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Mississippi, say at least two people are now dead. this after an early morning shooting at a wal-mart. our nick valencia joins us now with breaking developments. also news of a police report down. >> reporter: we have very limited information at this hour. this still a fluid situation, a developing situation. but here's what our assignment desk has been able to confirm so far. two people were shot dead at a wal-mart in south haven, mississippi. desoto sheriff tells cnn an officer responding to the shooting and suspect were both shot in the early morning incident and are being treated at nearby...

Ground? >> our assignment desk a short time ago talked to a truck driver in the area, four miles south and his trucking company transports hazardous materials and he was tear fired -- terrified the plane could crash near the materials and just off camera there is a gas station and imagine 200 yards if they crashed into the gas station how much larger the crash site would be but the truck driver calling the pirate a hero and appearing he was trying to avoid people on the ground. we should mention that authorities say no cars were damaged or no individuals on the ground injured. but this crash w...

Here. police are telling wsv 7 that more than 20 people have been hurt. our south florida station is covering this live now. let's listen in, wsvn 7 from miami in ft. lauderdale. well, we're working to get their feed. these are live pictures from their chopper. those of you back in the secondary control room, if we can get wsvn sent to us, that would be helpful. the latest -- i realize we don't have it. let's ask the assignment desk to get it for us if possible. at this moment, we're getting reports from wsvn and brian enton say police say more than 20 have been injured in an active shooter si...

I want to bring in lorenza ingram. she can give us a perspective as far as reaction to all of this and what have you heard? >> we actually really haven't heard much. we found out more, quite frankly, through cnn's assignment desk. when it happened we were getting ready for breakfast and we got alerts on our phone in all caps saying ballistic missile heading towards hawaii. of course we went into a panic, called the hotel. they said they had nowhere for us to hunker down. we saw ten different families on the beach running, not walking, running back to their room. at that point we unfortunately ...

Happened? not much official notice about what happened about two hours ago? >> only closure is the local television stations went on the air and there people had on local experts who informed us this was a false alarm. that it was just a test. and an apologized for the inconvenience. but the hotel didn't alert us and let us know. i'm not sure that they knew. i think they were in the same state of panic that everybody else was in or just not knowing what was happening. but in terms of closure, hawaiians, you know, people here in polynesia, they get right back to their routine. they encounter hu...