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What they need to do is listen to the negotiator, resolve this safely. nobody needs to get hurt and this can be resolved with a very minimum of effort on their part. clint, if you could standby, richard lui is here, as well and he has some other information for us. what do you have? what we re looking at right now, chris, all the wires coming from the ap and the information coming in and what we heard in your discussion there, we want to add to that. word from one of our affiliates down there, they were listening to the scanners and on the scanners what they heard, they re looking for two black males in black hoodies armed with handgun and lisening to the scanner wtvj is telling us that the person was abducted and we re trying to understand that site and that area as we re looking at videoecoming in and waiting for that to come in. this is what we believe is location. over here you can see a main highway, south dixie highway. ....
describe that area a little bit more for us. it is a residential area. there are several supermarkets and a shopping mall nearby. u.s. 1 is high traffic morning area. there have been people who have been stuck in traffic for at least an hour. all right, diana gonzalez is joining us now, as well, with wtvj and she is on the scene and i know it s very difficult when you re there to get police to talk to you, they have another job going on. if you could at least describe to us, diana, what the scene is right there. let me tell you a little bit about where i am. i am in the parking lot of a very popular supermarket that is just behind the bank and there is very heavy police presence here, as you can imagine. a lot of automatic weapons and right now we did see the miami-dade county bomb squad drive by just a few minutes ago. so, it seems like they re in a bit of a holding pattern. ....
We also are hearing that he claims to want money in the situation and that might be why we re at the bank. what we just heard from the wtvj location earlier that may have happened overnight, a robbery attempt. we want to lay it out for you very briefly here on this map. that 9880 southwest 88 street here and it is fairly residential, as you can see in that picture, as i zoom in for you, this is very, very much so in terms of strip malls. you can see here, very residential, as i scan through this area and some homes back here and that is consistent with the initial reports that you were just hearing from wtvj. i know you ll keep us posted on that, thank you so much. does this bare similarities and the only way to describe medical examiners who were detailing the ....
Were brought into the bank. that this might have started else where and ended up at the bank of america here. okay, diana gonzalez from wtvj, thank you. clint, let me go back to you because, in a sense, we have two sets of people here. a person or persons who were taken from their home from what we heard earlier this morning and brought to the bank. one reasonable set of speculation would be that they were told to get money for these robbers out of the atm. but as i said earlier, clin, this is a place that opens at least for drive through traffic at 8:00 in the morning, so, there would have been people inside the bank and as hostage negotiators and these rescue teams are figuring out sort of what they re dealing with, this second set of people, these bank employees, would they be trained for this sort of situation? well, they would, chris. as an fbi agent, we put on a lot of seminars for banks and told them just what to do and, of course, what we ask them to do is just try not to e ....