the best news we are report all day long. we re still waiting to hear an update on the condition of those others shot. and we hope to learn that from the news conference scheduled for about ten minutes. we know that the mayor was interrupted during a news conference when he was told about this at 11:00. this happened just a couple hours ago. this was mayor berke s immediate response to the news. we received reports that there was an ongoing shooting at an ra reserve center here in chattanooga. i since i ve been up here i ve received word that one officer is down. that the suspect is also down. as soon as we know more we will certainly get that information to you. we are about to hear more in a few minutes. again, our big concern right now are those four members of varying reports, we have navy marine recruiters that work over
and that the total number of people involved is one police officer who was shot at the military recruiting center injured in the leg, we re told and four marine corps employees, personnel, or officers were injured. and that the gunman has been shot dead either shot himself dead or was shot by police officers. we believe the situation to be over for several reasons. we ve heard this from several officials. secondly the police department down there in chattanooga has said it s going to have a news conference here shortly. i think they would not have a news conference if this situation were still unfolding. so the fact that they re going to have a news conference is an additional information that would indicate to us that it s over. there were also claims or rumors of a shooting at a shopping mall, but that s that s been
hospital. they do have high powered assault rifles in their arms. we went to go get more information from them. they turned us away. erlanger asking us to stay across the street. this will be the media staging area for the rest of the day. we went up to approach ceo kevin spiegel with erlanger to get more information on the situation. he referred us to the chat chat police department. i know channel 3 reporter kelly mccarthy will be meeting with their public information officer shortly on amnicola highway to get more information. ten minutes ago mayor andy berke arrived and the two went inside the hospital at this time. just spoke with the mayor s public relations person. he will not be able for an interview at this time. he s inside erlanger waiting to meet with chattanooga police chief fred fletcher at which point we hope to get more information from both chief fletcher and from mayor andy berke. this is an officer involved shooting. possible that officer is inside this hospital gett
need for donors. that the shooting victims have required multiple units of blood. even tweeting a photo of some of the lines reaching out the door from some of these donor facilities. so that speaks to the seriousness of what these injuries possibly are. again, no confirmation on those injuries. also from a u.s. military official who says that the shooter was male fired 25 to 30 rounds from an automatic weapon into the recruiting station. so that information coming in as well. and also from the marines, getting information from them as they have been tweeting we are closely monitoring and developing the situation in chattanooga, tennessee, the u.s. navy and police will provide details as they are concerned. we understand there are some areas that have lifted their lockdowns. bradley square mall an area there that will not reopen until 5:00 p.m.
this as we are following again the condition of this officer as he is in surgery as well as trying to find out more about the other four hurt. and bloodassurance.org, the sole provider of blood in the area, they have been tweeting an urgent need for blood donors. even tweeting a photo of those donors lined up. in their words, the shooting victims required multiple units of blood. that may speak to the type of injuries or at least the extent of how these victims may have been hurt here. waiting to find out more and hopefully that will be the case when we have that press conference any moment now thomas. it s been very fluid of trying to get accurate and complete detailed information about what exactly happened. so we are moving forward with the abundance of if i can add, thomas. go for it. there was also a statement from the u.s. army recruiting