All right, welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapper and we have been listening to authorities in San Diego,

specifically San Diego Police Chief, Scott Wall, updating after a deadly shooting at the largest mosque in San Diego County, California. The Imam is speaking. Let's listen in.

And at this moment, all what I can say is

sending our prayers and standing in solidarity with all the families in our community here

and also the other mosques and all the places of worship in our beautiful city

should always be protected.

It is extremely outrageous to target a place of worship.

Our Islamic Center is a place of worship.

People come to the Islamic Center to pray,

to celebrate, to learn.

Not only Muslims, but we have people from all walks of life just this morning earlier.

A group of people, non-Muslims

coming just to learn about our faith and our cultures so this is something

that we have never expected and I would like also to thank all the people who

contacted us from all over the country and even from overseas

to give condolences and to ask about is there anything they can do to help.

And I would like also to thank our local authorities, our Senegal Police Department, the FBI, the San Diego Police Department, FBI, and all the Sheriff Department, our mayor, for showing up and standing in solidarity with us.

So this is what I have to say. Thank you so much.

Thank you very much. That's all the time we have right now. We will come back in two hours and we will also set up for Spanish interviews.

Yes.

That was Imam Taha Hussain of the Islamic Center of San Diego talking about how no one should ever

attack a place of faith like the Islamic Center of San Diego,

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