to know the severity of this particular attack, but at the same time, with the amount of law enforcement and the number of jurisdictions about the local , federal and state level that are now responding, you have to imagine this is a very serious incident. they re treating it as such you we ve been showing the aerial images. there are so many law enforcement that have responded here, so we hope to have more interest soon. and of course, we ll be tracking it for you as things that fell. omar thank you so much for tracking this for us getting on the air as fast as possible. i do want to mention you know, as we re looking at these pictures from the helicopter, you see, there are several areas that have crime tape around them, so there could have been several different areas where some of this shooting happened. i want to get straight to juliette kayyem. she is here live with us to give us some insight into this. she is on the phone. excuse me. not in the studio. can you give us some sense
terms of both mass casualties. and the and the location and i don t want to tell people what we were watching as you were speaking juliet. what you are seeing is the helicopter above the scene. there are lots of different scenes that appears to be where this shooting apparently took place. you can see blood on the steps of the building, but you re also saw someone taking pictures and being very interested in a particular car. it was a great car, so lots going on in the scene right now. i m going to toss it over to john. who is there with mr miller? who s got a lot of details. all right. thanks so much. sarah yeah. john miller, senior cnn law enforcement analyst, former senior official. with the new york city police department. john you have new details about what is happening on the ground preface ng that by everything s preliminary now because this incident isn t very old, and you know this information tends to change. but the sense we re getting is that somewhere around 8 30 individu
some of those officials heading to the scene to try and get more information, we do know that kentucky governor andy beshear has confirmed that he is heading to the scene. he was one of the first to confirm that this was actually a shooting that we were dealing with here. but of course, this is in the middle of the major metro city. we can imagine there were a lot of witnesses, potentially at least people who heard the gunshots were at the very least saw the amount of law enforcement and or 1st 1st aid personnel. that actually responded to the scene as we see some of the images on the screen, but it s six victims in total and again as we re learning from a source with direct knowledge of the scene, one of them appears to be a police officer as officials of multiple jurisdictions try to get a handle on obviously what happened who this suspect or or gunmen may have been, but also when you talk about those that are responding, the f the fbi is also acknowledged they are helping with this
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an eight story building involved in that. you have people you know who have fled who are hiding? who heard shots, so they had to clear every floor of that building and then hold that area and then clear the next floor looking for is there another gunman? are there people hiding and all that, so it took a long time to be able to say this is over. the gunman is down. the people have been transported, and now we re basically in crime scene mode. just an update for everybody. we re just getting this in from our white house unit from cnn s jeremy diamond. the president biden has been informed of the shooting in louisville. this is, according to white house a white house official and that the white house is going to have more to share later on and look as john and we all have been saying. this is the latest mass shooting in this country. this is the latest time that president biden has been notified of a mass shooting. this is the latest time he will no doubt have to make a statement. it s t