In custody at this moment. I know this area very well, been number of years in atlanta, right across the highway from our atlanta bureau. So we have our correspondents on the scene there to tell us more as soon as they get it. But tragic way to start out wednesday. Sandra sometimes you get a whole lot of details up front and then quiet a bit, see what more we hear from the Atlanta Police department. Anyone in the area is asked to secure their buildings, shelterinplace, anyone not in that area, please stay away they are telling fox. They are going to continue to communicate through social media and we will update as soon as we get new information. John typically fairly safe area of atlanta, a number of years ago in a parking lot north of there, north of 14th street, this was a shooting, one person was killed, somebody was trying to steal a car. That was a number of years ago but dont normally hear about shootings in this area. Its a medical Office Building as we know it, connected with
when he became agitated and this is and you see in a photo here this was actually taken from the scene. this is a photo provided from police, and police are saying that following or in the middle of that appointment is when this all played out. i do want to bring in andrew mccabe to talk a little bit about what we are seeing and some of the outstanding questions, because at this point you have a search, an all-out search, that authorities are conducting at this point in time, but also they do not know where this individual is, andy, and so that creates a potentially very broad area as they are looking for this person. that s exactly right, brianna. so let s think first in terms of the area that s currently within the perimeter, the area that s shut down. even that is a large, large area to search carefully, so you have tactical teams that have to literally go through every single space or container that could hold a human being. so it s every hallway, every room, every
stuff that might be more present here. so all of that s going on behind the scenes, but i m always intrigued by the decision making to shelter in place, release people and how confident you can be when you re releasing citizens into a safe area. tough decisions. for anybody just joining us, the top of the hour, we are following report of an active shooter in the midtown atlanta area. we have one person who has died at the scene. four people injured and taken to the hospital. the suspect still on the run. let s go ahead and listen to our local affiliate there, wxia. they are conducting an interview right now with sate senator josh mclauren who was having lunch in the area at the time. before i took this call, i was downstairs, there was an atlanta police officer who came through and reminded everyone we re still on lockdown. i m glad some people were able to be evacuated. we have seen cars leave the area. confusion, it s uncertainty, it s fear, and we re going to wait and
as far as sightings of the suspect, who is still on the run, they re getting multiple reports of sightings of this individual but different locations that they haven t been able to confirm. they re saying basically anyone who is a black male on the street right now with a hoodie, someone is calling about them. they are trying to follow up these credible leads. no status on those victims that were shot and, again, a hard perimeter of about a mile has been put up around this area where the incident initially happened during the lunchtime hour in midtown. this is still very much an active situation and a very fluid situation. no update on the conditions of those victims but the mother is cooperating with police and he was there for a medical appointment for himself. they declined to give further details because of hipa. they want people to pay attention that about a mile around that area is locked down currently. your understanding is that the suspect is on the run, that the s
texas finally in custody after being discovered hiding in a closet under a pile of laundry, and he s not the only one who s been arrested. more on that coming up. but we begin with those explosive allegations from the kremlin claiming ukraine attempted to assassinate vladimir putin in an overnight drone attack. video released on social media and russian state tv purports to show the roof of the kremlin on fire as well as flying objects shot down over moscow. in a statement today, russia placed the blame squarely on kyiv saying, quote, we regard these actions as a planned terrorist attack and an attempt on the president. the russian side reserves the right to take retall toir measures where and where it sees fit. volodymyr zelenskyy addressed the allegation at a press conference about an hour ago. listen. we don t attack putin or moscow. we fight on our territory. we are defending our villages and cities. nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel is following th