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stuff that might be more present here. so all of that s going on behind the scenes, but i m always intrigued by the decision making to shelter in place, release people and how confident you can be when you re releasing citizens into a safe area. tough decisions. for anybody just joining us, the top of the hour, we are following report of an active shooter in the midtown atlanta area. we have one person who has died at the scene. four people injured and taken to the hospital. the suspect still on the run. let s go ahead and listen to our local affiliate there, wxia. they are conducting an interview right now with sate senator josh mclauren who was having lunch in the area at the time. before i took this call, i was downstairs, there was an atlanta police officer who came through and reminded everyone we re still on lockdown. i m glad some people were able to be evacuated. we have seen cars leave the area. confusion, it s uncertainty, it s fear, and we re going to wai ....
Stuff that might be more present here. so all of that s going on behind the scenes, but i m always intrigued by the decision making to shelter in place, release people and how confident you can be when you re releasing citizens into a safe area. tough decisions. for anybody just joining us, the top of the hour, we are following report of an active shooter in the midtown atlanta area. we have one person who has died at the scene. four people injured and taken to the hospital. the suspect still on the run. let s go ahead and listen to our local affiliate there, wxia. they are conducting an interview right now with sate senator josh mclauren who was having lunch in the area at the time. before i took this call, i was downstairs, there was an atlanta police officer who came through and reminded everyone we re still on lockdown. i m glad some people were able to be evacuated. we have seen cars leave the area. confusion, it s uncertainty, it s fear, and we re going to wait and see what w ....
state senator josh mclauren on the phone with us. thank you so much, please continue to stay safe. we appreciate you taking our call. we want to take you live to a ground perspective, with 11 alive reporter, this armored vehicle pulling through your shot is quite a visual for the situation that continues to unfold in one of the busiest parts of the city. reporter: it really is, literally within the last two minutes that vehicle just pulled up, trying to navigate around in atlanta police car that is also blocking this road. right now we re on 13th street. just up from spring street, and they are continuing to block off a lot of the streets around here as they try and make sense of it all. i did see two people who told me they were hospital employees who said that they had just been asked to leave and to get as far away from the area as possible. they were not able to tell me if they had received any other instructions from police but only that they were told by their supervisors l ....
Wxia there in atlanta as they interviewed a state senator who is having lunch and currently sheltered in place there. to catch everybody up to speed, an active shooter situation in midtown atlanta here. we have one person who has tragically died on scene. four were taken to the hospital. the alleged shooter, police believe is on the left side of the screen is still yet to be apprehended. i want to go ahead and bring in frank figliuzzi who has been with us as this has been unfolding. we have north side hospital which we have discussed is in the area that police have said was in their area where they have been looking at. north side hospital here, cooperating with law enforcement, following the shooting at our midtown atlanta location earlier this afternoon. we urge people in the area to shelter in place. they say this tragedy is affecting all of us, and we ask for patience and prayers at this time. frank, this is the first action we are getting that the shooting did, in fact, by all rep ....
See if they can see the other roof tops to ensure that the shooter s not there. so that s a battle for the high ground that s going on tactically. you also heard the mention of the local affiliate reporter, grady hospital. absolutely the trauma center you want to be in if you have that unfortunate situation of being shot. i mentioned i served in fbi lineup for five years, we knew that s where we were going if god forbid we had been severely wounded. grady is the place to be. people might find it ironic, wait a minute, this started in the hospital, they re being sent to the level one trauma center at grady, and that s the place for them to be. i want to go ahead and bring in georgia state senator josh mclauren who had been talking to our affiliate, wxia who is now joining us and sheltering in place. senator, first of all, i want to make sure you re safe, in a place where you can, in fact, talk to us. ....