more serious treatment, to grady hospital or trauma treatment. civilians have been pushed back quite a ways and being here in downtown atlanta, a sense even of those not directly victimized by this, a sense of fear. this is wednesday, middle of the day, downtown atlanta, and now a huge police presence, shots fired, an hour later the shooter still at large. so, people are afraid and they are wondering what is happening in the heart of their city. john: and again, we asked the question of joe cardnellie do we know any specific area or danger posed by the person on the loose if he encountered someone, or are they just casting a net far and wide across the city as we see some pictures of you mentioned medical personnel exiting the building. some are wearing hair nets, may indicate they were involved in administering medical procedures at the time. again, this is an office building, it s not an actual hospital. northside hospital, the affiliated hospital is up at the intersectio
The white house just was asked another question about this. i believe the last thing we heard is the president and the vice president are aware of the situation and on atlanta specifically, karine jean-pierre received another question in the briefing, said the president is frustrated by the gun violence epidemic as we continue to look at these live pictures out of atlanta. marc, quick thought on this. as we are watching this, people fighting for their lives in a hospital, as there is a dead american, the last thing i want to hear is from the white house, and the last thing we let s leave politics out of this for about five minutes and actually be concerned about the people and the individuals who are who have been hurt and try to find this guy and bring this to an end before we politicize it. generally speaking, often times we have seen not only unseemly, but sometimes back fires when they politicize things too soon. john: marc, thank you for