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Right now, so his job, as far as i'm concerned, were i talking to him. i'd say your job right now is to tell us what the rest of that message is. i mean, there's no sense in prolonging this situation by making a traffic jam. doesn't get our attention. >> right. >> but what gets our attention and gets things done is him working with the police negotiator and sharing the information and then perhaps striking some type of deal that that information is then shared with the media. we know with his name attached to it as far as saving this planet. i think that's what he's looking for. i think we all...

Start to leave yet? have you heard any more about the fact that they have potentially opened up an area for people to get to their cars so they can go home. >> i have not heard. we did receive an e-mail via people who work at discovery discussing that they should leave the building and leave their cars and don't come back for the vehicles untille situation is involved. we're inside the police perimeter so i can't see where the mass of employees have moved to .. and i don't know the exact location of the parking lot. for those who aren't in from this area, montgomery county is a million plus pe...

E-mail that's an employee saying a few people have left by car as they' been instructed to do. but now they have to find other means of transportation to leave, and that's because the building where the situation is going on has been blanketed and covered with no entry where all their cars are. so there's a situation to try to get these evacuated workers now safely home. but just a sort time ago, we were able to speak to a few people on the site there as our affiliate wrc was on the scene. >> they tell us there's a gunman in the lobby and for us to lock ourselves in closed offices. and shortly...

Police have locked down all of downtown silver spring. there's a city bus right straight ahead, if you can see it. there's a city bus on the other side of the metro sign. it would appear that that's a bus probably in the middle of its route and stopped and couldn't move because of the immediate police activity. and so that driver we presume is no longer with the bus. we've also got metro transit police because we're right in the middle of this business i arerare area. a lot of people on very hot day, by the way, about 95 degrees today here in the nation's capital watching this situation very c...

>> we're glad you're well. we're expecting an update from the montgomery county police commander here. another five minutes or so as this situation remains rather fluid. a lot more questions right now than answers. >> and tom, we're getting more information as far as the age of james jay lee. he does live in silver spring, maryland, where this is taking place. >> we're getting our first images of this man. pete, what are you hearing? >> we should caution that police in charge of this effort here, montgomery county, maryland,