came into new york city 911 from a rabbi at located here in the city who received a call from a rabbi in texas who is believed to be one of the people held hostage it. and in that phone call, that person said there is a middle eastern man who had taken multiple hostages inside the congregation and they were in touch with sources there, with the police in texas on the ground. we do know at least a phone call according to our affiliate who alerted authorities to what was going on down there. this is an ongoing situation that is been going on now for close to probably three hours. this was a live stream start at 10:00 a.m. the live stream was abruptly cut it 2:00 p.m. eastern. and again there is not much that can be seen in the live stream. barely what could be heard. all we are going off of right now is what was being said inside estimate reporting from