we're a significant distance away from where dietrick is, but we are on that side of campus.s is split in half, academic to residential. we're on the residential side of campus. so, like i said, not a lot going on. constant, you know, alerts. we received the first one, i want to say around 9:45, somewhere around that time. we received three or four since then. the first one, you know, just told us to stay inside, stay safe, there is a potential gunman on campus and that was about it. the next few, you know, sort of the same lines, but as the third one came, we had the information you've been receiving, the striped shirt, brown shoes, no glasses details. so, like i said, we're just laying low here. we are on a lockdown, so the doors are locked. they're not allowing people in or out. this has been since about 9:30 this morning. >> kelsey, for you as a student and someone on campus currently, what does this do to you personally and emotionally when you get an update or notification like that? kelsey, can you still hear me? >> are you still there? >> kelsey, can you hear me? kels

this is also near dietrick hall, which is one of the dining halls on campus.t's likely unfamiliar to you, but it's significant because that's just steps away from the dorm where the shootings took place in 2007, where that gunman killed 32 people and then killed himself. federal officials, as our colleague pete williams is reporting, have not been able to confirm or to verify anybody actually has a gun on campus presently, but the description, again, is coming from three separate individuals. it lends some credibility to this report right now. he was said to be walking in the direction of the campus volleyball courts, that he was -- and this is a very clear description -- that he was wearing a blue and white striped shirt, that the stripes were vertical, as well as gray shorts and brown sandals, that the subject had no facial hair or glasses. but right now, obviously, tom, as with past experience as our guide, and as you see on that campus shot right there, even beneath the bar, there is every so often you see someone walking through the shot. >> right. >> so,

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