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According to anti-defamation league, anti-semitic incidents were 50%, 12 incidents in 2018 thus far, and we may be seeing a large scale anti-semitic attack at the heart of the jewish community in pittsburgh, and children may have been impacted, men, women and children coming together for the community worship service on saturday morning. >> cnn is able to confirm at least four dead according to sources telling us, at least four dead now in the shooting taking place in a place of worship this mor...

Theyre telling the public to stay inside, stay in their homes, lock their doors and report any unusual activity in the neighborhood. and thats exactly whats occurring now. law enforcement is very fearful the individual could get out and get into somebodys house. >> okay. also want to bring in selena zito. we usually talk politics, but you happen to know the area, squirrel hill, a neighborhood of pittsburgh. what can you tell us about this residential area where the center point now is the synago...

Enforcement officers. >> they have to send them in in a big way. art, in the history of threats, how much does law enforcement need to know that before they arrive at the synagogue. i talked with fred rabner earlier, his recollection was there were some anti-semitic behavior expressed, targeting that synagogue in the past. are they assessing that after the fact or equipping themselves with whatever history there might be before they get to the scene? >> yeah. large law enforcement organizations ...

You have to have a tight perimeter. then the perimeter gets made smaller, smaller, smaller. you have an inner perimeter, concentric circle inside the outer perimeter. you also have areas set up for potential victims, people fleeing the scene or coming out, law enforcement can do a hasty did discernment. lets his listen to kdka with t latest information. >> good morning. we are here. the people that work at kdka have friends and family members inside the synagogue whenever this happened. one woma...

National security analyst.ograd, you hear short but powerful information from the investigators, multiple casualties. >> absolutely. looking at the signs of distress and the way the operators, s.w.a.t. operators are moving, you can tell this is a scene where chaos has happened. it hasnt been flushed out. thats what happens. they try to sort it out. keep in mind, we are teaching our police, our law enforcement post columbine which happened 19 years ago this april, they have to go to the sounds of...

Information missing. we want to be sure when we have everything. well be coming back to you. there are fatalities, but were not commenting yet on what there are. well be back to advise the media on a regular basis. at this point thats all we have. and were still asking residents to stay inside their homes. not a safe situation yet. >> all right. still considered a dangerous situation. you heard from officers there who are saying people still need to remain in home, even though a shooter is in cu...

Make a comment. right now, chris is the point of contact, please do not contact police officials. as soon as theres more information, he will be bringing them back out and giving information to the public. the key issue now is stay in your home. lock your door. stay in your home. >> cant answer questions because it is on-going. this will be the staging area, will be the back and forth providing information as soon as available. >> what is the address of tree of life? >> excuse me. >> we are movi...

>> when you have a densely populated area, a neighborhood, the focal point being a potential shooting scenario in this synagogue, if the shooter or shooters have left the synagogue, are no longer in the immediate perimeter of the synagogue, there are a lot of places to hide. that makes it difficult with a neighborhood situation like this. explain the dynamics for law enforcement. >> as a former fbi s.w.a.t. team leader, i understand this just intrinsically, the difficulties. as youre responding ...

Perhaps magnetometers when theyre met at the synagogue? >> well, years ago and i honestly cant remember what year it was, i think in the 2000s, maybe 99, there was an incident where there was i believe a rabbi shot. that did up in the aftermath the security around synagogues in the area. i dont know that there was any other mag or security guards that i can recall. >> okay. again according to nick valencia reporting roughly about 10:20 a.m. this became an active shooter scene, a service at the s...

Fired. we dont know how many people might be responsible for those shots, but give us an idea what the reflex is of authorities coming on scene. like james said, they react post columbine, go toward gunfire, but what else? >> we dont know if the active shooter is in the synagogue. this is the busiest time for any synagogue. my father is at synagogue now in connecticut. jews worship during these hours. we may have a situation where theres active shooter that opened fire on hundreds of people. we ...