steve? reporter: a lot of what we re seeing from above, we saw filter out on the ground. police swarming this scene shortly after that shooting took place. speaking to victims as has been mentioned all throughout this morning, a lot of them thought that that original gunfire was some sort of fireworks or some sort of sound that was part of the show, just not recognizing the sound of constant automatic gunfire raining down. who would think that that s what it was? people looked up and confirmed that, and then you had a mass panic. people trying to leave that scene as quickly as humanly possible. a lot of people using, unfortunately, the bodies of victims as cover to avoid further fire. a lot of people ducking into buildings, ducking into bushes. some accounts of victims hiding for hours not knowing what s happening on the outside. terrified to come out. we actually have seen some of
police swarming this area shortly after the shooting started to take place. we started to see some of the victims filter out. horrific stories of survival, what they tried to do to make it out alive. a lot of people saying they had to use the bodies around them to play dead. a lot of people had to hide in different locations. we spoke to the victims. horrific scenes after the shooting. meanwhile, police focused on the investigation. finally getting our first images of the hotel room up pabove, th double sided window shot out as the shooter peered down at the crowd below and started shooting with automatic weapons. something haunting, the initial call for police to take cover in the crowd. now they re getting background investigation. as are the teams on the ground here. that s work that will take place over the next few hours. steve, we re going to interrupt. the news conference is starting right now. okay.
and the race to find a 6-year-old girl, 300 miles away. good evening. it s great to have you with us here on a very busy friday night. we begin with a deadly police shooting. two officers shot and wounded. the suspect shot and killed. tonight, there s video of the harrowing scene as it unfolded. police struggling with an armed suspect. one officer seen falling to the ground. authorities still trying to figure out if the officers were shot by a suspect, or if there was friendly fire. pierre thomas is on the scene tonight in washington. reporter: disturbing video shows police swarming over the suspect at the end of a dramatic foot chase. as shots ring out. it s not clear what triggered the gunfire or who shot first since the officers are in such close quarters, struggling with the suspect. but four shots can clearly be heard on the video.
police swarming united airlines flight the moment it touches down after the pilot reported passengers were in danger. the security threat road in as a jet approached denver international airport. it was coming from san diego around 9:115 last night. the fbi joining police for a season with the plane. it was cleared more than two hours later. no word on what kind of threat the pilot reported. and overnight an american college student confirmed dead and two others injured in the mexican nightclub shooting. colorado officials say the are are man was trampled to death when the gunfire broke out. in all five people, including security guards are dead. 15 people are injured. police are ruling out terrorism. local reports say that it is drug cartel related. plult pell suspects are being questioned. and astronaut gene cernan the last man to walk on the moon has died. we shall return.
and most of the bars, restaurants that would be open and lively on a saturday night are completely shuttered. police have warned people to really stay at home, avoid large crowds, not even go to the airport. that s because of a possible imminent threat, those words coming from the belgium government, imminent threat so significant that they have put this shut down in place. joining me now, form ee eer fbi assistant director, and also with me is a journalist and cnn contributor who is also one of the first to be there after charlie hebdo. nice to have you back with me. tom, let me begin with you. we re hearing these reports tonight of police swarming parts of downtown brussels, shining lights into cars. they must know something very specific to raise the threat level to the highest and to say to the epipoopeople of belgium,