there, civilians have been fleeing. we're getting amazing pictures and photographs of all of this. so far we know two south korean marines are dead, countless wounded, the south unleashing fire retaliation. it's not clear if the south hit anything in the north and the north then warning this is just the beginning. jennifer griffin makes sense of it live at the pentagon, how serious is this jennifer? good morning. >> reporter: good morning bill. well, it's being taken very seriously at the pentagon, we're told the shelling began at 2:00 a.m. local time, it lasted for about 90 minutes, we're told about 200 artillery shells were fired, it was even between the two sides but north korea fired the first artillery shells on to that island. this is the most serious escalation between the north and south koreans since back in march, remember the north koreans sank that south Get Live News Updates Every Minute from vimarsana.com Curated from 23000 News Agencies.">
there, civilians have been fleeing. we're getting amazing pictures and photographs of all of this. so far we know two south korean marines are dead, countless wounded, the south unleashing fire retaliation. it's not clear if the south hit anything in the north and the north then warning this is just the beginning. jennifer griffin makes sense of it live at the pentagon, how serious is this jennifer? good morning. >> reporter: good morning bill. well, it's being taken very seriously at the pentagon, we're told the shelling began at 2:00 a.m. local time, it lasted for about 90 minutes, we're told about 200 artillery shells were fired, it was even between the two sides but north korea fired the first artillery shells on to that island. this is the most serious escalation between the north and south koreans since back in march, remember the north koreans sank that south Get Live News Updates Every Minute from vimarsana.com Curated from 23000 News Agencies." property="og:description">
there, civilians have been fleeing. we're getting amazing pictures and photographs of all of this. so far we know two south korean marines are dead, countless wounded, the south unleashing fire retaliation. it's not clear if the south hit anything in the north and the north then warning this is just the beginning. jennifer griffin makes sense of it live at the pentagon, how serious is this jennifer? good morning. >> reporter: good morning bill. well, it's being taken very seriously at the pentagon, we're told the shelling began at 2:00 a.m. local time, it lasted for about 90 minutes, we're told about 200 artillery shells were fired, it was even between the two sides but north korea fired the first artillery shells on to that island. this is the most serious escalation between the north and south koreans since back in march, remember the north koreans sank that south Get Live News Updates Every Minute from vimarsana.com Curated from 23000 News Agencies.">
belligerent actions, north korea, attack a heavily populated south korean island, setting fire there, civilians have been fleeing. we're getting amazing pictures and photographs of all of this. so far we know two south korean marines are dead, countless wounded, the south unleashing fire retaliation. it's not clear if the south hit anything in the north and the north then warning this is just the beginning. jennifer griffin makes sense of it live at the pentagon, how serious is this jennifer? good morning. >> reporter: good morning bill. well, it's being taken very seriously at the pentagon, we're told the shelling began at 2:00 a.m. local time, it lasted for about 90 minutes, we're told about 200 artillery shells were fired, it was even between the two sides but north korea fired the first artillery shells on to that island. this is the most serious escalation between the north and south koreans since back in march, remember the north koreans sank that south