the choppers. we have megan reyes who s live for us in news chopper 4 alpha now. megan, what can you tell us? kathy, you can see the trader joe s right there in the center of the screen right now. we re keeping a wide shot for obvious reasons. we don t want to compromise the position of lapd ofts officers. the significant amount of law enforcement officers who have responded to this area, at the intersection of hyperion and rowena. you can see how l.a. city fire has set up shot here right now, they set up a triage center. they re taking all necessary action here. they want to make sure they are ready for any situation and right there you can see the different colors the green, the yellow and the red indicating the severity of injuries if that happens. god forbid if that happens they will be ready. hopefully that s not the situation. you can see all the paramedics that are lined up here, all the resources ready for any type of response. lapd officers, crisis negotiators on the scene n
gil, what are you hearing as we watch this suspect being taken into custody? by the way, we should mention we are about three hours into this since this crash happened here at this trader joe s. this crash and then the shooting appears to be now coming to a peaceful end as lapd arresting, taking into custody this suspect. as you mentioned the hostages coming out with the gun in their hands. what are you hearing may happen next? are police still being hesitant of going inside of the store? we know there could be more people inside. yes. and that s the next step, is to get the people out. i m hearing now that they re bringing some people out of the store. let me come to a wide shot and see if we see them coming out the front. they might be coming out the back of the store itself. we ll see if our megan reyes can get that shot on the southeast corner of the store itself. we can see her. we can see her shot. and yes, people are walking in the parking lot. they re being escorted by po
we speak. and it looks like they re starting to clear it and get people to the hospital if needed. gil, we want to get right to megan reyes now. thank you so much for that. toto show us the people we just saw that kathy was mentioning coming out of the store. we believe these could be the hostages, megan, who were actually inside the store? yeah, that pears to be the situation right now. these are individuals who are coming out. just the emotions even feeling it up here in news chopper alf p. these people who can t even imagine the experience that they were going through. once that suspect was brought into custody and the situation was deemed safe, we believe these individuals were hiding somewhere, we re not sure whether or not it was in a store or not. you can see a couple of them embracing each other. just happy this ordeal is over for them. this is at the back of the store as gil leyvas was reporting he heard that hostages were going to be released in the back of the store. the