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Know that this was a long-term, lack of any other term, running gun battle with this individual. this was not what is traditionally a police-involved shooting. this was a long-term, large gunfight. >> [ inaudible ] on monday? >> im sorry? >> where will city employees work on monday morning? >> we are working through that. building 2 will be closed. we are going to have to relocate some of our major services that public utilities provided. they, of course, oversee our city services and so weve go...

Scene are taken care of at that moment. >> we are going to take one more question and then we will anticipate another briefing later this afternoon. one more question, please? >> you just mentioned the two officers who im assuming knowing this complex ran from the building. is that accurate? >> yes, sir. >> can you talk about the proximity to the police department, when you said yesterday, around 400 workers in that building. how did the proximity of the police department to the building 2 help?...

People do business. do we know what he did once inside? >> again, we are beginning the forensic process of this incident, and please understand the size of this incident, the intensity, ive got officers, we have firefighters who entered the building to assist victims, we have ems rescue personnel, numerous law enforcement officers that went to the building. it is a huge scene, but understand the intensity of the scene. as more information comes out as to how this unfolded, youll be given the app...

>> chief, what are your words to people of virginia beach? >> i can tell you this. the fact that the suspect was immediately confronted, the fact that the suspect is deceased means that our citizens can rest easy tonight. we do not have someone who is out in the community to do more harm. also to the citizens of our city you can really understand when this particular violent, violent act occurred, police fire, rescue immediately responded to the scene and did that professional thing that they do...

Information as soon as we can. our next briefing should be at 21:30 hours. we have been told the governor is enroute. we notified state senators and other elected officials, offering condolences to our city and to our family of those of us that work in virginia beach. >> can you tell us any more about the suspect? was he a former or current employee? >> a current employee. >> and do we know anything about what led to his -- >> im going to have to hold off, andy. >> what floor? >> it was multiple...

Being injured and killed. and you heard the virginia official there say just before -- at the beginning of the press conference -- this is most devastating day in the history of virginia beach. in seemingly coming at the end of a workday there just after 4:00 when this shooting started. the police chief there saying that this is the operations building of the city. there is public works there. there are other offices in that building. and im sure were going to hear a lot of heroic stories as we ...

Killed, six people have been taken to hospital. presumably some of them, evan perez in serious condition >> righting with wolf and the locust appear to be building two. part of a complex. there is a courthouse there. initially a lot of the first reports people thought it was directed at the courthouse. but it appears that a lot of this -- this is all contained in what is known as building 2, according to the police chief there. its essentially the operations center where people go pay utility bi...

Firefighter sources that the building was in danger. engineers were on the scene and they say that the building was structure structurally very weak. >> all they did was come to work that moirpg. that morning. they didnt come to do battle. >> the people who went to vietnam knew what that they were doing. they were trained for that. you dont expect that, going to work at the pentagon in an office. >> he was already very focused and calm. it was remarkable to me. he was not shaken in that sense. t...

All the bridges and tunnels in the city are closed. >> this has the signature of osama bin laden, he has piloted on his payroll. to say whats what happened here, but they seem to indicate that this would have that signature. >> they fire -- the fire continues to burn out of control at this hour. no estimates from pentagon officials on the number of dead. >> i felt a shock of the airplane hitting the building. went through the building and then out into the area and they were bringing bodies out ...

Collapsed. while talking to an officer, questioning me about my press credentials, we heard a very loud blast and explosion. we looked up and the building literally began to collapse before us. there was debris falling, id say, three-quarters the height of the building. people and the entire perimeter began literally, including myself, running out of breath to run for our lives. this is, we believe, debris from one of the planes that hit one of the towers in the world trade center. the fbi is he...