direct .com. good morning, everyone we do begin with breaking news this morning. alright you are looking at live pictures. there was breaking news out of louisville, kentucky . you see a huge police presence there. there are quote multiple casualties, according to police as they respond to an active aggressor officials, including the f are telling everyone to stay away from the area of 300 block of east main street. the mayor also urging the public to stay away from the area. we have now learned that this is a shooting that there are multiple people who are down, including a police officer. our cnn correspondent omar jimenez is following the developments as we watch them there live from our affiliate. w e. we are seeing a lot of police down there, and we re hearing that the governor may be on his way. what can you tell us? omar? that s right, sara. for starters, they are describing this as an active or as a shooting incident in downtown louisville. they had been describing it
right. it s the top of the hour in the cnn newsroom. i m fredricka whitfield in new york and we are moments away from an update on today s deadly mass shooting in louisville, kentucky. a gunman opening fire at a downtown bank, killing at least four people and wounding nine others. police responded quickly getting into a gunfight with the shooter. two officers were injured in the exchange, with one now in critical condition. the shooter is dead and police are still trying to piece together how he was killed and why the former bank employee may have gone on this shooting spree. officials are expecting to hold a briefing at any moment. of course, we ll take that to you, but before it begins, let s go first to cnn s shimon prokupecz. so shimon, what do we know about how all of this unfolded right so sometimes around 8 30 this morning after a 30 before the bank was open. the shooting took place police saying that they were there within three minutes. just think about that for the
support been with all the families today to show our love and support for them. and if anything else that they need from el npd, we will provide that. the next few days are important and very critical for nicholas is recovery. this will be a long complex investigation involving local state and our federal partners. i would be remiss if i did not acknowledge. federal partners who have just been just outstanding. our local partners. a t f f b. i thank you. our local partners. university of local police. e. m s. emergency management services. thank you. thank you for everything. and for my l mpd officers. who took it upon themselves and that weight to assess everything but just went in to stop the threat so that more lives would not be lost. thank you. thank you for showing
still unknown. we know the governor is headed out to the scene right now we know there s law enforcement, multiple jurisdictions that have said they are responding at the local level louisville police but also a t f f b. i and so i think at this point we re now waiting to see what develops from here, including the potential identity of the shooter here, and we watch to see if these numbers unfortunately grow, as they typically do when we get into the early stages of reporting mass shootings like these sarah really terrifying hearing that account from inside of the bank , a woman in a bank vault saying someone was shooting. there are lots of potential things that may have happened here. we don t know at this point if there was a robbery, if this was a disgruntled, we don t know anything about why, but we do know now five people have perished in the shooting. you ve got one person who has been taken to the hospital. omar jimenez. thank you so much for following this story for us in downt