after police first received their calls. it s now 5:34 in london. so, again, this is an unusual one, ali, given that you and i have covered numerous of these attempted terror attacks across europe and, in particular, in london. normally by now we have some sense of something. this is unclear. there are fire brigades, there are police. there are people moving around. there are some people running as catie moniero says on the ground it seems to be calmer than it was earlier. we have no news of arrests, injuries and casualties. no, ali. getting one report in from the british transport police saying one woman has minor injuries. now, it s unclear how she sustained those injuries. it could have been in a stampede while they were leaving the tube station. that s the only report we re getting right now that one woman
have been dispatched to the location but no reports of ambulances being dispatched to the location, which is an indication that there are no known casualties as they have been reporting. if there were multiple casualties, that place would be swarming with ambulances right now. we re not hearing reports of that at this stage. catie, tell me what this area this point on a friday afternoon, what would be happening? would they be shopping and going home from work, what would be happening? both, ali. this is obviously a major i was shopping and it is black friday here, as well. and it was exceptionally busy. i mean, i could hardly get into a store. there were like hundreds and hundreds of people. so, it was particularly busy day for something like this to happen. the tube station was actually so full that i could barely get down the escalator.
pushing me back. people don t seem to be panicking any more at this point. as it looks now, the police look like they have it under control, at least where i am. there s just they re just really pushing people to safety. i don t really see many people in stores any more. everyone is just trying to move along the street. ali, looking at the calmness that we re looking at on the screen and that catie is describing, it does appear that london authorities have a playbook about this. unfortunately, they ve gained much of that playbook because they had to deal with terror attempts. they were able to clear out. it s kind of remarkable looking at these pictures. particularly the ones on the left side of the screen. this is london. at rush hour on a friday night. on black friday and you are seeing entire city streets cleared out. this is a testament to their ability to do this.
injury. and nbc producer on the ground she was in a tube station. were you at oxford circus, catie? cati snerx. i m losing you there. were you in oxford circus? is that where you were? i was at oxford station when all of this began. i was heading down the escalator to the victoria line when people turned around and started screaming and running back up the escalator that was going down to try and evacuate the station. very loud alarms went off. it took actually quite a while for them to turn the escalator off. there was mass panic as people were trying to run up the escalator as it was moving. i did not hear any gunfire when i was in the tube station when it started. i haven t heard gunfire since. but, yeah, like you said, we re still hearing multiple reports.
shots being fired. so, catie, with british transport police reporting reports of a woman minor injuries. that makes sense to you. she might have been going down and people were going up or she may have fallen. a surge of people trying to get out of that station at rush hour. oh, definitely. i think it s very likely. it was incredibly crowded in there and people were really panicking. honestly, i felt like i was sustaining injuries running up that escalator, as well. yeah, it was very, very crowded and people and we ve got live pictures up, catie, of various parts of the area around london. 5:37 p.m. in the afternoon. can you describe to me the scene around you? people are still making their way towards police keep