by doing that. but there's a little bit of detail about what can be seen at this time in the siege. >> that was before they evacuated the network and -- >> well, actually, what they have done is i think the timing on that is that they did evacuate the network and the police took over that building because it is line of sight directly across from the coffee shop. chris mentioned right at the end they did allow them back in to make that report. >> i see. >> but hundreds of people who work at channel 7 in that building. most of those people, pretty much all of them had in fact been evacuated. we saw earlier tonight we were broadcasting from their melbourne studios because they had to leave their sydney studios. >> and they were the first network to give us these pictures you're seeing here of people in the windows and also of the suspected gunman. reporter glenn conley describes what he saw. >> reporter: our camera was trained on the front door of the lindt cafe, and we had quite a long lens on the color.