people near or with this sydnor danger and they can t move in the way they would want to. you re absolutely right. the reason i say that is because if the police could get into the building or the area they have contained, they would go in there, but they can t get in there right now because, like i said, they don t know exactly how much firepower this guy has they don t know, sound dozen me from following this, if it s one person, two people. they don t know. and then again, like i said in terms of the amount of victims on the inside, they don t know that yet either but they re going to go in and that s why the elite team of swat members you see there are going to go in and go room-to-room, building to building until they snuff the person out. but until they do that, they cannot say the situation is over, inflame this person is either disabled completely, by shooting and killing him, or taking him into custody. rod, are you near your television right now? can you see i know you
you get there, you have a massive presence of law enforcement, and that s why we see there on the screen multiple police agencies from colorado springs, from the area. it s not just the colorado springs police. it s the sheriff s department, you have the state police there, and they all are going to go in there now, when jaw said they re entering with their haven ts down, weapons drawn theirs have down, weapons drawn that s the ready position we go into these situations expecting a battle. that s the battle position and that s why you see the officers going there like that. they do believe they re going to probably engage those guy and probably be more gunshots. that s why we see them going in and entering in that fashion. this is just come in. a statement from vicki cowart, the president and ceo of planned parenthood rockie mountain. quote, at this time our concern is for the safety of our patients, staff and law enforcement. this is a developing situation and we will continue to
it s a heavy tourist destination. don t know how many tourists today because it s a lot of heavy snow falling right now and the temperature currently is 17-degrees let s go back to jonathan. your standing by? reporter: we have one witness now who, according to the colorado springs police department, describes the alleged shooter as being about 6 0 , white mail, white beard, as you were saying, wearing gear that looked according to a couple of witnesses like hunting gear. now, we should point out that hunting gear in colorado springs, as you know very well, harris work not be uncommon clothing to be wearing around that area, particularly at this time of year, as wellos you see there s a lot of snow on the ground, and according to reports on the scene it is still snowing. this is obviously still an active situation. it does appear that this gunman
standing near the store entrances waiting for instructions. they were told please don t panic but nobody can go in our out that gives you idea how many people are affected. no just at the clinic. that s right. and it s that entire area down there. now, it s normal protocol for businesses such as that kings supermarket to lock their doors in an active shooter situation. if you know that the active shooter is on the outside, look your doors, keep the person from coming in, and i that s probable my why if this situation did start at the planned parenthood, let s say this guy ran outside of the planned parenthood. we would probably go to another area where there s a lot of people. so that was a good move, that they locked their doors and people continue to lock their doors and stay safe until the guy is snuffed out. more from kings super grocery store deli employee who is saying it s not usual lay busy day for us and no one is panicking or anything.
it upon ourselves as an agency, for instance, with the black canyon school shooting to cut all cell phone activity in the area, cut out media, so when we were in operation in black canyon there was nothing occurring we didn t know about for that exact reason because you had a tv in the room that also cut out all the cell phone activities for the children in the room, too. so we could manage everything that the person was seeing and hearing. it s important that colorado springs, a very good department and very verse in other words response to active shooter, they do the same thing. it s tough with a lot of people coming in. mr. whiteus, i mentions the fact it s black friday and you have people out and about. yesterday was a holiday, and a lot of things are open. there s a high concentration because of the small shopping mall, couple of banks, of places that would have had their doors open at the time. we still don t know if there is