as far as sightings of the suspect, who is still on the run, they re getting multiple reports of sightings of this individual but different locations that they haven t been able to confirm. they re saying basically anyone who is a black male on the street right now with a hoodie, someone is calling about them. they are trying to follow up these credible leads. no status on those victims that were shot and, again, a hard perimeter of about a mile has been put up around this area where the incident initially happened during the lunchtime hour in midtown. this is still very much an active situation and a very fluid situation. no update on the conditions of those victims but the mother is cooperating with police and he was there for a medical appointment for himself. they declined to give further details because of hipa. they want people to pay attention that about a mile around that area is locked down currently. your understanding is that the suspect is on the run, that the s
because we weren t sure where the shooter is. we are confident now we can let visitors back in. we never locked the hospital down. we just wanted to stop visitors just in case there was anything going on. reporter: [ inaudible ]. i m sorry, i couldn t so when we activate our mass casualty event, that immediately starts our command center. we bring all the surgeons, all the nurses, all the ancillary staff to the trauma center itself. it goes out over both remotely through phones as well announcement over the loudspeaker. and then we start clearing out operating rooms and we start clearing out the emergency department in case we need additional space. reporter: i know you can t give us a lot of information to identify, can you tell us if these are adults, children? age ranges? they re all adults. any genders? no, i don t have that.