we have no information that confirms any of that yet. in fact the description coming of the local press of the shooter, we give pause to know that first-hand accounts are normally inaccurate but i was listening to local news in the chattanooga area, and according to them the description of the shooter is a white male in a silver mustang. you heard from harris last hour shepherd smith as well. we ve heard this report that this is the potentially the profile of the shooter but we have no confirmation of that. it does appear there are two locations. you have one location at a navy support center on amnicola highway in the chattanooga area. we have another report of a different shooting on lee highway. that according to local reporters, is at the armed forces center there. you see the city of chattanooga. one of the biggest cities in tennessee. population of just below 200,000 people. right now we know it s all hands
gunfire that took out the shooter but, again, these preliminary reports are just coming we re actually seeing some early reports of that. shepherd smith is standing by. shepherd you have some information for us as well? kind of do some housekeeping here. there were original reports, in fact from the local newspaper there, of radio traffic, police radio traffic that there might have been shootings at multiple recruiting centers in tennessee. turns out that s not true. then we talked about this bradley mall which was on lockdown and no longer is. we ve spoken with the sheriff in that county who says there have been no shootings in his county whatsoever and that all of these lockdowns on which we ve been reporting have largely been to err on the side of caution. what has happened is an initial shooting that happened there at a series of buildings that are connected together as it s been described to me at this naval center office buildings, not recruiting center but the navy the air
are injured and that the suspect is down. the news conference that was scheduled for 1:00 is 44 minutes late. i feel like the next good information will come from that news conference and as it begins we ll be back with you. shepherd smith, thank you. chet jenkins is a former u.s. army ranger and fbi agent. chad we were told i believe it was jennifer griffin who said agents from the joint terrorism task force are responding. does that necessarily mean this is terrorism or is that done out of an abundance of caution? chad? all right. we do chad jenkins, are you able to hear me. yes, sir. go ahead. yes. does this sound like a terrorist attack? is that why members of the joint terrorism task force are responding or is that simply a precaution? any time we have an active shooter scenario across the country the fbi is now going to