Around the that interstate region to basically seek shelter according to this post that was published about maybe 38 minutes ago, the Odessa PoliceDepartment Confirms that at least one suspect, possibly two were driving around the renal there randomly shooting at individuals. They are reporting multiple victims. Our colleague hearing ten confirmed injuries that number could potentially make it to at least 20, based on what were hearing from authorities there on the ground. And among the injured, one dead. We also understand a state trooper is among the injured, however were not sure if that is possibly the fatality, and according to authorities, investigators say that a suspect basically was driving a United StatesPostal Service vehicle, possibly taken without authorization, and then the other vehicle that authorities are looking for right now is a gold and white small toyota truck as well as that usps van, and authorities are asking people simply stay in doors, still dont know about a possible motive. This is extremely preliminary, that includes the numbers and the scenario were hearing, as it gets those accounts from the ground, and see those photos also being published on social media as well. Showing a very active scene right now, theyre in the midland, odessa area with police on the side of the road, trying to track down the suspect and or suspects, but again, these are fresh images that have been published on social media right now, and we expect, obviously, to get more details. That includes when the city of odessa will be holding a press conference to bring us up to speed on what happened today four weeks after the El Paso Walmart shooting. And we have ongoing images that are coming in to cnn through social media that were vetting and verifying before bringing them to you. We can say this is happening right now there in west texas, again, the odessa midland area where police are on the hunt for an active shooter who they say is driving around shooting at people. Officials say they believe at this point that theyre shooting at random people and not yet known if there are more than one shooter. Polo, please stay with me. We are also getting the first pictures, again, from the ground of the active shooting situation. Heres another one for you, where you can see some of the damage that was done to a vehicle. Denise perez tells cnn her boss a truck driver with Odessa Furniture Exchange had his truck shot at while doing a delivery. She says everyone with her is okay, with him, he was doing a delivery with a delivery truck when someone in a truck drove past him and shot his truck and another persons car. Thats a quote based on her post. Lets bring in james gagliano, a cnn analyst, and retired fbi supervisory agent. And julie ann cayenne, former assistance director for the Homeland Security. Midland and odessa, not large cities. Does that mean the fbi could be called in faster to assist or does this have to meet a certain criteria before the feds come in. No i think, ana, back in the 90s and julia can speak to this, there was a president ial decision directive that gave the fbi oversight anytime theres presumed to be terrorism, and look, we have to operate from that until it is disproven. Something like this, we have one, possibly two shooters, this is the worst possible situation for Law Enforcement where you have a mobile crisis site, meaning you have somebody in a vehicle that is moving throughout counties, possibly crossing state lines, those type of things. It requires a lot of coordination between Law Enforcement. The fbi certainly would be called in. Obviously the understanding here is the First Responder or the brave local cops in odessa, they are going to be there the quickest, they can neatly get there and potentially interdict people that in these situations, generally speaking, they are not looking to negotiate, theyre not looking to have Political Prisoners released, theyre looking to ratchet up body counts and in this instance, the police have to get to them quickly. They have done a great job doing that, and the other incidents we have talked about in the last couple of weeks, hopefully they can bring this to bed pretty soon. Last thing, we got to remind people, run, hide, fight, tell. In that order. Thats what youve got to do in this situation, and were doing our job right now to put the word out on social media, put the word out on cnn. Make sure people understand if youre anywhere in the vicinity of this place, avoid it, and obviously you cannot walk around in an oblivious condition, you have to be in a heightened state of alert. We know the president has been briefed, juliette, safe to say the fbi director, christopher wray, other members of Homeland Security have been as well. Thats right. Looking at three things, method, possibly two shooters from cars, you know, that could be anything. It also as we often know may be one shooter. Sometimes people, you know, separate eyewitnesss think its two separate people. Then you have the means, of course we get back to the gun issue. Im curious what kind of gun it is, and how the shooting is occurring by drivers, passengers, we dont know this yet, and the reason why you bring up the fbi and it is the motivation, we cant be in 2019 without first concluding or at least first suspecting that this may have a racial animus of some sort of some sort of animus. Look, this can range from anything like terrorism to a hate crime, which were seeing a lot more of, White Supremacy and those issues. It could also be two guys on drugs, so we have to remember that this happens, you know, unfortunately as well. And so well just wait, but those are the three buckets that well probably hear a lot about in the next half hour. James, if there are, in fact, multiple shooters, how would Law Enforcement on the ground be handling that . First of all, i mean, juliette nailed it here. The issue for Law Enforcement with this essentially moving crisis site is to try to do the calculus in realtime in a vacuum to figure out what the motivations and causes are. As you pointed out, it could be a whole host of things. That obviously is going to have a huge impact on the response. Police have to assume that this active shooter or active shooters are looking just to harm as many people as possible, until proven differently. And in this instance, again, we dont know if this is a domestic dispute, if its Workplace Violence, if its a bias crime, if its an active of terrorism, domestic terrorism, we dont know those things, and thats why it is so difficult for Law Enforcement in these situations. Theyve got to get on these guys as quickly as possible, stop them from hurting other people, and then sort out whether or not this is a single incident, meaning these are one or two people and thats it or whether or not they are part of a broader conspiracy, ana. And juliette, its a grim question, but has Law Enforcement as a whole learned anything from the recent Mass Shootings, like in el paso and dayton, which again, were just four weeks ago . Absolutely. So the first thing is i want to applaud, and then theres lots of questions, too, as james is saying, its clearly about communication to the public. The goal at this stage, and this is going to sound really morose is you want fewer people dead, and the only way you can do this at this stage given what were seeing in america is get them out of public, notify them, so the tweets were seeing, the communications, getting on cnn, and just saying, you know, essentially shelter in place, do whatever you need to do. I think the second thing, though, that is unique here is we tend to leave most of these incidents, whether its a Florida School shooting or el paso and a walmart or even a street in ohio, you do have a stationary site. The moving shooter in realtime, as compared to say the washington sniper, what, over 15 years ago, is unique because you have a chase, if they know where they are, combined with the capacity of the guy to get away, plus hes armed, and we just dont know now whether theres passengers or anything else, so that is just so, you know, this is so fluid, and dangerous because, you know, the guy or guys can get off the highway, you know, exit 4, whatever it is, and start shooting on a street that doesnt seem like they might be on five minutes ago. The public information, everyone get off the streets, you want to keep the body count lower at this stage. That is success in this sort of horrible, you know, situation we find ourselves in in the United States, and then try to catch these guys. Okay. Juliette and james, please stand by, a quick break, were continuing to watch this breaking news out of west texas. Dont go anywhere. Youre live in the cnn newsroom. Love them, hate their laundry, protection. Detergent alone doesnt kill bacteria but adding lysol laundry sanitizer kills 99. 9 with 0 bleach. Lysol. What it takes to protect. ® so that early retirement we planned. Its going ok . Great. Now im spending more time with the kids. Im introducing them to crab. Crab . They love it. So, you mentioned that that money we set aside. Yeah. The kids and i want to build our own crab shack. Ahhh, youre finally building that outdoor kitchen. Yup with room for the whole gang. See how investing with a j. P. Morgan advisor can help you. Visit your local chase branch. Tmobiles newest signal reaches farther than ever before. With more engineers. More towers. More coverage its a network that gives you freedom from big cities, to small towns, were with you. Because life can take you almost anywhere, tmobile is with you. No signal goes farther or is more reliable in keeping you connected. But super poligrip gives him a tight seal. Snacking can mean that pieces get stuck under mikes denture. To help block out food particles. So he can enjoy the game. Super poligrip. Welcome back, were following breaking news. Police say there is an active shooter situation in west texas near midland and odessa, they believe there are potentially two shootings in two separate vehicles. One suspect is believed to be in a gold toyota. The other is believed to have hi jacked a mail truck. There are reports of an active shooter at a home depot in odessa, texas, we are told there are casualties, many people shot, at least one person dead according to odessa officials. Joining us know, Shimon Prokupecz. Based on everything we are hearing and people were talking to, and things were just sort of hearing basically, it does sound like things are still a little chaotic. Police are not running around like they were before in the same manner. We had what appears to be a state trooper was shot, chasing looking for this suspect, they may have encountered one of the suspects. And thats how the trooper was shot. Its unclear what the situation is, and where that suspect is that state trooper encountered really now, i think its a process as we have seen time and time again in these shootings. Theyre going through different areas, neighborhood stores, theres a Movie Theater. Its called synergy, theres an Entertainment Complex where there apparently took place near the shooting scene. Police have been going through there making sure no one inside is the shooter. Were seeing what we see in the lot of these situations. What makes this different than what we are used to seeing is in fact, if there are two shooters. We have seen a lot of shootings in initial reports you get one shooter, two shooters and usually those turn out to be not the case. And in this case, it seems police at least at this point believe there are two shooters. Makes this a very dynamic, different situation than we normally see in these kinds of shootings, and we also dont have a clear number yet on how many people have been injured. One thing is very clear is there are seven people shot, at least one state trooper has been injured, possibly shot, they believe, and now the hunt, it appears, is still on for suspects for shooters, out there. And keep in mind, this is in texas. Obviously this is coming just within a month after the el paso shooting. Its going to be the same investigators, the Texas Rangers that have been out there investigating that case. Theyre going to be back here investigating and assisting in this investigation along with the fbi obviously and the atf. A lot of resources but i think right now, its very clear that between the midland Police Department, the Odessa Police department, and the other local authorities there that its a pretty chaotic situation that is still very much ongoing and things are still at play, and quite frankly, it doesnt appear that things are fully safe yet. It seems that police have some control of the situation, but things are still very fluid, and it doesnt appear that things are safe out there. We know home depot in odessa is a location where they believe at least one of the shooters if there are more than one has now gone, and is shooting. I want to bring in jonathan wacrow, a former secret service agent. Jonathan from the latest information we have, this is still an active situation. Can you take us inside how Law Enforcement would be navigating this situation right now. Well, to shimons point just a moment ago, this is a chaotic situation, and, you know, part of the reasoning around the chaos in the early moments and early reporting of the active shooter situation is were now dealing with a new dynamic in the totality of active shooters is this mobile active shooter utilizing vehicles. This is the second time this year that we have seen a change or an increase in tactics around active shooters. Earlier this year, we saw the utilization of a silencer. The new dynamics are a challenge of Law Enforcement they have to address on the fly. Right now, what Law Enforcement is, one of the big challenges that they have is containment. They have to try to contain this mobile shooting situation and put that threat down and stomp it as fast as possible. But they also have to, you know, contain and preserve all of the various crime scenes for evidentiary value going forward. Shimon, is there any concrete information that these shooters are connected in some way. Theres no concrete information that theyre connected. I think Law Enforcement is working under the theory that they are. I think in a lot of these situations early on, there are all sorts of different reports that come into 911. People call 911, theyre hearing gunshots, reporting i hear gunshots here, i think im hearing gunshots here. There have been some false reports and that is normal in these kinds of situations. The fact that you have the police and also the local authorities there saying they do believe theres more than one shooter here, possibly two or even more in some cases is very troubling and concerning but, you know, people as theyre running from scenes or as theyre hearing things are dialing 911, reporting Different Things and sometimes its just, you know, peoples instincts and they are reporting what theyre hearing, and it could be erroneous information. It does seem in this case, that police are treating it more seriously, they believe theres more than one shooter. The description of the white mail truck, that is really interesting that someone may have hi jacked this mail truck and was using it on the shooting spree. Theres another car that they were looking for, so that is its a very interesting situation. We dont know how this person came into contact with this postal truck, how they got their hands on it. All of that is very much unknown. Theres so much we dont know. Its definitely a very type of situation, i think, than what we normally see because of the multiple shooters, the vehicles, the number of cars that police are looking for in this situation. And again, we have evidence the shots that were fired, hitting vehicles that are out and about. I want to reiterate what theyre looking for, a golden white toyota truck and a usps post van where they believe there are active shooters driving and shooting at people. They have also identified one location. Its a home depot in odessa where they believe an active shooter situation may be underway. We are continuing to gather information. We are expecting a News Conference with officials there locally here in the next 10 to 15 minutes. Well be monitoring that, and bringing new information we learned from that. In the meantime, let me take a quick break as we continue to watch in breaking news out of texas. Dont go anywhere. Youre live in the cnn newsroom. En wake up with chest congestion . Or suffer excess mucus . Try mucinex 12 hour. The bio layer tablet immediately releases to thin and loosen excess mucus. And lasts for 12 hours. Mucinex 12 hour. They give us excellent customer otservice, every time. E. Our 18 year old was in an accident. Usaa took care of her car rental, and getting her car towed. All i had to take care of was making sure that my daughter was ok. If i met another veteran, and they were with another insurance company, i would tell them, you need to join usaa because they have better rates, and better service. Were the gomez family. Were the rivera family. Were the kirby family, and we are usaa members for life. Get your Auto Insurance quote today. Sleep number 360 smart bed. St sale of the year on a can it help keep us asleep . Yes, it senses your movements and automatically adjusts to keep you both comfortable. Its the last chance to save 50 on the sleep number 360 limited Edition Smart bed. Plus 0 interest for 36months. Ends labor day. My hands are everything to me. But i was diagnosed with dupuytrens contracture. And it got to the point where things i took for granted got tougher to do. Thought surgery was my only option. Turns out i was wrong. So when a hand specialist told me about nonsurgical treatments, it was a total game changer. Like you, my hands have a lot more to do. L