megyn: back to our fox news alert on the shooting at the campus of virginia tech in blacksbur virginia. the school says it happened in a parking lot near the school s coliseum which is an athletic facility. the school issuing an alert saying, quote, gunshots reported, coliseum parking lot. stay inside, secure doors, emergency personnel responding. call 911 for help. national correspondent steve centanni is live in our d.c. bureau. we ve got a team head today the scene right now as well. steve, what do we know so far? reporter: yeah. well, as you know, the university s very proactive about notifying students. you mentioned they re being advised on their web site, there are other systems for keeping students in the loop and keeping them safe and indoors and out of the line of fire that might endanger them. so on the web site which has the latest information from the university web site saying now not only has there been a
megyn: fox news alert, and we are continuing to follow developments on a shooting at the campus of virginia tech in blacksburg, virginia. the school says it happened in a parking lot near the school s coliseum which is an athletic facility. we are hearing that it may have happened following a traffic stop. there are reports, well, the campus itself is confirming that one police officer has been shot. this, of course, this poor campus, you know, back in 2007 who could forget the blacksburg massacre that happened on this campus when a young man named sun by cho unleashed hell on that campus, killing two students in one dorm early in the morning, then going back to his dorm room to reload, to send e-mails, went to the post office to send a missive to some in the
considered perjury or a lie. the information that was provide inside that february 4th letter was gleaned by the people who intercepted that letter after well, okay. reporter: and, megyn, this was extremely partisan with democrats blaming president bush in an earlier option and saying, basically, we need more gun laws to prevent things like fast and furious. megyn: we will continue to monitor it and bring in the news as happens. william, thank you, and we will be joined by one of those republicans doing the grilling about less than an hour from right now. in the meantime, we have this aecoming in for you, breaking news from virginia where we are getting word of a shooting on the campus of virginia tech. the school says it happened in a parking lot near the school s coliseum, that s an athletic facility. the college issuing an an alert saying, quote, gunshots reported, coliseum parking lot. these are live pictures coming back to us right now. continued, quote, stay inside,
towards a parking lot on campus where a second person was found dead in that parking lot. there have been reports that that was a student. we have not independently confirmed that nor do we know either person s identity. we are told thev state police will be taking over the investigation. they are telling the students to remain in lockdown to stay indoors to lock their doors. and we are hearing that the lockdown has spread to schools in montgomery county in and around blacksburg, virginia where this happened. the suspect has been described in relatively great detail by the school. white male, gray sweat pants, a maroon hoodie, a backpack. the students there exercising the utmost of caution. but we do not know if someone has been apprehend or not. there are conflicting reports from the student newspaper suggesting someone has been apprehend, someone quote surrendered wearing jeans, which
see? he s a good egg. [ major nutrition ] new ensure hh protein. ensure! nutrition in charge! megyn: i want to show you this video we just got in from the scene at virginia tech. according to the latest updates two people have been fatally shot on the campus. one is a police officer and another is a victim whose identity they are not sharing with us. the virginia police have been deployed to take the lead on this investigation as opposed to the campus police and we are hearing the suspect who fled on foot is still at large. his whereabouts unknown. there have been conflicting