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lockdown. this is because there were shots fired on campus. we don t know by whom but we do know by the website the suspect is described as a white male wearing gray sweat pants, a gray hat with a neon brim and some type of maroon hoodie and also carrying a pack back. apparently the suspect is on foot. we don t know how many shots were fired. but as you know, virginia tech certainly on high alert in the years following the 2007 incident. there were no classes there are no classes today. the finals are supposed to take place tomorrow. we ll see what happens today but this was basically a study day, read-in day for the students there. so maybe that is a good thing. maybe they were all in their rooms or in the library studying at this point. many of them may not be out on the campus walking around. as you probably recall, back in 2007, in two separate attacks, about two hours apart, the shooter in that case killed 32 people and wounded 25 years before committing suicide ....
Place for politics on your screen, that gray area, that s burruss hall where the news conference took place. that small white area, the arch area, the sort of top side of your screen over there on the left, that s where the memorial itself is. and now, on the opposite side of the drill field, just below it to the sort of right above the words virginia tech that you can see, the banner on our screen, that s where this dietrick hall is, and that s where this new residence hall east are, where this man was apparently spotted by these three juveniles a short time ago. so, to give you some perspective of this campus, it is a stung place. sadly, it was the first time i was there under those circumstances, but it is for anybody who has been to blacksburg and virginia tech, a beautiful place. still haunted, though, of course, by the memories of april 16th of 2007. peter, i m going to ask you to stand by. we have joy sutton on the telephone right now, a spokesperson for a nearby hospital th ....