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Injuries? >> no injuries have been reported. >> there was a report from the new jersey state police of a shooter shooting security cameras. can you confirm that? >> no. >> how many shots were fired? >> multiple shots were fired. >> and do your knowledge, i assume this mall has security personnel as well. >> yes, they do. a very large mall. >> would they be armed as well? >> no, they wouldn't be. >> so the mall security is not armed. do you have any idea how many law enforcement personnel are on the scene now? >> i do not know. i'm on my way to scene now. >> i'm going to let you go. we'll check...

Would it be better to make the harder targets, have more armed security there, would it help? >> two or three minutes is about as close as you're going to get to it unless you'll have armed unit strategically placed all over your city. that's something very hard to do. whether or not the citizens want that. do you want s.w.a.t. teams every five or six blocks in case there's an attack? this is something, you know, it's becoming more and more prevalent. so as a people in the mall and businesses, they should be prepared, have an emergency action plan in the event something like this happens. so i...

But as you are saying all along these are early reports and that has they are getting conflicting reports on the description of this person, none is credible at this time. they are not giving one out but it's they have multiple local agencies that time assisting the paramus police. so far no federal agencies that we know of are involved. >> we spoke to one young woman who is still currently inside the mall. we are not giving out her exact location. she said she did get a glimpse of the shooter. she admits it was a quick glimpse. so the viewers should take this with a grain of salt. she said th...

>> how f away from you were these shots? >> i was in the parking lot. >> you could hear them outside even though you were outside the mall you could hear the shots inside? >> yes. they were three shots and you see people running out and the cops were pushing everybody back. >> could you tell where the shot -- there were reports of the shots being in the nordstrom area of the mall. to your knowledge, do you know where they emanated from? >> i mean, i heard the shots. many people are saying that it was from nordstrom. many people are saying he was in nordstrom. i heard the shots and i was in the...

We have not been able to make that contact. we will do that very shortly. jonathan in terms of what time this actually occur we had reports of around 9:20? >> yeah, it happened between 9:15 and 9:20. >> and the mall normally closes at 9:30. were there a lot of people in the mall? >> there is a fair amount of people in the mall. and there was a lot of people in the mall. >> have police said anything to you or have they come into your location? >> they haven't come to our location. the only people we talk to is the 911 -- and they say to stay tight until everyone is cleared. >> i'm passing this ...