Police Hunt Surgeon After Hospital Shooting
BALDWIN: A manhunt in Buffalo, New York, is drawing national attention this afternoon because the person police are hunting is a well-known Buffalo surgeon. Police want to talk to Dr. Timothy Jorden about the deadly shooting of his ex-girlfriend. That happened yesterday morning. But what makes this particular shooting even more noteworthy is that it happened at the hospital where both the doctor and the victim worked. Buffalo Police tried to calm all the fears, obviously, in the community in a news conference just this morning. Take a listen.</s>DANIEL DERENDA, BUFFALO POLICE COMMISSIONER: I don't think the general public is in danger. Again, an officer coming across this individual, again, he has to be considered armed and dangerous. But we want to talk to him about yesterday's incident. And that's all I'll say right now. I don't think he's a danger to the public at large, no.</s>BALDWIN: I want to bring in Pete Gallivan right now. He's a reporter with Buffalo TV station WGRZ. And, Pete, let me just ask you this. I know police aren't calling Dr. Jorden a suspect. Why is that?</s>PETE GALLIVAN, WGRZ REPORTER: Right. Well, they're referring to him as a person of interest in this case. And the bottom line is, there are different rules as to how you can talk to a suspect, as opposed to a person of interest. But at this point, they're saying he's just a person of interest that they would like to talk to regarding the killing of Jackie Wisniewski yesterday, as you mentioned, at the Erie County Medical Center, where both the doctor, as well as the victim, worked.</s>BALDWIN: So it sounds like the background on this story is a bit textured, as some of these details are coming out, because we know that there are these records that are indicating this doctor was actually involved in not just one, but two prior domestic violence disputes. Not with this victim. But let me just play some sound. This is what the police commissioner said about that. And then I got a question for you.</s>DERENDA: I don't believe there were any order of protections involving the victim. I can't comment on the motive right now.</s>BALDWIN: He's not commenting. I'm hearing, though, that a lot of the victim's friends are commenting today with regard to stories of abuse. Is that correct?</s>GALLIVAN: Yes. We're hearing quite a bit coming out over social media, FaceBook, Twitter, that sort of thing, yes, telephone calls. One thing that was said by one of the victim's friends was, she was told by the victim, if something happens to me, it was him. There was also another statement made by another friend that said, she loved him but was afraid of him. We're also hearing word that he may have put GPS tracking on her car after she moved out. So we're hearing a lot of these different side of this relationship between Jackie Wisniewski and Dr. Timothy Jorden.</s>BALDWIN: Tell me about this massive search, Pete. Outside this doctor's home, it's on this cliff, I understand. It's overlooking Lake Erie. Is there any indication they might possibility be searching for his body?</s>GALLIVAN: There is an indication of that. We received a phone call -- we did a telephone interview earlier today with a neighbor of Dr. Jorden and he said he didn't think of anything -- think of this as anything at the time, but he says he did hear one gunshot early yesterday morning, which would have been in the time frame after the shooting. Police aren't sure if that has anything to do, whether it was a distant hunter, but police are on the bluffs behind his house, that overlook Lake Erie, this morning. They've been -- or they started this morning and they're still there at this hour.</s>BALDWIN: So sad for the community, I know, in Buffalo. If anything happens with the search, obviously, Pete, we'll pop you back in front of that camera and you can let us know. Pete Gallivan from our affiliate WGRZ. Pete, we appreciate it. Let me get to some news here just into us here at CNN. We are getting word now that the U.S. military has completed plans in the event American troops are involved in an operation in Syria. We're going to take you live to the Pentagon for that.