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To the walmart where there was the most tech tip that he and we waited in the corner of the jcpenney store for a while. the s.w.a.t. team came in and ordered us to put our hands up and run through the building through dillards where we waited for about three hours for some word on what to do. leland: did you hear any gunshots? >> so, i did not hear any of the gunshots and after being out there for so long i got to talk to people who were in different parts of the mall. i just talked to this woman a particular who told me she heard gunshots. leland: what was the first indication you had that so...

-- ppaso yesterday and then yo wake up to your own state in dayton. >> yeah, it's exhausting. i think the whole country is scared. we've got kids going to school, parents are scared to death to send their kids to school. you watch and you see walmart in the background, dillard's in the background, churches in the background of some of these shootings and you think there's no place safe to go. that's eating at us as a country and that's part of the reason why our anxiety level is so high. and what happened down in el paso, you cannot -- you cannot not connect the president of the united states ...

>> there was people were running from inside the mall to di in. >> reporter: well, everybody is going to be looking at security and ways to step it up. dillard's. store managers said tell a shopping mall is difficult to everybody to evacuate. so we had to stay a little behind, make sure everybody was out. then the police came in. your choices make you. secure. about a month ago they had an active shooter drill there. the police have them on a regular basis. hopefully they coordinate with private security and so forth so they're all on the same page if something like this happens. but the reali...

Would imagine or as soon as they were able to get that information out. she sent that to me about half an hour ago. >> frank is still with us as well as jim kavanaugh. if you have any questions, we can address them to those gentlemen as well. because we were talking about this mall itself and phillip, you know it well. it is a massive mall as far as malls come. it is all indoors. you have some anchor stores there, you have a dillard's. >> sears. >> jcpenney, all there. and also noteworthy, it is 12.9 miles from the airport. and somebody could run to the airport and make it there in a good hour...

Deputies coming and you're getting safer by the second. so you just got to survive that initial minutes of active killers. >> jim, this would sort of seem to be a nightmare scenario for law enforcement, officials who are going to this mall right here. they hear these reports of a shooting at the mall. you heard the officials there saying that store clerk earlier on saying to the customers, oh, it's over here at dillard's, but then you had reports it was coming from the nearby walmart. you have 140 stores in this mall. 1,200,000 square feet, and it is near the airport, just three miles away. th...