synagogue live stream when a man took at least four people hostage. we do not know this hostage taker s name. what we do know is that he has demanded the release of a woman convicted in 2010 of triing to kill americans in afghanistan and a woman of extreme significance to terrorist groups. with that in mind law enforcement officials have stepped up surveillance at security at synagogues and jewish establishments tonight across the country. so that is where we begin this hour. let me bring in my colleague ed lavandera who s on the ground in colleyville. let s begin with the good news tonight, this one hostage, a man who s been released apparently physically unharmed. reporter: that is the news we re hearing from colleyville police this evening as we re approaching almost 9 hours of this hostage situation continuing to unfold here. it was just after 9:00 central time we were told one of it hostages was allowed to leave the synagogue. we were told that person is un unharmed, d
we begin with an update on that breaking news from colleyville, texas, where a hostage situation has been unfolding for hours at a synagogue. colleyville police report the hostage-taker is communicating with fbi negotiators. they say no injuries have occurred inside the synagogue. the hostage-taker is demanding the release of terrorist aafia siddiqui, who s serving a life sentence in federal prison in fort worth and has tied to isis and al qaeda. let s bring in nbc news morgan chesky. morgan, what are you seeing on the ground? well, a wide perimeter has been set up around congregation beth israel synagogue in colleyville, that is 30 miles outside dallas, alicia. authorities have been on the scene for hours. we learned from colleyville police this call came in for them to respond at 10:41 local time this morning. that is when they found out that this hostage situation had developed and that a man believed to be armed had entered that building where they were holding service
the release of terrorist aafia siddiqui, who s serving a life sentence in federal prison in fort worth and has tied to isis and al qaeda. let s bring in nbc news morgan chesky. and nbc chief investigator officer morgan dean. morgan, what are you seeing on the ground? well, a wide perimeter has been set up around congregation beth israel synagogue in colleyville, that is 30 miles outside dallas, alicia. authorities have been on the scene for hours. we learned from colleyville police this call came in for them to respond at 10:41 local time this morning. that is when they found out that this hostage situation had developed and that a man believed to be armed had entered that building where they were holding services at the time. that s what started this ongoing dialogue that is still happening as we speak. we do know that this man who is believed to have been taken at least a rabbi and three others hostage inside synagogue is in ongoing talks with federal authorities. fbi ho
teams negotiating all day. there have been law enforcement there, representation loathe local and national. let s go mor morgan chestky. there was noise and then a tweet. reporter: speaking to colleyville please in just a few minutes and more details. there was a loud boom that could be heard blocks away from the sin being to, and it was shortly therefore governor abbott released the tweet that hostages are all out safe and alive. that followed that 11-hour standoff that began this morning when authorities say they received a phone call around 10:41 that there was an ongoing situation at congregation beth israel synagogue there in colleyville, a quiet suburb outside dallas. and it was from that point forward that these negotiations really began. and we could hear the man that police have identified as the primary suspect here actually making some of those demands in a facebook live stream of the synagogue service before it was shut off earlier this morning. it was at that p
the standoff starting just before noon central time. it happened during the morning services there paid a man we are told could be heard ranting about religion, islam directly centered on live stream of that service. listen to about 8000 people at the time for the suspect thing he did not want to hurt anyone but he did mention a sister and that he has children but local fox affiliate fox for dallas telling us the swat team is there hostage negotiators talking with the suspect as it continues on the past three and half hours now. brian in the newsroom at the very latest. eric and arthel we just heard about this for the first time the of that tweet from the police department. at 11:30 central time local time at which the swat team arrived on scene at the congregation that it about 70 miles northeast of fort worth texas. they evacuated we know from reporting for the dallas morning news the colleyville police has made contact there not been inside the building that we know they