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Students are frightened, they are gathered together, hunkering down in place waiting for this to end. we dont know exactly where all of this stands right now in terms of the shooter, but the information that we have from the m.e.s office is that a professor at the school has been shot and killed. >> i want to go to christi, who is on campus and is a reporter there. can you tell us what is happening now on campus as best you know? >> reporter: right now we are about 20, 30 yards from the command ...

Shortly after takeoff. by this time the plane had been in the air over an hour. she imsupplied they had been circling around for a while. she and the other passengers had been herded to the back of the airplane. i asked if they the hijackers knew she was calling. she said, no, they dont know. she indicated they had used knives and box cutters to take over the plane. at some point we got cut off. i immediately called the command center of the department of justice to let them know my wife was on ...

Response immediately. called president bush. i actually got him at the education summit in florida and we talked about closing the airspace and taking appropriate steps. and then, its the only time in 14 years i ignored my security. they said, you have to get out of heres you have to go to the command center in albany because we dont know whats going to happen. i said, no. i cant leave. i cant leave new york. ooo-ey cant be fleeing to a bunker. so i stayed and actually went to lower manhattan, w...

>> no. >> that day. >> i usually didnt stay in new york city. i just happened to the night before. and i was in the city. it was beautiful a. beautiful day. my daughter called. she was working the news. it was early in the morning. she goes, dad, turn on the tv. a plane hit one of the towers. i said, oh, new york, stupid things happen. it was probably a mistake. while i was watching i saw the second plane and immediately knew we were being attacked. akd serrated our emergency command and respons...

Didnt know the coke of the violence that was yet to occur that day. there we were picking up in marines in north carolina and the plan originally was to go up to new york city to potentially put marines in the city to help with security and eventually that didnt happen. the mayor giuliani decided against that. we were at sea for four or five days just waiting for orders to see if there was more than gofsing to required of the u.s. navy and the u.s. military. i lost a sailor that i knew in the pe...

Well, near residential homes, over the railroad tracks here. we made a decision to come to the command center because obviously we didnt want to give street names away where these officers may be gathering to go out. we saw k-9 officers walking in the woodline as well. we are in the industrial area where the officer was shot. but back in the residential areas, there is a woodline and what was described to me, some of its marshland, some of its woods and some of it breaks down into a residential ...

Driving down a roadway thats got nothing but open fields, possibly abandoned businesses and you see three individuals there that have no reason for being there, it would be a fundamental police procedure to stop and at least question as to why theyre there. again, i cant speak for what happened or what the circumstances of the encounter were or how these individuals were even acting when the officer first saw them. >> reporter: so that was the scenario, though? >> correct. >> reporter: wheres yo...

Center. thats close to where the shooting happened. about a half mile. the business over my shoulder, the owner was telling us they believe the officer was shot about, behind some businesses. and ran toward homes in the area. he described the area as having a marsh land, accommodation of woods and areas full of water. there are lakes here. officers have been concentrating in thaempl we can see officers lined up on atvs, k-9 officers, on horseback, theres a concentrated effort in a neighborhood n...

No tip is too small. >> we are joined from fox lake, illinois, not far from where the shooting happened. where the police been focusing their search and do they believe all three suspects are still together? >> you know, that is a great question. we know we are behind their command center. thats close to where the shooting happened. a half mile. the business over my shoulder, the owner was telling us they believe the officer was shot he described the area as marsh land, accommodations and woods ...

>> good morning. we have important changes. hurricane hunter aircraft went into the storm to check out the health of this storm. this storm is a disorganized mess and may not even be classified as a tropical storm later this morning. notice all the thunderstorms to the east of the center. this is the command center, if you will, the steering wheel of the ship. when it is lopsided like this with the storms, its weak and disorganized. thats why were not expecting this storm to survive for much lon...