direct .com. good morning, everyone we do begin with breaking news this morning. alright you are looking at live pictures. there was breaking news out of louisville, kentucky . you see a huge police presence there. there are quote multiple casualties, according to police as they respond to an active aggressor officials, including the f are telling everyone to stay away from the area of 300 block of east main street. the mayor also urging the public to stay away from the area. we have now learned that this is a shooting that there are multiple people who are down, including a police officer. our cnn correspondent omar jimenez is following the developments as we watch them there live from our affiliate. w e. we are seeing a lot of police down there, and we re hearing that the governor may be on his way. what can you tell us? omar? that s right, sara. for starters, they are describing this as an active or as a shooting incident in downtown louisville. they had been describing it
said that they could offer the next briefing, bank whether or not you re going there to rob it or something else if you are going to engage in shooting at a bank there can t be a reasonably high expectation you ll get out alive. it is the type of place that is well guarded. guarded where people are well armed and you know that there will be a quick police response or you should know that. i mean, it s one of the things you factor in. but as we see and so many of these active shooter incidents and, you know, we re all kind of a broken record on this, but too many active shooter incidents. the idea that we re having some version of this conversation literally every week or every two weeks. um, is a problem. but as we learned from the collective wisdom is the shooter often doesn t intend to come out alive. and there are exceptions to that. if you look at the buffalo supermarket shooting, he wrote in his own manifesto and built into his plans. part of my goal is to survive the shooting to
house there in the midst of it right now, roll so you, you know, you can only imagine, um the mixture of emotions there as this is all happening, something that you re very familiar with. john is just how, um practice and prepared, um police departments around the country need to be with not just the rapid response to calls and reports of an active shooter, but how to deal with as it continues to unfold. what do you think of just how quickly we now are going to have if we wouldn t call our second press conference ? this is the first call is coming into 8 30 whenever second press conference coming in starting at 11 a.m. you re what do you what s your taking kind of the response that we have seen as much more to learn of the motivation and the details that we can t it s tough to speculate about at this point. i mean, what we see so far is a little bit of the model of a lot of things were done here, right that we can just see at this stage and you know this will be
attempted to get in, had to break their way in by breaching the doors, and at this point, there is some kind of armed confrontation with the shooter. the shooter is down and deceased at the scene weapons have been recovered from the shooter. or i should say a weapon or weapons, the circumstance that is not clear right now, and this is not uncommon to have this fog as an incident unfolding quickly, and you ve got multiple versions from multiple people is whether police, um, killed the shooter in an exchange of gunfire, or whether the shooter opened fire on police and sell and killed himself from his self inflicted wound. again that s all up in the air while they process that crime scene review body camera if there is any, um from the responding units and talk to witnesses beyond the body camera. of course, it s a bank. there will be multiple cameras with multiple angles of video of
. we re gonna try to find out what we can about the conviction conditions of the six people who were at the hospital after a shooting. um i guess less than an hour ago in louisville, kentucky at a bank. this is cnn news central. our live coverage continues right after this. asking the right question can greatly impact your future. are you qualified to do this? espepecially when it comes to yr finances? are y you a certified financial p planner, cfp professional professionals are committed to acting in your best interest. that s why it s got to didn t make the dance tm. what do i always say? switch your car insurance to progressive and you could save huneds better now. not really. switched to progressive and you could save hundreds. mhm. no mhm. like to