Joe Biden Holds School Shooting Press Conference When The News Taft High School Shooting Hits

As Vice President Joe Biden held a press conference talking about the progress the White House has made with their Gun Violence Task Force today, news hit that there had been 2 people shot in a school shooting in California at Taft High School.

The news couldn't have came at a worse time for the VP.

Huffington Post reports:

At that moment, Biden was reading off the list of stakeholders in the gun violence debate with whom he had met, saying there was "no single answer" to such a "complicated problem. The White House's task force was formed after the December school shooting in Newtown, Conn. Biden announced Thursday that he would deliver his recommendations for comprehensive gun violence legislation on Tuesday.

A top priority, Biden said, would be creating a strong system of background checks to prevent people with criminal histories or mental illnesses from obtaining guns.

CNN had been airing the Biden press conference live, but it quickly went to a commercial break and then moved to reporting on the shooting at Taft High.

The suspect in the Taft High shooting is currently in custody, the first victim suffered minor injuries, and the second victim was shot in the chest and air lifted to the hospital for a very critical wound.