olympia Center.

Police say the suspect held a dual citizenship with Iran and Germany, who was 18-years-old, he had been living in Munich for at least two years.

Well, earlier CNN spoke to Erin McLaughlin, who has been reporting from Munich.

ERIN MCLAUGHLIN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: I spoke to one man who is outside of the McDonald as the attack unfolded. He described to me the horror as he held one of the victim in his arms. The victim would later die. He also talked about what the attacker was yelling as all of this was going on. He was railing against "Foreigners."

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE (THROUGH TRANSLATOR): I am German, you will get it. And in the first shots were fired and the boy of about 14 or 17 years of age left of me collapsed, fell to the floor. Then the next shots were fired. And then I threw my bicycle to the side and went myself to safety on my belly in the direction of the boy. I spoke with the boy, tried to make sure he stayed alert.

And in the meantime, more shots were fired. I estimate about 20 to 30 the boy asked me for help. I tried talk with him. Ask him his name, his age, if he had a girlfriend. I tried to make sure he looks at me and his eyes are opened.

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MCLAUGHLIN: Such an emotional account. As you can see behind me this area outside the mall is still cordoned off. Investigators are still inside the mall conducting a forensic investigation.

Victims have yet to be identified.

JONES: Erin McLaughlin reporting there from Munich. Let's bring in our Alexandra Field who as you can see joins me in the studio here in London.

And the motive for this attack is still unknown but there are some more details in emerging.

ALEXANDRA FIELD, CNN ANCHOR: And that's right we can't -- police have carried out the search in department in Munich, which appears to be related to their investigation into these attacks. And as you reported, they initially believe there could have been three suspects carrying out the attacks. They now believe that it was just a lone gunman who ended up dying of itself inflicted wound.

However they'll still try to determine whether or not this 18-year-old may have acted to organize this attack in concert with others. Now, whether or not that appears to be the case but they will certainly try to identify the motive behind this shooting, this shooting rampage that took place not only at a McDonald's but also at this shopping mall, according to witness.

The target in this case included children. We know that 16 people were injured. Ten people died. The gunman among them, nine others killed in these horrific attacks. Police are now going to be looking at video that was reported by witnesses, including cell phone video. One of those videos appears to show a man who may have been the shooter screaming profanities. He's up on a rooftop speaking to one of the witnesses. He rails against foreigners, he rails against the Turks. But it is a -- an expletive laced tirade.

So police will have to look at that to see what evidence they could possibly glean from that, if it does reveal any kind of motivation for what seems to be such a senseless attack. People are going to be calling in to question now the intelligence in Germany at the moment specially given the fact that it was just a couple days ago following on from the Nice attacks on, that we sent them for another attack on a German train, and a man wielding an axe, attacking passengers on that train and if it's considered to be a failure in intelligence?

[05:05:15] Look, people across Europe have been on high alert in the face of these recent attacks and certainly nervous about possibility of other attacks. You bring up the attack on that train. So certainly they had people in Germany on edge.

There's a lot of discussions that are happening right now at the highest level among German officials work. You've got the Chancellor Angela Merkel convening a security cabinet meeting right now to discuss what happened and probably more pressingly at this point what kind of precautions need to be in place at this moment.

We do understand that security has been ramped up across the country. So while they do look into what happened here, there certainly going to be that forward facing look as to what kind of security as precautions need to be in place at this point. And we are expecting now the briefing from investigators a little bit later this morning which could reveal some more of the details of this investigation into the 18-year-old who apparently carried out this attack.

JONES: And the security as you say beefed up around Germany presumably beefed up another country presumably beefed up another countries in Europe as well for fear of the sort of copycat attacks happening.

FIELD: Right, certainly remaining on high alert, we've seen it for not just days, weeks, months, even the past year, really, as you've seen these attacks unfold. And certainly not clear who attacker in this case could have been connected to, who he may have been aspired by or whether or not he was directed to carry out this attack. But it's the kind of thing that intelligence and security officials will be looking into.

This is a city that was really brought to its knees last night. You've got a city of 1.5 million people. People have told to shelter in place. Police simply did not want gatherings of people because they didn't want, you know, any number of attackers to go after large groups of people.

People were told to just shelter in place, you know, to lock themselves behind their doors on a summer night. You would have seen people out and about the metro system, the transit system in the city had to come to a standstill, the metros were evacuated. Those systems are back up and running today, except we do understand the metro system at the mall where the attack took place remains closed, obviously, it's still a crime scene.

JONES: Yeah, a city in lock down the city now in morning -- this morning of course. And the world has been reacting to what they've seen happen in Munich and offering their report and still -- well presumably will be a huge police presence on the streets on Munich in a major cities around Germany. But we've also heard from the likes of President Obama and others who are offering their support if needed.

FIELD: Right, right certainly internally there is a period of warning. We know the flags below where Taft Avenue do have President Obama who has come out in support of Germany calling it a strong ally. You've got Russian President Vladmir Putin also expressing his condolences to Angela Merkel. You've got a foreign minister in Germany talking about the horrific nature of this attack. And really just giving a voice to but so many people in that country across Europe and really around the world are feeling as they see evidence of another attack on the civilians in Europe.

JONES: Still in shock, of course, Alex, thanks very indeed for updating much from Munich, thank you.

Well, witnesses encounters, the suspected shooter at a nearby parking garage. They recorded their heated conversation, which Alex had been alluding to just then, which ends with a series of what sounds like possible gunshots, a warning there to our viewers that some people may find the following materials disturbing.

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JONES: A very disturbing video there possibly of the shooter involved. Well, earlier on, we spoke to a woman who works inside the Olympia Shopping Center where the gunman targeted those innocent people. Lynn Stein explains where she was when she heard gunfire and also described the chaos that followed.

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[05:10:19] LYNN STEIN, WORKS AT THE OLYMPIA SHOPPING CENTER: I was inside, I was just trying, like I was going to buy something and my co-worker was still working. And I heard the shots fired, several shots I know, maybe six, seven. And people are confused. And there were looking around. And this guy running out and there was like an American exit right at the shop I was at. So I ran outside as well. And there were more shots.

And I just stood by. And people came outside, and more ran. And I just waited there to see what happened or what was going on. And the people are very confused. Ands they were running. And they were screaming.

And later I heard the shots. I think it transferred. There's a parking lot. He already said that that there is a parking house. And I heard shots there, are coming from that direction. So at that time I went back inside the mall because I wanted to check on my co-worker. She didn't take the phone and I couldn't reach her.

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JONES: Well, here at CNN we wanted to check in on that witness that you just heard from. So in the last hour, I spoke to Lynn again. And I began by asking her about that co-worker that she said she couldn't reach during the attack.

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STEIN: She hasn't really told me anything yet. I haven't talked to her since like last night. I know that she got back home safely. And she was in some storage place. And she's in a way I think inside the mall after the attack. That's as much as I know.

JONES: And what about?

STEIN: Yeah.

JONES: Sorry, Lynn. I was going to ask you about the mood in the city of course yesterday as we were covering this story. We know that the whole of Munich was just in lock down. The transport system was in lock down.

And you, yourself, I think were on the streets just outside the shopping center as the police were kind of moving everyone away and cordoning off the immediate area. What's the mood like today? Are people back out on the streets?

STEIN: Oh, I don't -- become inside -- it's a very dire mood. It's very -- I don't know, it's like still weird to real. And I mean the shopping center is going to be closed today, of course. And I'm not sure whether it's actually like the -- it's still, you know, closed off entirely like the area not. So it's weird. And it's very weird to, you know, hear like hear from it. And, you know, the reports and everything. I always get goose bumps.

JONES: Do you feel safe?

STEIN: Yes. Yeah. I'm safe. I'm at home. I made it home pretty late last night. But I did make it home.

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JONES: That was Lynn Stein speaking to me a little bit earlier on.

Facebook has activated its safety check for people who are in the Munich area. Users can check in, of course, to let their friends and their family, loved ones know that they are OK. Once they check in as safe, a notification is sent since to their friends' lists.

Facebook activated that feature shortly after the shooting rampage in Munich.

Well, social media users are reacting to the terrorist attack. The hashtags pray for Germany and pray for Munich are now trending around the world.

The Twitter users created images to convey their thoughts, their prayers. And many using pictures of Munich and hearts and of course the German flag.

One Twitter user wrote, how many disasters do we need to unite humanity to love one another more than hate?

More on the situation in Munich later this hour.

But in the meantime, another story that we're headlining today, the mystery into the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines Flights MH370 is deepening.

An FBI report shows the pilot flew a suicide route on his home computer. New York Magazine obtained the confidential report. It says, the stimulation took place less than a month before MH370 disappeared.

Well, CNN's Matt Rivers is live in Beijing with more on this new details emerging. Matt, just how did this latest information come to light all of these years on?

MATT RIVERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Sure. Well, that's the big question, we know that New York Magazine publish this article online claiming that it had obtained a never before seen document from the Malaysian Police Investigation into what happened here.

And they to go through the details of what this article says, citing that document. The article says that the hard drives from the home flight simulator that were found in the home of the MH370 Pilot, Zaharie Ahmad Shah were obtained by investigators and then given to the FBI.

Now the FBI then does their analysis goes through and then fairly found according to the article a six or so different deleted data points. And when they put that data together, what it appeared to show is that this MH370 pilot on his flight simulator actually flew a simulated flight into the Southern Indian Ocean.

[05:15:16] Now that flight path winds up pretty closely with the suspected flight path of MH370. They're very, very close. So if you see them in the same image side by side in that New York Magazine article, they are very, very close. Obviously that has major implications if what is in this document is actually true.

And then the other thing that's interesting here, is that the simulated flight path according to this article was flown. The simulation was flown less than a month prior to MH370 disappearing.

So this is a very, very big piece of news in this investigation and certainly casts a lot more doubt on this pilot in terms of his role in what happened.

JONES: And still of course a huge amount of mystery as to what exactly happened. As the search continue for the wreckage of this plane or has it all wind up now?

RIVERS: At this point there is a designated search area that officials have been searching for a while now of some 120,000 square kilometers -- 110,000 square kilometers of that area has been searched so far, another 10,000 left to go.

Officials say they're not hopeful that the plane is in that area. It was just yesterday that the ministers of transportation from China, Malaysia and Australia came out and said that they will be suspending the search after that remaining area is completely gone through and assuming no plane is found, the search will be suspended.

So we had a lot of information about this investigation over the last several days. How this new report from New York Magazine plays into all of that, if it changes the course of action by the companies involved in this investigation still unsure at this point, no word yet from the Malaysian government.

JONES: Matt, thanks very much indeed. Matt Rivers there live for us from a smoggy looking Beijing thank you.

Stay with us here on CNN NEWSROOM. Coming up next, a look at Hillary Clinton as her running mate and why.

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JONES: Welcome back.

Hillary Clinton has chosen the Virginia Senator Tim Kaine to be her running mate. The announcement was made on social media and by a tech. She and her supporters, Clinton will introduce him in person at a campaign rally later today in Miami.

[05:20:09] In a Facebook post, just sent out a few hours ago, hillary Clinton wrote, "I'm thrilled to announce my running mate Tim Kaine. Tim is a life long fighter for progressive causes and one of those qualified vice presidential candidates in our nation's history.

CNN's Jeff Zeleny takes a closer look now at Tim Kaine's political backgrounds.

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SEN. TIM KAINE, (D) VIRGINIA: Are we ready for Hillary.

ZELENY: Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine. New partners on the Democratic ticket.

KAINE: Do you want a "you're fired" president or a "you're hired president"?

ZELENY: It may be an anti-establishment year, but Clinton's running mate is an insider, a U.S. senator from Virginia and a former chairman of the Democratic National Committee.

KAINE: And if I have anything to do with it, we'll win again.

ZELENY: By selecting Kaine, Clinton is betting that experience in government, not sizzle, is the best way to defeat Donald Trump.

KAINE: Elections are just the beginning. The real work starts tomorrow.

ZELENY: He's neither flashy or a showboat, a seemingly safe pick and steady hand, just what Clinton told Anderson Cooper she's looking for in a vice president.

HILLARY CLINTON, (D) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I want to be sure that whoever I pick could be president immediately if something were to happen. That's the most important qualification.

KAINE: I'm Tim Kaine.

ZELENY: So who is Timothy Michael Kaine? A decade ago as governor of Virginia he introduced himself in the Democratic response to President Bush's State of the Union Address.

KAINE: I worked as a missionary when I was a young man, and I learned to measure my life by the difference I can make in someone else's life.

ZELENY: It was that stint as a Jesuit missionary in Honduras that shaped and now distinguishes him. He learned fluent Spanish and still speaks it today, which makes him a different kind of attack dog against Trump.

KAINE: If you're a Latino, he's going to trash talk you.

ZELENY: Born in Minnesota and raised in Kansas.

KAINE: The best decision I ever made was moving to Richmond to marry my wife Anne 26 years ago.

ZELENY: He built his political career in Virginia, rising from city councilman and mayor of Richmond to lieutenant governor and governor.

KAINE: Thank you all so very much.

ZELENY: He's 58, 10 years younger than Clinton, known well inside the party but not beyond.

KAINE: I'm not the one with the biggest profile. I'm not the one that's the best known.

ZELENY: He signed on with Clinton this time around, endorsing her in 2014 more than a year before she declared her candidacy.

For an original Barack Obama supporter, it was a chance to make up for lost time.

BARACK OBAMA, (D) PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Give it up for Tim Kaine.

ZELENY: His politics are more moderate than the liberal strain driving today's Democratic Party. He's Catholic, outwardly moved by Pope Francis's visit to Capitol Hill last year. His views on abortion are far more conservative than most Democrats as he explained in this interview.

KAINE: I'm personally opposed to abortion and the death penalty, and I've lived my life that way. Law is what it is and I'm going to carry out the law and I'm going to protect women's legal rights to make their own reproductive decisions.

ZELENY: He's also spoken out forcefully against the administration for failing to seek congressional approval to fight the Islamic State.

KAINE: The war against ISIL is just, it's necessary. It's noble, but it's illegal. There's been no congressional authorization for this war.

ZELENY: It's an open question whether Kaine fits the mold of today's red hot politics. Yet his selection could help soften Clinton's partisan edges.

KAINE: When it comes to our leadership in the world, trash-talking isn't enough. We need a bridge builder, and we've got a bridge builder in Hillary Clinton.

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JONES: Well, Republicans meanwhile are labeling Tim Kaine a Washington insider. In a fundraising text message to supporters, Donald Trump's campaign wrote "The ultimate insiders, Obama, Hillary and Kaine don't let Obama have a third term contribute.

Well, the campaign later, she's a lengthy statement labeling the Virginia Democrat "Corrupt Kaine."

Meantime, Donald Trump says he won't accept former rival Ted Cruz' support even if he offers it. It's a different tone than the speech Trump gave on Thursday at Republican National Convention on a night dedicated, of course, to party unity.

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DONALD TRUMP, (R) PRESUMPTIVE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: Somebody got booed the hell out of the place by thousands and thousands of people. There wasn't one person in the room. Not one.

And then they said, there may not be unity, unity? There wasn't one person in the room who was including the Texas delegation, right?

Honestly, he may have ruined his political career. I feel so badly. And, you know, he'll come and endorse over the next little while. He'll come and endorse because he has no choice. But I don't want his endorsement. What differences it make? I don't want his endorsement. I have such graded, I don't want his endorsement just, Ted stay home, relax, enjoy yourself.

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JONES: Well, let's take a closer look at what's happening in U.S. politics right now. I'm joined by Jacob Parakilas with the U.S. and the Americas Programme at Chatham House as international affairs think-tank here in London. Thanks very much for coming into the program.

[05:25:06] Such negative rhetoric across the board there, particularly from the Republican side and Donald Trump, why is it in America for the moment for now at least fear, Trump spoke?

JACOB PARAKILAS, U.S. AND THE AMERICAS PROGRAMME AT CHATHAM HOUSE: Trump is counting on what's carried him this far in the election through the primaries, basically saying, you know, the world is a dangerous and frightening place. And I'm the only one who can protect you.

And drawing that circle around himself and saying to be exclusionary to all other possibilities has struck a certain nerve with a large enough portion of the electorate that's got him to the nomination.

Now, whether that's will be true for the general election remains to be seen. But he's seen this strategy work. And I think he thinks, "Well, this has worked so far, I'm just going to run with it through November.

JONES: We've had Lying Ted, Crooked Hillary of course now we've got Corrupt Kaine apparently. What do make of the

Clinton choice for running mate?

PARAKILAS: I think Kaine is actually a fairly safe choice. He as I've said earlier, he had executive experience, he has legislative experience, he ran the Democratic National Convention. He's not going to excite anyone. He's particularly not going to excite the progressive basis. I think Clinton is counting on the fact that given that Bernie Sanders have endorsed her, given the polls showing increasing number of Sanders supporters, moving into her column, albeit reluctantly.

She doesn't need to sort of bring that queen of the party on site. What she needs to do is demonstrate that her ticket is the one which is safe and if the pair of hands that can be trusted with levels of power in a dangerous and uncertain world.

JONES: Why is it that she's gone through this safe pair of hands in Kaine? If you look the Trump campaign and he's going to write on his wave of momentum at the moment that seems to kind of like get more momentum from controversy and from scandal and from nasty rhetoric as well. And he -- the Clinton side, they think very much focused on a safe pair of hands, trusted experience as well.

PARAKILAS: Well, paradoxic I think. You've ended up with two vice presidential candidate who have a similar profile. North and some time, Pence and Kaine have been in legislatures, they have both governed mid-size sort of purple states. They're, you know, politically, obviously, very different and the way that the campaign selected the running mates have been different. But you actually have these two with very similar profiles serving very different roles in the administration. But that seems to be the choice this year.

Do you think with the Democratic National Convention coming up now, they're going to have a change of tact try something different just to and galvanize thier supporters in the same kind of way that trump is galvanizing his supporters and indeed trying to take on Bernie Sanders as well, he's trying to get all the Bernie's supporters on his side. PARAKILAS: Well, I think Kaine picked us for Clinton is to demonstrates that she is confidence in her approach so far. She's not radically altering here message bring in Elizabeth Warren, for example would'be said this is sort of John McCain in 2008moment. I need someone to shake things up and electrify the race with some potential downside.

Kaine is not -- there's no real downside with Kaine in a major way. He's very predictable. And he is, you know, not going to turn out to be some kind of disaster. But he probably won't have a massive upside either.

JONES: OK, very interesting. Yeah, let's all play that ticket. Parakilas, thanks very much for coming in, enjoying some program, thank you.

PARAKILAS: Now, coming up here on CNN NEWSROOM. We will have, there's more on of course on the shooting rampage that took place in Munich in Germany last night.

Police trying to figure out why a teenage gunman targeted other young people in his deadly attack, all the latest on what he says is the open fire coming up next.

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[05:31:57] JONES: Welcome back to our viewers here in the U.K. and also in the United States and around the world. You're watching CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Hannah Vaughan Jones.

The headlines this hour, police say a single gunman killed at least nine people in Munich, Germany on Friday evening authorities identify an Iranian and German dual citizen as their main suspect. He apparently killed himself near the scene. Investigators have yet to determine a possible motive.

Hillary Clinton has chosen Virginia Senator Tim Kaine to be her running mate for the White House. She will introduce him in person at a campaign rally later today in Miami. Democrats close to the campaign say Kaine got the stand of approval from President Barack Obama and also former President Bill Clinton.

And new details in the MH370 mystery "New York" magazine reports the pilot of that flight simulated a suicide flight less than a month be every the plane disappeared two years ago, the magazine obtained a confidential FBI report that says the simulation closely matches MH370 suspected routes two years ago.

Let's talk more now on the shooting rampage in Munich, Germany, that left nine people dead. It's not certain if the man in black you can see in this video is indeed the shooter. However, a witness tells CNN the gunman screamed that he would kill foreigners just before he opened fire. Of course, she say the suspect was later found dead not too far from the scene of the incident. He was just 18-years-old. And we are also hearing that police in Munich have now searched an apartment in connection with Friday's attack. Earlier on, I spoke to the terrorism expert Sergeant Gahol (ph). He explained what he thought might have led the gunman to carry out this sort of attack.

GAHOL, TERRORISM EXPERT: In the immediate aftermath of the attack unfolding, there was the assumption that this could be connected hi us ISIS because of what you've seen recently In Iran will provideand in Bulgaria, as too his motivation.

One thing that will need t bedck tp As yet, the authorities themselves, are unclear whether this is connected to transnational extremism or is this potentially far right or is this an individual who just seems to be extremely angry with life and society. More information will no doubt come out as the pieces of the puzzle of this man's profile are put together.

JONES: Yeah, we don't know his name or anything like that, yet we know he's an 18-year-old German-Iranian dual citizen, can you read anything into that?

GAHOL: Unfortunately the gunman itself doesn't provide much clue. It's likely that his connection to Iran will provide any real illustration as to his motivation. One thing that will need to be looked at is how did he procure the weapon that he used to kill and injure people. That is something that needs to be looked at urgently because of the fact that we're seeing very often, especially when we look at ISIS motivated attacks that people are able to buy weapons on that black market, especially when we look the ISIS motivated attack. But people are able to buy weapons on Black Market specially from the bulking whether this individual, big companies is all weapon.

[05:35:11] JONES: Initially, there were reports that there were long rifles used in this attack. Later on it's been I think confirmed now that the weapons that he used was indeed a pistol. And in terms of Germany's gun laws. How easy is it for an individual, an average citizen just to get hold of a pistol?

GAHOL: Well, Germany does have a tight gun law not say compared to the U.K. but they are quite stringent and there are security checks that done and especially someone who still young to be able to procure at the age of 18, they will need to look into that and equally keep in mind the Germany has federal system. So each province tends to have different rules as to the gun laws. And Bulgaria, itself, is not necessarily the same as the rest of Germany, so these issues are something that the authorities are going to have to look at but unfairness two the police in Munich, they handled the situation as best they could, especially using social media to update people which is an usual but I think it was appreciated.

JONES: Matthew Karnitschnig, Executive Chief Europe correspondent for political and joins me now live from Germany's capital Berlin. Matthew good to talk to you we were speaking last night in the immediate aftermath of this shooting rampage. And at that time it seems like they could've been up to three attackers involved multiple locations across the city as well and possible Jihadi link. Although at the moment that it's just unclear, so what the motive might have been, what's your assessment of how the investigation is unfolding so far?

MATTHEW KARNITSCHNIG, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, so far, it looks like a lot of the rumors that were flying around last night turned out not to be not true. There is only one shooter, this 18-year-old of Iranian- German dissented appears to be somebody who was actually born and grow up in Germany. Initial reports suggest now that his parents immigrated to Germany in the 1990's and that he was born here, so it does not at first glance now appear to be a Islamic related attack.

At one point he was shouting out, I am a German, and which is not the kind of thing you would normally here from an Islamic terrorist.

So we should hear more in the coming minutes when the Munich police give their press conference and I think one of the questions will be in addition how he got this weapon will be why it took the police so long to determine that he was the only shooter and that these reports about other men roaming the city with long rifles, that really kept the city on lockdown and forced the closure of the main railway station and public transportation. Why it took them so long to determine that that was not the case.

JONES: Yeah and Matthew, we understand there have been various raids going on as well, if indeed the suspect was a resident in Munich and have been living there for some two years as some reports are suggesting he had. If this is domestic terrorism as well, it will come as a shock, fear for some people that this individual has somehow been off the radar of the police?

KARNITSCHNIG: Right. He had no criminal record. There is this video of him yesterday having an exchange with a resident in one of the houses where he was roaming around and shooting where he said that he had been institutionalized at one point, meaning he had been in psychiatric care. So, especially if it turns out he had psychological problems and was still able buy a handgun that will be something that the Germans will have to look at very clearly -- very, very closely and a lot of people will have questions about that today.

JONES: As far as the government is concerned, where you are in Berlin, what kind of response have we heard yet, so if anything at all from the chancellor Angela Merkel, in terms of the security operation that will now be put in place across the country?

KARNITSCHNIG: Well, so far, we've heard very little. She is due to speak in a couple of hours and her interior minister is also going to speak this afternoon. And I suspect that they'll provide us with more details about any steps they're going to take.

That said, if there are no terrorist links to this attack, it might be very little that they can actually do. There are fairly strict gun laws in Germany but as I say, if it turns out that this young man was able to buy this weapon and ammunition, despite whatever psychological issues he may have had, that could be something that they will have to address very quickly.

JONES: Mathew, is this considered to be a failure in intelligence in Germany? [05:39:58] KARNITSCHNIG: So far not and so far people haven't really

pointed any fingers in that direction had the authorities because there haven't been any indications that this person was a threat. He didn't appear on any terrorist watch lists. There computer would be no links between him and known terrorist groups. He's not a so-called foreign fighter, one of these Germans who went to Syria and came back and that's really where the authorities and the intelligence services have been focusing their efforts. This appears to be a lone gunman who went on a rampage, a deranged man if you will. That's what the initial analysis is showing.

JONES: Yeah and we hope to hear more from the Munich Police Chief in the coming minutes as well. Matthew we appreciate it. Matthew Karnitschnig is with POLITICO and has been giving us a running commentary on it and it been going on from -- at Berlin we appreciate it thanks you so much indeed.

The mass shooting in Germany comes as Norway remembers another horrific attack. Friday was the fifth anniversary of the 2011 Norway terrorist attack Anders Behring Breivik settle for bomb in they set off a bomb in Oslo outside the office of the country's Prime Minister. Eight people were killed there and more than 200 others wounded. Breivik then took ferry to a nearby island where he opened fire at a youth camp killing 69 young people and wounding 110 others.

Well, after his arrest Breivik identify himself as an anti-Muslim fascist. He was later convicted of mass murder.

Now, Russia's fuming after a court upheld a ban on its track athletes at the Rio Olympics. How the Kremlin is responding on that? Coming up after this break.

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[05:45:07] JONES: Welcome back. The Rio Olympics are about to begin in just two weeks time. But in the shadow of security failed and a fresh doping scandal. Brazil announced on Thursday that authorities arrested 10 people suspected of plotting terror acts during the summer games.

They say the suspects were unorganized but inspired by ISIS. Meanwhile, new analysis from the last two summer Olympic has confirmed 45 athletes tested positive for banned substances. This, of course, after Russia lost an appeal over its track and field athletes being banned from the Rio games. Well then the doping officials say Russia ran a state sponsored doping program for its athletes.

We're going to now get some more on the situation in Munich in the aftermath of the shooting rampage that took place last night. I want to join our Will Ripley. He is live there in the German city for us. Will, what's the latest you are hearing, and describe the mood in the city of Mourning this morning?

WILL RIPLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hannah, we're expecting a press conference any time now were we could learn some more information about this investigation, which has been ongoing throughout the overnight hours. We know that there was an apartment here in Munich that was the focus of a police raid. We might get some more information about what exactly was found there. We do believe it is tied to the investigation of this 18-year-old German-Iranian teenager.

An 18-year-old who somehow was able obtain weapons and just down the street here, starting at that McDonald's and moving into the shopping center, the Olympia mall able to take nine lives before going about a half a mile away from the crime scene here and taking his own life shooting himself. In addition to that, at least 16 people injured several of them still in critical condition at the hospital right now. And there are so many questions that people have here. How did this happen. Why did this happen? Why did it take seven hours for the city to announce basically a cautious all clear after essentially being on lock down.

We were talking about an instant with a single gunman isolated to this area, because you'll remember, Hannah, when we were speaking yesterday, there were many witness accounts saying up to three different men, three different attackers. But I think the number one question not the situation appears to be contained is to understand the motivation. Were there warning signs? Was there some sort of an inspiration and where did it come from? Each of these tragic events investigators hope to learn something from, to prevent it from happening again, and here we are, in eight days, three major acts of violence against civilians here in Western Europe.

JONES: Will, one thing as we may hear from the police chief when he speaks in the next few minutes hopefully is perhaps more about the identity of the gunman, an 18-year-old of German-Iranian dual citizenship. Well, we understand he had lived in Munich for some time and that could be crucial, given it's a young man who presumably has friends, possibly family, living with him, around him, and may provide those crucial clues as to why this attack was carried out.

RIPLEY: And we have been speaking at the scene of that apartment that was raided with neighbors, getting information from them which we are still checking out before we broadcast it over the airways. But, you know, questions we want to ask, was he living at age 18 still living with his parents? Was he living alone? What was his personality like? What kind of crowd was he hanging around with? How long was he living here in Munich?

We've heard it might be up wards of two years. And what was the motivation for, you know, these exchanges that we heard on those cell phone videos yesterday, where anti-foreigner slurs were shouted out and there are witness accounts that not only was this suspect supposedly firing deliberately at young children, we should just pause to think about that for a moment and also deliberately firing at foreigners as well. What caused this? That's what police are trying to figure out and of course, people here in Munich and across Germany want to know.

JONES: Will, we were talking yesterday, there was much speculation as to whether this was some sort of ISIS-fueled attack or sponsored attack, if you like and the fact that we know that the perpetrator was of German-Iranian dual citizenship. Does that help to unravel the pieces of this puzzle largely because Iranians are predominantly Shia Muslims and not able to have nothing to do with ISIS then.

RIPLEY: It probably is too premature to say definitively, but it seems as the narrative here is shifting away, from some sort of a Jihadist for the reasons precisely that you mentioned, Hannah, And perhaps another narrative, and a xenophobic narrative and we did touch on this possibility yesterday as well given that the attack occurred on the fifth anniversary of that horrific attack in Norway.

[05:50:01] No idea if there is a connection to that, given the fact that the attack at the Olympia mall, you know, near the Olympic stadium the site of the 1972 terror attack were many -- I think it was 11 members of the Israeli Olympic team were killed along with the German police officer by a Palestine in Paris. There are all of these things, that could be coincidental or they could be part of a greater reason why this happened. At this point we just don't know, we don't know what evidence they had seized if this apartment was, in fact, where the attacker was living. Did they find a computer? Did they find a note? And maybe we'll learn more when this press conference gets under way.

JONES: Will, stand by for us. We're going to take a short break and hopefully com back with that press conference by the Munich Police Chief in the coming minutes. Thanks very much.

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JONES: CNN NEWSROOM. We're taking you live to Munich where a police press conference is taking place, let's listen in right now.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE (Through Translator): Yeah a little late, but we have researched a lot and we would like to give you information, on the right, the Munich Police Chief Hubertus Andrae, then of the investigation department Hubert Himok (ph) and then Thomas Koch (ph). We would like to update you.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (Through Translator): Good morning. I would like to start with giving you essential information. Firstly, there are no indications on the basis of the investigation that the only the perpetrator who killed himself was active. So we deal with lone attacker.

Secondly, which is important as well, the perpetrator and the act is not connected with refugees at all. Thirdly, for security reasons, there is no reason to visit Munich, to not to go shopping in Munich or to cancel any events. Probably an event organizer, which is to cancel an event for respect, but otherwise there are no reasons for security to cancel it.

The perpetrator was 18-years-old. He was born in Munich. Grew up in Munich. And he was a student. The room he lived in has been searched in the meantime, on the basis of the search there are no indications that there was a connection with I.S. We found documents with regard to being on a rampage. This is something the perpetrator intensely looked at. We have all together 10 persons killed and there are 27 injured persons. Of those are seriously injured 10 persons and among them, there is a 13-year-old and 17 persons are slightly injured and of those 27 injured persons, four have bullet injuries. The last number we gave you 20 was because we had various locations stock holes in different areas in central Munich and there were injured people.

[05:55:08] The figure of the injured people may change during today. Because we cannot exclude that once the person may in the meantime decide to get medical treatment. About the theme, we worked there with colleagues during the night and now it is again freely to -- freely available. But there are certain areas which are cordoned off.

The shopping center that is not opened now and we do not know when the shopping center will be opened again. The local public transfer works routinely again apart from that the O.E. that's stopped is not a stop that's being used right now.

Now about the procedure. The scene will it be investigated? Or further more investigated and also about the perpetuator his personal surrounding will be investigated. We have to be very sensitive in the way we do it, because for his relatives, it is very tragic too. There are continuous investigations. We had 2,300 forces when this investigation peeked in Munich at the moment we have about 800 forces in the operation.

This includes the criminal investigation offices. A police officer, patrol officers had contact with the perpetrator. This can be confirmed and that was near the O.E. that shopping center. Our colleagues spotted the perpetrator and the perpetrator shot at him. And the autopsy showed that the police actually did not manage to shoot him. This was the active for me about the procedure. Mr. Heinberger (ph) and Mr. Koch (ph) will give you more details about the investigation. Mr. Heinberger (ph)

HEINBERGER (ph) (Through Translater): Hello, and welcome. We took on the investigation last night and we intensively looked at the background and tried to clarify the circumstances. The perpetrator had a 9mm weapon. It was probably illegal because the number has been scratched off. We need to try to make it invisible again in order to find out where the weapon came from. This will take some time.

The medicine had certain remission and the rocks that contained also a large number of cartridges for the shooting. Over 300 bullets that's Okadrie (ph) what the perpetrator had. We also searched the flat of his parents and his room. We did not find initial indications but we found documents that referred to a rampage. And there was a book, rampage in my mind. Why students kill. So he dealt with such matters. We have comprehensive computer material. We have secured it and analyzed that. We lock at data, and we will truly analyze it and then later we may say more.

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JONES: I'm Hannah Vaughan Jones, here in London. For viewers in the U.S. "New day" stats now and for international viewers we want to return now to these news conference in Munich take a listen.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE (Through Translator): The public prosecutors office --