we appreciate your perspective. this is a horrific tragedy. we appreciate the work the first responders are doing. is there any other information you can give us to update us on the situation? at this time, man, no. it s an active seen. we ll provide more information when available and we ll be sharing that as soon as we get it. just again, if you could, give us the information on if somebody has loved ones in the area, where they can reunite with them. people want to go to the scene. we re asking that your reconnect with people at the lord & taylor, the reunification center at the annapolis mall. that s from washington, wttg. you probably snow if you re a spots fan, it s world cup time and fox is airing the world cup.
don t have anything to indicate there s any sort of threats here, any reason to believe there were any problems, at least nothing to which we have access. if that sort of thing is the case, i m sure we ll find out at some point. i want to get to trace gallagher that is working this from the west coast news hub. a new tweet from police, this is from ann arundle police. the county is anne arundle. two words. they re confirming active shooter at 888 best gate road in annapolis. building evacuated. that s new. officers continuing to search building. relocation point is inside the lord taylor in the mall, this is next to a fairly large and well-known mall there. everybody in the building, they want to keep them together to interview them and make sure to get everybody s story straight. they re relocating everybody there at the time to a nearby
mall at a lord & taylor store, which they just have taken over. you might imagine anything near here they will shut down. trace recorded that the parent company of this is the biltmore sun. so they swept the newsroom there just as a precaution. you know, something happens in one division of your company, you want to check it all to be as careful as you possibly can. our understanding is they found no reason for concern at the baltimore sun newsroom. but here, of course, the investigation is just beginning. no doubt it will go on for months and months. trace gallagher, i guess we re just waiting now to hear more from police. just to pick up on a few things, there was no threat to the baltimore sun. it was a precaution. the reason they went through that newsroom is because it was the parent company of the capital here. you mentioned roads closed in the area. we heard that the interstate 450 and the 178 have now been shut down in both directions.
the baltimore sun just sent out this dispatch. police responded to their building on north calvert street. did a sweep. i mentioned they sent some witnesses, people in the building when the shooting happened. again, just very close to an hour ago now. those inside the building at the time, haven t been physically affected, have been moved to a nearby ball, to a lord & taylor store at the mall. the mall is not on lock down but they have taken some of the space there at the lord & taylor to bring all of these people that were inside the building. you figure there were employees of the newspaper there, my guests that might have been there, interns, off staff, all the rest. all of those are gathering a tractor trailer lord & taylor. you can see the officer leading people inside. some of them probably in the middle of the workday, making