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It would be too quick to speculate on how that could have happened or how someone could have brought a firearm onto ba base. ive worked previously with the base commanding officer, obviously a fantastic individual. i know the pensacola community could be in good hands with him as he looks not only to work with law enforcement and determine exactly what happened but to make sure it doesnt happen again. >> this is that second naval base shooting in three days. does that raise alarms for you at all...

We do host those who will be pilots or navigators and their respective air forces. >> i know this may not be your area of expertise but what about the vetting process from those coming from different countries. what do you know about that? >> its a stringent vetting process whether its and, typically they go through a very close and careful vetting process to make sure that -- every nation wants to send their very best and brightest to serve as representatives when they are serving abroad. i kno...

Injured. the navy says we dont know the total number of injured yet. but what would a situation be -- what would this be like at this base, joey, knowing it so well as an active shooter situation and the entire base goes into lockdown. there is preparations for this. >> yeah, they have a big military retired community around it and so do most big bases. the thing to keep in mind there are a lot of people aboard these bases at any given time that arent active military or their wives or dependents...

And do a really good job. i dont know the details for this. to make an educated assumption it is a fantastic job on this and the threat got eliminated as soon as possible. >> sandra: a little bit about the base itself. it employs more than 16,000 military and 7400 civilian personnel. thats according to its own website. one of the navys most historic and storied bases. we are talking to johnny joey jones. you were stationed there at one point and you have knowledge of what it looks and feels like...

I have done a lot of ahead to on military bases with military commanders and authorities, and theyre so efficient. when we dealt with them on any crisis, it was always they were so efficient. they have their command, they have everything laid out. they have their people. they can get things done quickly. im sure that is what theyre doing here. let me paint a quick picture for y you. the chief and the base police, the sheriffs department, the highest ranking pensacola city police commander, the h...

Understanding that there are some strict rules about -- about weapons on these -- on all of our bases here in the united states. so what would have been procedure? hes a member of the military. he may have had a handgun. would there have been a locker that he was supposed to have put that in? is it -- what were -- what do you know about the procedures specifically there about weapons on that base? >> so pensacola is an open base. so theres -- theres two different categories to think about. numbe...

And today, we are here to talk to some of the very hard-working citizens. >> the president goes on to talk about an economic matter, which we will keep an eye on. but the president did say in response to a question about whether he thought this was terrorism. he said that thats all being studied now. we will be talking about it very soon. it will be a report and the report will come out very soon. i want to go back to blane alexander and malcolm nance. malcolm, naval air station pensacola has a ...

Bases and camps, if you have a vehicle thats registered with the promo marshal and have department of defense sticker on it, and you have a department of defense id of some kind, your vehicle is not searched. when it is routinely searched, theyre all the vehicle that comes in. those are the ones that take apart and look into everything. someone to inspect every single one like they do in every vehicle. >> you have ten thousand workers that come to that naval air base everyday. >> it is also a to...

Civilians. and we dont know much about that yet. also adding to your conversation later. anyone with exception of the base police or authorities to be carrying weapons, but because it is an open base, if youre going on and off of the base and you have a badge to get on, you have an id, most likely your vehicle, and you, would not be checked or stopped when you go on the base. it would not be difficult for someone in uniform or someone that works on the base to bring a weapon on the base, steph. ...

Than an hour ago that fbi did not rule out terrorism. theyre trying to find out what was the motive and why was the target selected and if it happens in a schools building or classroom. who were the target? the third part is going to come up is, this national could access to some sort of weapons on a military base. this is very troubling to say the least. this could be a much bigger international issue. any foreign military soldiers, thats trained on one of our u.s. bases, usually comes of the a...