have not been through this before themselves, nick. and certainly this is something extremely out of the ordinary. i think one of the things that will raise a big question is the governor referring to a shooter. right? we don t have details about that, but he is referring to a shooter there. that s right. and there is a difference in the language that is being used from the authorities and the governor. they are calling this an active assailant. those alerts that we ve been getting from the university and police, the governor calling this a shooter and he is trying to proebttect the campus. so again very fluid situation. think about it, when you started college, the anxious it i that goes in with starting your freshman year, even just coming back to school, these students are dealing with all of that hey, nick, i m going to stop you. go ahead. we actually i believe are getting in are we getting in a picture, is that correct? okay. not yet. we re trying to turn that around
active shooter situation? yeah, so the university just released another notice that there is still a lockdown and so i think there has been some reporting that there has been the suspect has been captured but i don t think that has been confirmed yet. obviously everyone in town and on campus is watching and waiting to try to understand what is going on. i hope we ll have more official word from the university officials within the hour. no question. we see what appears to be some of the law enforcement vehicles leaving there, but again, a lot of movements in situations like this, hard to make a judgment from any one event or one movement of law enforcement. yeah, what are you expecting so you are expecting to hear from school officials. obviously we are monitoring their twitter account. we are looking at x account. we re looking at that of the police as well. and it is slightly different what we re hearing. shooter, shooting, versus armed and dangerous person.
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
an update since then. and now the language coming from police and the university officials is that this is an active assailant, not calling him a shooter. but the governor is. so still very much so a fluid situation. and the scene has changed. there was about around the 2:00 eastern hour we saw people running from these campuses from these buildings on campus with their hands up and now you see a lot of officers just sort of standing around talking to one another. you see crowds of students walking in the background that just walked off camera there. and we talked about this being the start of the second week of classes. you remember i m sure what it was like to start college and the anxiety that goes in with going back to school and being a freshman on campus. but this is an all-too familiar scene in america. we just had what happened in jacksonville, the nation still reeling over that tragedy only for us to start this week on a monday with reports of an active shooting on campus. a
putting it on his x account that they re dedicating any and all resources. but interesting to note here guys, unc hospital, you could see there, they have receive nod patients from the active shooter situation so far. campus police said there was some reports of shots fired around the 1:00 p.m. eastern hour calling this an active assailant situation. and again, this is still very much a fluid situation there at unc. jim and brianna. thank you so much. and just to take people through what has been happening here over the last few hours, at about 1:00 the report went out that there was any armed or dangerous person on or near campus. since then the shelter in place has been in effect and a notice that was the case and here about an hour ago the governor referring to a shooting, referring to a shooter. but we know from police that a suspect has been at large and we