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At least from a get -- from lockdown to a mode where we're seeing now and this was aerial video shot just a little while ago of staff and students being escorted to safety. right. well, that goes to, you know, the process and to locate and isolate the shooter and then to evacuate and then, you know, to mitigate if you have to deal with him. he could have dead or located and barricaded and they feel safe that they can move people around. or they may feel that he is left and safely move people building to building. they know more than we know at the moment. maybe they can tell us a little more a...

Running everywhere. >> we are seeing new aerial images coming in that's giving us a better bird's eye view of what's taking place. >> reporter: yes. there are helicopters everywhere. >> correct me if i'm wrong because i said there are about 2,000 underclassmen currently registered there. is that the right number? is it closer to four? >> reporter: i have someone standing right beside me. let me ask them that question so i can give you an accurate count. about 3300 or 3400, they are telling me. >> okay. all right. and again, you said your son is safe and you were able to get how close to job ha...

Opportunity to see the flow and safe removal of students and faculty, how effective has it been to get everybody as far away from job hall as possible right now? >> reporter: we haven't seen any student and faculty movement on the campus. there were some students on the quad. i'm not seeing them anymore. they were all in a group. but the school's on lockdown so there should be no students moving around. once they clear a building, and i can't see it from where i am anymore, but from what i understand, they are going to clear buildings and evacuate if possible, but right now, i can't see any st...

University and in cleveland. where is the shooter? he could be holed up in a building. that's what law enforcement's going to do now is sweep those buildings. they're evacuating them. when they can safely do that and escorting the students out. you see them coming out. police around them. they feel they can bring them safely out and then clear the buildings. search. that's going to take a number of hours and also investigators will be fanned out across the city, the county, if they have any inkling of the identity of the person. >> jim -- >> put together, investigatively, as well. >> thank you...

Our fire department and police to get to campus, they came right past my building. usually when things like that happen, i go see what's going on as far as the newspaper and when i got to campus and found out that there was an active shooting, the mom role took over and the editor role kind of dissipated. >> i think all of us can understand that. >> reporter: yes. after hitting redial about 100 times, i finally got him on the phone and he was evacuated from the building to the quadrangle and then -- which is our center grassy area where all of our students gather, and staying in constant commu...