Theyve also been telling them if they dont comply they will release chemical agents and within the last few minutes weve seen the s. W. A. T. Team put on gas masks and we heard a couple of pops and now just waiting for something to happen. I can tell you, this all started before 7 00 this morning. The Police Department said they got a call from the secret service who came out here to investigate a case. That is when the suspect barricaded himself inside of the house. The secret service then called the fairfield Police Department asking them for help. You could see there is a lot of Police Officers out here. There are members of the fbi, the u. S. Marshal, the secret service all have been out here for several hours now. Neighbors say this is really scary. Many of them woke up, some say at 6 00 this morning, to the sound of flash bang grenades. Lets hear what one of them had to say. Okay, so we dont have that sound but i can tell you it has been a very frightening morning for folks out h
afford vital supplies. this convention center turned shelter is already open. it is a maria ptsd. reporter: san juan s mayor says for the island still recovering, any hit could be devastating. we are much more ready than we were, but there is one thing that we have this time that we didn t have before reporter: what s that we re scared. i mean, we know what may be coming reporter: and tonight one more concern, the island s 911 system the mayor of san juan tells me should there be a power outage, there s no backup. kate morgan chesky staying on it for us thank you. now to a story nbc news first broke, word that purdue pharma, the maker of oxycontin, a drug blachld for fueling the country s opioid crisis is making a multi billion dollar offer to settle a wave of lawsuits over the deadly epidemic nbc s kristen dahlgren has late details. reporter: tonight purdue pharma ready to make a deal. the makers of oxycontin and its owners, the sackler family offering between 10 and