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And your neighborhood safe, visit pge.com/wildfiresafety hello, i am fredricka whitfield. thank you for being with me. we have breaking news. let's begin with what's happening in pittsburgh, pennsylvania, with an active shooter near a synagogue in that city. police are on the scene right now. you see the images we're getting in. cnn's nick valencia is tracking the story for us. what doweknowabout the circumstances? >> this is a breaking news story, a fluid situation. the reports of an active shooter were first released here after 10:20 this morning. according to the website for the tree of ...

In pittsburgh in the swirl hill neighborhood of pittsburgh, a well known historic jewish neighborhood. the service started at 9:45. it is saturday shabbat, according to the website, the busiest day in any synagogue. 9:45 is when the service evidently started. 10:20, just after that, when reports of active shooter came to cnn here. we did speak to sheriff's deputy kevin krause. he said it is an active, fluent situation and i can't talk now, but we have a little more information from the pittsburgh public safety, verified twitter account, confirming active shooter. they say it is near the synago...

Situation. it is terrifying to watch the images on the screen, fredricka. as you mention, this is near the tree of life synagogue in the well known historic jewish neighborhood of squirrel hill in pittsburgh. saturday is shabbat, busiest day of any synagogue. services according to the website start at 9:45 a.m. eastern at the tree of life. at cnn here, we first heard reports of active shooter after 10:20 eastern this morning. and it was a short time ago we got a very brief, blunt, impromptu briefing from law enforcement and local leadership talking about active gunfire, multiple casualties. we...

>> art roderick is with us. as a former u.s. marshal, tell us how law enforcement reacts. they go toward gunfire, what they hear. they'll see possibly people running, fleeing from the area where they heard gunfire, but how else to they approach this unclear whether the gunman or gunmen happens to be in place. >> fred, we heard the term, unfortunately we are familiar with run hide fight. but also the fourth thing to get done is get witness statements and get an identification of the individual as soon as possible. you can see law enforcement in a ready position here, moving around. what they're...