those officers. they knew exactly what they are dealing with. it s not over for the police yet. they have no doubt as we are peaking they will be executing search warrant on this individual s apartment or wherever he lives. they have to worry about booby traps and weapons. but at the moment they were able to knew montrealize this individual and protect people in that area. connell: i have been alerted to a statement out of a local hospital which would add to what the mayor said. he said he was unclear our the number of individuals. a spokesperson at the community health at midland memorial hospital said they received six patients all with gunshot wounds. three considered to be critical and three stable. they are not expecting more patients. they have the hospital on lockdown.
for one second here. everyone joining us from around the nation with this is connell mcshane from york. we have two active shooters reported in texas. we have continuing coverage of this breaking story from west texas. steve rogers, a retired detective and former member effort fbi s joint terrorism task force is joining us with his analysis. for those just joining us, steve, let s recap what we know. the police are dealing with a breaking situation in the odessa, midland area of effectsf texas where a shooter was reported on interstate 20. since then the update is
vehicles and those shooters were said to be shooting sat random. a member of the fbi s joint terrorism task force is on the phone with us. the next steps in terms of what authorities might do in blocking off the roads. i have been in that area covering the oil business. it can be, even thought it s a rural area, quite busy. you might even though it s a weekend find a lot of cars out on the roads. but for the most of part open roads, open highways. what about the authorities getting a road black situation getting up. that would be, i assume, a priority right now. what s going through my mind, i wouldn t be surprised if the president or the governor would thorps national guard air assets up to in the air. that was done in washington during the incident regarding snipers. the key is as you say, there are
this is where the air assets will be a major asset. there is a lot of territory to cover. when you have an urban setting. a city setting. you have traffic to deal with. side streets to deal with. the suspects will not get far very quickly. but in an open area like this they can get far very quickly and you need a lot of air assets to cover a lot of territory. connell: stay with us, we ll be back in a moment with the mayor of odessa. he joins us now. thank you for coming on with us as this situation continues to develop. update us on the situation on the ground in odessa. the information i have, there is one suspect who is deceased. multiple injuries, sit seasons. law enforcement have been injured citizens.
multiple gunshot victims were reported in the area after one of the suspects is said to have stole and mail truck in odessa. first video of the situation is coming in. the right side of your screen there. we ll try to decipher what that is. we mix it in with a map of the area on the left side of the screen. we are offering more video from those who witnessed the incident. again for those just joining us, recap what you would be doing having your experience as the authorities deal with this unfolding incident. make sure all of the assets possible both on the ground and in the air are deployed. that s critically important with daylight still in our favor. secondly, information from people very important.