remains to be seen though. the question now is if there s no active shooting shots being heard, are they able to isolate the shooter or shooters? s.w.a.t., you ve got osu police, columbus police s.w.a.t., the sheriff s s.w.a.t., you have the state police there s.w.a.t. and then you re going to have s.w.a.t. components that fbi has, atf has, you re going to have u.s. marshals there. you re going to get all these agencies are going to come in to be able to leverage help. not only to stop this but then, is there anything else going on out there? we now see a helicopter flying overhead. so whether it is the cincinnati fbi, the columbus police department or the osu police, all hands on deck dealing with this active shooter situation taking place in columbus, ohio, right now at ohio state university, a college campus with 65,000 students. i m now going to turn this over
watts hall itself. i m told these are three classrooms inside of watts hall. they re listed as standard classrooms, two classrooms hold about 23 and 24 students and one holds 57 students. again, at this early hour, we don t know if all those classrooms were filled to capacity with those number of students but you can be sure that they re trying to take an account right now of the students who are listed for courses in those buildings and in those classrooms to figure out where those students are. this is a very big campus. 65,000 students. most ohio natives. we got word from sean spicer that the president-elect donald trump vp elect mike pence put out statements they re receiving any relevant information as it comes and it s happening live, realtime. j jim cavanaugh, i want to turn wac to you. the longer this takes place, does it give a sign the shooter has not been found? if there s no gunshots, one of the positive signs when
that could have been the same person. so immateri want to reset again. we talk about ohio state university, a college with 65,000 students in columbus, ohio. the osu emergency management site put out an alert, a buckeye alert. active shooter on campus. run hide fight. watts hall. which is located on 19th and college. that is a residence hall. we just heard from our local affiliate in columbus moments ago, there may also be another location surrounded by s.w.a.t. teams. a local parking garage on neil and teutul, a street very near by watts hall. the situation seems to be active. i want to bring in rehema ellis. i realize we have limited information. this is all still unpolding. but from what we ve seen so far, help us make sense of this. it s difficult. one of the things they are doing is trying to make sense of it and bring it under control. as you have been reporting, fbi
before our eyes. ohio state university campus. a school of 65,000 students. this big 10 school located in columbus, ohio, where what we know is limited but there s an active shooter situation going on on campus. we learned of this via an alert on the school s web site as well as social media account where the school put out buckeye, the school mascot, alert, continue to shelter in place, avoid of area of caution. there s an active shooter on campus alerting students and members of the community to run, hide, and fight. watts hall. that is the academic hall hall located on 19th and college and potentially, another location, a garage just a few blocks away has also been surrounded by a s.w.a.t. team and learned seven people, we don t know if they re just students. they may be employees or professors have been transported
as police and emergency vehicles filled this scene. immateri i want to show the medical vehicles. a few left in the last little bit. there were a bunch of them out here other than the columbus fire department and as you mentioned, seven students were transported so there were a number of medic vehicles here. at this point, some cleared out. there are other vehicles, other crews coming in. there s now a mobile command post if you take a look to our left. there s a large trailer that has now set up on this part of campus. again, we are on woodruff avenue and we are continuing to speak to some of the students out here, seeing if any of them saw anything. from the ones we talked to, many showed up after all of this happened and waiting to find out what s going on like the rest of us, ali? we, of course, are speaking about a situation unfolding