commissioned earlier to take care of something. clearly that s been a front of concern for law enforcement all day and evening. reporter: we saw it here in this intersection with the robot that went to check out first with the camera and then with it appears to be bomb squad officers backpack left unattended earlier in the neighborhood. maybe about half mile from here and as well at suspect s home in redlands. it s something that law enforcement in this area is concerned about. all right, jacob, thank you very much. jim cav gnaw is a law enforcement analyst, retired special agent in charge of the atf, and jim, from the start of this, we ve been getting a succession of facts about this,
to have received victims with the exception of george washington university. they received a victim there but he was in his 60 aegs and deceased upon arrival. quite a heavy police presence behind me when i first arrived. a lot of planes closed and d.c. police officers making sure whoever were on the grounds were spoesed to be there. so far that what we have, the three victims brought here, some by tell komter and d.c. police officer and other two expected to survive these critical injuries, craig. some good news there for us from the hospital. thanks so much for that. reporter: we just heard from pete williams a few moments ago, at this point we re being very, very careful about releasing the name and identity of the shooter but at this point we believe he is a 34-year-old man from texas. we won t be releasing that name until we re certain. jim, in situations like this, is
other buildings. jim, stand by, i want to bring back commissioner britt bratton to the conversation. we ll try to get him back. clint svan zandt is standing by former fbi profilers. let s talk about the washington, d.c. area with folks not familiar with where all this transpired here in southeast d.c. and navy yard as well. when you talk about law enfor enforcement presence, you would be hard prelgsed to find where there are more officers standing at the ready to respond to efforts than washington, d.c. i don t think there s any place in the country with more badge carrying, gun carrying law enforcement officers representing different agencies. atf, fbi, local police, food and drug, you name it and there s somebody out there with a badge
washington, d.c. for two people. what is the search going to be looking like, jim? there s going to be two things happen. first the tactical teams will try to search the vast complex. when you have a report of two other shooters, that has to be ferreted out. but the commanders have to get to the bottom of that, i ve been to them, we could be dealing with plain clothes police, ncis agency and other military people drawing their within or going to their car and getting a long gun to respond to the shoot being. the command post will be reaching out to all agencies involved and showing the surveillance video, is this any of your people, agents, personnel? let s ferret that out right away. i ve had it happen on scenes that turns out to be a narcotics detective, all normal but you need to short it out. until they find it out they can t stop the search of the
about what happened here. thank you very much. you have it there, eleanor holmes norton, the delegate that represents the district of columbia, holding a brief news conference and reaffirming many what are saying, at this point it does not appear to be does not appear to be an act of terrorist or anything sinister like that. 12 people dead and 15 people have been shot. two people active search for two folks according to police chief cathy lanier who added there s going to be another updamt at 4:00. the chief also indicating that the fbi will be taking over the investigation. jim cav gnaw is a former agent in charge for the atm. you ve been watching these events and listening to these yun fold throughout the course of the morning. an active search here in