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At least from a get -- from lockdown to a mode where were seeing now and this was aerial video shot just a little while ago of staff and students being escorted to safety. right. well, that goes to, you know, the process and to locate and isolate the shooter and then to evacuate and then, you know, to mitigate if you have to deal with him. he could have dead or located and barricaded and they feel safe that they can move people around. or they may feel that he is left and safely move people buil...

Running everywhere. >> we are seeing new aerial images coming in thats giving us a better birds eye view of whats taking place. >> reporter: yes. there are helicopters everywhere. >> correct me if im wrong because i said there are about 2,000 underclassmen currently registered there. is that the right number? is it closer to four? >> reporter: i have someone standing right beside me. let me ask them that question so i can give you an accurate count. about 3300 or 3400, they are telling me. >> ok...

Opportunity to see the flow and safe removal of students and faculty, how effective has it been to get everybody as far away from job hall as possible right now? >> reporter: we havent seen any student and faculty movement on the campus. there were some students on the quad. im not seeing them anymore. they were all in a group. but the schools on lockdown so there should be no students moving around. once they clear a building, and i cant see it from where i am anymore, but from what i understan...

University and in cleveland. where is the shooter? he could be holed up in a building. thats what law enforcements going to do now is sweep those buildings. theyre evacuating them. when they can safely do that and escorting the students out. you see them coming out. police around them. they feel they can bring them safely out and then clear the buildings. search. thats going to take a number of hours and also investigators will be fanned out across the city, the county, if they have any inkling ...

Our fire department and police to get to campus, they came right past my building. usually when things like that happen, i go see whats going on as far as the newspaper and when i got to campus and found out that there was an active shooting, the mom role took over and the editor role kind of dissipated. >> i think all of us can understand that. >> reporter: yes. after hitting redial about 100 times, i finally got him on the phone and he was evacuated from the building to the quadrangle and then...

In the last five minutes, they just evacuated chiefly hall which students who exited with their hands behind their head and taken to a safe location. thats about all we know right now. that is confirmed. >> christie, we are seeing aerial shots now from wlbt-tv showing a mass of staff and students that are all walking in a single-file line to a different area of safety. remind us again about how many students have returned to the fall semester, just roughly four weeks ago? >> according to the tea...

We have over 200 law enforcement officers from all different agencies here on campus. an s.w.a.t. team is actually getting ready to arrive. theyre going to go building to building. search wall to wall, door to door. floor to floor to make sure that the campus is safe. we are trying to find out how much longer we will be on lockdown. no one can give us a certain time for that. all of our local hospitals, public and private in the area on lockdown for the safety of the students. but we will know m...

>> of job hall. >> reporter: oh, job hall is our history department. its the building where our history department is located. >> and the campus itself, is it pretty intimate? would you have to walk to job hall in an interior location on campus or is it drive-up? >> reporter: its in the center of our campus. surrounded by other buildings in the middle of what we have called a quadrangle where students gather for events and its within walking distance. all of our buildings are within walking dist...