And good evening, we begin tonight with the shooting at a public transit rail yard in San Jose,

California that ended with eight lives lost plus that of the gunmen.

For the families of the victims, tonight is just the beginning of what will be almost

unimaginable pain and sadness, and that pain will be uniquely and indelibly theirs.

For the country what happened today was the 230 second mass shooting of the year, according

to the data from the gun violence archive.

It was the 17th since last Wednesday, California's governor spoke to that reality a short time

ago.

Here we are in the United States of America, or experiencing something just not experienced

anywhere else in the world.

There is a sameness to this and that numbness I think is something we're all feeling, but

it begs the damn question what the hell is going on in the United States of America.

The hell is wrong with us.

Well, CNN stands time and joins us now from the scene.

DEN, what do we know?

Anderson, as usual, the main question is why?

What would cause this shooter to go across the street, target his own co-workers, shoot

and kill them?

At this point, authorities have not established a clear cut motive.

What I can tell you is that authorities did recover multiple weapons at the scene.

They haven't said what the making model of those weapons were, but it seems clear that

he wanted to inflict as much carnage as possible before taking his own life.

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