detectives from the sheriff s office, the police department and our federal partners. can you clarify, are there other offices in that same building? i do not know. that s something i don t know. do you know how many people were in the building? i don t know at this point. at this point, we have the individual and the situation is completely stabilized. it is not safe for us for us to move anybody out of building. they re somewhere safe and stable, we re going to leave them there. go ahead, steve. you need to stabilize the situation. would you characterize what he brought with him. explosive devices or until we get our teams up there to active until we get up there to check out those items and ensure what they are,
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happen. we also just found out that the mayor of colorado springs is planning to hold a news conference once the situation is stabilized. it is very much an active shooter situation with the shooter holed up in the clinic along with law enforcement in there and apparently some civilians, as well. it s a very fluid and very tense situation at a shopping center at a planned parenthood near a shopping center in colorado springs. people who were warned by police not to leave the businesses that they were in when this all started at 11:38 local time are still inside their businesses staying away from windows and doors and being told not to answer to anybody and not let anybody in. not let anybody out. and that is still the case even hours later. joining me by phone is trevor hues a reporter on the scene. he s the rocky mountain
but there s another bomb squad truck has arrived, an explosives unit. and when did that bomb squad get there? pardon me? when did the bomb squad arrive? the bomb squad i saw arrive, just before the press conference started and they haven t left the scene yet. they re still being held at the staging area. it s probably not safe there for everybody going in at this point. but it does sound like there s going to be hours before this scene is rendered safe. from not just a gunman, but potentially anything that he brought with him. the good news out of the press conference was that people have been evacuated from that building. have you seen any more of that since the press conference? not since the press conference. and i don t know if you caught this, but they talked about how people still being held in a grocery store. not against their will, but being kept there for their safety. they re being asked to stay there. so they don t complicate the situation any further. right.
a little bit more. when you say these guys, what does this situation tell you based on the information we have about who this person might be? well, you know, attacks on clinics, we go back for the last 35 years. i ve worked a number of bombings and attacks on clinics. like eric rudolph, the improvised mine at the clinic in birmingham and killed a police officer. and severely injured the clinic personnel. you know, i ve had dynamite bombs at clinics in wichita, kansas. arson attacks. so there s been a lot of attacks on clinics that provide abortion services for women. and so that s not a new attack. now this attack is a little different with the firearm, but we ve had, you know, doctors that provide abortion services murdered. the doctor up in new york state. we had doctors in pensacola, florida, murdered. so this is a little different take on the attack of a clinic.