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welcome to bbc news. there's been a shooting at the headquarters of youtube near san francisco this evening. witnesses said a suspect opened fire, sending employees running into the street. at least four people have been taken to hospital, one person is said to be critically injured. police at the scene said the body of a woman has been found inside the building with a self—inflicted gunshot wound. at 12:46pm this afternoon, san diego police department received numerous 9/11 call is reporting gunshots at the youtube campus on cherry—evans you in our city. the police arrived on scene at 1248 pm and immediately began the search for a sugar or suspect. on arrival police

encountered numerous people, very chaotic, we encountered one victim with an apparent gunshot wound towards the front of them then you as we arrived. when conducting a search of the premises, officers located a second individual with a gunshot wound that may have been self—inflicted. we are still working on confirming that. two additional victims were located several minutes later at an adjacent business. this is the extent of all of the injuries of our victims is unknown right now, they were all transferred for urgent medical care, but they are all unknown. if i missed anything, we have for victims who have all been transported for gunshot related injuries and we have one subject whose deceased inside the building with a self—inflicted wound and at this time we believe to be the shooter but we're still following up

on that. ed barberini from san diego police department south of san francisco where the shooting took place this evening. our correspondent peter bowes is following the story for us in los angeles. peter, what is striking both from hearing the police chief and from the witness we spoke to just about 20 minutes ago is the speed with which police responded to this call. the police were there within minutes. this all took place shortly afternoon, midday local time, and the authorities on the scene very quickly indeed. we've just heard a small part of the timeline, how the authorities went inside, found some people with wounds, and found this woman who, it's believed, was the person who carried out the shooting with what seemed to be self—inflicted gunshot wounds. several taken to hospital, at least four people we understand taken to hospital, one said to be in a critical condition. still an intense

situation with security suites continuing. we first heard about this through social media as people inside their offices were tweeting about the confusion around them, how they were taking shelter within their own space, within their offices, and then eventually managed to walk outside the building, hands above their heads, they were frisked by the authorities and then there was a period of time and always when we hear reports of shootings, families say this is the most intense and difficult time when they simply don't know what's happening, and about half an hour ago authorities finally confirmed they had someone with self—inflicted gunshot wounds who was believed to be the shooter and people taken to hospital. we're seeing live pictures of the outside of the building, an aerial view showing the haste with which the furniture has been turned over, a shopkeeper i spoke to earlier said it was lunchtime when

this happened, a lovely spring day, and people going out eitherfor a smoking break or a meal break, wandering outside the building, one person inside said it sounded like they thought it was an earthquake, they thought it was an earthquake, the sudden noise of the sound of people running out of the building. do we have any indication whether the woman, if she is responsible, the woman, if she is responsible, the woman, if she is responsible, the woman who has died, whether she was actually already in the building 01’ was actually already in the building or someone who got into the building? we don't know for certain. people have been speculating about that, perhaps she was an employee because clearly security at a building like this is extremely tight, it would make it perhaps difficult for someone to come in from the outside with a gun, but we simply don't know. those details haven't been revealed. but what you say about the campus, absolutely right, i've been to these silicon valley campuses, their sprawling places with often very nice outdoor

lunch areas, beautiful california weather, people would be sitting outside enjoying the lunchtime break, and something like this would come out of the blue and it does explain the tweets and the social media messages we heard describing the confusion as people ran around not knowing what happened. peter, can you update us on what we know about others who may have been injured in this incident? we understand, and the precise numbers aren't clear, but at least four people taken to hospital, local hospitals, and we hear that at least one of those people, one of the injured, is in a critical condition, the others have serious gunshot wounds. no more details and certainly no names have been released at this stage. peter bowes in los angeles, thank you very much. a short time ago i spoke to hugh burnham, who is on lockdown in a grocery store across the street from youtube's headquarters. basically what it was his eyesore a

motorcycle policeman running up the stairs right on the entrance of youtube .com and that is the thing that drew my eyes, you don't normally see someone coming on running and he had his weapon drawn and within seconds after that a patrol car arrived. i'd see the shooter, i didn't hear these shots but almost immediately we saw people running up from the floors below us down below whether they were going for a smoke break or something, or outside for lunch, it was our lunchtime at the time, running in and hearing anything from ten to 20 shots being fired and immediately oui’ shots being fired and immediately our security were excellent, they locked down the building straightaway, and made sure no one was allowed to go near the windows and go outside or anything like that. hugh, i guess you have a lot of customers coming into the store from the youtube headquarters? i'm not in the store, i'm in the corporate headquarters. forgive me.

that's all right. the youtube guys, all of us, there's a little mall across the street where we all go for sushi and stuff, there's a lot upstairs. it was really quite amazing to see the response time from the police because you don't really see this area of the city... it's pretty near the airport and that sort of stuff. the police cars came within minutes. they were saying within two minutes of the first call. any idea how much longer you may have to stay where you are? we just you may have to stay where you are? wejust got a you may have to stay where you are? we just got a notification from our internal security team that we're allowed to get back to our cubicles and get back if we want to, we can go to the meeting rooms as well if we wa nt go to the meeting rooms as well if we want to. it looks like it has been dropped down in severity. it was pretty surprising to see police arrived and all of a sudden they have automatic weapons drawn and running what looked like a perimeter around youtube offices and escorting

children, there was about 15 teenagers or children i was guessing, because we're on easter break around here as well. i assume they were kids on some sort of a scourge and and being escorted out by police. hugh byrne giving us his take on the experience of the last couple of hours outside youtube headquarters in california —— hugh burnham. around 8:45pm our time, just over two hours ago, local police received a call of somebody armed inside youtube headquarters. we can look at the scene live now, things coming down, although still a big police presence. at one point police patted down people as they left the building, police evacuated people, people evacuated themselves as you could imagine when they heard the gunfire, they ran outside of the building, those not already on their lunch break. one witness inside said

on social media they thought there was an earthquake because the noise of people running was so loud inside before they knew what was happening. there was a number of gunshots. it's not clear whether some were fired by the police officers themselves but according to ed barberini, the chief of the local police, in a news conference, an impromptu news conference, an impromptu news conference he gave around 25 minutes ago now, when the police went inside they found two people, one person appeared to be with a self—inflicted gunshot wound and that person died at the scene. that person thought to be the shooter, was a woman, and one person with critical injuries is in a hospital in san francisco along with four or five others, it's not clear the others yet, have suffered injuries of some kind, they could be injuries of some kind, they could be injuries caused by getting out at speed, not necessarily gunshot wounds, they fall over and not into things, whatever. —— knock. police

have rottnest another press conference soon. san bruno, just south of san francisco, in california. —— have promised. around lunchtime, lots of people outside when the incident erupted. the big questions, who was the woman? washy and employee, watch ea visitor —— washy and employee, was she a visitor —— washy and employee? was it unconnected with youtube? those questions will be asked in the coming hours. as soon as we have more from california we will bring it to you on bbc news. if you are tuning in for the edition of newsnight i'm sorry to tell you that because of the breaking news from california we won't be bringing it to you, but it's available on

iplayer, where you can catch up with what evan davis was talking about right now. the upsurge of violent crime on the streets of london has prompted the mayor, sadiq khan, to promise a robust response. he spoke following the death of 17—year—old girl, who was shot dead last night, and a short while ago came news of the death of a 16—year—old boy, who'd also been shot last night, in an unconnected attack. the metropolitan police has now launched 48 murder inquiries so far this year, 22 of them in the month of march, a record number. most of the victims had been fatally stabbed. our correspondent adina campbell has more details. today, family and friends remember 17—year—old tanesha melbourne, who died in a drive by shooting last night. couldn't believe it, she is bubbly,

she is a beautiful girl, everybody knew she was lively in the community, she cheered everybody up. ie worried about your future and growing here? i'm a boy so i'm more at risk and i'm black as well. the teenager had been with friends, shortly before she was shot from a car near northumberland park in tottenham. i've never heard of a young girl being shot, never, never. never in my life. what would she do so bad that somebody would end her life like that? she's not even started her life, she's a baby. forensic teams have spent the day gathering evidence in this cordoned off road. she's the night teenager to be violently killed in london this year but there's been 47 killings in the capital since the start of 2018, mainly caused by shootings or stabbings. we are doing everything we can

lawfully to deal with the rise, use every option available to us, enhancing the police presence in key locations. this wasn't the only violent crime around the same time in north london last night. in walthamstow, a 16—year—old boy was found with gunshot wounds. tonight police have confirmed he has died from his injuries. while another boy aged 15 was taken to hospital with stab wounds. many people say they're shocked but not surprised by what's happened in totte n ha m , not surprised by what's happened in tottenham, they say problems have been building up and getting worse. near to this road near this parade of shops some people have said they're too scared to leave their homes once it gets dark, underlining a real sense of fear in this community. this latest rise in gun and knife crime has caused widespread anger, particularly from local campaigners.

a young local campaigners. ayoung girl local campaigners. a young girl has just been shot on the corner there, would you leave your house, would you be afraid? of course you'd be afraid. my thing is the government wasting money and not focusing on what's really needed out there, which is why this keeps happening. so far there have been no arrests but tributes for tanesha continued to grow, another life lost on the streets of london. adina campbell, bbc news, in tottenham. the duke of edinburgh, who's 96, has been admitted to hospital in central london for a hip operation. in a statement, buckingham palace said the procedure had been planned and would take place tomorrow at the king edward vii hospital. the duke has missed several recent royal events, as our royal correspondent daniela relph reports. police officers at the entrance — the sign that there is a royal patient behind the doors of the private king edward vii hospital in central london. the duke of edinburgh was driven here this afternoon ahead of hip surgery tomorrow.