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are being held hostage. two law enforcement officials are telling cnn investigators believe the hostage-taker may have been motivated by a desire to free a woman serving an 86-year sentence at a facility near this synagogue in texas. sedeki was convicted more than a decade ago in 2010 on attempted murder and armed assault on a u.s. officer, multiple u.s. officers in afghanistan. that is the latest developments. the white house is monitoring the situation in colleyville, texas. police there are asking the public to stay away from the area even as law enforcement agencies step up security at synagogues and jewish establishments all across the country. first let s begin with my colleague ed lavandara, you have been reporting on your drive there. you just arrived in the last hour, you can update us, are they making progress? do they know the state of the hostages? reporter: well, from our vantage point here, we re a little more than a quarter mile away from the synagogue. ....
and explosives is assisting on live stream appeared to capture part of the incident as worshippers observed the sabbath. the white house is monitoring the situation in colleyville and police there are asking p public to stay away. with me now is shimon patriotic pose, julie, and josh campbell. rabbi stanton at st center fehr for learning and leadership. also with us is charles ramsey as well as cnn counterterrorism analyst, phil mudd. as we have been reporting, four hostages inside the synagogue. one of the hostages believed to be the rabbi. this took place during the service this morning in texas. this man walked in, there was some communication then took four people hostage. a lot of this was captured on the live stream that the police there were monitoring. they ve learned a information. they ve learned some names, they re trying to run it down and trying to figure out a motive. that seems to be going okay so far. we have no reports of injuries, no reports of shots ....
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 kno ....
the s.w.a.t. team responded to congregation beth israel, the synagogue in colleyville about 17 miles northeast of fort worth. they responded to what is, what we now know, to a hostage situation. abc news is reporting there are four people being held hostage including the rabbi of that synagogue. the rabbi of that synagogue is named as rabbi charlie citron walker, known to be the full-time rabbi of congregation beth israel. right before 2:00 there was a live stream of services there this morning for the sabbath today, a religious day, obviously, for jews. and on this live stream it was cut right before people could kind of hear muffling in the synagogue. you couldn t really see much, but there was a fixed camera shot of the pulpit, you could hear the faint voice of a man heard in the background. the fort worth telegram is reporting that this man repeatedly mentioned his sister and islam, and he said a few times that he didn t want to hurt anyone, and he mentioned he had ....
the fort worth star-telegram reporting authorities are negotiating with a man who has taken people hostage. we re learning the service was being livestreamed on facebook. the recording is continuing to capture muffled audio of what sounds like talks between police and the suspect. we re hearing from the colleyville police sergeant, darren nelson, that negotiators have, in fact, made contact with somebody inside of the synagogue who they believe is a suspect. we have heard reports of this hostage taker being armed, although those reports have not yet been confirmed. the man could be heard having a one-sided conversation in what appeared to be a phone call during a livestream of the reform jewish synagogue s shabbat service. the live stream cut off around 3:00 p.m. eastern standard time. by the way, this is a congregation that was established in 1999, the beth israel congregation, and again, in colleyville, texas, just a suburb of dallas-fort worth. i spoke to a local r ....