we are following breaking news out of the fort worth, texas, where officials in the town of colleyville have confirmed the agency is conducting s.w.a.t. operations outside a synagogue there. the fort worth star-telegram reports that authorities are negotiating with a man who has taken people hostage. we are learning the service was being livestreamed on facebook. the recording is continuing to capture muffled audio of what sounds like talks between police and the suspect. we are also learning now the white house is currently monitoring the situation around these ongoing hostage situation happening in colleyville, texas. want to bring in a reporter from the ground in colleyville, jamie landers for the dallas news. jamie, i have you? yes, hi. it s pretty difficult right now to get any details, and i do think it s important to note that right now, no one has confirmed whether or not the suspect inside has a gun. we ve also seen reports that he
not heard there was any form of security inside with whoever may be indoors at the moment. and you talked about possibly getting an update from local police. are they holding a press conference or just giving a kind of press update, press avail in a little bit? yeah, just a press update in a little bit. the last time that we spoke with them, they wouldn t even confirm yet if this could be classified even as a hostage situation, and they said they would have an update within the hour, so hopefully we can get a little bit more clarification. of course, there are a lot of assumptions as to what this is online, but we re hoping to get confirmed from authorities about what they re seeing right now. all right. that was jamie landers from dallas news jumping on with us as we appreciate it from the parking lot outside that synagogue that is currently in a hostage situation, ongoing hostage situation there. we are also hearing from a white house official telling nbc news, reported by my c
worried about their community members, people that they see on a weekly basis at these places. anxiety is pretty high right now. so, hoping that we can get some more information to all of them soon. all right. jamie landers for us. we thank you very much for jumping on with us. hopefully you ll check back in as you get some more information on how this thing develops. for now, jamie, thank you. yes, of course. thank you for having me. yeah, of course. so, we are following breaking news, everybody, if you re just joining us, i ll update you. officials in the town of colleyville in texas, they ve confirmed that the agency there is conducting a s.w.a.t. operation outside of a synagogue. th s where you see some of those police vehicles now and these live images that we re getting from the scene as jamie was just telling us, there are an incredible amount of police vehicles there along with emergency vehicles in response to what s happening inside that synagogue. the star-telegram,