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>> reporter: a scene complicated by confusion. the city had active shooting plan the next day. the shooter used a suppressor on his weapons, which according to witnesses made the gunfire sound more like this. a nail gun used in construction. two veteran detectives rushed into the building to confront the shooter. its interior offices described as maze of like. >> five to eight minutes after the officer began to enter the building they made contact and engaged the shooter on the second floor of t...

What was happening. two veteran detectives rushed into the building to confront the shooter. its interior offices described as maze-like. >> five to eight minutes after these officers began to enter the building, they made contact and engaged with the suspect on the second floor of the building. >> reporter: the shooter had extended magazines on at least two .45 caliber handguns. he fired on police. >> they were returning fire and at one point, the suspect was firing through the door and through...

Enough and it would involve translators and officials helping to make this conversation to facilitate it so it would not be the same length as if two english speakers were meeting together. factor that in to the timing that weve been watching. quite a sunny day here in washington. so sometimes the window is hard to peer through with our colleagues who are on the south lawn side, and thats the oval office window youve been alluding to. notable when john kelly walked kim yong-chol to the white hou...

Exterior doors. so we were locked in to that area and then everybody went into either interior offices or that conference room and barricaded ourselves in. we were there. that happened sometime between 8 and 8:30. a little while later we heard a very loud gunshot and looked up and saw the door bullet holes in the conference room walls above us. we stayed on the floor. >> here is what we know about the short. 34 years old, aaron alexis. had two civilian arrests on his record. one for unlawfully d...

There is doors to the office area where peoples offices and cubes are and another door at conference room. someone in my, i dont know, who an unsung hero locked exterior doors so we were locked into the area and everybody went into interior offices or conference room and that happened between 8:00 and 8:30. we looked up and saw bullet holes above us. we stayed on the floor. most of us on our black berries trying to text each other. ways trying to make sure i knew people what that worked for me w...

Interior offices or into the conference room where i was. we got down on the floor as low as we could. and started to barricade ourselves in with tables, just to try to stay in someplace -- stay in place and safe, while we were on the floor, we heard what was definitely a gunshot, a very loud shot, and then when we looked up, in the -- not the ceiling but near the ceiling in the walls of the conference room we were in, we saw bullet holes elm didnt hear a lot of gunfire after that for several mi...

8:00, and the conference had been going a short time when we heard the first sound that sounded unusual and we kind of looked at each other, whats that. a very few minutes after that, we heard the sound of what was definitely gunfire. people were yelling to close the doors, lock the doors. the conference room that i was in was behind some other doors so someone in my office, i dont know who, locked those outer doors and then we all barricaded ourselves either in the interior conference room or a...

I never seen anything like this before. were just praying our co-work es and receptionist folks and everything are all safe. >> what w . >> reporter: what was it like inside there? >> panic, nervous, afraid. wasnt sure if the gunman was going to come up the other floors. they told us to get into the interior offices and lock the doors and everything. so people came up from upper levels, lower levels to the upper levels and we all crammed into offices and locked the doors. >> caller: how did you ...

Guess, to show some type of show of force in front of the discovery channel. we have another clip of sound that we want to play to you from someone who was there when this all start found fold. >> you were inside when it happened. tell me what you saw. tell me what you heard. tell me what you did. >> well, we were told to lock ourself in our offices, that they had an issue going on in the lobby. they told us that theres a gunman in the lobby and for us to lock ourselves in closed offices. shortl...

>> what was it like inside there? >> panic, nervous. we werent sure if the gunman was going to come up through the other floors or anything. they told us to get into the interior offices and lock the doors. people came in from the upper levels, lower levels and we all, you know, crammed into offices and locked the doors. >> how did you first learn about this? >> one of my employees was out to lunch and had come through the lobby. he called back on his cell phone and told us. >> what did he say? ...