that complicates the situation dramatically. if it is one individual being holed up in a location. we can bring in some negotiation team. try to ratchet this thing down so they don t need to bring in swat or special operators to come in and neutralize the situation. i think right now it is an evolving situation. a lot of variables. the statement that was released by the hospital i echo what paul said is nebulous at best with regard to what it actually means. as more information comes along we can say what role individual agencies can play. there is a lot the f.b.i. can bring to bear whether additional swat personnel or negotiation support. we ll have to see as it unfolds. harris: we ll no doubt be talking with you in the next hours to come. i will wrap it up here on the faulkner focus with some new
folks before. a plan was formalized. we added our officers and i will explain that garland police officers work at the event center all the time as an off-duty job. that s what the case was last night for everybody that was seen and some s.w.a.t. personnel in the back. they paid an additional $10,000 for that security last night. the plan included security officers, uniformed police officers, bomb personnel, s.w.a.t. personnel, along with fbi and atf. the event began at 5:00 p.m. and was to go until 7:00 p.m. the event was going very smoothly and about ten minutes to 7:00, a dark colored vehicle pulled up to the west entrance
there is, as we ve said many times, this is an incident in which the montgomery county police department is in charge. they have got their rapid response unit on the scene. there are multiple police cruisers surrounding this entire facility, and the discovery channel sits right in the heart of silver spring. what we have seen is no movement to speak of over the course of the past several hours. now this has been going on since 1:00 east coast time what. that tells you is that the police and the s.w.a.t. personnel have presumably taken up positions and are not moving a whole lot right now, awaiting orders and hoping that this all resolves itself in a favorable fashion, but it would appear just by the lack of movement that we ve seen that the police are in position or are just standing there and awaiting orders. okay. tom. we re going to talk to you in a second here, but we re going to go to an interview that we did earlier today that tom did earlier today with someone who was in the