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Flight to wellington. agencies are already convening in wellington. it's my expectation once i arrive and have been briefed i intend to speak again publicly after that point. i'm happy to take questions. it's only a matter of a few hours ago. of course i was advised of the situation and it was an evolving situation. again, public reporting took place not long after events began unfolding. but as for the precise details at this stage i'll wait until i have a bit more of precision from a briefing directly from the police when i arrive in wellington. >> now, you're listening now to a briefing fro...

Situation, a firearm situation, a firearm incident in christchurch. again that's according to the prime minister and police as well. they're saying the city of christchurch is in lockdown and also all schools as well. and they're waiting to get more information, asking people to stay in place even though families may be separated. reportedly this incident happened at a mosque, and there's a possibility of a second shooting that's not been confirmed yet, but we're working on getting it. let's get back now to matthew rosenberg, juliette and assan mehi. this kind of thing as you said before is pe...

>> we're all learning about what's going on right now, many at the same time. what's your reaction? >> don, speaking as a muslim, it's very muslim's worst nightmare to be attacked while you're in a place of worship. tomorrow hundreds of thousands of americans are going to go to friday prayers. remember the time gap. this was time to be maximum impact when the mosques were full. go back 2017 quebec city, far right inspired by the media walks into a mosque and kills six canadians during prayer. my thoughts and prayers go out to the muslims and nonmuslims in christ-church today. >> what assistanc...

Involving an active shooter. we also know an active shooter is active until it's not and police have that sense of comfort they neutralize that threat, they're not going to send out the all clear. this is very much an ongoing situation. police have not cept out the all clear. they haven't yet identified the threat and released that information as far as the extent of what's going on, but we'll continue to cover that, don. >> do we know anything about the shooter? >> we've heard reports there may be people involved, and again there's so much that police officers don't know. we did hear reports ...

Fire. we've been talking to local reporters there on the ground reporting there are possibly as much as six casualties right now. that may go higher as there were around 200 people in that mosque when it happened. they're sending word out to local population to shelter in place, remain off the streets. again with these reports coming in there may be a possible additional location of another possible incident, obviously they don't want citizens out in the streets whenever that's happening trying to respond. we know these in these incidents whatever they've happened there's always a state of cha...