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 hasn t been flushed out. that s 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 the guns. most active shooter situations, fred, are resolved one way or the other within five to ten minutes. they re going to the sound of the guns. we pray for them all. they re going into harm s way, doing good work, making sure there aren t casualties on this. all we know, service likely in place at the synagogue there, and not long after it getting under way, reports of shots
information missing. we want to be sure when we have everything. we ll be coming back to you. there are fatalities, but we re not commenting yet on what there are. we ll be back to advise the media on a regular basis. at this point that s all we have. and we re 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 custody. it is unclear if there s any more of a threat taking place at the tree of life synagogue there in squirrel hill neighborhood of pittsburgh. you see the law enforcement presence there. they are clearing the building, according to the officers that you heard there. they did confirm that three officers have been shot. still unclear the number in totality of casualties. but very sobering information,
make a comment. right now, chris is the point of contact, please do not contact police officials. as soon as there s 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. can t 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 moving out of the way now. all right. rare, brief but blunt. multiple casualties. shelter in place. people that live in squirrel hill enabled of pittsburgh need to stay where they are, stay indoors. you heard the officers say lock doors, stay in the home. multiple casualties near the tree of life synagogue there in squirrel hill neighborhood of pittsburgh. i m going to bring in some experts for me, retired fbi supervisory special agent james
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 you re responding to a scene and are instructing people to run, you never know if the bad guys have secreted in the people running out. you have to do immediate sorting to determine good guy from bad. let s make careful distinctions. there are three things s.w.a.t. team leaders look at arriving on scene now. is this still an active shooter, is there somebody gunning people down and we have to interdict them and bring them down. number two, is it a barricade situation with hostages or
perhaps magnetometers when they re met at the synagogue? well, years ago and i honestly can t 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 don t 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 synagogue, tree of life synagogue in pittsburgh in