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And your neighborhood safe, visit pge.com/wildfiresafety hello, i am fredricka whitfield. thank you for being with me. we have breaking news. lets begin with whats happening in pittsburgh, pennsylvania, with an active shooter near a synagogue in that city. police are on the scene right now. you see the images were getting in. cnns nick valencia is tracking the story for us. what doweknowabout the circumstances? >> this is a breaking news story, a fluid situation. the reports of an active shoo...

In pittsburgh in the swirl hill neighborhood of pittsburgh, a well known historic jewish neighborhood. the service started at 9:45. it is saturday shabbat, according to the website, the busiest day in any synagogue. 9:45 is when the service evidently started. 10:20, just after that, when reports of active shooter came to cnn here. we did speak to sheriffs deputy kevin krause. he said it is an active, fluent situation and i cant talk now, but we have a little more information from the pittsburgh ...

Situation. it is terrifying to watch the images on the screen, fredricka. as you mention, this is near the tree of life synagogue in the well known historic jewish neighborhood of squirrel hill in pittsburgh. saturday is shabbat, busiest day of any synagogue. services according to the website start at 9:45 a.m. eastern at the tree of life. at cnn here, we first heard reports of active shooter after 10:20 eastern this morning. and it was a short time ago we got a very brief, blunt, impromptu brie...

>> art roderick is with us. as a former u.s. marshal, tell us how law enforcement reacts. they go toward gunfire, what they hear. theyll see possibly people running, fleeing from the area where they heard gunfire, but how else to they approach this unclear whether the gunman or gunmen happens to be in place. >> fred, we heard the term, unfortunately we are familiar with run hide fight. but also the fourth thing to get done is get witness statements and get an identification of the individual as ...

Situation. as far as we know, no one has been allowed out of the synagogue thus far. authorities who did just take to the microphones are continuing to treat it as an active shooter scene even though one gaunman, one alleged gunman is in custody. sam, listening to people familiar with the synagogue and the neighborhood, it is a significant center piece of the neighborhood in squirrel hills neighborhood there of pittsburgh. everyone really is impacted here. >> yes. saturday morning, shabbat morni...

Ideology, hateful ideology theyre driven by or consumed by. theyre going to do something now thats more difficult. going to an undefended synagogue. >> as we look at the images, most of the images we see of first responder vehicles of that of arrival. we havent seen ems trucks that have departed with, say, the injured. is that unusual? is it likely anyone being attended to will take place on the scene as opposed to transporting? >> i think timingwise this event occurred around 10:20. were an hou...

Before they say it is an all clear, before the concentrated efforts are on tending to the injured? >> they have to canvass the building. and tree of life synagogue, i have never been there, it looks large. there are multiple rooms in any synagogue. it is unclear whether the suspect acted by himself or others. now that he is reportedly left the building, theyre likely looking to see if theres anybody else in there that may pose a threat. and simultaneously to your point, theyre interacting with l...

Local politicians. >> do you have security guards there during saturday morning services? how big a security issue for you guys? >> im not a member of tree of life. i cant comment on their security practices. you have to talk to someone from the congregation. >> we heard that theres one in custody, the shooter in custody. hearing that and after whats been happening, how does that make you feel? >> now im just sad. i dont know what to tell you. i just -- my heart goes out to all of the families. ...

Active shooting happened inside the synagogue, near the synagogue, or surrounding the synagogue. all of that is being worked out now. scary scenes that were looking at out of pittsburgh, fredricka. >> frightening indeed. nick, give us new information as you get it. art roderick with us, james galliano, samantha vinograd. someone that lives in the pittsburgh area, selena zito, giving us her perspective based on her working knowledge of the community there. james, you see vehicles continue to pull...