having to clear? how big of a building is this? this is a clinic. how many rooms? i m not sure how many actual rooms were inside the clinic. but you have treatment rooms, you have waiting rooms offices, bathrooms, you have all sorts of different rooms because it is a medical clinic that provides medical services. so at this point, all further updates will either come from the colorado springs police department, the pio office. one things you can follo follow @cspd/pio for any types of information. or they will come from the el paso county sheriff s office in regard to the situation. we appreciate that you guys have been out here. and that you have brought this information to the public to let them know to stay away from this scene. the streets are still going to be closed. we have been hearing from katherine buckley of the colorado springs pd along with
we are trying to get your loved ones out. you heard the public information officer, lieutenant buckley, the detective there, just say, yes, we know that there are people inside this building. now, she was cautious not to use the word, hostages. that word popped in an earlier news conference and did not pop out of her mouth this time. she called them people inside the building. these are significant nuances as we try to figure out what kind of situation is unfolding inside that building, and then the other nugget we got is we re on a rolling situation now where we re being updated every 20 to 30 minutes. this is on the move and you can bet we ll be right here for the next one at the top of the hour. back to you. thank you very much. lieutenant catherine buckley, the public information officer in colorado springs filling us in, saying it s an active situation. the shooter is inside the building. she was scads is that planned parenthood, she affirm that. she said they were affecting res
and as we start to go through and work through the buildings and that, we will need access to our ambulances and access to transport. where will the briefing be. here unless it s announced otherwise. that s lieutenant katherine buckley, the public information officer for colorado springs. giving a very detailed at least to the extent she could, update on what is going on there. i want to bring in harris faulkner. harris, the lieutenant was pretty concise to the degree she could be. do you ve have some additional information? a couple of things. there are now at least eight ambulances waiting at the intersection near the clinic and why is that important? we know some of them have already left. so they may be getting a more firm number of people who possibly are injured inside of that building. you heard what she was saying, they re actively trying to find him inside that complex, and
that they re going to update news half hour, a little less. again, she didn t try to give away too much obviously, and i think there s a certain amount of this to keep the public calm. great observation by harris with respect to the word hostage or not. it might be semantics and this is the challenge for the police. a great observation with all these ambulances there. in reality, they don t know what is inside there until they get inside there, and we ll have to wait and see when they ve get in there to find out if there are any other people that are shot or not. when asked if wait a lone gunman or single gunman, the lieutenant katherine buckley, cautious, saying she couldn t say for sure although it feels the reports are so far a lone gunman but still a possibility, bo, apparently, and how does that impede the planning for the next stage of this?
was transported to a local hospital. the four officers that were injured, were shot? yes. when you say there are firing shots, multiple fires or shots at one time they re just saying they re encounters gunshot fire inside the building. your name. lieutenant katherine buckley. colorado springs police department, public information officer. when is your next briefing? let me give you these back. to your left. my news what time is it now? it s 3:35. we ll try to do our next briefing at the top of the hero at 4:00, unless i have something else to tell you in the meantime. staging area? yes. thank you. i do ask you to please stay out of the street because it is very active.