THREE MODERATE. WE'LL CROSS LIVE NOW TO BARBARA DREAVER. BARB, WHAT CAN YOU TELL US? IT IS BY NO MEANS OVER. CONSTRUCTION WORKERS I HAVE SPOKEN TO HAVE BEEN MOVED AWAY FROM THE AREA. THEY ARE VERY SHAKEN. A LOT OF FOREIGN WORKERS, EXTREMELY SHAKEN. I ASKED IF THEY WERE OK, AND YOU COULD SEE THE PALLOR, THEIR HANDS WERE SHAKING, AND THEIR BOSSES SAID THEY WERE TRYING TO KEEP THEM SAFE, AND THAT'S ALL THEY CARED ABOUT. THEY DIDN'T WANT TO SPEAK TO MEDIA, THEY WERE TOO BUSY TRYING TO GET IN CONTACT WITH SOME OF THEIR WORKERS. WE SPOKE TO AN EMPLOYER WHO HAD FOUR WORKERS IN THE BUILDING, AND HE WAS EXTREMELY WORRIED ABOUT THEM, BECAUSE HE HADN'T BEEN ABLE TO CONTACT THEM. THERE ARE STILL SOME WORKERS ON THE ROOF OF THE BUILDING. YOU CAN SEE THEM SITTING THERE, WITH THEIR BACKS TO THE SIDE, TO THE BLUE TAPE THERE, THIS IS A CONSTRUCTION SITE FOR A HOTEL BEING BUILT THERE. MANY WORKERS WERE THERE THIS MORNING EARLY, WHEN WE CAME RUNNING DOWN HOBSON STREET AND NELSON STREET, WE COULD SEE POLICE CARS RACING PAST. THAT WAS JUST AFTER 7 AM. WE KNOW A JOGGER COMING DOWN QUEEN STREET AROUND SEVEN SAW CONSTRUCTION WORKERS RUNNING OUT OF THE BUILDING. WE WILL LIVE ON AIR WHEN WE HEARD GUNSHOTS, A SERIES OF GUNSHOTS IN QUICK SUCCESSION. SOON AFTER THAT, A POLICE OFFICER WAS TAKEN SURROUNDED BY FELLOW OFFICERS, BUNDLED INTO AN AMBULANCE AND TAKEN AWAY. WE BROUGHT YOU THOSE PICTURES. TERRIBLE TIMES DOWN HERE AT QUAY STREET. THE LAST INCIDENT LIKE THIS WAS IN THE EARLY 80S, WHEN A MAN AND A GUN SHOP DISCHARGED GUN., A LOT OF OFFICE BUILDINGS ARE IN COMPLETE LOCKDOWN. MSOCIAL, ONE OF THE FIFA WORLD CUP TEAMS ARE STAYING HERE. PEOPLE ARE NOT ALLOWED OUT OF THE BUILDING AT THIS TIME. THE POLICE CORDONS ARE EVERYWHERE. HUGE DISRUPTION TO TRAFFIC. WE CAN HEAR THE FULLERS FERRIES, WE SAW ONE COMING IN EARLIER, SO STILL IN OPERATION. POLICE DO HAVE THE SITUATION UNDER CONTROL, BUT STILL AN UNFOLDING SITUATION. DIFFERENT WITH THE WORKERS ON THE ROOF THAN WHAT WE SAW EARLIER. WE HAD PHOTOS EARLIER OF SOME OF THOSE CONSTRUCTION WORKERS LYING ON THE ROOF. NOW THEY ARE UPRIGHT, STANDING OR SITTING, WHICH PERHAPS SPEAKS TO THE FACT THAT POLICE HAVE THE SITUATION UNDER CONTROL, BARB. IT LOOKS THAT WAY. IT IS CERTAINLY CALMER THAN EARLIER, WHEN POLICE WERE RUNNING EVERYWHERE, THE ARMED OFFENDERS SQUAD, IT WAS CHAOS DOWN HERE. ORGANISED CHAOS I MUST SAY. THE CORDONS ARE UP, AND IT SEEMS TO BE CALMER. THE WORKERS WHO HAD BEEN EVACUATED FROM THAT BUILDING WERE TAKEN AWAY, AND HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM THE AREA. THOSE WORKERS ARE STILL UP THERE IN THAT BUILDING. NO DOUBT THEIR FAMILIES ARE ANXIOUS. SOME OF THE EMPLOYERS HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO CONTACT THEIR GUYS UP THERE. A LOT OF THEM ARE MIGRANT WORKERS. IT IS A GRIM SITUATION FOR THEM. AS YOU HEARD, THREE SERIOUSLY INJURED AND THREE MODERATELY INJURED. YOU SAW FROM THOSE PICTURES, THE POLICE OFFICER INJURED, TAKEN INTO AN AMBULANCE. ANOTHER ONE DOWN BY BRITOMART, ONE OF THE SIDE STREETS, SOMEONE WAS LYING ON THE GROUND, HE WAS BEING ATTENDED TO BY ST JOHN'S, AND THERE WERE POLICE CARS AROUND HIM. STILL AN UNFOLDING SITUATION, BUT SEEMS TO BE A LOT CALMER NOW THAN IT WAS EARLIER TODAY. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING WITH US. WE WILL CROSS BACK TO YOU THROUGHOUT THE MORNING WITH ANY MORE UPDATES. . THE BUILDING WORKERS ARE STUCK THERE NOW. WE'RE WITH A WITNESS NOW. MIC WAS IN THE BUILDING WHEN HE SAW THE ACTIVE SHOOTER. TELL US WHAT YOU SAW, MIC. WE WERE ON LEVEL THREE, AND IT SOUNDED LIKE HE CAME UP THROUGH THE MAIN ENTRANCE ONTO LEVEL THREE, AND HE STARTED TO SHOOT. WE HAD GOT INTO WORK ABOUT FIVE MINUTES EARLIER AND WE WERE PLANNING OUR DAY. WE HEARD A MASSIVE GUNSHOT. ONE OF THE GUYS WALKED OUTSIDE THE OFFICE AND CAME BACK IN AND SAID THERE WAS SOMEONE WITH A GUN OUTSIDE. YOU WERE IN THE BUILDING ON LEVEL THREE THAT THIS INCIDENT HAS OCCURRED IN? YES. WE WERE SITTING THERE, WE HEARD A GUNSHOT. TWO OF OUR GUYS CAME RUNNING BACK AND SAYING THEY HAD A GUN. WE PROCEEDED TO HEAR GUNSHOTS A FEW METRES AWAY FROM US. WE BARRICADED THE DOOR TO THE OFFICE WE WERE SITTING IN. WE STARTED HIDING UNDER DESKS WAITING. THAT SOUNDS TERRIFYING. HOW MANY OF THEM WERE YOU IN THE ROOM? WHAT DID YOU BARRICADE THE DOOR WITH? THERE WERE EIGHT OF US IN THE ROOM. WE STARTED THROWING ANYTHING WE COULD AT THE DOOR. THERE WAS A DOOR THAT OPENED INWARDS. SOMEONE RIPPED IT OFF, IT WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN TOO HARD. WE WAITED. WHEN YOU ARE YOUNG, YOU DON'T REALLY UNDERSTAND MORTALITY. SITTING UNDER A DESK HEARING GUNSHOTS. YOU WORK ON THAT SITE. HOW MANY GUYS OR WORKERS WERE THERE ON SITE AT THAT TIME? IT WAS FULL, SO THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN A COUPLE OF HUNDRED GUYS. ON THE FLOOR THAT IS ON LEVEL THREE, WHAT SORT OF WORK IS BEING DONE THERE AT THE MOMENT? IT IS THE STAGING AREA, WHERE ALL MATERIALS ARE KEPT. IT IS WHERE A LOT OF THE COMPANIES ARE WORKING ON THE BUILDING HAVE THEIR SITE OFFICES. THERE ARE QUITE A LOT OF PEOPLE THERE STARTING THE DAY WHEN HE CAME UP AND STARTED SHOOTING. WE DON'T WANT TO SPECULATE, BUT DO ANY OF YOU OR YOUR COLLEAGUES KNOW WHO THIS PERSON WAS OR HOW THEY RELATE TO THE SITE? I HAVE NO IDEA. I DID SEE HIM. WHEN WE TRIED TO RUN OUT OF THE OFFICE, AFTER ABOUT 10 MINUTE, IT WAS SILENT AND WE TRIED TO RUN. HE WAS STANDING IN THE STAIRCASE HOLDING WHAT LOOKS LIKE A SHOT GUN. DESCRIBE FOR US, THAT WAS A BRAVE CALL TO DECIDE YOU HAD TO GET OUT AT THAT POINT. HOW DID YOU GET OUT IN RELATION TO THE STAIRCASE? WE SAW HIM, AND THEN EVERYONE SCATTERED. WE DECIDED TO HIDE. WE RAN TO THE BACK OF THE BUILDING, WHERE I SAW SOMEONE'S HARDHAT HAD BLOOD SPLATTERS ALL OVER IT. THAT WAS THE HAT THAT WAS LEFT ON THE GROUND AT THAT POINT? THAT WAS LEFT ON THE GROUND. WE RAN IN BEHIND ONE OF THE WALLS, AND WE FOUND EIGHT OF THE PEOPLE HIDING THERE AS WELL. WE COULD SEE THE GUY WALKING AROUND WITH HIS GUN. THERE WERE NO POLICE ON-SITE AT THIS POINT? THEY HADN'T MADE IT THERE? THEY WERE PROBABLY FIVE MINUTES AFTER THE SHOOTING. AFTER SEEING THAT, WE RAN BACK INTO THE OFFICE AND BARRICADED THE DOOR AND WAITED. WE KNOW YOU GOT OUT OF THE BUILDING, AND WE HAVE SEEN A LOT OF CONSTRUCTION WORKERS POURING OUT OF THAT BUILDING OVER THE COURSE OF THE MORNING, BUT WE KNOW SOME OF THOSE WORKERS ARE STILL ON THE ROOF. DO YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED TO THOSE MEN ON THE ROOF? I WOULDN'T HAVE A CLUE. WE WAITED IN THE OFFICE UNTIL A TEAM OF POLICE CAME THROUGH AND ASK IF THERE WAS ANYONE ELSE ON THE FLOOR. THEY OPENED THE DOOR TO US AND ESCORTED US OUT. THAT AS A CONFRONTING THING, TO SEE THE MAN WITH THE GUN, TO SEE A HARD HAT WITH BLOOD SPLATTERS ON IT. HOW ARE YOU AND THE GUYS FEELING NOW? EVERYONE IS HAPPY TO BE OUT. NO ONE FROM OUR TEAM GOT HURT. WE FEEL SORRY FOR WHOEVER THE HARDHAT BELONGS TO. MY CONDOLENCES. THIS IS A TERRIFYING EVENT FOR ALL OF YOU TO HAVE TO GO THROUGH. I AM SORRY. THANK YOU FOR TALKING TO US THIS MORNING. I HOPE YOUR OTHER COLLEAGUES ARE ALSO MANAGING TO MAKE IT OUT SAFELY. THAT WAS A WITNESS WHO WAS INSIDE THE BUILDING WHEN THE GUNMEN CAME IN. WE UNDERSTAND FROM OTHER MEDIA REPORTS, HE IS REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN A 24-YEAR-OLD MAN WORKING AT THAT COMMERCIAL BAY BUILDING SITE AND TOOK A SHOT GUN IN THEIR ABOUT 730 THIS MORNING. WE HAVE BEEN ON AIR WITH THE STORY ALL MORNING. WELCOME BACK ON BREAKFAST. WE ARE MONITORING AN UNFOLDING SITUATION. THE SITUATION IS UNDER CONTROL, BUT WE HAVE HAD A REPORT FROM A SOURCE THAT HAS TOLD ONE NEWS THAT THE SHOOTER HAS DIED. THEY ARE DEALING WITH TWO OTHER FATALITIES AT THIS POINT IN TIME. WE KNOW AROUND 730 THIS MORNING, POLICE WERE CALLED TO A REPORTS OF A SHOOTING IN A BUILDING AT COMMERCIAL BAY UNDER CONSTRUCTION. FOR WITNESSES, HE ENTERED LEVEL THREE, WHICH IS A MAIN STAGING AREA, WHERE SUPPLIES ARE KEPT AN OPEN FIRE. WITNESSES HEARD THE GUNSHOTS, THEY BARRICADED THEMSELVES INSIDE. TO FATALITIES AND THE SHOOTER HAVE DIED. WE'LL CROSS LIVE NOW TO LOGAN CHURCH HWE'LL CROSS LIVE NOW TO LOGAN CHURCH WHO HAS BEEN AT THE SCENE ALL MORNING. LOGAN, WHAT CAN YOU TELL US? THIS INCIDENT HAS BEEN ONGOING FOR SOME TIME NOW. THERE IS A LOT LESS PEOPLE HERE AT THE BOTTOM OF QUEEN STREET, BUT STILL A LOT OF PEOPLE MILLING ABOUT, NOT ENTIRELY SURE WHAT TO DO. THE SERIOUSNESS OF WHAT HAS HAPPENED HAS RATTLED MANY HERE IN THE CENTRE OF AUCKLAND. WE HAVE BEEN SPEAKING TO ONE MAN WHO WAS TAKING HIS 2 1/2 YEAR SON TO A KINDERGARTEN JUST NEXT DOOR TO WHERE THIS INCIDENT HAS TAKEN PLACE. HE TOLD US THAT HE WAS USHERED INSIDE, AND ALL THE KIDS AND PARENTS WERE PUT IN A ROOM AND KEPT SAFE BY STAFF AND POLICE AND ONLY RECENTLY THEY HAVE BEEN ALLOWED TO LEAVE. WE HAVE BEEN TALKING TO OTHER PEOPLE AS WELL WHO HAPPEN STANDING ON THE STREET WHERE WE ARE AND WAVING TO COLLEAGUES ANNA BUILDING ADJACENT TO WHETHER SHOOTING WAS, RATTLED AND WONDERING WHAT IS GOING ON. POLICE SAY THE SITUATION IS UNDER CONTROL. BEHIND ME THERE AS ACCORDING AND A LONG LINE OF POLICE CARS THAT NOT ONLY GO DOWN THE BOTTOM OF QUEEN STREET HERE, BUT THEY ALSO WRAP AROUND THE CORNER AS WELL, RIGHT AROUND POLICE. ARE MAKING SURE EVERYONE STAYS AWAY FROM WHERE THE SHOOTING TOOK PLACE. THERE IS A LOT OF PEOPLE CONCERNED HERE THIS MORNING. IT WILL BE SOMETIME BEFORE WE KNOW EXACTLY WHAT HAS HAPPENED. I DON'T KNOW IF YOU CAN SEE FROM WHERE YOU ARE HOW FAR BACK THE CORD AND GOES DOWN THE OTHER SIDE OF THAT STREET, BUT WE UNDERSTAND THAT GIVEN THIS WAS A CENTRAL TRANSPORT HUB, . AUCKLAND TRANSPORT ARE GOING TO TALK TO SHORTLY ABOUT THIS THERE MUST BE MASSIVE DISRUPTIONS IN PLACE FOR PEOPLE WHO WERE UNAWARE OR DIDN'T REALISE THE SCALE OF OR GRAVITY OF THE SITUATION UNFOLDING IN PEAK RUSH-HOUR. ONE THING THAT STRUCK US STRAIGHT AWAY WHEN WE GOT HERE WAS THE SHEER NUMBER OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS STUCK HERE AT THE BOTTOM OF QUEEN STREET. SOME OF THEM TOLD US THEY TAKE PUBLIC TRANSPORT INTO AUCKLAND, THEN TAKE ANOTHER CONNECTION ONTO SCHOOLS. WHEN I GOT HERE, THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN 100 OR MORE STUDENTS WHO HAVE MADE THE TRIP INTO AUCKLAND WHEN THE SHOOTING TOOK PLACE. THEY WERE RUSHED OUT OF THE BUILDING BY POLICE, AND MANY OF THEM WERE MILLING AROUND ON QUEEN STREET, HOPING TO FIND OUT HOW THEY CAN GET TO SCHOOL. AS YOU SAID, WE WILL HEAR FROM AUCKLAND TRANSPORT SOON. THE MESSAGE FROM AUTHORITIES THIS MORNING REMAINS THE SAME NOW - IF YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE AT THE BOTTOM OF QUEEN STREET IN THE BOTTOM OF AUCKLAND CBD, DON'T COME; STAY AWAY WHILE THIS INCIDENT CONTINUES. AND 1 NEWS REPORTERS ARE IN CENTRAL AUCKLAND AND HAVE SPOKEN TO A COUPLE OF COMMUTERS STUCK IN THE CITY. WHAT HAS THE MORNING BEEN LIKE FOR YOU? HECTIC. I WAS ON THE BUS GOING IN, AND GOT MESSAGES FROM MY FRIENDS SAYING, 'ARE YOU GOING IN TO THE OFFICE?' AND I'M NORMALLY NOT GOING INTO THE OFFICE, BECAUSE I'M WORKING FROM HOME. WHERE DO YOU NEED TO GO? WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? I WAS GOING INTO THE COMMERCIAL BAY, BUT IT'S ALL CLOSED OFF BECAUSE OF THE SHOOTING. SO YOU NEED TO GET HOME AT THE MOMENT? YEAH. HOW'S THIS MORNING BEEN FOR YOU? WELL, IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE, WE WERE AT THE BUS STOP OVER THERE, AND THEN WE WENT OVER HERE, BECAUSE THERE'S SOMETHING LIKE... POLICE CARS EVERYWHERE. AND IT'S ALL BLOCKED, SO I DON'T KNOW. WE ALSO DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED, BUT IT'S PACKED WITH POLICE CARS OVER THERE. THIS IS AN UNFOLDING SITUATION, AND A LOT OF PEOPLE HEADING INTO DOWNTOWN AUCKLAND HAVE BEEN CAUGHT UNAWARE BY THE SITUATION THIS MORNING. POLICE ARE AT THE SCENE. THIS IS STILL CONSIDERED AN INSACTIVE INCIDENT. THE CORDONS IN PLACE KEEP LARGE PARTS OF CITY BLOCKS LOCKDOWN. WORKERS ARE INSIDE THE OFFICE BUILDING, BEING TOLD TO STAY AWAY FROM THE WINDOWS, THEY WILL NOT BE ALLOWED OUT ANY TIME SOON. WE SPOKE WITH A CONSTRUCTION WORKER NAMED MICK WHO WAS ON LEVEL THREE OF THAT BUILDING, DESCRIBING THE TERRIFYING INCIDENT AS IT UNFOLDED. HE WAS ON THE SAME FLOOR AS THE SHOOTER ENTERED THE BUILDING AND OPEN FIRE. ANOTHER PERSON WAS BARBARA DREVER. REPORTER BARBARA DREAVER HAS BEEN IN THE CBD FOR US FROM EARLY THIS MORNING. BARB, WHAT MORE CAN YOU TELL US? THOSE WORKERS ARE STILL ON TOP OF THE ROOF, WE CAN SEE THEM WITH THEIR BACKS TO THE BLUE NETTING. THIS IS A CONSTRUCTION SITE. THEY ARE BUILDING A HOTEL HERE. WE UNDERSTAND THAT THERE HAVE BEEN SOME FATALITIES, THAT WE ARE WAITING FOR CONFIRMATION FROM POLICE. WE WILL LIVE ON AIR WE HAD A SERIES OF GUN SHOTS IN QUICK SUCCESSION, AND WE SAW A POLICE OFFICER, WE HAVE PICTURES OF THE POLICE OFFICER BEING TAKEN AWAY IN AN AMBULANCE. STILL AN UNFOLDING SITUATION HERE. YOU CAN SEE THE POLICE CARS, A LINE OF THEM GOING DOWN THE STREET, ALSO SEVERAL AMBULANCES OUTSIDE THAT BUILDING, WHERE THE POLICE AND ALSO, WE UNDERSTAND, SOME AMBULANCE WORKERS HAVE GONE INSIDE. IT IS VERY MUCH AN UNFOLDING SITUATION. EVERYONE HAS BEEN TOLD TO STAY AWAY FROM THIS AREA. THIS WHOLE STREET HAS BEEN CUT OFF. THERE ARE DIPLOMATS IN TOWN FOR THE FIFA WORLD CUP. WE ARE OUTSIDE A HOTEL WHERE A COUPLE OF TEAMS ARE STAYING. IT IS A LOCKDOWN SITUATION AT THE MOMENT. WE DO UNDERSTAND THAT CONSTRUCTION WORKERS WHO HAVE BEEN TAKEN OUT HAVE BEEN TAKEN AWAY BY THEIR BOSSES TO ANOTHER LOCATION, ALL VERY SHAKEN. ONE OF THEM SAID HE COULDN'T BELIEVE SOMETHING THAT THIS COULD EVER HAPPEN IN AUCKLAND. IT IS A SCARY SITUATION, BARB. YOU HAVE BEEN THERE ALL MORNING. CORDONS ARE STILL IN PLACE, SO PEOPLE WHO WOULD NORMALLY BE PASSING THROUGH THAT AREA CAN'T DO SO. EARLIER THIS MORNING, WHEN A BUS CAME THROUGH, PEOPLE COMING OFF A BRITOMART, ONE OF THE ORGAN TRANSPORT GUYS RAN UP AND SAID THERE IS AN ACTIVE SHOOTER, PLEASE STAY INDOORS, STAY INSIDE, DON'T GO INTO THE STREET. ONE OF OUR REPORTERS SAW AN INJURED PERSON BEING TENDED TO BY THE AMBULANCE, LYING ON THE GROUND IN A SIDE STREET AROUND THE BRITOMART AREA, SURROUNDED BY OTHER CONSTRUCTION WORKERS. OBVIOUSLY HIS COLLEAGUES. THEY WERE ALSO RUNNING, ALONG WITH POLICE. AND HAS BEEN QUITE THE MORNING. WHAT I HAVE TO SAY IS, EVEN THOUGH IT WAS ABSOLUTE CHAOS THIS MORNING, IT WAS ORGANISED CHAOS. POLICE AND AMBULANCE SHUT OFF THE STREET SMARTLY. WE WERE RIGHT OUTSIDE THAT BUILDING WHEN IT UNFOLDED. IT WAS A STRONG RESPONSE FROM POLICE IMMEDIATELY. WE SPOKE TO A JOGGER WHO CAME DOWN QUEEN STREET, AROUND 7 O'CLOCK, AND HE HAD SEEN WORKERS COME RUNNING OUT, AND THEY WERE QUITE DISTRESSED. HE COULDN'T BELIEVE IT. HE WAS SHAKEN HIMSELF. STILL AN UNFOLDING SITUATION. WE ARE AWAITING A RESPONSE FROM POLICE AND AMBULANCE TO ANYMORE FURTHER UPDATES ON THE SITUATION. BARBARA DREAVER, LIVE FROM DOWNTOWN AUCKLAND. A LOT OF EMERGENCY SERVICES STILL AT THE SCENE, AND THAT WAS THE FIRST MENTION OF AMBULANCE WORKERS BEING ALLOWED TO GO INSIDE THE BUILDING. THEY HAVE TOLD US THERE ARE THREE PEOPLE SERIOUSLY INJURED, THREE WITH MODERATE INJURIES. WE UNDERSTAND FROM POLICE THE SHOOTER IS DEAD. WE'LL CROSS LIVE NOW TO CHRIS CHANG, WHO IS IN DOWNTOWN AUCKLAND. MORENA, TO YOU BOTH. WE HAVE A VEHICLE COMING THROUGH. LISTENING TO WHAT BARB HAD TO SAY, WE ARE ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF WHERE BARB WAS, TO SHARE THE SAME SENTIMENTS, THAT EVERYBODY HERE IS IN DISBELIEF. WE HAVE BEEN SPEAKING TO COMMUTERS, COMING OFF THE FERRIES, AND CONSTRUCTION WORKERS THAT DIDN'T MAKE IT TO THE BUILDING, AND THEY SEEM SHAKEN. ANY TIME WE GO TO SPEAK TO THEM, A SUPERVISOR SHUT EVERYTHING DOWN. EVERYBODY HERE IS STANDING AROUND IN DISBELIEF AS TO WHAT HAS ACTUALLY HAPPENED HERE THIS MORNING. IT IS GRIDLOCKED. PEOPLE HAVE COME OUT OF THEIR CARS. IF WE LOOK FURTHER DOWN, IT IS GRIDLOCKED. PEOPLE ARE WAITING. THE COURT AND HAS BEEN SHIFTING. THE CORDON HAS BEEN SHIFTING. THE FAN FESTIVAL IS FRONT OF MIND AT THE MOMENT, WITH THE FIRST GAME THIS EVENING AT 7 O'CLOCK. THE EYES OF THE WORLD ARE ON NEW ZEALAND AT THE MOMENT, WITH THIS WORLD CUP GETTING UNDERWAY TONIGHT. EVERYBODY DOWN HERE IN SOME KIND OF SHOCK, AND DISBELIEF AS TO WHAT IT HAS HAPPENED. WE WILL MOVE AROUND THIS WAY, BECAUSE THIS IS THE SCENE OF WHERE THINGS UNFOLDED THIS MORNING. BARB IS ON THE OTHER SIDE. THIS IS REALLY THE CENTRAL HUB FOR ALL TRANSPORTATION COMING INTO AUCKLAND CITY ON A DAILY BASIS. FERRIES, BUSES TRAINS. THE EAGLE HELICOPTER IS STILL GOING. AT THE MOMENT, TRAFFIC IS AT A STANDSTILL. OUTSIDE THE CORDON, PEOPLE ARE GETTING ON WITH THEIR DAILY LIVES. WE WILL BRING ANY MORE UPDATES TO YOU FROM DOWNTOWN HERE IN TAMAKI MAKAURAU. CHRIS AND JENNY MAY IN BRITOMART. TALK ABOUT THE DISRUPTIONS TO TRAFFIC. IF THIS IMPACTS YOU, AUCKLAND TRANSPORT IS RUNNING TRAINS INTO BRITOMART, BUT PEOPLE ARE BEING TAKEN OUT A BACK EXIT, AND THE TRANSPORT IS FREE, TO TRY TO CLEAR THE BACKLOG OF PEOPLE. QUEUES FOR CARS WILL TAKE SOME TIME, SO IF YOU CAN STAY OUT OF THE AREA, DO SO. STAY HOME OR STAY AWAY FROM THE AREA. THREE PEOPLE WERE SERIOUSLY INJURED AND THREE MODERATELY INJURED. A POLICE SOURCE HAS INDEPENDENTLY TOLD ONE NEWS THAT THE SHOOTER HAS DIED, AND THERE MAY HAVE BEEN TO OTHER FATALITIES. WE ARE WAITING FOR CLARIFICATION FROM POLICE. WE ARE HOPING FOR A PRESS CONFERENCE THIS MORNING. WE WILL BE LIVE UNTIL AT LEAST 11 O'CLOCK. A QUICK BREAK NOW. WE ARE STAYING ON AIR LONGER THIS MORNING, BECAUSE OF THIS SITUATION. FOR THOSE OF US JUST JOINING US, HERE'S WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT. POLICE ARE RESPONDING TO A SERIOUS INCIDENT IN AUCKLAND'S CBD. ST JOHN HAVE SAID THREE PEOPLE ARE SERIOUSLY INJURED, THREE ARE MODERATE. IT IS CONTAINED TO ONE DOWNTOWN BUILDING. CONSTRUCTION WORKERS IN THE BUILDING HAVE BEEN EVACUATED. ARMED POLICE ARE RESPONDING AND MULTIPLE AMBULANCES ARE ON SITE. THE POLICE ARE URGING THE PUBLIC TO AVOID LOWER QUEEN STREET. ANYONE IN THE AREA IS BEING ASKED TO REMAIN INSIDE. LET'S LOOK AT THE MAP OF AUCKLAND'S CBD. THIS SHOWS THE ROAD CLOSURES WE KNOW OF. IF YOU KNOW AUCKLAND, TO THE TOP OF THE SCREEN, THE MAIN ROAD IS QUAY STREET THAT RUNS ALONGSIDE THE FERRY BUILDING. SOME OF THE ROADS TO THE TRAIN STATION BLOCKED OFF AND CLOSED. THE BUILDING WHERE THE PULSATING CIRCLES THAT IS THE BUILDING IN THE CENTRE OF THIS, WHERE THOSE CONSTRUCTION WORKERS WERE, AND WHERE THE ACTIVE SHOOTER ENTERED THE BUILDING. WE HEARD FROM MIC EARLIER ON THE PHONE, AND HE WAS ON LEVEL 3 OF THAT BUILDING. ONE OF HIS COLLEAGUES WENT OUTSIDE TO THE HALLWAY AND SAW THE ACTIVE SHOOTER. THEY BARRICADED THE DOORS AND HID UNDER TABLES. IT WAS TERRIFYING FOR THOSE ON THE GROUND. SOME OF THOSE CONSTRUCTION WORKERS, ALTHOUGH A LOT OF THEM HAVE BEEN EVACUATED, SOME OF THEM REMAIN ON THE ROOF OF THAT CONSTRUCTION SITE. IT IS A MULTI-STORY BUILDING. THIS AREA HAS BEEN UNDER CONSTRUCTION FOR A LONG TIME. PORTIONS OF IT HAVE ONLY RECENTLY OPENED AFTER LOCKDOWNS. THIS WAS ONE BUILDING STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION. THIS INCIDENT UNFOLDED ON THE THIRD FLOOR. THAT WAS THE MAIN STAGING AREA, WHERE A LOT OF MATERIALS USED IN CONSTRUCTION ARE ON THE SITE. IT IS WHERE A LOT OF DIFFERENT COMPANIES HAVE OFFICES. THAT IS ONE OF THE ISSUES, WITH GETTING THE SCENE SAFE IN ACCOUNTING FOR EVERYBODY ` THERE ARE DOZENS OF DIFFERENT COMPANIES INVOLVED IN THE CONSTRUCTION, AND HUNDREDS OF STAFF ALREADY AT WORK WHEN THIS INCIDENT UNFOLDED. WE'LL CROSS LIVE NOW TO LOGAN CHURCH. AT THE BOTTOM OF QUEEN STREET AND CUSTOMS STREET, WHERE THIS HAS BEEN TAKING PLACE. POLICE HAVE SET UP A HARD CORDON. THAT IS COMMERCIAL BAY BEHIND US. THE BUILDING IS JUST BEHIND THAT. THE CORDON RUNS ALONG THE BOTTOM OF QUEEN STREET NEAR THE FERRY TERMINAL OVER HERE, POLICE HAVE ALSO CORDONED THE ROAD OUT THERE. THIS AREA WOULD TYPICALLY BE TEEMING WITH COMMUTERS COMING UP TO 10 O'CLOCK. A LOT LESS PEOPLE HERE NOW THAN THERE WERE EARLIER. THAT IS PARTLY BECAUSE POLICE ARE TELLING EVERYBODY TO STAY AWAY. THERE IS ANOTHER CORDON JUST UP THE ROAD, STOPPING VEHICLES AND BUSES. WE HAVE HEARD THE FERRY TERMINAL AT THE END OF QUEEN STREET HAS REOPENED, AND THERE ARE SOME PUBLIC TRANSPORT HAPPENING AROUND THE LOWER CITY. NOTHING AROUND HERE. COMMUTERS HAVE BEEN TOLD TO EXPECT DISRUPTIONS THROUGHOUT THE REST OF THE MORNING. THOSE CBD ROADS WILL BE CLOSED. LOWER HOBSON STREET, QUAY ST, LOWER ALBERT. A LOT OF DISRUPTION EARLY ON, AS YOU TALK TO A WITNESS EARLIER. TELL US HER SCENARIO. A LOT OF PEOPLE WERE SIMPLY CAUGHT OUT. THIS HAPPENED GOING INTO RUSH-HOUR. ONE WOMAN SAID SHE WAS HEADING TO WORK, AND HEARD LOUD GUNSHOTS. SHE RAN UP WHERE WE ARE AND HID BEHIND DOORS. MANY ARE STILL ON LOCKDOWN. THE BUILDINGS BEHIND ME. WE SPOKE TO A MAN A SHORT TIME AGO, A CONSTRUCTION WORKER ON-SITE WHERE THE INCIDENT WAS. PEOPLE RAN AWAY FROM THE CONSTRUCTION SITE SAYING THERE WAS A MAN THERE WITH A GUN. THE POLICE HAVE CONFIRMED THAT THE SHOOTER HAS DIED. IT IS FAIR TO SAY THAT THIS IS AN INCIDENT THAT HAS RATTLED MANY HERE IN AUCKLAND THIS MORNING. MANY HAVE TOLD US THERE SEEMS TO BE AN UPTICK IN VIOLENCE AND OTHER ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOUR IN THE RECENT MONTHS AND YEARS, BUT NOTHING LIKE THIS. IT IS NOT OFTEN THAT THIS HAPPENS IN A BIGGER CITY. WE WILL CROSS BACK TO YOU AS THIS INCIDENT CONTINUES. THERE HAS BEEN A SHOOTING AT CONSTRUCTION SITE IN DOWNTOWN AUCKLAND. WE UNDERSTAND FROM POLICE SOURCES THAT THE SHOOTER IS DEAD. WE HAVE CONFLICTING REPORTS OF HOW THAT UNFOLDED, BUT SHORTLY AFTER THE POLICE WENT TO THE SCENE GUNSHOTS WENT OFF AND POLICE AND HELICOPTERS OVERHEAD MOVED AWAY FROM THE SCENE. THERE ARE LOTS OF CORD AND STILL IN PLACE. WE UNDERSTAND THERE ARE MULTIPLE INSTRUCTION WORKERS STILL ON TOP OF THE BUILDING, WHERE THIS ALL UNFOLDED. IT WILL TAKE SOME TIME TO GET THE DETAILS OF THIS CASE. WE HAVE NOT HAD ANY OFFICIAL STATEMENT FROM POLICE. WE HAVE HAD BITS OF INFORMATION FROM THEM THROUGHOUT THE MORNING. WE EXPECT THEY WILL HOLD A PRESS CONFERENCE AT SOME POINT. AS WITH THE SHOOTINGS THAT WE SEE OVERSEAS IN THE UNITED STATES, TAKES A LONG TIME TO GET ALL THE DETAILS OF WHAT HAS UNFOLDED, . BECAUSE THEY ARE CONTINUING SITUATIONS THEY NEED TO MAKE SURE THE BUILDING SITE AND WORK AS A SAFE. WE HAVE AN UPDATE FROM POLICE. POLICE HAVE CONTAINED AN INCIDENT IN A CONSTRUCTION SITE AT AUCKLAND CBD THIS MORNING. MULTIPLE INJURIES HAVE BEEN REPORTED. WE CAN CONFIRM TO PEOPLE HAVE DIED. THE MALE OFFENDER IS DECEASED. THREE DEAD PEOPLE AS A RESULT OF THIS INCIDENT. AT UNFOLDED AFTER A PERSON IS CHARGED A PERSON INSIDE THE SITE ON LOWER QUEEN STREET AROUND 722 THIS MORNING. POLICE RESPONDED IN THE AREA IS CORDONED OFF. THE POLICE EAGLE HELICOPTER WAS DEPLOYED OVERSIGHT. THE OFFENDER HAS MOVED THROUGH THE BUILDING SITE DISCHARGING HIS FIREARM. UPON REACHING UPPER LEVELS, THE MAIL WAS IN THE ELEVATOR SHAFT. STAFF ATTEMPTED TO ENGAGE WITH THEM. SHOTS WERE FIRED FROM THE MAIL AND HE WAS DECEASED A SHORT TIME LATER. DETAILS OF WHAT EXACTLY OCCURRED ARE EMERGING. THEY WILL PROVIDE UPDATES AS THEY CAN. THEY WANT TO REASSURE THE PUBLIC THAT THIS INCIDENT IS NOW CONTAINED AND WAS AN ISOLATED INCIDENT. TODAY WAS, OR IS, THE OPENING DAY OF THE FIFA WORLD CUP. WHERE THIS BUILDING AS IS LOCATED A COUPLE OF HUNDRED METRES FROM THAT FAN BASE AT CLOUD'S WATERFRONT. A TERRIFYING SITUATION FOR THOSE AROUND THE BUILDING, BUT MORE SO FOR THOSE INSIDE THE BUILDING AT THE TIME OF THIS INCIDENT. WE HEARD FROM MICK. HE WAS IN LEVEL 3 OF THE BUILDING WHEN HE SAW THE ACTIVE SHOOTER. HERE'S WHAT HE SAW. HE CAME UP THROUGH THE MAIN ENTRANCE ONTO LEVEL THREE. HE STARTED TO SHOOT. WE GOT INTO WORK FIVE MINUTES EARLIER AND WERE PLANNING OUR DAY. WE HEARD A MASSIVE GUNSHOT. ONE OF THE GUYS WALKED OUT OF THE OFFICE AND CAME BACK IN SAYING THERE WAS SOMEONE WITH A GUN OUTSIDE. WE HEARD GUNSHOTS A FEW METRES AWAY. THE BARRICADED THE DOOR TO THE OFFICE WE WERE SITTING IN. WE STARTED HIDING UNDER DESKS AND WAITED. EIGHT OF US WERE IN THE ROOM. WE STARTED THROWING ANYTHING WE COULD AT THE DOOR. IT WAS DAUNTING BECAUSE THE DOOR WAS SLIM. IT OPENED INWARDS. IF SOMEONE HAD RIPPED IT OFF, IT WOULDN'T BE TOO HARD. WE WAITED. BEING YOUNG, YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND MORTALITY. SITTING UNDERNEATH THE DESK HEARING GUNSHOTS DROVE IT IN. A TERRIFYING SITUATION FOR THOSE INSIDE THE BUILDING AT THE TIME. A NUMBER OF THOSE WORKERS MANAGED TO GET OUT, BUT SOME ARE STILL ON THE ROOF. THIS IS THE LATEST UPDATE FROM POLICE. MULTIPLE INJURIES HAVE BEEN REPORTED. AT THIS STAGE, POLICE CAN CONFIRM TO VICTIMS HAVE DIED. THE MALE OFFENDER AT THE SCENE HAS ALSO DIED. WE'LL CROSS LIVE NOW TO BARBARA DREAVER. BARB, WHAT CAN YOU TELL US. JUST MOMENTS AGO, WE SAW AN AMBULANCE BACKING INTO THE CONSTRUCTION SITE. WE HAVE RECONFIRMED DEAD, SO THAT AMBULANCE AND POLICE WERE MORE RELAXED, BUT THEY HAVE HAD TO CORD IN THE BUILDING TO MAKE SURE THAT ALL IS SAFE. THOSE WORKERS ARE STILL ON THE TOP FLOOR, STILL WAITING TO BE EVACUATED. ALL THOSE OTHER WORKERS HAVE BEEN TAKEN OUT OF THE BUILDING AND MOVED TO ANOTHER LOCATION. VERY SHAKEN, THEIR HANDS ARE SHAKING, THEY WERE PALE, AND THEY SAID TO ME WHILE THEY WERE SAFE, THEY COULDN'T BELIEVE THIS IT HAPPENED. THERE IS STILL A LONG LINE OF POLICE CARS DOWN THE STREET, BUT THE POLICE HAVE THEIR ARMS MORE RELAXED. IT IS ONE OF THOSE THINGS, YOU DIDN'T EXPECT TO SEE IT IN DOWNTOWN, ESPECIALLY AT THE FIFA WORLD CUP OPENING. THERE IS A LOT OF DIPLOMATS IN TOWN. PEOPLE ARE STARTING TO COME OUT OF THE HOTEL'S. I HAVE SEEN PEOPLE WALKING AROUND THE VIADUCT. IT IS STARTING TO EASE. WE ARE WAITING FOR DETAILS FROM THE POLICE. THANK YOU FOR THE UPDATE. THE COURT AND WILL BE IN PLACE FOR SOME TIME. TWO PEOPLE HAVE DIED IN THE SHOOTER. WE WILL CROSS TO STACEY. THE EXECUTIVE GENERAL MANAGER OF SAFETY. THIS IS AN UNFOLDING SITUATION, BUT WHAT CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT THE SITUATION IN TERMS OF PUBLIC TRANSPORT CANCELLATIONS? THIS MORNING HAS BEEN INCREDIBLY DISRUPTIVE FOR PUBLIC TRANSPORT. WHAT WE KNOW NOW IS THAT SERVICES ARE RESUMING BACK THROUGH THAT AREA. GIVEN THE CORD AND IS STILL IN PLACE, THAT IS GOING TO MEAN A LEVEL OF DISRUPTION FOR OUR CUSTOMERS. FERRIES ARE ALLOWED BACK IN. BRITOMART IS OPEN. THE WESTERN END WAS CLOSED EARLIER. A LEVEL OF DISRUPTION AS SERVICES RESUME AS THE COURT AND IS IN PLACE. WILL BE UPDATING OUR CUSTOMERS ON 18 MOBILE. CHECK AND TO THE WEBSITE. WE HEARD FROM SOMEONE WHO MENTIONED THAT YOU WILL BE PROVIDING FREE PUBLIC TRANSPORT AS RESULT OF THE INCIDENT. CAN I GET CLARIFICATION ON THE? THERE IS NO FEE FREE PUBLIC TRANSPORT. WHAT WE HAVE STARTING LATER IN THE DAY AS FIFA. THAT IS DIFFERENT. WITH THAT, PUBLIC TRANSPORT IS INCLUDED WITH THE. IN TERMS OF THAT, IT IS DISRUPTIVE THIS MORNING, BUT WE WOULD KINDLY ASK OUR CUSTOMERS TO TAKE ON AND OFF AS USUAL. HAVE YOU GOT A LOT OF SCHEDULE ISSUES, HAVING STAFF THAT ROSTERS ARE BEING IMPACTED BY DELAYS AND DISRUPTIONS? WILL IT CAUSE PROBLEMS LATER IN THE DAY WITH LARGE PEOPLE MOVING AROUND THE CITY? WE ARE TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THAT MEANS FURTHER IN TERMS OF THAT. PARTICULARLY WITH BUS SERVICES, WE HAVE A LOT OF BUS SERVICES THAT PASS THROUGH THAT LOWER ALBERT AREA AND THROUGH CUSTOMS STREET. ESTABLISHING DIRECTION FOR OUR BUS DRIVERS AND THE LIKE SO THEY KNOW WHERE THEY ARE GOING. WHAT WE CAN SEE AT THE MOMENT IS THERE IS CONGESTION IN TERMS OF THE BUSES TRYING TO GET THROUGH TURNING IN BACK AROUND. IT WILL BE DISRUPTIVE. YOU PROGRESS WITH THAT. THEY ARE RESUMING ACROSS THE NETWORK. A LOT OF PEOPLE NEEDING TO GET TO EDEN PARK FOR THE START OF THE FIFA WORLD CUP THIS EVENING. IS THERE AN UNDERSTANDING THAT SOME OF THE SERVICES MIGHT BE DISRUPTED AS A RESULT OF THE FLOW ON EFFECT OF THIS MORNING'S INTERRUPTIONS? I WOULD LIKE TO THINK WE ARE IN A POSITION THIS AFTERNOON. I WOULD ANTICIPATE THAT WE WILL BE BACK ON TRACK ON TIME. THANK YOU SO MUCH. STACEY, THE EXECUTIVE OF SAFETY FOR AUCKLAND TRANSPORT. NOW WE KNOW THE SITUATION IS UNDER CONTROL AND HAS BEEN RESOLVED, POLICE ARE REASSURING THE PUBLIC THAT IT IS AN ISOLATED INCIDENT AND THERE ARE NO NATIONAL SECURITY CONCERNS. THAT IS AN IMPORTANT THING TO NOTE, BECAUSE TODAY IS THE OPENING DAY OF THE FIFA WOMEN'S WORLD CUP. THERE ARE DIPLOMATS AND OFFICIALS IN INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAMS IN TOWN SECURITY HAS BEEN RAMPED UP ACROSS A NUMBER OF CITIES IN NEW ZEALAND. WE WILL CROSS NOW TO CHRIS CHANG IN DOWNTOWN AUCKLAND. THERE ARE DIPLOMATS, THE FIFA PRESIDENT, THE US PRESIDENTIAL DELEGATION INCLUDING HARRIS'S HUSBAND FOR THE OPENING GAME TONIGHT, 7 O'CLOCK. WE HAVE BEEN AT THE CLUB THIS MORNING, WHERE THERE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A SHOW ABOUT THE FIFA FAN FESTIVAL, THE BUILDUP AND COLOUR, THE EXCITEMENT OF THE WORLD CUP. THE FOOTBALL FERNS, THE NEW ZEALAND TEAM PLAYING TONIGHT, HAVE RELEASED A STATEMENT SAYING THEY ARE SHOCKED BY THE INCIDENT IN THE AUCKLAND CBD THIS MORNING. ALL THE FOOTBALL FERNS TEAM A SAFE. WE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO COMMENT FURTHER ON DETAILS STILL EMERGING. US NATIONALS HAVE RELEASED A STATEMENT SAYING THEY ARE ALL SAFE AND WELL AND PROCEEDING AS NORMAL. NOTHING YET FROM THE FIFA AND TERMS OF DISRUPTION TO FOOTBALL FERNS. THE CLOUD WILL OPEN AT MIDDAY. FOOTBALL FERNS HAVE BEEN COMING DOWN WITH WORLD CUP MERCHANDISE, TRYING TO GET TOWARDS THE CLOUD. NO WORD FROM FIFA ON HOW THAT WILL PLAY OUT. THE SECURITY CONCERNS AS WELL. IT IS AN ISOLATED INCIDENT, SO IT MAY BE SEPARATE TO THE FIFA WORLD CUP, BUT THE EYES OF THE WORLD ARE ON US. THEY ARE ON AUCKLAND, BECAUSE THIS IS THE BIGGEST SPORTING EVENT TO BE HELD IN NEW ZEALAND'S HISTORY. WHILST THE TWO INCIDENTS US SEPARATE, THE PROXIMITY MEANS IT IS GOING TO BE LINKED NO MATTER WHAT. SECURITY WILL BE A CONCERN. GOOD TO HEAR THOSE TEAMS ARE SAFE AND WELL. THAT IS CHRIS LIE FOR US. LET'S RECAP WHAT POLICE HAS TOLD US. THIS INCIDENT UNFOLDED AROUND 722 THIS MORNING. TO HAPPEN MULTIPLE INJURIES REPORTED. POLICE CAN CONFIRM THAT TWO PEOPLE HAVE DIED AS WELL AS THE MALE OFFENDER, WHO HAS ALSO DIED. HE ENTERED THE BUILDING JUST AFTER 722 THIS MORNING. MOVED THROUGH THE BUILDING SITE AND CONTINUE TO DISCHARGE HIS FIREARM. UPON REACHING THE UPPER LEVELS, HE CONTAINED HIMSELF IN THE ELEVATOR SHAFT, WHERE FURTHER SHOTS WERE FIRED. POLICE ARE REASSURING US THIS IS AN ISOLATED INCIDENT. THEY HAVE THE SITUATION UNDER CONTROL. WE HAVE REPORTERS LIVE AT THE SCENE. FOR THOSE OF YOU JUST JOINING US, HERE'S WHAT WE KNOW. POLICE HAVE CONTAINED A SERIOUS INCIDENT THAT UNFOLDED AT A CONSTRUCTION SITE IN AUCKLAND'S CBD AROUND 7.20 THIS MORNING. MULTIPLE INJURIES HAVE BEEN REPORTED. POLICE CAN CONFIRM TWO PEOPLE HAVE DIED. THE MALE OFFENDER IS ALSO DECEASED. WORKERS ARE STILL ON THE TOP FLOOR OF THE BUILDING, WAITING TO BE EVACUATED. THE PUBLIC ARE STILL BEING ASKED TO AVOID THE AREA. NAVEEN KUMAR IS A CONSTRUCTION WORKER AND WAS PRESENT DURING THE SHOOTINGS EARLIER THIS MORNING. HE TOLD 1 NEWS THE SHOOTER WAS A COLLEAGUE. THEY SAY HE WENT STRAIGHT TO THE THIRD FLOOR OF THE BUILDING, WHERE THE CONSTRUCTION COMPANY'S OFFICE WAS. SO WE PRETTY MUCH KNEWSITE SIDE POCKET SIDE POCKET ONE THAT HE'S GOING TO BE A CO-WORKER OR SOMETHING. YOU HEARD THAT HE WAS A CO-WORKER? YEAH. HOW DOES THAT MAKE YOU FEEL? YOU MUST BE GUTTED. YEAH, LIKE, WE WERE JUST REALLY SCARED FOR OUR LIFE, BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN. THEY SAID THE PERSON HAS A SHOTGUN IN HIS HAND. THE FIRST THING I DID WAS JUST GRAB MY HELMET. I KNOW IT'S GONNA SOUND SILLY, BECAUSE IT'S NOT GONNA DO ANYTHING. THAT'S NOT A BULLET-PROOF HELMET. BUT, YEAH, THAT'S THE FIRST THING I DID. WE WERE LIKE, REALLY, REALLY SCARED. COS YOU DON'T KNOW WHERE THE BULLET'S GONNA TO COME FROM AND WHERE IT'S GONNA GO. IT WAS HIS COLLEAGUE WHO WAS THE SHOOTER. WE HEARD FROM A WITNESS WHO SAID HE WAS ON THE THIRD FLOOR OF THE BUILDING, WHERE HIS OFFICE AND THE MAIN STAGING AREA FOR CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS ARE WHEN THEY HEARD THE GUNMAN COME IN. THEY HAD TO WAIT BEFORE THEY COULD GET OUT OF THE BUILDING. THEY REPORTED HEARING AROUND FIVE OR SIX GUNSHOTS. THEN THE GUNMAN HEADED TO THE STAIRCASE. THE GUNMAN THEN MOVE THROUGH THE BUILDING, AND AFTER AN INCIDENT INVOLVING POLICE, THE GUNMAN HAS DIED. JACOB JOHNSON IS STANDING BY ON COMMERCE STREET WITH AN UPDATE. I AM AT THE CORNER OF COMMERCE AND QUAY STREET, A NUMBER OF PEOPLE ARE AT THE CORDON, PEOPLE WHO ARE TRYING TO GET A SENSE OF WHETHER THEY SHOULD COME TO WORK OR GET HOME, AND A NUMBER OF CONSTRUCTION WORKERS, SOME AT THE DOCK AND SOME AT THE SITE. MANY DON'T WANT TO TALK, BUT THERE IS A SENSE OF TRYING TO WORK OUT WHAT IS GOING ON. IT WAS 2 1/2 HOURS AGO THIS INCIDENT UNFOLDED. I HAVE NEVER SEEN SUCH A LARGE POLICE PRESENCE IN AUCKLAND. THE OFFENDER HAS NOW DIED. TO OTHER PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KILLED, AND A NUMBER INJURED. NO UPDATE ON WHEN THE CORDON WILL BE DOWN, BUT WE EXPECT POLICE TO FRONT A BIT LATER TODAY. WE UNDERSTAND THE PRIME MINISTER WILL BE HOLDING A PRESS CONFERENCE AT ABOUT 10.15. THERE WERE OBVIOUSLY HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE AT WORK IN THIS BUILDING SITE. A MULTI-STORY BUILDING. GETTING A HEAD COUNT IS OBVIOUSLY OF THE UTMOST IMPORTANCE TO THE FIRMS INVOLVED IN THIS INCIDENT. IT IS A BIG DAY FOR AUCKLAND, WITH THE OPENING DAY OF THE FIFA WOMEN'S WORLD CUP. WE CROSSED TO CHRIS CHANG, WHO WAS AT THE CLOUD. IT STARTED ON A MORNING WHEN WE WERE LOOKING AT CELEBRATING WHAT WAS GOING TO BE AN EPIC OPENING FOOTBALL MATCH TONIGHT FOR THE WOMEN'S WORLD CUP WITH THE NEW ZEALAND TEAM KICKING THINGS OFF. EVERYTHING TOOK A DIFFERENT TURN AROUND 7.20 THIS MORNING. BEHIND ME IS THE SCENE. WE HAVE SEEN A TRICKLING OF PEOPLE COMING OUT OF THE FERRY TERMINALS BEHIND US AS WELL, AND A NUMBER OF CONSTRUCTION WORKERS WHO WERE NOT INSIDE THE BUILDING AT THE TIME, BUT THAT WERE TAKEN OFF TO THE SIDE, SO THAT POLICE COULD DO WITNESS STATEMENTS. WE HAVE SEEN A NUMBER OF THOSE CONSTRUCTION WORKERS SLOWLY, AS THIS MORNING HAS UNFOLDED, COME DOWN TOWARDS THE CORDON. A NUMBER OF PEOPLE STANDING AROUND, UNCERTAIN AS TO WHAT HAS HAPPENED. WHAT WAS A DYNAMIC SITUATION FOR AN HOUR AND �, WE HEARD THE EAGLE CHOPPER FOR QUITE SOME TIME. IT WAS QUITE DYNAMIC FOR THAT PERIOD OF TIME, AND FOR THE LAST WHILE IT HAS BEEN MORE CALM. PEOPLE ARE WAITING FOR THE CORDON CHANGE. POLICE PRESENCE HAS BEEN THE SAME FOR THE LAST WHILE. A FEW AMBULANCE VEHICLES COMING AND GOING, BUT THE TRAFFIC IS BACKLOGGED. THIS IS THE MAJOR TRANSPORT HUB FOR AUCKLAND. WE HAVE HAD FERRIES, BUSES, TRAINS. ARE DISRUPTIVE MORNING, BUT THAT IS NOT THE IMPORTANT THING IN THE SCHEME OF THINGS, WHEN LIVES ARE AT STAKE. A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE IN DISBELIEF. EARLIER, WHEN THE CORDONS WERE OPENED UP, AND CONSTRUCTION WORKERS WERE ALLOWED TO COME HERE, MANY WERE EMOTIONAL. YOU COULD SEE THAT THERE WAS SOME DISTRESS, BUT NOT WILLING TO SHARE OR TALK ABOUT WHAT THEY SAW OR HEARD ALL THE EXPERIENCES THEY HAVE HAD THIS MORNING. AS WE STAND HERE, A NUMBER OF PEOPLE ARE STANDING AROUND, TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT HAS HAPPENED. A NUMBER OF PEOPLE ALSO GETTING ON WITH THINGS. THERE IS A BACKUP OF TRAFFIC HERE, AS WE CAN SEE, THE CORDON IS STILL IN PLACE. IF YOU'RE WONDERING WHY WE'RE TALKING ABOUT FOOTBALL, THERE IS NO LINK THERE, BUT IT IS IMPORTANT, BECAUSE THE EYES OF THE WORLD ARE ON AUCKLAND TODAY. THE VIEWERSHIP NUMBERS FOR THAT GAME AT EDEN PARK AT 7 O'CLOCK BETWEEN THE FOOTBALL FERNS AND NORWAY, IS ENORMOUS. IT IS A SOLD-OUT CROWD. WE ARE WAITING TO HEAR HERE FROM FIFA ABOUT HOW THAT AFFECTS THEIR PLANS. SOMETIME BEFORE THEN. THE FOOTBALL FERNS ARE SAFE AND WELL. THEY WILL PROCEED AS USUAL. THANKS CHRIS AND JENNY MAY. BE SEE THE CONCERNS AROUND FIFA WILL BE OF CONCERN TO NOT JUST PEOPLE WHO WERE HOPING TO ATTEND, BUT FOR THE TEAMS IN BOLD. NEW ZEALAND FOOTBALL ARE SHOCKED BY THE INCIDENT. THEY CAN CONFIRM THAT ALL OF THE NEW ZEALAND FOOTBALL TEAM AND STAFF ARE SAFE, BUT THEY WON'T BE ABLE TO COMMENT FURTHER WHILE DETAILS ARE STILL EMERGING. THE US TEAM HAS ISSUED A STATEMENT, SAYING ITS TEAM ARE SAFE, AND SECURITY ARE IN COMMUNICATION WITH LOCAL AUTHORITIES, AND THEY ARE GOING AHEAD WITH THEIR DAILY SCHEDULE. WE HAVE HAD AN UPDATE FROM OTHER MEDIA, REPORTING ON NORWAY'S TEAM, STAYING A FEW HUNDRED METRES AWAY FROM WHERE THIS UNFOLDED. PLAYERS WOKE UP TO THE SOUND OF THE HELICOPTER OVERHEAD, AND THEY KNEW WHAT WAS HAPPENING FROM UPDATES ON LOCAL MEDIA, BUT THEY SAY FIFA HAS GOOD SECURITY AT THE HOTEL AND A SECURITY OFFICER WAS WITH THE SQUAD THE ENTIRE TIME. EVERYONE IS PREPARING AS NORMAL FOR THE GAME TONIGHT. THE INCIDENT IS IN DOWNTOWN AUCKLAND, A MAJOR TRANSPORT HUB FOR FERRIES, ARSES, TRAINS. AND FERRIES ARE ALLOWED BACK IN. TRAINS ARE STILL OPERATING AS USUAL, ALTHOUGH OF COURSE WITH SOME EXPECTED DISRUPTIONS. THIS IS A MAP OF WHERE THE INCIDENT UNFOLDED. THAT BUILDING THERE IS WHERE THE CONSTRUCTION SITE IS. THE BUILDING OPPOSITE IS THE FERRY TERMINAL. THIS IS A MAJOR HUB FOR A LOT OF COMMUTERS, A LOT OF PEOPLE HEADING INTO THE CENTRAL CITY. LOCAL RESIDENT KENT HARRISON HAPPENED TO BE FILMING FROM HIS APARTMENT WHEN THE GUNSHOTS WERE FIRED AROUND 8AM, THE SOUND ECHOING ACROSS THE SQUARE. (GUNSHOTS ECHO) SOMETHING'S GOING DOWN. IT'S PRETTY MAJOR. THERE'S GUNSHOTS. (GUNSHOTS ECHO) SOMETHING'S GOING DOWN. IT'S PRETTY MAJOR. THERE'S GUNSHOTS. WE PAY THAT CLICK TWICE BECAUSE IT IS VERY COMPELLING. POLICE CONFIRMED TWO PEOPLE HAVE DIED, AS WELL AS THE MALE OFFENDER. A HUGE DISRUPTION THIS MORNING TO THE DAILY COMMUTE FOR MANY AUCKLANDERS, BUT A WORRYING TIME FOR WORKERS AND BUILDINGS NEARBY. WE CAN TALK NOW TO SIMON BRIDGES, CEO OF AUCKLAND BUSINESS CHAMBER. AROUND EIGHT MY WIFE CALLED ME, AS I WAS WALKING TO THE CBD. OBVIOUSLY IT IS AWFUL. CLEARLY, THE LOSS OF LIFE, THOSE WHO PUT THEMSELVES IN HARM'S WAY TO KEEP US SAFE BUT ALSO A BIGGER PICTURE, WHICH IS NOT AS BIG A DEAL AS THOUGH SAFETY ISSUES, AROUND A LOT OF WORKERS IN THE CBD WILL BE ANXIOUS STAYING IN THEIR OFFICES. I AM IN THE UPPER CBD, AND IT IS QUITE SURREAL, BECAUSE WE HEAR BUSES GOING, PEOPLE WALKING AROUND, BUT A KILOMETRE OR TWO AWAY, WE KNOW WHAT HAS UNFOLDED. SIMON, THIS IS UNPRECEDENTED. WE HEAR ABOUT THIS OVERSEAS. WE REPORT ON THESE INCIDENTS FROM OVERSEAS A LOT, BUT NOT THE KIND OF THING WE EVER SEE HERE IN NEW ZEALAND. IT IS SHOCKING. WE ARE TAKING IT IN. BUT YOU ARE RIGHT, IT IS NOT THE SORT OF THING WE THINK HAPPENS AROUND US, AND YET IT HAS. OBVIOUSLY, SAFETY AND PEOPLE SAFETY IS THE CONCERN, AS IT UNFOLDS. IT IS GOOD TO HAVE A SENSE THAT WE ARE SAFE, AND THAT HAS BEEN DEALT WITH, FUNDAMENTALLY. WHAT IS ALSO TRUE AS WE WILL SEE OTHER RAMIFICATIONS. IN THIS AWFUL TRAGEDY, IT IS NOT AT THE SAME LEVEL, BUT IT IS TRAGEDY THAT WE HAVE, EVERY SO OFTEN, THE GLARE OF THE WORLD ON US. THAT THIS IS SOMETHING THEY WILL SEE IN RELATION TO NEW ZEALAND, IT IS NOT OUR AUCKLAND, OUR NEW ZEALAND AS WE KNOW IT. THIS IS A BUSY AREA. THAT SITE HAS BEEN UNDER CONSTRUCTION FOR YEARS AND WILL HAVE HAD HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE ON IT. PAINT A PICTURE FOR VIEWERS OUTSIDE AUCKLAND ABOUT HOW BUSY THIS AREA IS AT THAT TIME OF DAY. IT IS PEAK TIME, AROUND EIGHTISH. I WAS GETTING TEXT MESSAGES AND EMAILS FROM PEOPLE WANTING TO GET A SENSE OF WHAT IS GOING ON. THE CBD HOLLOWED OUT WITH COVID 19, BUT THERE ARE MORE PEOPLE EVERY MONTH, FROM ABOUT MARCH. THERE WILL BE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE AROUND. IF YOU THINK ABOUT THE CONSTRUCTION SITE, I KNOW WHERE IT IS AND WHAT IS GOING ON, THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN HUNDREDS OF WORKERS ON THAT SITE. THEY WILL ALL BE SITTING THERE NOW SAYING TO THEMSELVES, THERE BUT FOR THE GRACE OF GOD. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR TIME, SIMON BRIDGES. WE'VE BEEN SPEAKING WITH WORKERS AND COMMUTERS AROUND BRITOMART THIS MORNING. CAN YOU DESCRIBE WHAT YOU SAW OR HEARD? ALL OF US BRACED FOR IMPACT. JUST UNREAL. WE WERE IN THAT CONSTRUCTION SITE. ALL THE COP CARS AND AMBULANCES. ARMED OFFENDERS. WE HEARD A FEW GUNSHOTS. ACTUALLY QUITE NERVOUS. A LOT OF PEOPLE WERE LIKE HERE AND THERE FOR SOME SHOOTING GOING ON. EVERYBODY IS PANICKED. HECTIC. I WAS ON THE BUS GOING IN, AND GOT MESSAGES FROM MY FRIENDS SAYING, 'ARE YOU GOING IN TO THE OFFICE?' BECAUSE THERE'S SOMETHING LIKE... POLICE CARS EVERYWHERE. AND IT'S ALL BLOCKED, SO I DON'T KNOW. WE ALSO DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED, IS PACKED WITH POLICE CARS. AS UNFOLDED, A LOT OF CONFUSION AND CONCERN FROM PEOPLE IN THE AREA. WE ARE EXPECTING MORE UPDATES AS THIS INCIDENT HAS NOW RESOLVED. DEPUTY POLITICAL EDITOR MAIKI SHERMAN IS STANDING BY AT PARLIAMENT AHEAD OF THE PRIME MINISTER'S BRIEFING. LET'S GO TO HER NOW. MAIKI. WE ARE AWAITING THE PRIME MINISTERS UPDATE. WE CAN TELL YOU IT HAS BEEN DELAYED BY AROUND FIVE MINUTES. IT WAS SET TO START AT AROUND 1015. WE ARE STANDING BY OUTSIDE THE BEEHIVE THEATRE AT PARLIAMENT. CHRIS HIPKINS WAS TRAVELLING TO HAMILTON THIS MORNING WITH MINISTER MEGAN WOODS. THEY WERE ON THEIR WAY THERE TO MAKE AN ENERGY ANNOUNCEMENT TODAY. WHEN THE NEWS OF AN ACTIVE SHOOTER BEGAN BREAKING THIS MORNING, THE PRIME MINISTER IMMEDIATELY TURNED AROUND AND MADE HIS WAY BACK HERE TO PARLIAMENT. HE RECEIVED A BRIEFING FROM OFFICIALS AND AN UPDATE FROM POLICE. WE ARE WAITING TO HEAR THE VERY LATEST FROM THE PRIME MINISTER ON THAT NOW. I UNDERSTAND GRANT ROBERTSON MAY BE THERE TO UPDATE US ON ANY FIFA DEVELOPMENTS AS WELL. THAT IS RIGHT. THE SPORTING MINISTER, HE WILL BE IN THE THEATRE IT. IT IS UNSURE YET AS TO WHETHER OR NOT HE WILL TAKE THE STAGE. IF THERE ARE SPECIFIC WESTERNS FOR HIM HE WILL DO SO. THE PRIME MINISTER WAS SET TO ATTEND THE OPENING GAME OF THE WOMEN'S FIFA WORLD CUP IN AUCKLAND THIS EVENING. THERE IS STILL NO DECISION AS TO WHETHER OR NOT HE WILL GO TO THAT GAME. HOPEFULLY HE WILL PROVIDE AN UPDATE ON THAT AS WELL. CERTAINLY, A LOT OF MOVEMENT HERE AT PARLIAMENT, WITH THE MEDIA SETTING UP, AWAITING THE LATEST DETAILS. THE NATION IS TUNING IN TO HEAR FROM THE PRIME MINISTER, EXACTLY WHAT HAS UNFOLDED THIS MORNING IN AUCKLAND. JUST COMING IN ON THE TAXI THIS MORNING, I WAS WATCHING THE EVENTS UNFOLD MYSELF. THE TAXI DRIVER WAS. ALARMED TO HEAR WHAT HAS BEEN HAPPENING IN AUCKLAND EVERYBODY HAS EYES ON AUCKLAND AND ON THIS DEVELOPING STORY. THANKS. THANKS. WE WILL BE BACK WITH YOU SHORTLY. THE STATEMENT HAS BEEN DELAYED FOR A FEW MINUTES. THE PRIME MINISTER WILL UPDATE LIVE ON OUR PROGRAM THE INCIDENT THAT HAS UNFOLDED IN THE AUCKLAND CBD THIS MORNING. WE ARE EXPECTING AN UPDATE FROM GRANT ROBERTSON THE SPORTS MINISTER BECAUSE THIS HAS DEFERRED ON THE OPENING DAY OF THE FIFA WOMEN'S WORLD CUP. FIFA HAS ISSUED A STATEMENT SAYING THERE WERE NO EXECUTIVES IN THE AREA AT THE TIME THIS UNFOLDED. THE US EMBASSY HAS ITS HEADQUARTERS JUST ALONG, A COUPLE OF BLOCKS ALONG FROM WHERE THE SHOOTER ENTERED THE CONSTRUCTION SITE. THE OFFICE IS STILL IN LOCKDOWN. THE US VP'S HUSBAND IS IN THE COUNTRY. HE IS SAFE. WE ARE AWAITING THE PRESS CONFERENCE. WE'LL CROSS LIVE NOW TO BARBARA DREAVER. BARB, WHAT CAN YOU TELL US? WE HAVE SEEN A SECOND AMBULANCE GO INTO THAT CONSTRUCTION SITE. THAT IS WHERE THEY ARE BUILDING A HOTEL. ON TOP OF THE ROOF, THERE ARE A NUMBER OF WORKERS WAITING TO BE EVACUATED. MOST OF THE WORKERS HAPPEN ALREADY GONE. POLICE ARE ON THE SCENE. RIGHT OUTSIDE THAT BUILDING EARLY THIS MORNING, POLICE RUSHED INSIDE ARMED. WE SAW AND HEARD GUNSHOTS ON BREAKFAST AND ONE NEWS. A SERIES OF GUNSHOTS. SOON AFTER THAT, A POLICEMAN ESCORTED TO AN AMBULANCE SURROUNDED BY COLLEAGUES. REPORTER SAW ANOTHER MAN BEING TREATED ON THE GROUND NEAR THE BRIT oMART CENTRE SURROUNDED BY COLLEAGUES. POLICE WITH THEIR. THREE DEAD, INCLUDING THE GUNMEN. WE ARE STILL WAITING FOR MORE INFORMATION, AS IT IS STILL VERY MUCH AN UNFOLDING SITUATION DOWN HERE. THESE ROADS ARE GOING TO BE CLOSED OFF FOR MOST OF THE DAY. POLICE ARE ARMED. IT IS VERY MUCH A MORE RELAXED ATMOSPHERE DOWN HERE. WE ARE SEEING AMBULANCES LINED UP ON THE ROAD BEHIND US. TO HAVE GONE INTO THE SITE. WE ARE WAITING AND SEEING. THOSE WORKERS WHO HAVE BEEN THROUGH A HORRIFYING ORDEAL. WE HEARD FROM SOME WHO SAW THE SHOOTER AND HAD TO HIDE. WE WERE WATCHING THEM AS THEY WERE HIDING BEHIND PILLARS, UP IN THE BUILDING ON THE 15TH FLOOR. WE COULD SEE THEM CROUCHING DOWN. SOME OF THEM WERE UP HIGH. WHEN THE GUNFIRE WENT OFF IN A QUICK SUCCESSION, WE SAW THOSE PEOPLE. THEY WERE RIGHT THERE ON THE SCENE. VERY MUCH AN UNFOLDING SITUATION. I CAN SEE THE POLICE BEHIND US. THEY ARE STILL ARMED. WE WILL WAIT TO GET ANY UPDATES FROM THEM. THANK YOU. BARBARA HAS BEEN ON THE SCENE OR MORNING. AS THIS HAS GONE ON FOR SEVERAL HOURS NOW, AUTHORITIES HAVE TRIED TO OPEN UP PART OF THAT CBD AREA TO TRY AND GET THE AREA OPEN AGAIN WITH ALL THE MORNING COMMUTERS. FERRIES ARE RUNNING. BUSES ARE RE-ROUTED. TRAIN SERVICES ARE RUNNING. PEOPLE ARE ASKED TO AVOID THE AREA. IT IS A CRIME SCENE. WE'RE GOING TO GO TO THE PRIME MINISTER. THIS MORNING AT 7:23 AM, POLICE REPORTED A A MAN SHOOTING ON CENTRAL AUCKLAND AND LOWER QUEEN STREET. 7:34 AM, POLICE ARRIVED ON THE SCENE. THE ARMED OFFENDERS SQUAD ARRIVED FOUR MINUTES LATER. IT IS WITH DEEP SORROW THAT I CAN CONFIRM THAT TWO PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KILLED. AT THIS STAGE, VI OTHERS HAVE BEEN INJURED, INCLUDING POLICE. THEY HAVE BEEN TAKEN TO AUCKLAND HOSPITAL. POLICE HAVE ALSO CONFIRMED THE SHOOTER IS ALSO DEAD. THE ASSESSMENT FROM OFFICIALS AS THERE IS NO INITIAL SECURITY RISK. THERE IS NO CHANGE TO NEW ZEALAND'S NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT LEVEL. THIS IS THE INFORMATION THAT WE ARE ABLE TO SHARE SO FAR. THE OFFENDER WAS ARMED WITH A PUMP ACTION SHOTGUN. HE MOVED TO THE BUILDING SITE DISCHARGING THE FIREARM AS HE WENT. UPON REACHING THE UPPER LEVELS OF THE BUILDING, THE MAN WAS IN AN ELEVATOR. SHOTS WERE FIRED, AND HE WAS LOCATED A SHORT TIME LATER. I WANT TO THANK THE BRAVE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE NEW ZEALAND POLICE, WHO RAN INTO THE GUNFIRE, STRAIGHT IN THE HARMS WAY, IN ORDER TO SAVE LIVES OF OTHERS. THESE KIND OF SITUATIONS MOVE FAST. THE ACTIONS OF THOSE WHO RISK THEIR LIVES TO SAVE OTHERS ARE NOTHING SHORT OF HEROIC. I ALSO WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE AMBULANCE FIRST RESPONDERS, WHO WERE THERE QUICKLY ON THE SCENE THIS MORNING. THIS IS STILL AN ONGOING POLICE OPERATION. I HAVE LIMITED FURTHER INFORMATION TO PROVIDE AT THIS TIME. POLICE WILL BE PROVIDING FURTHER UPDATES DURING THE DAY. SHORTLY I WILL BE LEAVING TO TRAVEL TO AUCKLAND TO JOIN THE POLICE COMMISSIONER, WHO IS ALSO ON HIS WAY TO THE SCENE. CLEARLY WITH THE FIFA WORLD CUP KICKING OFF THIS EVENING, THERE ARE A LOT OF EYES ON AUCKLAND. THE GOVERNMENT HAS SPOKEN TO FIFA ORGANISERS IS THIS MORNING. THE TOURNAMENT WILL RECEDE AS PLANNED. I WANT TO REITERATE THAT THERE IS NO WIDER NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT. THIS APPEARS TO BE THE ACTIONS OF ONE INDIVIDUAL. AUCKLAND AND THOSE WATCHING AROUND THE WORLD CAN BE ASSURED THAT POLICE HAVE NEUTRALISE THE THREAT AND THEY ARE NO SEEKING ANYBODY ELSE IN RELATION TO THE INCIDENT. NEW ZEALANDERS SAFETY AND THE SAFETY OF THOSE OF THE VISITORS IS OUR FIRST PRIORITY. WHILE THERE IS LIMITED INFORMATION THAT I CAN SHARE, I WILL TAKE QUESTIONS. THE POLICE NEUTRALISE THE THREAT BY KILLING THE OFFENDER? I DO NOT HAVE THAT INFORMATION. WAS THE OFFENDER WEARING AN ANKLE BRACELET? HOW ARE THEY ABLE TO GET INTO THAT BUILDING WITH A SHOTGUN? I AM NOT ABLE TO SHARE ANY INFORMATION ABOUT THEIR IDENTITY ALL THE DETAILS OF THE INDIVIDUAL SHOOTER. POLICE ARE WORKING TO CONFIRM INFORMATION. AS SOON AS THEY ARE IN THE POSITION TO SHARE IT THEY WILL. TO OTHER PEOPLE KILLED. WITH A CIVILIANS OR POLICE OFFICERS? MY UNDERSTANDING IS CIVILIANS AT THIS POINT. NATIONAL SECURITY RISK. WAS IT AN ACT OF TERROR? MY UNDERSTANDING FROM THE ADVICE SO FAR IS THERE IS NO IDENTIFYING POLITICAL OR IDEOLOGICAL MOTIVATION FOR THE SHOOTING, THEREFORE NO NATIONAL SECURITY RISK. I AM NOT IN A POSITION AT THE MOMENT TO COMMENT ON GUN LICENSING; IT IS UP TO AN INDIVIDUAL. I WILL CONFIRM DETAILS ABOUT WHETHER THE INDIVIDUAL HAD A LICENSE OR NOT. I DON'T HAVE THAT INFORMATION. THE RESULT OF A CONTRACTUAL DISPUTE? I DON'T HAVE ANY INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT THE MOTIVATION WAS, OTHER THAN POLICE HAVE NOT IDENTIFIED IDEOLOGICAL OR POLITICAL MOTIVATIONS FOR THIS. AS SOON AS THEY ARE IN THE POSITION TO SHARE MORE INFORMATION THEY WILL DO SO. ON THE CBD ITSELF, ADVICE WE HAVE HAD FROM POLICE AS THEY WILL BE LOOKING INTO NARROWING THE COURT AND AS QUICKLY AS THEY CAN TO GET THE CBD UP AND RUNNING. THE THREAT HAS BEEN REMOVED. FIFA WORLD CUP EVENTS ARE GOING TO GO AHEAD? THEY ARE. THE MINISTERS HERE THIS MORNING IF YOU HAVE FURTHER QUESTIONS. WE HAVE BEEN IN REGULAR CONTACT WITH FIFA. THEY ARE PROCEEDING AS PLANNED. THERE WILL BE AN INCREASED LEASE PRESENCE AROUND AUCKLAND TO PROVIDE ASSURANCE. THE POLICE HAVE INDICATED THEY DON'T THINK THERE IS AN ONGOING SAFETY RISK. TO YOU HAVE ANY CONVERSATIONS WITH ANY WORLD LEADERS ABOUT TEAMS HERE, CONCERNS THAT TEAMS OR PLAYERS MAY NOT WANT TO STAY? I MIGHT ASK THE MINISTER OF SPORT TO COMMENT ON CONVERSATIONS WITH THE FIFA ORGANISERS. AT THIS POINT, I HAVE NOT HAD COMMUNICATIONS FROM OTHERS. THINK YOU. I HAVE SPOKEN THIS MORNING TO THE PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY-GENERAL OF FIFA. THEY HAVE PASSED ON THEIR CONDOLENCES TO ALL THOSE IMPACTED BY THE INCIDENT THIS MORNING AND TO ALL NEW ZEALANDERS. THE PRIME MINISTER HAS ORALLY SAID THE TOURNAMENT WILL GO ON. TONIGHT'S GAME WILL BE PLAYED. THE FIFA ORGANISERS AND POLICE ARE ALREADY EMBEDDED WITHIN THE FIFA ORGANISATION STRUCTURE AS PART OF THE NORMAL ORGANISATION OF THE TOURNAMENT. THERE IS VERY CLOSE COOPERATION THERE. THERE ARE A NUMBER OF TEAMS WHO WERE STAYING IN THE IMMEDIATE AREA. THEY ARE ALL SAFE AND SOUND. AS THE COURT AND MOVES IN, THEY WILL GO ABOUT THEIR NORMAL BUSINESS OF TODAY FOR THEM. FOR SOME OF THEM, THAT INVOLVES PLAYING THIS EVENING. FOR OTHERS, THAT INVOLVES MOVING TO OTHER LOCATIONS IN NEW ZEALAND TO PLAY THEIR GAMES. THEY WILL, IN THE COURSE OF THE NEXT FEW HOURS, DO WHAT THEY WERE ALWAYS GOING TO DO, GO TO TRAINING, GO TO PLAY. HOW MANY TEAMS WERE IN THE COURT AND IMPACTED? ONE TEAM WAS IN A HOTEL IMMEDIATELY AROUND THE CORNER FROM THE BUILDING. IT IS DOWNTOWN AUCKLAND; PRETTY MUCH ALL OF THE HOTELS HAVE PEOPLE ASSOCIATED WITH THE TOURNAMENT. WHICH? I'M NOT GOING TO GO INTO THAT. THE GENERAL AREA THAT HAS BEEN EVACUATED. OPEN A SCHEDULED? THAT IS UP TO THE POLICE AS THEY REDUCE THE COURT IN. SOME OTHER PEOPLE INVOLVED IN THE ORGANISATION FOR THE TOURNAMENT. ONCE THE POLICE MOVED TO REDUCE THE GORDON, THEY WILL RETURN. DO YOU HAVE ANY DETAIL ABOUT THE CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE INJURED? I DO NOT HAVE FURTHER DETAIL OTHER THAN WHAT THE AMBULANCE TEAMS ARE PROVIDED SO FAR TOPICALLY. IMAGES OF ONE POLICE OFFICER WITH INJURIES TO THE FACE. DO YOU HAVE ANY MORE DETAILS ABOUT HOW MANY OF THOSE SIX ARE INJURED POLICE OFFICERS? NOT THAT I HAVE CONFIRMED. THE POLICE COMMISSIONER, AS I HAVE INDICATED, WAS RELOCATING TO AUCKLAND. WE WILL BE DOING AN UPDATE LATER IN THE MORNING. WE NEED TO PROVIDE MORE DETAIL. INJURED OR MODERATELY INJURED? THAT IS WHAT I HAVE SEEN FROM THE STATEMENTS THAT HAVE BEEN ISSUED BY THE AMBULANCE STAFF. I HAVEN'T GOT ANYTHING TO ADD TO THE STATEMENT THAT THEY HAVE MADE. WILL YOU BE ATTENDING TODAY'S GAME? I WILL KEEP IT UNDER REVIEW, DEPENDING ON HOW THE SITUATION UNFOLDS. GIVEN EVERYTHING THAT WE KNOW SO FAR, IS THERE ANY WAY THIS COULD HAVE BEEN PRINTED? WE DON'T HAVE ANY INFORMATION ON THAT AT THIS POINT. DID YOU KNOW WHETHER OR NOT TO DECEASED WERE CONSTRUCTION WORKERS OR PEOPLE GOING TO WORK IN THE CBD? I DON'T HAVE ANY INFORMATION ON THAT AT THIS POINT. WHAT INFORMATION DO YOU HAVE ABOUT THE SHOOTER? DO YOU KNOW WHETHER THIS INCIDENT HAS ANY CONNECTION TO THE COMPANY? THERE IS NO NATIONAL SECURITY FACTOR THAT HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED HERE. I AM NOT IN A POSITION TO SHARE INFORMATION ABOUT THE SHOOTER. POLICE WILL CONFIRM INFORMATION LATER THIS MORNING, BUT IT IS A MATTER FOR POLICE, BECAUSE IT IS AN ACTIVE POLICE INVESTIGATION. HAVE THE LOVED ONES AND FAMILY OF THE DECEASED BEEN INFORMED? WAS THERE ANY DELAY IN POLICE GETTING THERE? THE EAGLE HELICOPTER WAS IMMEDIATELY DISPATCHED, EN ROUTE WITHIN THREE MINUTES OF THE CALL. THE POLICE ARRIVED ON THE GROUND WITHIN 11 MINUTES, THE ARMED OFFENDERS SQUAD FOUR MINUTES LATER. ON ARRIVING, THE POLICE FIRST ON THE SEEN HEARD GUNSHOTS AS THEY ARRIVED. I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE BRAVERY OF THE NEW ZEALAND POLICE WHO WALKED DIRECTLY INTO THAT. HAVE YOU MADE ANY PHONE CALLS THIS MORNING, OR HAVE YOU LEFT THAT TO THE HIGH COMMISSIONER LEVEL, TO LIAISE AND REASSURE OTHER COUNTRIES WITH TEAMS HERE? THE WHOLE NEW ZEALAND DIPLOMATIC APPARATUS WILL SHARE INFORMATION AS WE CAN CONFIRM IT, INCLUDING WITH OTHERS AROUND THE WORLD, THE FACT THAT WE HAVEN'T IDENTIFIED A POLITICAL OR IDEOLOGICAL MOTIVATION HERE. THERE HAS BEEN DEBATE ABOUT THE LOCATION OF THE SPECIALIST SERVICE. GIVEN IT WAS IN THE CBD, AND ABLE TO GET THERE QUICKER, DOES THIS MAKE YOU AND THE POLICE MINISTER RETHINK ALLOCATION OF RESOURCES? IT IS TOO EARLY TO EVEN SPECULATE ON THOSE SORTS OF THINGS. THIS IS A HORRIFIC INCIDENT TODAY, A WORLD STAGE DAY FOR US. CAN YOU GIVE US A RUNTHROUGH OF YOUR REACTION WHEN YOU HEARD ABOUT THIS? I WAS AT THE AIRPORT, HEADING TO HAMILTON TO MAKE AN ANNOUNCEMENT, WHICH MY COLLEAGUES ARE NOW DOING. THE FIRST REPORTS ARRIVED NOT LONG AFTER I ARRIVED AT THE AIRPORT. TRIED TO CONFIRM AS MUCH INFORMATION AS I COULD, MADE THE DECISION TO COME BACK HERE TO THE BEEHIVE, SO I COULD GET A DETAILED BRIEFING FROM POLICE. OBVIOUSLY MY FIRST INITIAL REACTION WAS CONCERN FOR ANYBODY WHO WAS AT RISK. I KNOW FROM MY WORK WITH THEM AS MINISTER OF POLICE, THAT WHEN THESE THINGS HAPPEN, THE ENTIRE BLUE WHANAU FEEL THIS. ANY INCIDENT LIKE THIS, WHERE POLICE ARE IN HARMS WAY, WHERE POLICE MAY HAVE BEEN INJURED, OBVIOUSLY THAT IS A HUGE CONCERN, AND SOMETHING I THINK ALL NEW ZEALANDERS WILL FEEL. WE RELY ON OUR POLICE, FRONTLINE POLICE, TO PUT THEMSELVES IN HARM'S WAY. AND WHEN AN INCIDENT LIKE THIS HAPPENS, WE WILL ALL FEEL THAT, AND WE WILL ALL SEND OUR LOVE AND SUPPORT TO THE NEW ZEALAND POLICE, WHO ARE DOING AN AMAZING JOB. PRIME MINISTER CHRIS HIPKINS, TALKING ABOUT THAT UNFOLDING INCIDENT WITH A SHOOT AT A CONSTRUCTION SITE IN CENTRAL AUCKLAND. A PRESS RELEASE BY THE CONSTRUCTION FIRM. OUR THOUGHTS ARE WITH THE FAMILIES OF THE VICTIMS, AND WE ARE SUPPORTING OUR TEAMS WORKING ON THE SITE. THE SITUATION IS WITH POLICE, AND WE ARE ASSISTING EMERGENCY SERVICES AS REQUIRED. - ALL: Hooray! - Hip hip! - Hooray! - Happy birthday, mate. - It's your bowel screening test. I've done mine. - WOMEN: Me too! - Uso, you've got this! # Pull the stick from the test. # Put it in the poo. Just follow the pictures... - Koro. You can 'poo' it! - # Put it in the pottle. Put on the date. # Don't delay or procrastinate. (ALL CHEER) # Early detection can save the day. # WELCOME BACK TO THIS 1 NEWS SPECIAL. THE PRIME MINISTER HAS JUST SPOKEN. HERE'S WHAT WE KNOW. A WITNESS CALLED POLICE TO REPORT A MAN SHOOTING A GUN AT 7.23 THIS MORNING. POLICE WERE ON THE SCENE AT 7.34. TWO PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KILLED. POLICE HAVE CONFIRMED THE SHOOTER IS ALSO DECEASED. SIX OTHERS ARE INJURED, INCLUDING POLICE OFFICERS. NOBODY ELSE IS BEING SOUGHT IN RELATION TO THE INCIDENT, AND THERE IS NO WIDER NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT. THE PRIME MINISTER SAYS NOW THAT THE THREAT HAS BEEN REMOVED. POLICE ARE LOOKING TO REMOVE CORDONS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. WE ALSO HEARD THERE IS AN UNDERSTANDING THAT THIS SHOOTER WAS NOT POLITICALLY OR IDEOLOGICAL OR MOTIVATED. HENCE THE THREAT LEVEL SAYING THE SAME. THERE IS NO CHANGE TO THAT. SOMETHING TO CONSIDER, GIVEN THAT TODAY IS THE OPENING DAY OF THE FIFA WOMEN'S WORLD CUP. OUR CREWS HAVE BEEN IN CENTRAL AUCKLAND. WE SPOKE TO SOMEONE WHO WAS IN THE BUILDING AT THE TIME OF THE SHOOTING. HE SAID THERE WERE HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE ON SITE AT THE TIME. MIC WAS IN FLOOR 3. THIS WAS HIS EXPERIENCE. SO, WE WERE SITTING THERE. WE HEARD A GUNSHOT. TWO OF OUR GUYS CAME RUNNING BACK IN SAYING THEY HAD A GUN. THEN WE PROCEEDED TO HEAR ANOTHER FOUR GUNSHOTS JUST A FEW METRES AWAY FROM US. AND THEN WE BASICALLY BARRICADED THE DOOR TO THE OFFICE WE WERE SITTING IN AND JUST STARTED HIDING UNDER DESKS, WHERE A LOT OF THE COMPANIES THAT ARE WORKING ON THE BUILDING HAVE THEIR SITE OFFICES, SO THERE ARE QUITE A FEW PEOPLE THERE JUST SORT OF PLANNING THEIR DAY, WHEN HE CAME UP AND JUST STARTED SHOOTING. I DID SEE HIM. ,SO WHEN WE TRY TO RUN OUT OF THE OFFICE AFTER ABOUT 10 MINUTES, IT WENT SILENT, AND WE TRY TO RUN OUT. AND HE WAS STILL JUST STANDING IN THE STAIRCASE HOLDING WHAT LOOKED LIKE TO BE A SHOTGUN. WE SAW HIM, AND THEN EVERYONE JUST BASICALLY SCATTERED, TE ANIWA IS STANDING BY IN DOWNTOWN AUCKLAND WITH AN UPDATE. KIA ORA. I AM HERE ON QUAY ST, WHERE TRAFFIC IS STILL AT A STANDSTILL. I WILL SHOW YOU WHAT IS GOING ON. THESE BUSES HAVE BEEN BACK-TO-BACK SINCE 8 O'CLOCK. MORE THAN TWO HOURS. THERE ARE COMMUTERS ALONG HERE WAITING TO GET HOME, TO WORK. WE SPOKE TO A WOMAN WHO WAS IN ONE OF THESE FRONT CARS HERE WHEN THE GUNSHOTS WENT OFF. POLICE CAME RUNNING OVER TO CARS AND BUSES, TOLD THEM TO STOP, TO GET OUT OF THEIR CARS AND FIND SHELTER. NEXT TO THESE BUILDINGS HERE TO MY RIGHT. IT WAS A CHAOTIC STRESSFUL SITUATION FOR COMMUTERS. THERE ARE STILL STREETS IN THE CBD CLOSED, AND BUSES ARE BEING DETOURED. WE HAVE AN UPDATE FROM AUCKLAND TRANSPORT. TRAIN SERVICES ARE OPERATING TO BRITOMART, BUT PASSENGERS WILL NEED TO ENTER AND EXIT THE STATION THROUGH THE EAST EXIT. FERRY SERVICES HAVE RESUMED. THAT WILL BE A HUGE RELIEF TO MANY PEOPLE TRYING TO GET HOME TO WAIHEKE ISLAND. ONE WOMAN WAS WAITING FOR OVER TWO HOURS. SHE WAS WAITING FOR INFORMATION ABOUT WHEN YOU GET HOME. A LOT OF UNCERTAINTY FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE INADVERTENTLY FOUND THEMSELVES CAUGHT UP. WE HAVE JUST HAD NEWS FROM OTHER CREWS ON THE SCENE. UNCONFIRMED INFORMATION. WE UNDERSTAND FOUR PEOPLE DIED IN THE INCIDENT. WERE NOT SURE IF THAT INCLUDES THE SHOOTER. WE UNDERSTAND THREE PEOPLE HAVE DIED INCLUDING THE SHOOTER. THE UPDATED NUMBER IS FOUR PEOPLE HAVE DIED, AND SIX PATIENTS, INCLUDING SOMEONE WITH A SERIOUS INJURY TO THEIR JAW. PRIME MINISTER CHRIS HIPKINS SPOKE JUST MOMENTS AGO FROM PARLIAMENT. HERE'S WHAT HE TOLD US. JA THIS MORNING AT 7:23 AM, A WITNESS CALLED POLICE TO REPORT A MAN SHOOTING AT A BUILDING ON LOWER QUEEN STREET. AT 7:34 AM POLICE ARRIVED ON THE SCENE, AND THE ARMED OFFENDERS SQUAD ARRIVED THERE FOUR MINUTES LATER. IT IS WITH DEEP SORROW THAT I CAN CONFIRM THAT TWO PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KILLED. AT THIS STAGE, I AM AWARE THAT SIX OTHERS HAVE BEEN INJURED, INCLUDING POLICE. THEY HAVE BEEN TAKEN TO AUCKLAND HOSPITAL. POLICE HAVE ALSO CONFIRMED THAT THE SHOOTER IS ALSO DEAD. THE ASSESSMENT FROM OFFICIALS AS THERE IS NO NATIONAL SECURITY RISK. THERE IS NO CHANGE TO NEW ZEALAND'S NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT LEVEL. THIS IS THE INFORMATION THAT WE ARE ABLE TO SHARE SO FAR. THE OFFENDER WAS ARMED WITH A PUMP ACTION SHOTGUN. HE MOVED THROUGH THE BUILDING SITE, DISCHARGING A FIREARM AS HE WENT. UPON REACHING THE UPPER LEVELS, THE MAN CONTAINED HIMSELF IN AN ELEVATOR. SHOTS WERE FIRED, AND HE WAS LOCATED A SHORT TIME LATER. CHRISTOPHER LUXON SAYS HIS THOUGHTS ARE WITH THE FAMILIES AND LOVED ONES OF THOSE KILLED AND INJURED AND ALL THOSE AFFECTED BY THIS TRAGEDY. HE ACKNOWLEDGED THE BRAVERY OF POLICE AND FIRST RESPONDERS FOR THEIR COMMITMENT ON THE FRONT LINE. WE MUST DO WHAT KIWIS DO BEST ` COME TOGETHER AND SUPPORT PEOPLE AFFECTED IN THIS TERRIBLE INCIDENT. CHRIS CHANG AND JENNY MAY CLARKSON WERE AT THE CLOUD, AS THIS UNFOLDED. WHAT IS THE SITUATION WHERE YOU TWO ARE NOW? MORENA, AS WE HAVE SEEN AMBULANCES ARE HEADING DOWN TO THE SCENE. THIS IS THE SCENE BEHIND US HERE, ON THE CORNER OF COMMERCE AND QUAY ST, ON THE WATERFRONT. A COUPLE OF MINUTES EARLIER, WE SAW CONSTRUCTION WORKERS GET INTO THE BACK OF A POLICE VEHICLE AND DRIVEN OFF. THERE HAS BEEN A FAIR BIT OF MOVEMENT HERE, BUT THE MAJORITY OF THE PUBLIC HAVE LEFT. TRAFFIC IS OBVIOUSLY STILL GRIDLOCKED. WITH THE CORDON AROUND MOST OF DOWNTOWN. AND THE LAST REMNANTS, WHAT WE BELIEVE IS THE VIETNAM FOOTBALL TEAM THE FOOTBALLERS FRONT OF MIND. EDEN PARK HAS RELEASED A STATEMENT ABOUT THE OPENING CEREMONY AND THE OPENING GAME AT SEVEN O'CLOCK. EDEN PARK HAS BEEN WORKING WITH ALL RELEVANT AGENCIES REGARDING THIS MORNING'S INCIDENT. AND THE IMPACT ON SERVICES AND STAFFING. GATES WILL STILL OPEN FROM 4:30 PM. WE ENCOURAGE TICKETHOLDERS TO ARRIVE EARLY AND ENJOY THE OPENING CEREMONY. FREE PUBLIC TRANSPORT IS INCLUDED WITH TICKETS. BUS AND TRAIN LINES WILL BE OPERATIONAL. THERE WILL BE AN INCREASED SECURITY PRESENCE WITHIN THE PRECINCT AND ACROSS THE VENUE. ADDITIONAL TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT MEASURES ARE IN PLACE. THINGS ARE GOING AHEAD AS NORMAL. THERE IS A BIT OF MOVEMENT. WE SAW TWO AMBULANCES WENT DOWN TO THE SCENE. POLICE HAVE SET UP DOWN THERE. WE SAW THE AMBULANCE BACK IN. WHEN NOT 100% SURE WHAT IS GOING ON DOWN HERE, BUT WHAT WE KNOW AS EVERYONE ELSE AROUND HERE, THERE WERE A NUMBER OF CONSTRUCTION WORKERS, THEY WERE BEWILDERED, NOT SURE WHAT TO DO, WHERE TO GO, WHAT WAS HAPPENING NEXT. WE SOUGHT TO CONSTRUCTION WORKERS GETTING BACK OF A POLICE VEHICLE AND DRIVEN AWAY. AT THIS STAGE, EVERYTHING IS LOCKED OFF DOWN HERE IN CENTRAL AUCKLAND, AS WE CONTINUE TO GET THOSE UPDATES ABOUT THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE IMPACTED BY THIS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FROM DOWN ON AUCKLAND QUAY STREET, AT THE COURT IN, WHERE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN PUSHED BACK TO AS EVENTS HAVE UNFOLDED OVER THE COURSE OF THIS MORNING. THOSE UPDATES COMING THROUGH FROM FOOTBALL TEAMS, FIFA, EDEN PARK. THE GAME IS GOING AHEAD. IMPORTANT TO KNOW THAT YOU CAN EXPECT INCREASED SECURITY AND POLICE PRESENCE AT THE GAME TONIGHT. THEY WERE EXPECTING 40,000 ATTENDING THE GAME BETWEEN NORWAY AND NEW ZEALAND. BOTH TEAMS HAVE SAID THEY ARE COMFORTABLE WITH SECURITY ARRANGEMENTS AND ARE HAPPY FOR THE GAME TO PROCEED NORWAY'S TEAM STAYING 100 M DOWN THE ROAD. THEY WERE ALERTED BY POLICE HELICOPTER, BUT WERE REASSURED BY THE SECURITY TEAM WHO STAYED WITH THEM. THE ARRANGEMENT THAT FIFA HAS IN PLACE. AUCKLAND HAS DETAIL AROUND TOWN AND PROCESSES IN PLACE WITH THE EVENT WE CONTINUE TO FOLLOW COVERAGE OF THIS BREAKING STORY IN DOWNTOWN AUCKLAND TODAY. HERE IS A MAP OF WHERE THE INCIDENT OCCURRED. QUAY STREET, A BUSY PART OF AUCKLAND FOR COMMUTING TO THE CENTRAL CITY TODAY. LOWER ALBERT STREET, QUEEN STREET, COMMERCE STREET ALL BLOCKED OFF AT THE MOMENT. POLICE CONTINUE TO RESPOND TO THIS INCIDENT, EVEN THOUGH IT IS CONTAINED IN CONTROLLED FOR NOW. IN LAYMAN'S TERMS, IT IS OVER, EXCEPT IT IS A CRIME SCENE, BECAUSE AT LEAST TWO PEOPLE ARE OFFICIALLY CONFIRMED DEAD. . THE SHOOTER IS ALSO DEAD BARBARA DREAVER HAS BEEN NEAR THE SCENE IN DOWNTOWN AUCKLAND FROM EARLY THIS MORNING. BARB, WHAT CAN YOU TELL US? YOU ARE RIGHT; POLICE ARE DESCRIBING IT AS A CRIME SCENE. THEY ARE STILL ARMED AND KEEPING EVERYONE FROM ENTERING THIS AREA. THE ROADS ARE BLOCKED OFF. ABOUT 10 MINUTES AGO, SOME OF THE MEN THAT WERE ON TOP OF THE BUILDING, WHO HAD BEEN EVACUATED OFF. THEY HAD BEEN UP THERE FOR A FEW HOURS. THEY HAVE BEEN TAKEN BY POLICE IN A CAR. I ASKED IF THEY WERE OK, AND THEY SAID THEY WERE, BUT THEY WERE COLD, AS YOU CAN IMAGINE. THREE CARS OF DETECTIVES HAVE GONE INTO THE ORDONC THEY WILL BE GOING THROUGH THE CRIME SCENE. THEY HAVE THREE DEAD THERE ARE UNCONFIRMED REPORTS OF FOURTH PERSON HAD DIED. SIX INJURED, INCLUDING A POLICE OFFICER. ONE PERSON HAS BEEN SHOT IN THE JAW IN THE RIBS. STILL WAITING TO HEAR MORE INFORMATION ON THIS, BUT AS THE DAY GOES ON. JUST TO CONFIRM, BECAUSE WE HAVE SHOWN SOME FOOTAGE OF WHAT YOUR CAMERAMAN FILMED OF THE WORKERS WHO WERE ON THE ROOFTOP, WE COULD SEE THOSE WORKERS UP THERE FOR HOURS, JUST LOOKING BEHIND YOU, IT LOOKS LIKE IT MIGHT HAVE RAINED, IT HAS BEEN QUITE COLD. THIS MUST HAVE BEEN A TERRIFYING EXPERIENCE FOR THEM, AS THIS UNFOLDED. THE POLICE ALSO CONFIRMED IT OCCURRED OVER MULTIPLE FLOORS, AS THE GUNMEN MOVED THROUGH THE BUILDING. THAT IS RIGHT. WE COULD SEE PEOPLE INSIDE THE BUILDING. WE WERE OUTSIDE OF THE BUILDING, DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF IT IS THAT ALL UNFOLDED. WE COULD SEE PEOPLE SHELTERING INSIDE AROUND THE 15TH FLOOR, HIDING WORKERS BEHIND PILLARS, TRYING TO SAVE. SOME OF THEM HAD THEIR ARMS AROUND EACH OTHER, HUDDLING. ONE CAN ONLY IMAGINE HOW TERRIFYING IT WAS. WE HEARD THE GUNSHOTS. IT WAS ALL GOING OFF. IT WAS QUITE SUDDEN. EVERYONE RACED. WE SAW POLICE RACING INTO THE BUILDING. AND AROUND IT. WE SAW THAT POLICE OFFICER BEING ESCORTED OUT, INJURED AND INTO THE AMBULANCE. ANOTHER OF OUR REPORTERS SAW ANOTHER PERSON BEING TREATED ON THE GROUND, NEAR THE CENTRE, SURROUNDED BY COLLEAGUES. HE HAS BEEN TREATED BY AMBULANCE. THERE WERE POLICE THERE AS WELL. THIS HAS BEEN A MAJOR EVENT. THE DETAILS OF WHICH WILL BE COMING OUT IN THE NEXT FEW HOURS. WE ARE LOOKING AT SOME OF THE FOOTAGE NOW OF THE POLICE OFFICER BEING TAKEN TO THE AMBULANCE. IT IS AMAZING IN HINDSIGHT THAT YOU REALISE THE INCIDENT COULD HAVE BEEN STILL UNFOLDING AT THAT POINT. WE SEE THE OFFICERS USING THEIR GUNS AND THEIR SITES TO AIM BACK UP AT THE BUILDING. THEY ARE USING THEMSELVES AS A SHIELD. WE WILL DISCUSS IN THE COMING DAYS THE BRAVERY OF THOSE POLICE. I'M GOING TO INTERRUPT YOU. WE CAN SEE PEOPLE, WORKERS BEING ESCORTED DOWN THE STREET. YOU CAN SEE HOW COLD SOME OF THEM ARE. WE ARE SEEING THEM WALKING DOWN. THEY ARE IN THE NO-GO ZONE, SO THEY ARE BEING ESCORTED OUT. THIS IS SEVERAL HOURS ON NOW. WE ARE STILL SEEING PEOPLE COMING OUT OF THE BUILDING. THAT IS EXACTLY RIGHT. WE RAN DOWN NELSON STREET, JUST AFTER SEVEN. POLICE CARS AND AMBULANCES WERE GOING PAST US. WE WERE IN FRONT OF THE BUILDING WHEN IT ALL ERUPTED. WE HAVE ALREADY SENT PEOPLE BEING STOP FROM COMING INTO THE GORDON. PEOPLE FROM FIFA HAVE BEEN STOPPED FROM COMING INSIDE. THEY ARE DESCRIBING IT AS A CRIME SCENE. JUST TO GO BACK TO A POINT EARLIER, WE SAW THE POLICE TAKING THE OFFICER OUT. THEY WERE STILL SWARMING ALL OVER THE BUILDING TO GO AND AS THIS INCIDENT WAS UNFOLDING TO PROTECT THOSE WORKERS AND THE OTHER PEOPLE ON-SITE. CAN YOU STILL SEE POLICE INSIDE THE BUILDING NOW? THERE ARE POLICE INSIDE THE BUILDING. THERE ARE ALSO PARAMEDICS INSIDE THE BUILDING. I UNDERSTAND THEY ARE STILL HERE. THERE ARE STILL PEOPLE IN THEIR. MOST OF THE WORKERS HAVE BEEN EVACUATED. BARBARA DREVER OUTSIDE THE BUILDING WHERE AN ARMED GUNMEN WENT IN THIS MORNING AT AROUND 7:30 AM. THANK YOU FOR YOUR LATEST UPDATE. WE WILL CONTINUE TO CROSS FOR THE LATEST. RESIDENT KENT HARRISON HAPPENED TO BE FILMING FROM HIS APARTMENT WHEN THE GUN SHOTS WERE FIRED AROUND 8am, THE SOUND ECHOING ACROSS THE SQUARE. (GUNSHOTS ECHO) SOMETHING'S GOING DOWN. IT'S PRETTY MAJOR. THERE'S GUNSHOTS. (GUNSHOTS ECHO) SOMETHING'S GOING DOWN. IT'S PRETTY MAJOR. THERE'S GUNSHOTS. A TERRIFYING SITUATION FOR THOSE AROUND THE BUILDING, BUT EVEN MORE FOR THOSE INSIDE. WE SPOKE TO MICK ON THE THIRD FLOOR. THEY SAW THE SHOOTER, HARDHATS WITH BLOOD ON THEM. THIS WAS A TERRIFYING SITUATION FOR THOSE INVOLVED. WE HAVE HAD AN UPDATE FROM THE PRIME MINISTER. HE HAS ANNOUNCED HE IS TRAVELLING TO AUCKLAND TODAY FOLLOWING THIS INCIDENT. HERE'S WHAT HE TOLD REPORTERS FROM THE BEEHIVE THEATRETTE JUST BEFORE 10.30. THIS MORNING AT 7.23am A WITNESS CALLED POLICE TO REPORT A MAN WITH A GUN SHOOTING IN CENTRAL AUCKLAND AT A BUILDING ON LOWER QUEEN STREET. AT 7.34am POLICE ARRIVED ON THE SCENE, AND THE ARMED OFFENDERS SQUAD ARRIVED THERE FOUR MINUTES LATER. IT'S WITH DEEP SORROW THAT I CAN CONFIRM THAT TWO PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KILLED. AT THIS STAGE, I'M AWARE THAT SIX OTHERS HAVE BEEN INJURED, INCLUDING POLICE. THEY'VE BEEN TAKEN TO AUCKLAND HOSPITAL. POLICE HAVE ALSO CONFIRMED THAT THE SHOOTER IS ALSO DEAD. THE ASSESSMENT FROM OFFICIALS IS THAT THERE IS NO NATIONAL SECURITY RISK. THERE IS NO CHANGE TO NEW ZEALAND'S NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT LEVEL. THIS IS THE INFORMATION THAT WE'RE ABLE TO SHARE SO FAR ` THE OFFENDER WAS ARMED WITH A PUMP-ACTION SHOTGUN. HE MOVED THROUGH THE BUILDING SITE, DISCHARGING THE FIREARM AS HE WENT. UPON REACHING THE UPPER LEVELS OF THE BUILDING, THE MAN CONTAINED HIMSELF IN AN ELEVATOR. SHOTS WERE FIRED, AND HE WAS LOCATED A SHORT TIME LATER. I WANT TO THANK THE BRAVE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE NEW ZEALAND POLICE WHO RAN INTO THE GUNFIRE, STRAIGHT INTO HARM'S WAY, IN ORDER TO SAVE THE LIVES OF OTHERS. THESE KIND OF SITUATIONS MOVE FAST, AND THE ACTIONS OF THOSE WHO RISK THEIR LIVES TO SAVE OTHERS ARE NOTHING SHORT OF HEROIC. I ALSO WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE AMBULANCE FIRST RESPONDERS WHO WERE THERE QUICKLY ON THE SCENE THIS MORNING. THIS IS STILL AN ONGOING POLICE OPERATION, AND I'VE GOT LIMITED FURTHER INFORMATION THAT I CAN PROVIDE AT THIS TIME. POLICE WILL BE PROVIDING FURTHER UPDATES DURING THE DAY. SHORTLY I'LL BE LEAVING TO TRAVEL TO AUCKLAND TO JOIN POLICE COMMISSIONER ANDREW COSTER, WHO IS ALSO ON HIS WAY TO THE SCENE. CLEARLY, WITH THE FIFA WORLD CUP KICKING OFF THIS EVENING, THERE ARE A LOT OF EYES ON AUCKLAND. THE GOVERNMENT HAS SPOKEN TO FIFA ORGANISERS THIS MORNING, AND THE TOURNAMENT WILL PROCEED AS PLANNED. I WANT TO REITERATE THAT THERE IS NO WIDER NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT. THIS APPEARS TO BE THE ACTIONS OF ONE INDIVIDUAL. AUCKLANDERS AND THOSE WATCHING AROUND THE WORLD CAN BE ASSURED THAT THE POLICE HAVE NEUTRALISED THE THREAT, AND THAT THEY ARE NOT SEEKING ANYBODY ELSE IN RELATION TO THE INCIDENT. NEW ZEALANDERS' SAFETY AND THE SAFETY OF OUR VISITORS IS OUR FIRST PRIORITIES. HE IS TRAVELLING TO AUCKLAND BECAUSE TODAY WAS SUPPOSED TO BE, OR STILL IS, THE OPENING DAY OF THE FIFA WOMEN'S WORLD CUP. WE HAVE AN UPDATE FROM EDEN PARK. THE FAN ZONE AND THE GATES ARE ALL STILL OPEN FOR 4:30 PM. GATES AT EDEN PARK WILL BE OPEN. FREE TRANSPORT IS STILL INCLUDED, WITH TICKETS. BUT EXPECT TO SEE AN INCREASED SECURITY PRESENCE, GUARDS AND POLICE ON-SITE. PRIME MINISTER CHRIS HAD CONSIDERED NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT LEVEL HAS NOT CHANGED THIS MORNING AS A RESULT OF THIS INCIDENT. THEY DO NOT BELIEVE THE SHOOTER HAD POLITICAL OR IDEOLOGICAL MOTIVE. WELCOME BACK. WE ARE ON HERE THIS MORNING BECAUSE THEY HAS BEEN A SHOOTING IN CENTRAL AUCKLAND. TO GIVE YOU A BETTER IDEA OF WHERE THIS MORNING'S INCIDENT UNFOLDED, LET'S HAVE A LOOK AT THIS MAP. KNOWN AS 'ONE QUEEN STREET', IT SITS RIGHT ON AUCKLAND'S WATERFRONT NEAR THE FERRY TERMINAL WHICH IS THE OLDER-STYLE TAN COLOURED BUILDING SEEN HERE. IT'S RIGHT ACROSS FROM THE ENTRANCE TO BRITOMART TRAIN STATION TOO. ONE QUEEN STREET HAS BEEN UNDER CONSTRUCTION FOR A WHILE AND 1 NEWS HAS APPROACHED THE OWNERS FOR COMMENT. JACOB JOHNSON IS STANDING BY ON COMMERCE STREET WITH AN UPDATE. JACOB, WHAT IS THE LATEST WITH THE AUCKLAND TRANSPORT DELAYS? THIS IS A MAJOR TRANSPORTATION HUB FOR THE CITY. HUGE DELAYS. HERE IS WHAT WE KNOW. SOME BUS SERVICES ARE CONTINUING TO OPERATE IN THE CITY CENTRE, BUT THERE ARE SIGNIFICANT DIVERSIONS IN PLACE RIGHT ACROSS THE AREA. THE TRAIN SERVICES ARE OPERATING TO BRITOMART. PASSENGERS WILL NEED TO ENTER AND EXIT THE STATION AT THE EASTERN END OF THE STATION. FERRY SERVICES HAVE ALSO RESUMED OPERATING TO THE DOWNTOWN FERRY TERMINAL, WHICH HAS JUST RECENTLY OPENED. PASSENGERS ARE BEING ASKED TO FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS FROM THE POLICE EMERGENCY SERVICES TO NAVIGATE THE CORDON. YOU CAN SEE THE CONSTRUCTION SITE BESIDE ME. WE HAVE WHAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THE FIFA FAN ZONE. IT IS BEING USED BY POLICE TO INTERVIEW WITNESSES. THERE HAVE BEEN CONSTRUCTION WORKERS GOING INTO THE SITE. POLICE ARE USING THAT TO GET A BETTER PICTURE OF WHAT HAPPENED THIS MORNING. IN TERMS OF THE ACTUAL FIFA WOMEN'S WORLD CUP, WHICH IS DUE TO START TONIGHT, ADAM PARKER SAID IT WILL STILL GO AHEAD. THE GATES WILL BE OPEN FROM 4:30 PM. THERE WILL BE AN INCREASED POLICE PRESENCE. IT IS WHAT A BIT OF A DAMPENER ON WHAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A REALLY SPECIAL EVENT FOR NEW ZEALAND. THE BIGGEST WOMEN SPORTING EVENT IN THE WORLD, AND THE BIGGEST SPORTING EVENTS THAT NEW ZEALAND HAS EVER HOSTED. WE'LL KEEP YOU UPDATED. MEDIA WAS SUPPOSED TO BE GOING INTO THE CLUB FOR A WELCOME EVENT AT MIDDAY. AT THIS STAGE, WE HAVE NOT GOT ANY UPDATE. THANK YOU SO MUCH. WE HAVE HAD MULTIPLE INJURIES CONFIRMED. TWO PEOPLE HAVE DIED AS WELL AS THE MALE OFFENDER. THIS HAPPENED AT ABOUT 7:22 AM. THERE IS STILL A LOT OF EMERGENCY SERVICES, POLICE AND AMBULANCE. PARAMEDICS ARE STILL IN THE BUILDING. IT IS BEING TREATED AS A CRIME SCENE. WE HAVE HEARD REPORTS THAT THE NUMBER OF VICTIMS WHO HAD DIED, ALTHOUGH PEOPLE WHO DIED INCLUDING THE SHOOTER IS AT FOUR. THAT IS FREE VICTIMS AND THE SHOOTER. SIX PEOPLE HAVE BEEN INJURED. THERE WERE HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE ON-SITE AT THE CONSTRUCTION ZONE WHEN IT WAS OPENED THIS MORNING. NAVEEN KUMAR IS A CONSTRUCTION WORKER, ON SITE DURING THE SHOOTINGS EARLIER THIS MORNING. HERE'S WHAT HE TOLD 1 NEWS. I SAW 20 PEOPLE RUSHING OUT OF THE BUILDING. I WAS LIKE, WHAT HAPPENED? THEY SAID THEY SAW A GUY WITH A SHOTGUN IN HIS HAND AND HE WAS AIMING FOR PEOPLE. I DO NOT KNOW EXACTLY WHAT HE MEANT. THEY SAY HE WENT TO THE THIRD-FLOOR OF THE BUILDING WHETHER CONSTRUCTION COMPANIES OFFICE WAS. WE WERE REALLY SCARED FOR OUR LIVES. WE DID NOT WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN. WHEN I SAW PEOPLE RUSHING OUT, SAYING THE PERSON HAS A SHOTGUN, THE FIRST THING I DID WAS GET MY HELMET. IT WILL SOUND SILLY, BECAUSE IT WILL NOT DO ANYTHING. IT IS NOT A BULLET-PROOF HELMET. WE WERE REALLY REALLY SCARED. MY VEHICLE IS STILL AT THE SITE, AND EVERYTHING IS IN IT. UNTIL WE GET IT, WE CANNOT GO ON. WE JUST NEED TO WAIT. A TERRIFYING SITUATION FOR THOSE INVOLVED. WE WILL CONTINUE TO HEAR FROM THOSE WHO ARE PRIVY TO WHAT UNFOLDED THIS WELCOME BACK. WELCOME BACK AS WE COVER THE EVENTS IN AUCKLAND'S CBD, LET'S GO THROUGH WHAT WE KNOW. A WITNESS CALLED POLICE TO REPORT A MAN SHOOTING A GUN AT 7.23 THIS MORNING. POLICE WERE ON THE SCENE AT 7.34 WITH AOS SQUADS FOLLOWING NOT LONG AFTER. TWO PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KILLED. POLICE HAVE CONFIRMED THE SHOOTER IS ALSO DECEASED. SIX OTHERS ARE INJURED, INCLUDING POLICE OFFICERS. NOBODY ELSE IS BEING SOUGHT IN RELATION TO THE INCIDENT, AND THERE IS NO WIDER SECURITY RISK, AND NO CHANGES TO OUR NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT LEVEL. THE PRIME MINISTER SAYS IT IS STILL AN ONGOING POLICE OPERATION. THE PREMISES SAID THERE WERE NO KNOWN IDEOLOGICAL MOTIVATIONS. BUT NOW THAT THE THREAT HAS BEEN REMOVED, POLICE ARE LOOKING TO REMOVE CORDONS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. WE SPOKE TO SOMEONE WHO WAS IN THE BUILDING AT THE TIME OF THE SHOOTING. HE SAID THERE WERE HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE ON SITE AT THE TIME. MIC WAS IN FLOOR 3. THIS WAS HIS EXPERIENCE. SO, WE WERE SITTING THERE. WE HEARD A GUNSHOT. TWO OF OUR GUYS CAME RUNNING BACK IN SAYING THEY HAD A GUN. THEN WE PROCEEDED TO HEAR ANOTHER FOUR GUNSHOTS JUST A FEW METRES AWAY FROM US. AND THEN WE BASICALLY BARRICADED THE DOOR TO THE OFFICE WE WERE SITTING IN AND JUST STARTED HIDING UNDER DESKS, WHERE A LOT OF THE COMPANIES THAT ARE WORKING ON THE BUILDING HAVE THEIR SITE OFFICES, SO THERE ARE QUITE A FEW PEOPLE THERE JUST SORT OF PLANNING THEIR DAY, WHEN HE CAME UP AND JUST STARTED SHOOTING. I DID SEE HIM. SO WHEN WE TRY TO RUN OUT OF THE IT WENT SILENT, AND WE TRY TO RUN OUT. AND HE WAS STILL JUST STANDING IN THE STAIRCASE HOLDING WHAT LOOKED LIKE TO BE A SHOTGUN. WE SAW HIM, AND THEN EVERYONE JUST BASICALLY SCATTERED, AND WE JUST STARTED TRYING TO FIND PLACES TO HIDE. A PRETTY HORRIBLE SITUATION FOR THOSE INVOLVED. AN EYE WITNESS TO THIS MORNING'S CHAOS HAS DESCRIBED THE UNFOLDING EVENTS AS HARROWING. HE WAS ON HIS WAY TO DROP HIS CHILD TO DAY CARE. YEAH, IT WAS PRETTY HARROWING WALKING DOWN, LIKE, JUST THINKING IT'S ANY OTHER DAY TO KINDY CARE, MY KID'S NURSERY, AND THEN EVERYTHING WAS JUST SHUT DOWN. THERE WERE POLICE EVERYWHERE. DIDN'T REALLY KNOW WHAT WAS GOING ON. AND THEN WHEN WE GOT INSIDE, WE WERE TOLD IT WAS A LOCKDOWN, SO WE HAD TO STAY INSIDE, AND THEY MOVED US UP ONTO A LEVEL AND MADE SURE THE AREA WAS SECURED AND TURNED OFF ALL THE LIGHTS. THEY WALKED US IN. THEY USHERED US UP IN TO A LIFT, AND THEY TOOK US UP TO ONE FLOOR, AND THAT FLOOR IS WHERE THE OLDER KIDS USUALLY STAY. AND WE JUST HAD TO STAY IN THERE. AND WE HAD TO SIT DOWN, AND ALL THE KIDS WERE QUITE... IT'S QUITE TENSE, QUITE SCARY. I'VE NEVER BEEN IN ANYTHING LIKE THAT BEFORE. IT'S NOT SOMETHING YOU WANNA EXPERIENCE ON A DAY-TO-DAY BASIS. SO, YEAH, YEAH. SO WHAT'S HAPPENING NOW? THEY LET EVERYBODY OUT? OR WHAT'S WHAT'S HAPPENING? FROM WHAT I KNOW IS THEY'VE GOT SOME FOOD FOR THE KIDS, AND THEY'VE OPENED UP TWO ROOMS, AND ALL THE TEACHERS AND THE PARENTS HAVE MOVED INTO THAT ROOM. AND ANY OTHER PARENTS WERE TOLD EITHER TO GO HOME OR IF YOU LIVE IN THE CITY JUST TO MAKE YOUR WAY BACK HOME. THIS IS OBVIOUSLY AN UNFOLDING CRIME SCENE, AS POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING THE EVENTS THAT UNFOLDED THIS MORNING. THE FANS OWN ACROSS THE ROAD ON QUAY STREET IS BEING USED TO INTERVIEW HUNDREDS OF WORKERS WHO WITNESSED WHAT HAPPENED. THE PRIME MINISTER IS TRAVELLING TO AUCKLAND AT MIDDAY TODAY. HE WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY THE POLICE MINISTER AND SPORTS MINISTER. WE CAN EXPECT ANOTHER UPDATE FROM THE PREMISES OFFICE LATER THIS AFTERNOON. WE GO LIVE TO JOHN CAMPBELL NOW WHO IS IN CENTRAL AUCKLAND. YOU ARE DOING A GREAT JOB, I AM HERE WITH HAYLEY THE CAMERA PERSON WHO HAS BEEN HE HASN'T EARLY THIS MORNING. WE ARE ON QUAY STREET AND COMMERCE STREET WHICH IS AS CLOSE TO THE BUILDING AS WE CAN GET. YOU CAN SEE THE CRIME SCENE BEHIND US. WE WON'T SAY ANYTHING WE DON'T KNOW. WE CAN ONLY CONFIRM WHAT THE PRIME MINISTER HAS CONFIRMED. THREE ARE DEAD INCLUDING THE GUNMEN HIMSELF. THERE IS STILL A REASONABLE AMOUNT EVOKED OF ANY. BUT WHEN I FIRST ARRIVED THIS MORNING, IT WAS NEUTRALISED. THERE IS A REAL SENSE THAT IT IS OVER, AS AN ONGOING SCENE, BUT THE BUILDING IS BEING SEARCHED. I SPOKE TO WITNESSES WHO ARE COMING OUT THIS MORNING. THEY DESCRIBED A REALLY TERRIFYING EXPERIENCE. ONE DID NOT KNOW WHAT WAS HAPPENING, TWO, HEARING SHOTS, THREE, NOT KNOWING WHERE TO GO, FOR, NEEDING TO GET OUT. THIS IS THE PROBLEM WITH THIS HAPPENING IN OUR LARGEST CITY, FERRY PASSENGERS TRYING TO GET TO WAIHEKE ISLAND. THEY ARE NOT BEING ALLOWED THROUGH. OUR POLICE IS DOING COURTING CONTROL, *CORDON CONTROL. THE FIREARMS ARE NO LONGER REQUIRED, BUT THESE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN HE IS AND IS THIS ALL BEGAN. PEOPLE ARE BEING VERY REASONABLE AND CIVILISED, AND WAITING FOR THE CORDONS TO BE LIFTED. THERE IS NO SIGN YET AS TO WHEN THAT WILL BE. IT LOOKS LIKE AS POLICE ARE STILL AT THE SCENE, WORKING OUT JUST WHAT HAPPENS, AND WHERE TO GO FROM HERE, IT WILL TAKE SOME TIME. AND IT WILL HAVE AN IMPACT ON A BUSY COMMUTER ROUTE. HOW FAR BACK TO THAT LINE OF TRAFFIC GO? IT WAS LONG AT ONE POINT, HAVE THEY CLEARED IT? I DON'T WANT THE CAMERA PERSON TO TRIP. WE WILL COME OUT, AND IF YOU CAN LOOK DOWN THERE, BACK ALONG QUAY STREET. FOR THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW AUCKLAND, THAT IS THE WAY TO PARNELL, AND THEN AROUND THE WATERFRONT TO MISSION BAY. THAT TRAFFIC HITS TOWN AND CAN'T GO ANYWHERE. THE AREA THAT IS ACTUALLY BLOCKED OFF IS ONLY NOW TWO LARGE BLOCKS. QUEEN STREET IS OVER THERE, AND THESE ARE TWO BLOCKS BETWEEN US AND QUEEN STREET, AND BEYOND THAT IS BLOCKED OFF. QUEEN STREET IS NOT BLOCKED OFF AT ALL ABOVE THAT, AND I WAS TALKING TO SOME CONSTRUCTION WORKERS BEFORE, AND IF YOU GO TO QUEEN STREET, 200 M UP, IT IS ALMOST NORMAL COMMERCE. THOSE AREAS ARE NOT CORDONED OFF, SO IT IS A SMALL AREA OF THE CENTRAL CITY CORDONED OFF. BUT IT INCLUDES BRITOMART, IT INCLUDES THE FERRY TERMINAL, AND INCLUDES A LOT OF THE STOPS WHERE PEOPLE GET OFF THE BUS, HAVING COME INTO THE CITY. SO THE TRAFFIC IS BACKED UP, BUT ON THE ROADS THAT FEED INTO THE CITY, IT IS QUIET. PEOPLE AREN'T COMING INTO TOWN, WHICH IS GOOD AND SENSIBLE. JOHN CAMPBELL AT THE SCENE WHERE THIS UNFOLDED THIS MORNING. THANK YOU FOR THE UPDATE. WE WILL JUST GIVE YOU AN UPDATE FROM ST JOHN. THEY HAVE SAID THAT MOST OF THE PATIENTS HAVE BEEN TAKEN TO AUCKLAND CITY HOSPITAL. ONE HAS BEEN TRANSPORTED TO MIDDLE MOORE HOSPITAL. THERE WILL BE NO FURTHER UPDATE FOR THE TIME BEING FROM ST JOHN, BUT WE ARE EXPECTING UPDATES AS AFTERNOON. WELCOME BACK. POLICE WERE FIRST CALLED TO THE SCENE IN AUCKLAND'S CBD AT ABOUT 7.30 AFTER REPORTS OF AN ACTIVE SHOOTER. HERE'S ISOBEL PRASAD WITH A RECAP OF THIS MORNING'S INCIDENT. THE HEART OF AUCKLAND CBD NOW AT THE CENTRE OF A SHOOTING. POLICE WERE FIRST CALLED TO A CONSTRUCTION SITE ON KEY STREET AROUND 7:30 AM. A MAN ENTERED THE BUILDING AND BEGAN FIRING. (GUNSHOTS) POLICE, ARMED OFFENDERS SQUAD AND AMBULANCES RUSHED TO THE SITE. THE EAGLE HELICOPTER CIRCLED ABOVE IS NEARBY STREETS WERE CORDONED OFF. CONSTRUCTION WORKERS INSIDE AND ON THE ROOF WERE TAKING COVER AS WELL. SURELY AFTER EIGHT, MORE GUNSHOTS WERE FIRED. A SERIES OF AROUND SIX GUNSHOTS FIRED IN QUICK SUCCESSION. AN OFFICER WHO APPEARED TO BE INJURED, AND SOME OF THE CONSTRUCTION WORKERS WERE SORTED OUT OF THE BUILDING. POLICE CONFIRMED TWO PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KILLED. THE MALE OFFENDER WAS ALSO FOUND DEAD AFTER TAKING COVER AND AN ELEVATOR SHAFT. THIS WITNESSES HE WAS INSIDE THE BUILDING AT THIS TIME. I WAS ON LEVEL 50. CAN YOU DESCRIBE WHAT YOU HEARD? JUST SHOT GOING OFF. ALL OF US JUST BRACED FOR IMPACT. UNREAL. SURREAL. OTHERS NEARBY ALSO WITNESSED THE DRAMA. WE WERE RIGHT AT THE ENTRANCE. I SAW 20 PEOPLE RUSHING OUT OF THE BUILDING. THEY WERE TELLING PEOPLE TO MOVE. THEY SAID WE SAW A GUY WITH A SHOTGUN IN HIS HAND, AND HE WAS AIMING FOR PEOPLE. WE WERE IN THAT CONSTRUCTION SITE, BUT WE CAME OVER. WE SAW ALL OF THE COP CARS AND THE FIREARMS SQUAD. FROM WHERE WE WERE, THERE WERE QUITE A FEW GUNSHOTS. QUITE NERVOUS. A LOT OF PEOPLE WERE HERE AND THERE. THERE WAS SOME SHOOTING GOING ON. EVERYBODY WAS PANICKING. THIS ALL TAKING PLACE AT PEAK COMMUTER TIME. EVERYTHING WAS SHUT DOWN. THERE WERE POLICE EVERYWHERE. DID NOT REALLY KNOW WHAT WAS GOING ON. WE WERE TOLD IT WAS A LOCKDOWN, SO WE HAD TO STAY INSIDE. I WAS ON THE BUS GOING ON, AND GOT MESSAGES FROM MY FRIEND, SAYING ARE YOU GOING INTO THE OFFICE? POLICE ALIENS AND IS NOW UNDER CONTROL, WERE CAUGHT ON THE REMAINING AT THE SCENE AS POLICE CONTINUE THE INVESTIGATION. WE HAVE CREWS ON THE SCENE. TE ANIWA IS STANDING BY IN DOWNTOWN AUCKLAND. MORENA. WHAT'S THE SITUATION THERE NOW? SOME GOOD NEWS. THE THEORIES ARE NOW OPERATING. THIS WENT TO MY RIGHT HAS JUST COME IN. THERE IS A BIT MORE MOVEMENT THAN WE SAW AN HOUR AGO. IT WILL BE A HUGE RELIEF FOR COMMUTERS. WE SPOKE TO A WOMAN ABOUT TWO HOURS AGO WHO WAS WAITING AND WAITING AND WAITING FOR THE FAIRIES TO OPERATE AGAIN. SHE LIVES IN WAIHEKE ISLAND AND SHE STAYED IN THE CBD LAST NIGHT. SHE WAS DESPERATE TO GET HOME AFTER THIS VERY TERRIFYING, VERY CHAOTIC SITUATION THIS MORNING. AS FOR THE REST OF THE CITY, THERE ARE STILL BUSES BEING DETOURED. THEY ARE OPERATED BY GOING ON DIFFERENT ROUTES. THERE ARE A NUMBER OF TREES ALSO CLOSED IN THE CBD. IT IS A PRETTY STRANGE AUCKLAND TO BE IN AT THE MOMENT. I HAVE NOT SEEN SEEMS LIKE THE SIMS LOCKDOWN. APART FROM POLICE AND EMERGENCY SERVICES AND SOME WORKERS HERE AND THERE, IT IS PRETTY MUCH DEAD. THERE ARE EMPTY STREETS. IT IS VERY STRANGE. WE'LL KEEP YOU UPDATED WITH THE LATEST. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. SHE IS RUNNING THROUGH THE INTERRUPTIONS THAT HAVE CAUSED GREAT DELAYS THIS MORNING. THINGS ARE GETTING BACK ON TRACK IN TERMS OF PUBLIC TRANSPORT, BUT WELCOME BACK TO THIS 1 NEWS ESPECIAL AS WE CONTINUE TO COVER THE BREAKING NEWS SITUATION IN DOWNTOWN AUCKLAND. PRIME MINISTER CHRIS HIPKINS SPOKE FROM PARLIAMENT EARLIER THIS MORNING. HERE'S WHAT HE HAD TO SAY. THIS MORNING AT 7:23 AM, A WITNESS CALLED POLICE TO REPORT A GUNMEN IN CENTRAL AUCKLAND AT LOWER QUEEN STREET. AT 7:34 AM, POLICE ARRIVED ON THE SCENE, AND THE ARMED DEFENDERS SQUAD ARRIVED FOUR MINUTES LATER. IT IS WITH DEEP SORROW THAT I CAN CONFIRM TWO PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KILLED. AT THIS STAGE, I AM AWARE THAT SIX OTHERS HAVE BEEN INJURED INCLUDING POLICE. THEY HAVE BEEN TAKEN TO AUCKLAND HOSPITAL. POLICE HAVE ALSO CONFIRMED THAT THE SHOOTER IS ALSO DEAD. THE ASSESSMENT FROM OFFICIALS IS THAT THERE IS NO NATIONAL SECURITY RISK. THERE IS NO CHANGE TO NEW ZEALAND'S NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT LEVEL. THIS IS THE INFORMATION THAT WE ARE ABLE TO SHARE IS OVER. THE DEFENDANT WAS ARMED WITH A PUMP ACTION SHOTGUN. HE MOVED THROUGH THE BUILDING SITE DISCHARGING THE FIREARM AS HE WENT. UPON REACHING THE UPPER LEVELS, HE CONTAINED HIMSELF IN AN ELEVATOR, SHOTS WERE FIRED AND HE WAS LOCATED A SHORT TIME LATER. THAT WAS AN UPDATE FROM CHRIS HIPKINS WHO WAS TRAVELLING TO AUCKLAND THIS AFTERNOON TO MEET WITH POLICE. HE IS TRAVELLING WITH SPORTS MINISTER GRANT ROBERTSON, BECAUSE THIS IS THE OPENING DAY OF THE WOMEN'S WORLD CUP. AZIZ AL SAAFIN IS IN CENTRAL AUCKLAND CLOSE TO THE SCENE. AZIZ, WHAT CAN YOU TELL US. WE GOT HERE A FEW MOMENTS AGO AT AUCKLAND CITY HOSPITAL. AS YOU CAN SEE, THINGS SEEM FAIRLY CALM. THERE ARE NO SIGNS OF POLICE HERE, CONSIDERING WHAT HAS GONE ON THIS MORNING. BUT I HAVE JUST SPOKEN TO ST JOHN, AND THEY ARE CONFIRMED MOST PATIENTS HAD BEEN TAKEN HERE. AT LEAST ONE OTHER WAS TAKEN TO MIDDLE MORE. WE KNOW THAT THREE PEOPLE ARE DEAD, TO CIVILIANS AND THE SHOOTER. AT LEASE X OTHERS ARE INJURED, THREE OF WHOM ARE IN CRITICAL CONDITION. AS WE GET MORE INFORMATION, WE WILL ACTUAL WE BRING IT TO YOU. WE ALSO KNOW THAT ONE OF THOSE INJURED WAS IN FACT A POLICE OFFICER, WE WILL KEEP YOU UPDATED WITH THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS ON THE CONDITION OF THE VICTIMS AS WE HEAR MORE FROM OFFICIALS. WE HEARD FROM A WITNESS, MIC, EARLIER ON. HE WAS IN LEVEL 3 OF THE BUILDING WHEN HE SAW THE ACTIVE SHOOTER. HERE'S WHAT HE SAW. HE CAME UP THROUGH THE MAIN ENTRANCE ON TO LEVEL 3, AND HE STARTED TO SHOOT. SO WE WERE... WE'D GOTTEN TO WORK ABOUT FIVE MINUTES EARLIER, AND WE WERE JUST PLANNING OUR DAY, SITTIN IN THE OFFICE, AND WE JUST HEARD A MASSIVE GUNSHOT. AND THEN ONE OF THE GUYS WALKED OUTSIDE THE OFFICE, AND HE CAME RUNNING BACK IN AND HE SAID SOMEONE'S GOT A GUN OUTSIDE. THEN WE PROCEEDED TO HEAR ANOTHER FOUR GUNSHOTS JUST A FEW METRES AWAY FROM US. AND THEN WE BASICALLY BARRICADED THE DOOR TO THE OFFICE WE WERE SITTING IN AND JUST STARTED HIDING UNDER DESKS AND JUST WAITING. THERE'S ABOUT EIGHT OF US IN THE ROOM, AND WE BASICALLY JUST STARTED THROWING ANYTHING WE COULD AT THE DOOR. IT WAS A LITTLE BIT DAUNTING BECAUSE THE DOOR WAS QUITE FLIMSY, AND IT DID OPEN INWARDS. I THINK IF SOMEONE HAD JUST RIPPED IT OFF, IT WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN TOO HARD. BUT WE SORT OF JUST WAITED, REALLY. IT WAS PRETTY... BEING SORTA YOUNG, YOU DON'T REALLY UNDERSTAND, YOU KNOW, MORALITY SO MUCH. BUT SITTING UNDERNEATH OUR DESK HEARING GUNSHOTS, REALLY SORT OF DROVE IT IN. THIS IS A SERIOUS INCIDENT THAT UNFOLDED THIS MORNING, WHEN POLICE SAY A GOVERNMENT ENTERED THIS CONSTRUCTION SITE ON A LOWER PART OF QUEEN STREET, OPEN FIRED, BARRICADED HIMSELF IN AN ELEVATOR SHAFT. WE KNOW THAT TWO PEOPLE ARE CONFIRMED DEAD, AS WELL AS THE SHOOTER WHO HAS ALSO DIED. WE ARE FOLLOWING UP UNCONFIRMED REPORTS THERE MAY BE MORE FATALITIES. WE KNOW A NUMBER WERE TAKEN TO HOSPITAL WITH SOME SERIOUS INJURIES AS WELL. THIS WAS A BIG CONSTRUCTION SITE, WITH A LOT OF WORKERS ON SITE. THE AREA THAT WORKER WAS IN WAS A STAGING SITE, FOR A NUMBER OF COMPANIES ON THE SITE. SO HUNDREDS OF WORKERS WERE IN THE BUILDING AT THE TIME. THERE ARE ABOUT 15 FLOORS, AND WE SAW MANY HIDING ON THE ROOF WITH OFFICERS AS THE EVENT UNFOLDED. MANY HAVE NOW BEEN EVACUATED TO ACROSS THE ROAD, TO THE FIFA WORLD FAN STAGE, AND POLICE ARE CONDUCTING INTERVIEWS WITH THEM. THAT AREA IS NOW A CRIME SCENE. SPEAKING OF THE WORLD CUP, THE OPENING GAME IS STILL TAKING PLACE AT THE STAGE THIS EVENING. THE EYES OF THE WORLD ARE HONEST TODAY, BUT AS WE HEARD FROM THE PRIME MINISTER AND POLICE, IT WAS NOT A THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY. THE GOVERNMENT DID NOT HAVE POLITICAL OR IDEOLOGICAL MOTIVATIONS. MORE INFORMATION WILL BECOME AVAILABLE THROUGHOUT THE DAY AND COMING DAYS OF WHAT THE MOTIVATION MAY HAVE BEEN. WE ALSO HEARD FROM THE COMPANY WHO HAS TEAMS WORKING ON SITE, WHO SAID A MAJOR AND THAT IT OCCURRED, THEIR THOUGHTS ARE WITH THE FAMILY OF THE VICTIMS, AND THEY ARE WELCOME BACK. THIS IS SPECIAL PROGRAMMING FOR THE INCIDENT THAT UNFOLDED WITH A SHOOTING IN AUCKLAND'S DOWNTOWN BUSINESS DISTRICT TODAY. A WITNESS FROM AN NEARBY OFFICE BUILDING JOINED US EARLIER THIS MORNING. HERE'S WHAT ANA SAW FROM THE TOP OF THE PWC BUILDING JUST AFTER 8am. SO I'M LOOKING DOWN ON THE DELOITTE BUILDING, AND, YES, WE CAN SEE SOME POOR CONSTRUCTION WORKERS HIDING BEHIND VARIOUS PIECES OF CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT, SHELTERING. I LITERALLY` I WAS WALKING TO WORK, AND THE POLICE CARS WENT PAST, AND I JUST GOT INTO THE BUILDING AT ABOUT FIVE TO 8. BY THE TIME I GOT UP HERE, THERE WAS` THE WHOLE OF QUAY ST WAS JUST TURNED INTO POLICE CARS. WE CAN SEE AMBULANCES. WE CAN SEE PEOPLE BEHIND AMBULANCES. WE CAN SEE FERRIES WAITING TO COME IN. PEOPLE ARE JUST STUCK OUT ON THE WATER WAITING. SOME OF THE OTHERS IN THE OFFICE DID HEAR SOME GUNSHOTS, BUT THAT'S ALL WE CAN TELL. I BELIEVE WE HAVE TO STAY IN PLACE UNTIL WE GET CLEARED. FEELING A LITTLE BIT SAD FOR THE STATE OF NEW ZEALAND WHEN WE HAVE SOMETHING LIKE THIS HAPPEN, BUT WE'RE ALL FEELING RELATIVELY SAFE, AND IT'S JUST REALLY SAD STATE OF AFFAIRS, ISN'T IT? IN AN UNPRECEDENTED SITUATION, WE HAVE NOT REALLY SEEN IT BEFORE IN THIS COUNTRY, AND AUCKLAND CERTAINLY TO THIS LEVEL. WE'LL CROSS LIVE NOW TO LOGAN CHURCH. WHAT CAN YOU TELL US? THERE IS CERTAINLY A SOMBRE MOOD HERE IN THE CENTRE OF AUCKLAND. THIS IS LUNCHTIME, AND IT WILL USUALLY BEHAVING WITH PEOPLE. EVEN THOUGH THERE ARE A LARGE NUMBER OF PEOPLE AROUND, THERE IS NOT NEARLY AS MANY AS THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN. I WILL MOVE OUT OF THE WAY SO YOU CAN SEE THE EXTENT OF THE POLICE CORDON HERE. IT GOES AROUND THE CITY BLOCK AT THE BOTTOM OF QUEEN STREET, UP THE OTHER SIDE. WHAT YOU ARE NOT ABLE TO SEE AT THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SQUARE HERE AT THE END OF QUEEN STREET IS A LINE OF AMBULANCES. THE POLICE HAVE ALSO SET UP ONE OF THE CRIME SCENE EXAMINATION TENTS, AND THAT IS WHERE FORENSIC TEAMS WILL BE BASED OVER THE COMING HOURS AND PERHAPS DAYS TO FIGURE OUT EXACTLY WHAT HAS HAPPENED HERE. JUST AN UPDATE ON THE PUBLIC TRANSPORT SITUATION ` TRAINS ARE COMING INTO BRITOMART, BUT AUCKLAND TRANSPORT IS THAT PEOPLE COMING AND WILL HAVE TO GO OUT THE BACK EXIT AWAY FROM THE CENTRE OF THE CITY, LOWER QUEEN STREET, AND THE FAIRIES ARE ALSO RUNNING, AND THERE ARE STILL BUSES IS, BUT ALL OF THEM ARE BEING DETOURED AROUND FROM THIS AREA AT THE BOTTOM OF QUEEN STREET. HOW LONG THE POLICE WILL STAY HERE, WELL, IT WILL BE SOME TIME, CERTAINLY SOME HOURS AS THEY TRY TO PIECE TOGETHER EXACTLY WHAT LED TO THIS INCREDIBLY TRAGIC INCIDENT HAPPENING HERE AT THE BOTTOM OF QUEEN STREET IN AUCKLAND. THAT IS LOGAN CHURCH IN CENTRAL AUCKLAND. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE UPDATE THIS MORNING. LOCAL RESIDENT KENT HARRISON HAPPENED TO BE FILMING FROM HIS APARTMENT WHEN THE GUN SHOTS WERE FIRED AROUND 8am, THE SOUND ECHOING ACROSS THE SQUARE. (GUNSHOTS ECHO) SOMETHING IS GOING DOWN. IT IS PRETTY MAJOR, WITH GUNSHOTS. (GUNSHOTS ECHO) SOMETHING IS GOING DOWN. IT IS PRETTY MAJOR, WITH GUNSHOTS. THIS IS A DEVELOPING SITUATION THAT WE ARE CONTINUING TO FOLLOW. WE WILL HAVE UPDATES THROUGHOUT THE DAY FOR YOU. (CHATTER, LAUGHTER) - ALL: Hooray! - Hip hip! - Hooray! - Hip hip! - Hooray! - Happy birthday, mate. - It's your bowel screening test. I've done mine. - WOMEN: Me too! - And it's free! Uso, you've got this! - # There's a screening here tonight. # Pull the stick from the test. Put it in the poo. # Just follow the pictures. It's easy to do. - Koro! You can 'poo' it! - # Don't delay or procrastinate. # Put it in the post. Send it away. # Early detection can save the day. (ALL CHEER) # There's a screening # here tonight. # - ALL: Oh yeah! WELCOME BACK TO THIS ONE NEW SPECIAL, CONTINUING TO COVER THE BREAKING SITUATION IN DOWNTOWN AUCKLAND WITH AN ACTIVE SHOOTER WHO WAS KILLED AT THIS STAGE 3 PEOPLE ARE DEAD INCLUDING THE SHOOTER. POLITICAL EDITOR JESSICA MUTCH MCKAY JOINS US NOW AT PARLIAMENT. HOW HAVE THIS MORNING'S EVENTS AFFECTED THE PRIME MINISTER'S MOVEMENTS TODAY? WE KNOW HE WAS DUE IN AUCKLAND FOR THE WORLD CUP TONIGHT. HE WAS DUE TO SPEND THE DAY IN HAMILTON AND WAS AT THE AIRPORT WHEN THE STORY STARTED UNFOLDING. HE THEN QUICKLY CAME BACK TO THE BEEHIVE TO GET AN UPDATE. HE GAVE A BRIEFING HERE A SHORT TIME AGO, AND HE SAID THAT THIS IS NOT TERRIBLY RELATED, *TERROR RELATED. IT HASN'T AFFECTED OUR NATIONAL SECURITY RISK, OR MADE A CHANGE TO THE NATIONAL SECURITY LEVEL. THOSE ARE THE BIG QUESTION IS WHEN WE HEAR ABOUT AN ACTIVE SHOOTER, BUT THE PRIME MINISTER HAS RULED THOSE OUT A COUPLE OF HOURS AFTER THE EVENT UNFOLDED. THERE IS ALSO A DIPLOMATIC LEVEL TO THIS, BECAUSE WE HAVE SO MANY INTERNATIONAL TEAMS VISITING FOR THE WORLD CUP, IT HAS MEANT OUR EMBASSIES AND MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND TRADE STAFF HAVE HAD TO GO INTO OVERDRIVE TO LIAISE WITH THOSE COUNTRIES, AND GET IT UNDER CONTROL, BECAUSE THE TEAMS WERE TIED UP IN THAT. MOST DAYS WHEN WE SPEAK TO THE PRIME MINISTER AND THE PRESS GALLERY, HE WAS QUITE TEARY WHEN TALKING ABOUT THE POLICE COMMITMENT, AND HE WAS THE FORMER POLICE MINISTER, AND AS THE PRIME MINISTER, HE HAS DAILY INTERACTIONS WITH POLICE AND THE FORMS OF DIPLOMATIC PROTECTION. THE PRIME MINISTER WAS A BIT EMOTIONAL TALKING ABOUT THAT. HE SAID IT IS RIGHT FOR POLITICAL LEADERS TO BE UPSET WHEN INNOCENT PEOPLE GET HURT BY THIS. IT IS A TERRIBLE SITUATION, AND WE WILL FOLLOW IT THROUGHOUT THE DAY. THANK YOU JESSICA. CHRIS CHANG AND JENNY-MAY CLARKSON WERE AT THE CLOUD ON AUCKLAND'S WATERFRONT AS THIS ALL UNFOLDED. THEY WERE COVERING THE FIRST DAY OF THE WORLD CUP, AND WERE CAUGHT UP IN THE COURT AN AREA. THEY WERE COVERING THE FIRST DAY OF THE WORLD CUP, WHAT'S THE SITUATION WHERE YOU ARE NOW? TOOK A TURN THIS MORNING FOR THE FIFA FAN FESTIVAL, AND FOR THE BIG GAME TONIGHT, BUT AT 730 WE HEARD THE POLICE CHOPPER, AND THINGS CHANGED DRASTICALLY. WE ARE ON THE CORNER OF QUAY STREET AND COMMERCE STREET. A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE STILL HANGING AROUND, MOST JUST TO SEE WHAT IS GOING ON. MOST WHO WERE HERE THIS MORNING HAVE LEFT THE CENTRAL CITY. YOU TALK ABOUT, CHRIS, THE FACT THAT WE CAME TO CELEBRATE THEIR WOMEN'S FOOTBALL WORLD CUP WHICH BEGINS TONIGHT, AND IT UNFOLDED AND AWAY WE DID NOT SEE COMING. YOU THINK ABOUT THAT FOR PEOPLE GOING TO WORK THIS MORNING, YOU THINK ABOUT THE POLICE AND AMBULANCE WORKERS WHO HAVE BEEN DEALING WITH THIS THROUGHOUT THIS MORNING. OUR THOUGHTS ARE CERTAINLY WITH THEM AS WELL. AND THE CONSTRUCTION WORKERS WHO HAVE BEEN DEALING WITH THE SITUATION. WE WILL HAVE MORE ON THIS ON BREAKFAST TOMORROW MORNING FROM 6 AM. PLENTY MORE TO COME TO OTHER DAY. THANK YOU TO CHRIS CHANG AND JENNY-MAY CLARKSON. THAT IS IT FROM YOUR BREAKFAST TEAM WHO HAVE BEEN COVERING SINCE THIS STORY BROKE THIS MORNING AFTER 7 AM. WE WILL BE BACK WITH MORE TOMORROW MORNING. STAY WITH US, BECAUSE WE HAVE A 1 NEWS MIDDAY SPECIAL WITH JACK TAME. THANK YOU FOR WATCHING, WE'LL HAVE MORE ON THIS DEVELOPING STORY WHEN IT COMES TO HAND.