from the police. so, it sounds like the police are making some progress. they don t know how many buildings are there. but as you can imagine, given the size of this school. this is about, what an hour and a half nearly two hours since this happened? so, places certainly making some progress going through the school, going through the different areas in these buildings. they are trying to secure, then find the victims. but you, know listening to the student that aaron spoke to. i, mean you can hear the sounds in the background. one can only imagine what students go through these days. you know, iran class, you are doing activities at the school. and i are running for your life. you are hiding because there is a gunman on the loose there in the school. so, right now that is the priority. we are getting to the students, making sure they re okay. and then obviously to find the
gunman. the good news is that there are some reports of shots fired. the police are not indicating that there is been any shooting since they arrived on campus. you can see some of the ambulances there standing around. it is somewhat of an ominous sign there. so, let s see what happens as we try to figure more from police in authorities there. we will wait for not date. i do want to make one, point we are getting updates. we should be appreciative of that from the school police. they are updating us with tweets and many of the family members that are at home watching this and waiting onward for the kids in the loved ones. so, we will wait now and see what happens here as we wait for more from police as they continue to search for this gunman. they are trying to get to the students that are hiding in various rooms around the school. yeah, we are not going to get ahead of ourselves. we are just going to give information as issue state police bring it to us.
sucker in place, then tell students and faculty to run high. they explained and one of the students to evacuate. wanted some to hide some of the faculty are hiding in classrooms and run school as police go from 4 to 4, classroom to classroom, room to room. searching for victims in the gunman. the key here is not a secure situation. gretchen is saying that they ve been briefed on michigan state university. along with the police and the local law enforcement, the first responders are on the ground. she says let s wrap the arms around the spartan community tonight. they will keep everyone updated as we learn more.
threat. that s what we re looking at right now. students watching, it stay put. for all the communications of local public safety. not a lot of the noise is going on. this is one of the biggest colleges in the country. 50,000 on the students now. and imagine the scope of what these first responders and police have to deal with? i know you are seeing this police. tweet the latest tweet from the school police the suspect description is a short man with a mask. possibly back. police continue to shelter in place. as we talk moments ago, we still receive calls from an active shooter on campus. people are hiding, people are scared for their life at this moment.
police. given the hour perhaps there s an event going on that would ve brought people. it sounds like they were a lot of people another thing that police are dealing with our other reports and people seeing things. there is one gunman, one shooter here. that is who they re looking for their responding to all of the calls. so many people they re frightened and scared. they witnessed, this they re having to run from this. so many of them are hiding in ruins in areas around the school as police continue to search for this gunman treat the wounded and go floor by floor here trying to make sure that the school is secure. chief ramsey, what a nightmare. it s a national nightmare. but what a nightmare for the