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Appears to be the suspect. >> that's right. we also have some more information as to the description of the suspect based on the scanner traffic that was taking place as this event was happening. a lot of people were listening into this and the swat teams were saying that this was a plan who was wearing a long coat, stocky, had a beard. he was just walking around the building. they were keeping tabs on him, brooke, and tracking his movements by looking at a remote video feed from the security cameras. this is coming from the scanner traffic. also, really fascinating, it talked about the fact t...

Entails. according to the scanner traffic, apparently you have to have an id to get into the room. at one point, brooke, the gunman was close to that safe room and there was a discussion about whether or not to shoot, but there was concern because he was close to the safe room and you could hear the talk on the scanner traffic about, you know, the sniper had eyes on him and whether or not they would shoot. very, very intense moments there as this all unfolded and then as we know, after around five hours or so, he surrendered peacefully, it seems, which shocked a lot of the law enforcement offi...

Now in custody. cnn's stephanie elam is live for us nearby the scene. stephanie, tell us more about this extremely delicate process of trying to extract the gunman from the hostages without anyone else getting injured. >> reporter: it was quite a scary proposition. you're talking about a situation that dragged on for six hours, fred, as they were trying to contain this man. and during that, nine people getting injured and three people losing their lives. very tense situation. so much so, you can hear it on some of the conversations between the police officers, the scanner traffic. take a liste...

That scene including the special agent in charge, which is something you don't always see in these cases and they were there to provide backup and support in case the teams that were in the building, the swat teams from the local police fatigued and they needed extra help but also, brianna, we're learning more details about what happened inside of that building, of that planned parenthood building when the gunman was in there. according to the scanner traffic, the gunman was walking through the hallways and offi officers were able to keep an eye on him and track his movement through remote vid...

Initial report was from the colorado springs fire department that there was an active shooter at the planned parenthood. and from there, kind of bits and pieces trickling out but as the spokesperson said this is still kind of ongoing and happening and very unclear exactly what the scope of it is. >> we have been told that this shelter in place situation, the orders under way for people who are customers and shopkeepers applies the media. what have you heard? >> right. essentially when it first happened, you know, within five minutes of the first report, we called colorado springs police to mak...