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What would you expect though in terms of what may be going on if this is a hostage situation or what police officers and negotiators may be saying to this shooter? >> well, this sounds much more as a victim situation as opposed to a hostage situation. the shooter's actions so far tell us a couple things. if this gun battle's been going on for three hours, that means he planned in advance and he brought a lot of ammunition and probably multiple weapons with him. he envisioned this lasting a long time. [ technical difficulties ] >> sorry, chris, can you hear me? chris, can you hear me? all right...

Know if officers -- there was perhaps one report that an officer was injured, but that's not confirmed. just to be crystal clear with all of you as we're working this together, not a lot is known. i have kyung lah who's been working on this. we've been talking to brigitte wolfe who happens to work at a business across the street and has been truly priceless in giving us information as far as what's happening and where. and also art roderick is on the phone with me, former u.s. marshal and cnn law enforcement analyst. so if we have brigitte still on the phone, for people who are just tuning in ...

But in the meantime, as you've been speaking, art, i've just gotten information from our control room. for all of us listening here, specifics on this act i have been shooting situation in downtown colorado springs, this is the 3400 block of centennial boulevard near planned parenthood. i'm not sure if this is inside of planned parenthood, but we're hearing precise language from police that it is near planned parenthood. i just got handed this from a sergeant with colorado springs police. let me quote the sergeant. we have an active shooter, 3400 block centennial block near planned parenthood,...

Open territory. so key to understanding all of this i think, brianna, is keeping in mind that we have a lot of different locations that we have been talking about here in some fashion. and until we know how it started, we won't really know which ones are the most important other than we know right now all of the focus is right up here at the planned parenthood center. >> all right, tom, very helpful to see that layout of the area there. really appreciate it. i do want to bring in art roderick, he's part of our panel here of law enforcement analysts. this was interesting to me what tom said. at...

And fillmore, avoid that area, active shooter not secure, shopping center shelter in place. kyung, stay with me. brigitte across the street talking about how the police have established a barricade. art roderick is with me, former u.s. marshal. art,s we continue to get information -- and again, we don't know a lot right now, so i don't want any of us to get ahead of ourselves -- this is what police departments across the country have been doing, retraining officers for situations such as these, active shooting situations. >> yes. i do know my old agency that i just recently left was funded to ...