it s a heavy tourist destination. don t know how many tourists today because it s a lot of heavy snow falling right now and the temperature currently is 17-degrees let s go back to jonathan. your standing by? reporter: we have one witness now who, according to the colorado springs police department, describes the alleged shooter as being about 6 0 , white mail, white beard, as you were saying, wearing gear that looked according to a couple of witnesses like hunting gear. now, we should point out that hunting gear in colorado springs, as you know very well, harris work not be uncommon clothing to be wearing around that area, particularly at this time of year, as wellos you see there s a lot of snow on the ground, and according to reports on the scene it is still snowing. this is obviously still an active situation. it does appear that this gunman
is, according to a lot of the reports from local media, barricaded in the planned parenthood building. there do appear to be some people in there, at least i have seen one tweet, for instance, again, directly from the colorado springs police department, responding to someone who said they were in the building with another lady. that tweet from that person ended with, please help, and the colorado springs police department were tweeting back saying, tell us your precise location. so, clearly, very fluid situation. a very active situation. three officers we know are injured. the police commander on scene was at pains to point out that none of those injuries appear to be at this point life-threatening. that same commander did also confirm, though, that a number of civilians did not give a precise number a number of civilians have also been injured, and he did not get into the condition of those
as you just heard reporter kody fisher with fox 21 the say this seems to have been a rolling situation, from one location the next location. we re not sure how that happened. i if this guy was driving or on foot, what the scene looked like, yet. it was a rolling situation so we re not certain which law enforcement agencies these injured police officers all at least three of them would cove ham from. we re think agent least one from the cost springs colorado springs department because the fop has been giving us some information on at least one. so that lets you know who is looking into this. and now, what the gunman was wearing. hunting gear. this is per the usa today, hunting gear and this person barricaded himself inside a planned parenthood clinic in colorado brings. opening fire repeatedly on police officers through the windows of the clinic. now we re learning more. whether or not that clinic had
we know of. they still have not reached or evacuated one of those three police officers. so we re watching for that detail. they just wrapped up a news conference with a spokesperson with the police department moments ago, and chev said this chev she said this is an active scene and she said the shooter hand not been contained. then you had the planned parenthood clinic, their ceo come out and express dire concern for the employees and the people, the patients, the staff, inside the planned parenthood building. so we can confirm there were people in that building. some of the images we have been showing you that look like they ve been shot on a cell phone have come from someone who works across the street. you re with us. yes. thank you for rolling on your perspective with your smartphone, telephone me what you have seen today. right now there s currently one, two, three, four, five, six officers outside with riot
other victims may be on the inside, and that s why you see the ambulances still lined up because they want to be at the ready just in case there are more victims on the inside. it sounds like they re also trying to determine the type of weaponry that was used by the person because that can be huge, and whether or not there s any other danger in the area, such as bombs or explosives. we always have to consider that in these active shooter situations. i m kind of leaning into some of the things coming in across our urgent queue right now. the commander with the colorado springs police department is telling local reporters three officers injured. i don t know how many civilians right now. that s quote. the report asks any fatilities? the response from the commander, don t know yet. i don t know that much because we haven t been able to get into the scene. what does that tell you about the type of fire power the person has or maybe it would be a horrible thing there are