reporting. the trib says roads are blocked off and vehicles belonging to police and ambulances and fire trucks were speeding down lake street to respond. state police and county officials also responding. west aurora school district is holding all students in place for safety due to the incident in the area as we re approaching a school let-out time at five minutes till 3:00 in aurora. all of that from the chicago tribune. a lot of local reportings. that s where we getting the numbers from police that were hurt and civilians that were hurt. reporting from local there s that have been around. nancy cal an employee at a truck replace place down the street.
contained in any way and listening to local reporting now, fox news chicago breaking into 2:30 in the afternoon programming with this breaking news. listen. we re hearing sheriff is on the scene, illinois state police, another police officer coming in. i m seeing another report coming in that it was in fact an active shooter. the active shooters was a disgruntled warehouse employee. we have not confirmed that. that is still coming in our newsroom secondhand. it s going to be very difficult to get information first hand as this is a very closed understandably so scene. it s a crime scene. an active shooter on the loose right now. so everything we re getting in, we re getting in piecemeal, r y relying on the pictures the local fire department has sent out a request for as many ambulances as possible for this active shooter situation.
first of all, the political avenue. the house will undoubtedly pass a resolution of termination basically overturning the president s declaration and then it goes to the senate. it s a simple majority, no a super majority of 60. it looks between the democrats and a half dozen or so republicans that they will approve that resolution of determination. but then the president can veto that. there s not the kind of veto proof majority to overturn the president. then you can go to the courts and as you can hear congress and individuals and various groups like the aclu, property owners along the border, are all going to challenge this in court. the reporting, chris, is that some of his closest aides were saying to him, in essence, there s some money out there that you can get to without declaring a national emergency. our understanding of it is from reporting is that they had advised him not to declare a national emergency. yet he decided to do so.
getting in new york, much of it is coming from the atf that just arrived on scene and live pictures coming in from the local station. the shooting that has been reported was just about 45 minutes ago now. our understanding is the shooting happened and stopped. authorities came. they airlifted a number of victims to a nearby trauma center. from the wfld feed, you can see a line of emergency workers headed with what appears to be officials behind them up the street and toward this scene. we re expecting may get something official from authorities here in just the next few minutes. the reporting that we ve been citing is from the daily herald newspaper in chicago which is alone in its reporting. the daily herald is reporting four aurora police officers have been shot and multiple civilians shot. the details, we don t have yet.
do we know what made that change in the last minute there s or is there no reporting on that yet? well, there s been reporting. the reporting was that he was taking first of all, he wasn t happy with it, when he saw all the handcuffs in the bill that congress did pass. there s 300 times in the bill because they were concerned the president would take money for project a and then apply it to the wall, that it said no funds here can be used for the border wall. so he was upset about that. he was upset about the constraints on it. i think he also felt some political heat. look, i m going to get a lot of heat for signing this congressional bill. if i declare a national emergency, it s a bold statement that i one, believe in this issue and a statement, i promised this in the campaign and i m keeping faith with you on it. you could say as a cynic, even