moment. some really significant breaking news just came across. we now know the fbi is still talking to the suspect inside, that is a significant development. he has been inside the synagogue for five-plus hours now. and the colleyville police department just put out a statement saying there have been no injuries reported at this time. so that is a very welcome development. no injuries reported at this time. still a very, very, very, very tense and dangerous situation with four people being held hostage by this arm hostage-taker. let s go to our senior justin correspondent evan perez. there is a lot we don t know. we don t know who is being held. we don t know the hostage-taker s name. what are you hearing from your fbi sources? one of the good signs at this stage, poppy, is the fact that according to colleyville police department, they say the fbi is still, the fbi crisis negotiators are still in contact
radar before this but still, nonetheless, that will not depreciate from the horror of those held by him for those 10 to 11 hours. no question about that. and rabbi charlie cytron-walker released a statement saying, over the years my congregation and i have participated in multiple security courses from the colleyville police department. we are alive because of that education. the gunman became increasingly belligerent and threatening and without the instruction we received, we would not have been prepared to act and flee when the situation presented itself. also just in, homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas says officials are monitoring social media in the wake of the texas synagogue attack and that right now there are no credible
anti-defamation league and our local police department, colleyville police department, those courses, that instruction helped me to understand that you need to act in moments where your life is threatened. and so that i would not have had the courage. i would not have had the know-how of what to do without that instruction. so i want people to understand that this is something it doesn t matter if you are in a synagogue, if you re jewish, if you are muslim, if you re christian, if you re religious at all, it can happen in a shopping mall. unfortunately. unfortunately, this is the world that we re living in, and so that kind of training, i hope that that is not our reality forever. but right now, unfortunately, that s something that is very important for people to take advantage of because we it saved my life. it saved our lives.
this officer has 2.5 years of experience with the department, and with the insight of a veteran officer, was in a minute and 23 seconds, he says over the radio this could be at into a hostage situation. an extraordinaryjob of this young officer to put recognise the gravity of the situation. and this at the tone for the entire incident. i would also like to recognise the fbi posit record response and enormous resources that they dedicated to resolving the situation. all told, the fbi had 182 personnel dedicated this incident. their skilled personnel and aggressive, sound decision making by fbi special agent in charge matt to sarno ensured that we had the right personnel with the right skills on the scene to handle any situation that may have evolved. we are eternally grateful for the support provided by the fbi this week. i would also like to thank the colleyville police department and all the agencies that responded to
on a high volume of viable leads as this is on a high volume of viable leads as this is an on a high volume of viable leads as this is an evolving investigation into a this is an evolving investigation into a terrorist to crossed global boundaries and he was not known to and did boundaries and he was not known to and did not boundaries and he was not known to and did not have prior contact with us intelligence or law enforcement authorities. we are vigorously conducting analysis of his associates and his personal devices and oniine associates and his personal devices and online accounts and are working hard to and online accounts and are working hard to learn more about how he acquired hard to learn more about how he acquired the firearm he possessed and of acquired the firearm he possessed and of note specifically no explosives were recovered at the scene explosives were recovered at the scene. today, we have had significant success in tracking his movement and identi