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To our store. >> are you in the back of the store? >> were in the back of the store. they told us to stay in back of the store. >> have the police come by -- >> no. were getting everything on the phone call that told us what to do. >> was there a sense of panic from those fleeing the area? >> definitely. panic that people yelled there was a shooter in the mall. >> bng saturday there are a lot of folks at the mall today. >> yes. the understanding that the man was on the upper rail, top by the foo...

Spoke, i said the food court is considered one of the main entryways into the mall. the food court is on the lower level of the mall. when you come in, theres a lot of restaurants there, a lot of fast food restaurants. then you also have the escalator to take you to the second level or you can stay on the bottom levels right by a champs sporting goods place. its a very busy area. a lot of people sitting in the food court. i wasnt surprised when the guy from the jewelry store said it occurred at ...

That has its own militia, fighting along the nile river and al-qaeda in the sinai. so lets not expect that things are going to calm down in egypt in next few months. >> turning now to the hot spot in russia now with big concerns about security for the sochi winter olympics. the fact that our government now has issued a travel warning, and that athletes are being advised not to wear team usa gear. >> look, the u.s. government is doing everything it can, i guess, because the number, the sheer numb...

Where we have an active shooting situation taking place at the columbia mall in maryland. ted williams joining us on the phone right now with more. ted? hello, ted, can you hear us? >> i can hear you very well. >> tell us what you know at this point? >> well, i dont know very much at this point other than the fact that there is a possible active shooter, at the columbia mall. where the columbia mall is really, really about 15 to 20 minutes outside of d.c. its in howard county. there are a lot of...

Evening. were very fortunate where shes concerned. >> is she hunkered down with a basement? >> we dont have a basement. we have a reinforced interior room. thats pretty common. basements for the reason that your previous observer said, are very rare in oklahoma. theyre extremely difficult to build. a lot of people will have individual shelters and reinforced concrete rooms aboveground. >> the video were showing our viewers, it looks like a mall area that was destroyed, maybe a movie theater. >> ...

Greater threat tonight into tomorrow. alex? >> oh, my gosh. janet, can you ask your camera person to pan off a little bit. is that a power pole behind you or -- >> go ahead and pan over there. it is. were in a suburban kind of mall area. can you see its just splintered. but this is straight line wind damage. this is not tornado damage. and the winds here cancelled flights into the airport last night and, as i was saying, what youre seeing here goes on -- this whole street is shut down. it goes o...

Because thats all theyre worth. >> glenn: its kind of sad, isnt it? you tell me, america, which one is the angry one? here is another one. you can see viewed as a hate monger. you know what is happening. because you hate the earth. global warming. you pollute. youll pollute as much as you want. after 500,000 people left the mall area, here is what it looked like hours after you left. 500,000 people. look at the green space. do you see any -- i dont see an awful lot of, hmm, garbage. compare that...

St. louis today. listen. protesters testing black lives matter and no peace, no profits as they gather at the entrance of a mall there. security at the mall estimates there were about 200 to 300 presen present ryan young joins us. >> reporter: were told they have been kicked out of the mall area. this is the west county mall, and you can understand that happened in the middle of the afternoon. a busy shopping area. we did see police officers lining the entrance around the highways here to keep p...

Called the address, a residential area, restaurants below, people enjoying their new years eve dinner. there was debris raining down from as high up as 20 floors up at least in that building. you can see what they are trying to do is try to get everybody out of the mall area. they want everyone out, all of them being escorted out. trying to understand what caused the fire. all i can say is we saw quite a bit of firefighters running through the mall. >> at this hour we have reports of 14 injuries...

>> reporter: flames, 20 floors high engulf the luxury building, chunks of debris falling, still on fire. >> within six or seven minutes, the entire side of the building was engulfed in flames. >> reporter: for more than two hours, dubais skyline lit up, and not by a scheduled fireworks display. emergency responders racing to help. >> we saw quite a bit of firefighters making their way running top speed through the mall to try to get to that location. >> reporter: inside there was pandemonium one...