just as a precaution. that s where things stand now, ands i mentioned we expect a full update from colleyville police within the next ten minutes or so. morgan, the big underline as you have been covering all afternoon is whether they would be able these ohio state annals we were reporting on, whether they d be saved and come out safe, and what we re hearing is they re all safe. what do we know about that? i know we re waiting for more details. there s the big question of, what about the suspect? is the suspect safe? because the governor s tweet and that s all the information we ve got now, a short tweet coming from the governor to sa all of those hostages are safe right now. but the question is, what is the status of the suspect? right. well, richard, we know that colleyville police have been the lead agency on this situation. of course they are being helped with the fbi. we know atf is also on the scene. we know the governor deployed
within just the next few minutes. but again, all of those hostages were released following this loud bang that took place and you heard from blocks away here in this neighborhood near the synagogue. richard? any noises after that bang? and then we got the word that the hostages were released. did you hear any sirens? was there more activity that was beehiving around the location, the crime scene there? we have seen more police vehicles pass by this area. outside of that, that s the only change following the news that everyone has been released. and this press conference is set to begin in three minutes with colleyville police leading the information that will soon come out, and we hope to learn much more here momentarily. and of course morguen is
the standoff starting just before noon central time. it happened during the morning services there paid a man we are told could be heard ranting about religion, islam directly centered on live stream of that service. listen to about 8000 people at the time for the suspect thing he did not want to hurt anyone but he did mention a sister and that he has children but local fox affiliate fox for dallas telling us the swat team is there hostage negotiators talking with the suspect as it continues on the past three and half hours now. brian in the newsroom at the very latest. eric and arthel we just heard about this for the first time the of that tweet from the police department. at 11:30 central time local time at which the swat team arrived on scene at the congregation that it about 70 miles northeast of fort worth texas. they evacuated we know from reporting for the dallas morning news the colleyville police has made contact there
synagogue live stream when a man took at least four people hostage. we do not know this hostage taker s name. what we do know is that he has demanded the release of a woman convicted in 2010 of triing to kill americans in afghanistan and a woman of extreme significance to terrorist groups. with that in mind law enforcement officials have stepped up surveillance at security at synagogues and jewish establishments tonight across the country. so that is where we begin this hour. let me bring in my colleague ed lavandera who s on the ground in colleyville. let s begin with the good news tonight, this one hostage, a man who s been released apparently physically unharmed. reporter: that is the news we re hearing from colleyville police this evening as we re approaching almost 9 hours of this hostage situation continuing to unfold here. it was just after 9:00 central
back to that breaking news in texas. about 30 minutes north of dallas in colleyville. authorities announced a male hostage was released uninjured. my colleague richard lui is tracking the latest. richard? hey, alicia. the latest now we re hearing since the top of the hour throughout this afternoon from colleyville, texas, a hostage situation under way, about eight hours long right now. according to what we re hearing, 10:41 is when the police first got the call. just in from colleyville police, a male hostage released uninjured around 5:00 p.m. central time. so that s about an hour and a half, hour and 40 minutes ago. the man will be reunited with his family. he does not require medical attention. fbi negotiators still communicating with the hostage-taker. also on the scene, counterterrorism units from the nypd. authorities saying the suspect