KIA ORA, GOOD MORNING. WE INTERRUPT NORMAL PROGRAMMING TO BRING YOU BREAKING NEWS. FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP HAS BEEN INJURED AT A CAMPAIGN RALLY IN PENNSYLVANIA. FOOTAGE FROM THE EVENT RECORDED SEVERAL LOUD BANGS, WHICH WITNESSES SAY SOUNDED LIKE GUNSHOTS. THE FORMER PRESIDENT IS ALIVE AND WALKED FROM THE STAGE WITH THE SUPPORT OF SECRET SERVICE PERSONNEL. HIS CAMPAIGN HAS SAID HE IS FINE. WE'RE GOING TO SHOW YOU FOOTAGE, SO YOU CAN SEE HOW THIS EVENT UNFOLDED. THAT'S A BIT OLD, THAT CHART. IF YOU WANT TO REALLY SEE SOMETHING TAKE A LOOK... (GUNSHOTS) (SCREAMING) YOU CAN HEAR MULTIPLE LOUD BANGS, AS THE FORMER PRESIDENT ADDRESSES A CAMPAIGN RALLY IN THE TOWN OF BUTLER, PENNSYLVANIA. THE FORMER PRESIDENT HELD UP HIS HAND TO HIS RIGHT EAR. SECRET SERVICE PERSONNEL SAID GET DOWN! THEY IMMEDIATELY RUSHED ONSTAGE. YOU CAN SEE OTHER PEOPLE AT THE CAMPAIGN RALLY DUCKING FOR COVER. WE HAVEN'T HAD CONFIRMATION FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT OR THE SECRET SERVICE AS TO THE CAUSE OF THE BANGS. NUMEROUS WITNESSES AT THE EVENT SAY THEY SOUNDED LIKE GUNSHOTS. SHORTLY AFTER THIS WAS TAKEN, THE FORMER PRESIDENT WAS ESCORTED FROM THE STAGE WITH SECRET SERVICE PERSONNEL. IN THE LAST COUPLE OF MINUTES, HIS CAMPAIGN HAS RELEASED A STATEMENT, SAYING HE IS FINE. HE HAS BEEN CHECKED OUT AT A LOCAL MEDICAL FACILITY. MORE DETAILS WILL FOLLOW. HE IS BEING SUPPORTED BY SECRET SERVICE HERE. ALL OF THIS HAPPENING IN FRONT OF MULTIPLE TELEVISION CAMERAS. THE FORMER PRESIDENT OF THEIR DEFIANT, HOLDING A RAISED FIST. LOOK AT HIS RIGHT EAR. YOU CAN SEE HIS RIGHT EAR THERE IS BLOODIED. IMAGES TAKEN AS HE WAS ESCORTED FROM THE PREMISES SUGGESTED HE HAD RECEIVED SOME SORT OF INJURY TO HIS RIGHT EAR. WE HAVE A PHOTOGRAPH. THIS PHOTOGRAPH IS BLURRY, BUT IT WAS TAKEN AS HE WAS ESCORTED FROM THE STAGE. LOOK AT HIS RIGHT EAR. LOUD BANGS AT A CAMPAIGN RALLY. YOU CAN SEE BLOOD FROM HIS RIGHT EAR DOWN HIS FACE. OBVIOUSLY THIS IS AN EXTREMELY CONCERNING EVENT. BREAKING NEWS. WE HAVEN'T HAD OFFICIAL COMMENT FROM LOCAL LAW-ENFORCEMENT. THE SECRET SERVICE HAS SAID, THE FORMER PRESIDENT IS SAFE. ADDRESSING A CROWD IN BUTLER, PENNSYLVANIA. TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENED... (GUNSHOTS) (SCREAMING) MULTIPLE LOUD BANGS THERE. YOU CAN HEAR FROM THE MICROPHONE ON THE STAGE, SECRET SERVICE PERSONNEL SAYING 'GET DOWN!' AS YOU CAN IMAGINE, THERE WAS WIDESPREAD PANIC AND CONCERN. AFTER THE FORMER PRESIDENT WAS ESCORTED OUT BY SECRET SERVICE, OTHER PEOPLE AT THE RALLY WERE ALSO ESCORTED OUT. WE HAVEN'T YET HAD A STATEMENT FROM AUTHORITIES AS TO WHETHER OR NOT ANYONE ELSE MAY HAVE BEEN INJURED. WE TAKE YOU LIVE NOW TO UNITED STATES. LET'S GO LIVE NOW TO U.S. CORRESPONDENT LOGAN CHURCH THE FORMER PRESIDENT IS FINE. SECRET SERVICE SAY THAT HE HAS BEEN EVACUATED FROM THE AREA. THIS IS DEEPLY CONCERNING. ANOTHER VERY CHAOTIC DAY. SEEMS LIKE THIS, WE HAVEN'T SEEN SCENES LIKE THIS FOR SOME TIME. WE ARE STARTING TO GET STATEMENTS FROM THE AUTHORITIES, FIRSTLY FROM HIS CAMPAIGN, THANKING LAW ENFORCEMENT AND FIRST RESPONDERS FOR THEIR QUICK ACTION DURING THIS HEINOUS ACT. THE FORMER PRESIDENT IS FINE AND IS BEING CHECKED OUT AT A LOCAL MEDICAL FACILITY. THEY WILL RELEASE MORE DETAILS AS THEY COME TO HAND. WE ALSO HAVE FOUND OUT FROM JOE BIDEN'S TEAM THAT HE HAS RECEIVED A BRIEFING ON THE INCIDENT ABOUT THE FORMER PRESIDENTS RALLY. JOE BIDEN WAS ASKED AFTER MASS THIS MORNING WHETHER HE KNEW WHAT HAD HAPPENED, AT THE TIME HE DIDN'T KNOW ANY INFORMATION. WE ALSO HAVE HEARD FROM THE SECRET SERVICE. THEY CONTROL SECURITY AT THESE RALLIES, THEY SAY AN INCIDENT OCCURRED IN PENNSYLVANIA. THE SECRET SERVICE HAS IMPLEMENTED PROTECTIVE MEASURES, AND THE FORMER PRESIDENT IS NOW SAFE. THIS IS AN ACTIVE INVESTIGATION, AND FURTHER INFORMATION WILL BE RELEASED WHEN AVAILABLE. A NUMBER OF QUESTIONS REMAIN TO BE ANSWERED. IT IS TOO EARLY... WE DON'T KNOW WHAT WEAPON WAS DISCHARGED. THAT WILL COME OUT OVER THE COMING HOURS AND DAYS, AS EMERGENCY SERVICES RACE TO PUT TOGETHER INFORMATION TO BUILD A PICTURE AS TO WHAT HAPPENED TONIGHT IN AMERICA. IT'S IMPORTANT TO POINT OUT THAT WE HAVE RELATIVELY LIMITED DETAIL FROM OFFICIAL SOURCES. THE SECRET SERVICE IS DEALING WITH AN ACTIVE SITUATION. THERE IS NO CONFIRMATION YET FROM LAW-ENFORCEMENT IN PENNSYLVANIA WHETHER THE BANGS WERE CAUSED BY GUNSHOTS, ALTHOUGH MANY PEOPLE AT THE RALLY SAY THEY SOUNDED LIKE GUNSHOTS. AS A CORRESPONDED WHO HAS BEEN TO THESE KIND OF EVENTS, TALK US THROUGH THE SECURITY THAT WOULD USUALLY BE IN PLACE FOR A PUBLIC APPEARANCE FOR A CANDIDATE LIKE DONALD TRUMP. FIRSTLY, IT IS IMPORTANT TO POINT OUT DONALD TRUMP HOLDS A LOT OF RALLIES LIKE THIS. TODAY'S WASN'T OUT OF THE ORDINARY. THOUSANDS OF SUPPORTERS WAIT IN AN ARENA OR OUTSIDE AND LISTEN TO HIM SPEAK. THE SECURITY IS MANAGED BY THE SECRET SERVICE. I ATTENDED A RALLY RECENTLY IN PHILADELPHIA AND ASIDE FROM WAITING A LONG TIME TO GET IN, YOU HAVE TO GO THROUGH ALMOST AIRPORT SECURITY SYSTEMS WITH ARMED POLICE, SECRET SERVICE, LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT. DOG SQUADS. THE AREA AROUND THE STREETS ARE BLOCKED OFF. THEY TAKE SECURITY AT THESE EVENTS INCREDIBLY SERIOUSLY, WHICH MAKES WHAT HAS HAPPENED TONIGHT SHOCKING. AS YOU SAW IN THE VIDEO, THAT CAME OUT OF NOWHERE. DONALD TRUMP WAS SPEAKING ABOUT ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION, AS HE DOES AT ALMOST ALL OF HIS RALLIES. HE WAS SHOWING A CHART OF BORDER CROSSING NUMBERS. THEN THOSE BANGS. YOU SAW HIM LIFTING HIS RIGHT HAND TO HIS NECK. HE DUCKED BEHIND THE PODIUM, AS SECRET SERVICE AGENTS SWARMED STAGE. THERE ARE ARMED POLICE, THEY RUSHED TO TRUMP, SURROUNDED HIM, AND WHEN IT WAS SAFE THEY HAD HIM STAND UP. YOU COULD HEAR THE PRESIDENT TELLING THE SECRET SERVICE PEOPLE WITH HIM THAT HE WANTED TO SPEAK AND SAY SOMETHING. HOWEVER, THEY MOVED HIM OFF THE STAGE TO A POSITION OF SAFETY. HE THEN RAISED HIS FIST IN DEFIANCE TO REPEAT THE STATEMENT FROM THE CAMPAIGN, THE FORMER PRESIDENT IS FINE AND IS AT A LOCAL MEDICAL FACILITY. A LOT OF QUESTIONS WITH NO ANSWERS, AS AMERICANS COME TO GRIPS WITH WHAT HAS HAPPENED THIS EVENING. GIVE US SOME CONTEXT. FOR MOST OF OUR VIEWERS, WHEN WE CONSIDER THE SPECTRE OF POLITICAL VIOLENCE IN THE UNITED STATES, SADLY, THAT IS A COUNTRY WITH A LOT OF EXPERIENCE IN THAT DEPARTMENT. WE DON'T KNOW THE CAUSE OF THAT EVENT, BUT PEOPLE WHO HAVE HEARD THE BANGS WOULD BE CONCERNED ABOUT POLITICAL VIOLENCE. WHAT IS THIS LIKELY TO MEAN IN THE CONTEXT OF THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE? HE IS THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE. YOU CAN EVEN SEE FROM THE PEOPLE BEHIND DONALD TRUMP ON THE GRANDSTANDS, THE SHEER SHOCK, AS THEY DUCKED TO THE GROUND WHEN THOSE BANGS WERE HEARD. WHAT THIS MAY MEAN GOING FORWARD, DONALD TRUMP IS EXPECTED IN MILWAUKEE FOR THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION IN A FEW DAYS, WHERE THE REPUBLICAN PARTY COMES TOGETHER AND DELEGATES SELECT THEIR PICK FOR THE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION. IT IS ABSOLUTELY GOING TO BE TRUMP. THERE IS NO CONTEST THERE. THE FACT THAT THIS HAS HAPPENED ONLY DAYS BEFORE IS SHOCKING. DONALD TRUMP WILL BE AT THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION. NOTHING WILL CHANGE THERE. SPEAKING TO EXPERTS AND ANALYSTS AND PEOPLE WHO HAVE OBSERVED WHAT IS HAPPENING LOCALLY, ALMOST ALL OF THEM ARE WORRIED ABOUT POTENTIAL INCREASES IN POLITICAL VIOLENCE AS WE HEAD TOWARDS THIS ELECTION. IT IS SOMETHING WE HAVE SEEN HERE, INCREASING IN RECENT YEARS, AND THERE IS GREAT CONCERN THAT MORE OF THAT MAY MANIFEST OVER THE MONTHS AND YEARS TO COME. WE HAVE TO BE VERY CAREFUL, THAT WE DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED HERE. WE DON'T KNOW WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE, WHAT THEIR MOTIVES WERE, AND THAT WILL COME OUT IN THE COMING DAYS. CERTAINLY, PUTTING INTO SHARP RELIEF, JUST HOW VOLATILE THE SITUATION IN AMERICA IS NOW. THANK YOU SO MUCH, LOGAN. LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT THAT MOMENT ONCE AGAIN. THIS IS THE MOMENT DONALD TRUMP WAS SPEAKING AT A RALLY IN PENNSYLVANIA WHEN WHAT APPEARED TO BE SHOTS WERE FIRED. (GUNSHOTS) (SCREAMING) OF COURSE, THE MICROPHONE THERE IS CLOSE TO THE SECRET SERVICE. YOU CAN HEAR PEOPLE IN THE AUDIENCE SCREAMING, AFTER THOSE LOUD BANGS WERE HEARD. WE HAVEN'T HAD CONFIRMATION FROM AUTHORITIES AS TO THE CAUSE OF THOSE LOUD BANGS. MANY PEOPLE AT THE SCENE BELIEVE THOSE BANGS CAME AS AT THE RESULT OF GUNSHOTS. THE FORMER PRESIDENT HELD UP HIS HAND TO HIS RIGHT EAR, BEFORE SEEKING SHELTER. YOU COULD SEE THOSE SECRET SERVICE PERSONNEL IMMEDIATELY RUSHING THE STAGE, SURROUNDING THE FORMER PRESIDENT, AND YELLING 'GET DOWN!' SHORTLY AFTERWARDS, HE WAS HELPED TO HIS FEET, AND YOU CAN SEE HERE, AS HE IS SURROUNDED BY SECRET SERVICE PERSONNEL, HIS RIGHT EAR APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN INJURED. EVEN AS HE WAS SURROUNDED BY THOSE PERSONNEL AND HELP FROM THE STAGE, THE FORMER PRESIDENT RAISED HIS FIST. THE CROWD BACK ON THEIR FEET, HAVING BEEN SHELTERING, CHEERING THE FORMER PRESIDENT, AS HE HAS HELPED FROM THE STAGE BY SECRET SERVICE INTO HIS MOTORCADE AND A SAFER ENVIRONMENT. YOU ARE WITNESSING EXTRAORDINARY IMAGES. THESE ARE HISTORIC IMAGES OF A FORMER PRESIDENT APPARENTLY INJURED AT A CAMPAIGN RALLY, AS HE CAMPAIGNS FOR PRESIDENT. THANKS FOR WATCHING THIS ONE NEWS SPECIAL. FOR MORE ON THIS DEVELOPING STORY HEAD TO OUR WEBSITE 1NEWS.CO.NZ. AND THERE WIULL BE FULL COVERAGE ON 1 NEWS AT SIX TONIGHT.