let's go ahead and listen to our local affiliate there, wxia. they are conducting an interview right now with sate senator josh mclauren who was having lunch in the area at the time. >> before i took this call, i was downstairs, there was an atlanta police officer who came through and reminded everyone we're still on lockdown. i'm glad some people were able to be evacuated. we have seen cars leave the area. confusion, it's uncertainty, it's fear, and we're going to wait and see what we're told. >> state senator josh mclauren on the phone with us. thank you so much, please continue to stay safe. we appreciate you taking our call. >> we want to take you live to a ground perspective, with 11 alive reporter, this armored vehicle pulling through your shot is quite a visual for the situation that continues to unfold in one of the busiest parts of the city. >> reporter: it really is, literally within the last two minutes that vehicle just pulled up, trying to navigate around in atlanta police car that is also blocking this road. right now we're on 13th

. >> all right, we've been listening to that witness, antonio on our affiliate wxia describing some of these moments here that he was told to get down, shelter in place because of reports of an active shooter. i want to go ahead and bring in a former seattle police chief and current msnbc legal analyst, carmen best. carmen, we know from police here that the photo on the left, the photo of the man on the left here without the facemask, they are saying they're photos believed to be of the active shooter. anyone with information about where this person is is asked to call 911. this person is armed and dangerous. the person should not be approached, and we also know that they've isolated it essentially, it sounds like, inside a building here in this area in midtown atlanta. multiple people injured. this person is still on the loose and everybody is still being asked to shelter in place. so carmen, when you hear those details, when you see the footage here of what would be normally likely a bustling area during the lunch hour here, essentially people listening to the calls to shelter in pla