message indicated, there is an opportunity for them to clear an area and confine the area where there might be a threat to anybody. the students are moving all over campus, and if you see students coming out with the hands up, we saw that, that means that the law enforcement there, it recognizes an area that s a threat, and they want to clear that area moving out. i think another thing that is important, maybe, for listeners to remember, especially if you re far away, and you have kids on that campus is to remember that law enforcement is probably looking for an individual who has a particular grievance. this isn t somebody who clearly just came, chose to come to the campus and shoot a bunch of people up. so chances are this person has moved from hunter to hunted. even if he came to campus to shoot a particular person. so the people who are on campus should just sit tight and be safe where they are. but the likelihood that an individual is sticking around on
and asking about your expertise, have you heard from both of your kids? i did. lucky neither were on campus at the time. they were actually both working from home, so that s the first thing i checked, and then i started look agent all the texts coming in. they were getting texts from their friends who were on campus, and talking about it, and seeing where the shooting happened and who was around that area. and again, it s very frightening as a parent, the first thing you hear, it happened once when the kids were in middle school. i was actually still in the fbi, had my phone in a skiff, and there was a bombing scare, and there were a hundred different messages on that. it s troubling when there are students there, and trying to figure out if they were safe. i have two kids, and it was my worst nightmare that either would have to go through it. mercifully they did not. there is a massive police
by a lone gunman in the area. look at it, everybody, you can see the topography there. there s a lot of greenery, and, julia, you re from this area. talk about the campus itself, winding roads, lots of trees, it s a beautiful campus, but offers a lot of places for hiding. reporter: it s beautiful. three generations of my family went to medical school at unc, and worked in those hospitals. i got my start in journalism living at unc and working for the papers reporting on the tragedy. it s a quaint place, a quintessential college town. it s hard to pull apart the community from the town because not only are they physically intertwined, you see the residences along with the beautiful old college buildings and quad, all intertwined but as a community as well. they are really emotionally and share an identity link here with this campus, if anything happened here, you would see a
person is despite not divulging that information yet. absolutely, it s not a surveillance photo, and so something in an investigation has led them to identify this person of interest. they re not releasing that name because unfortunately people would know the name, and people would send people over to where this person lives. that could be dangerous. he may have gotten back there. they re going to probably have to do a search warrant at his house. they re going to want to contain the area. they re not putting out the name and identifiables to someone who can say, i know where he is, i m going to his house. i just want to make sure everyone understands what we re dealing with right here. you have used the word shooting. to the best of our knowledge, and i m going to get julia
unc, chill, that is integrated into the city. there are parts where you ll pass by the residential neighborhoods. until you get to a class building or gym. a situation that might be a building on campus, which is why not only students but also residents of chapel hill are on lockdown and because that first alert as you pointed out went out about two hours ago, it s not clear where exactly the suspect might be at this point, but they are telling people to keep their distance and to call 911, alex. but it can present a scary situation. it absolutely does, and the problem is at a campus, it s a large campus to house students. it s a huge area for police. both those who may be joining from raleigh, and those there at university of north carolina campus police. just want to let all of you know, we re seeing one week into the start of classes, on that university campus, and what s happening, you have students