we are following breaking news out of the university of north carolina chapel hill where police at the school are responding to what they are calling an armed and dangerous person on or near campus. that is according to an alert from the university. nick valencia is joining us now with more information. what can you tell us, nick, the latest? we ve been checking in with you, this take da dynamic situation. and we are looking at video from a local affiliate, wral and wtvd. this is still an active situation and you are seeing the police officers in contact cal gear show up there on campus. alert went out to those in the area shortly after 1:00 p.m. eastern. we ve been told that this incident centered around the bell tower part of campus, which is central part of the unc campus and we ve been looking at
elementary, junior and high school going through these processes both trainings and real. and now they are in college. that is the sad reality that we re awaiting details on what has happened here with this situation at unc chapel hill. our cnn affiliate wral is on scene there. they just spoke to a student moments ago. let s listen to that. and you were in one of the buildings in here. tell us what happened, what you heard, how this all played out. yeah, i was at the economics wilson library. and the person orpgiorganizing tells us after five minutes of it started hey, guys, there is an and an letter that there is an active shooter and so we ll keep you in here. and yeah, there was an active shooter in the building next to me.