Directions here. thanks for talking with us. a lot of students walking down that way towards franklin street, just down there. carolina inn, in that area. they don t know where to go from here. you hear it from her, this is not something to happen on your campus. you don t know where to go. you re telling your students to stay in lockdown but these students are being led out of the biggest threat area and not knowing where to go at this point. we ll continue to get this story here this afternoon. trace: there you have it. that is matt talhelm from wral television there in the research triangle there. these are live pictures again. you can see the presence u.n.c. police just sent out a message a short time ago telling students to shelter in place
trace: well, breaking right now, students at u.n.c. are sheltering in aplace awaiting an all clear from police after reports of an armed and dangerous person on or near campus. that alert came in after 1:00 p.m. eastern time. a short while ago, local affiliate wral reported a person is in custody, the person at the bottom of the right-hand of the screen. police have not confirmed that or given a name for the person of interest that you see. let s get back to fbi special agent nicole parker who has been following this with us. nicole, i should also point out there s a shelter in place order still on campus. meanwhile, dozens of students are walking around and been led off of campus. you can see students going all over the place.
Wral, the affiliate in the u.n.c. area. trace, they are they have just said on their live ongoing blog that they have learned a person is in custody. one of their reporters now just saying on x two minutes ago, u.n.c. says that the suspect is now in custody. so that is interesting. i would point out that just over an hour ago, 1 1/2 hours ago, the police did take somebody in to custody. we saw that person in a great t-shirt handcuffed. that person questioned and let go. this is a separate report on wral, reported against the person in custody originally being released. they re now reporting the suspect is now in custody. we re waiting on more information from official sources. that is the reporting of of the