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A possible shooting at another air force base. that turned out not to be the case. since then things have calmed down just a bit here. i would point out that the d.c. area schools are on a lockdown. those schools in this nearby area. the department of transportation, which is next door to the navy yard also in a lockdown situation. the navy is telling the relatives of the employees, people who work there at the navy yard they can start to reunite with loved ones nearby at washington national sta...

Who may work in the area, heading this way on facebook were discussing what was happening and obviously sending their thoughts and prayers for the folks who were here, 3,000 people told to shelter in place. certainly a chaotic scene and i dont think theres any better way to describe the intense situation here as describing when the officer did come up to us in that bullet proof vest and said how often do you see a lieutenant wearing a bullet proof vest? clearly a dangerous situation so we moved ...

Phone with a u.s. navy official who says their reports are now that several shots were fired, several people inside the building have been injured. at this point it doesnt look like theyve been able to evacuate any of the injured out of the building. he tells me that they are getting actually phone reports at the u.s. navy from people trapped inside while this situation goes on. they say security forces at this hour are entering the building to try to get to this person. let me just explain to p...

Been parked at this location but, again, they are controlling this area very, very tightly and we just saw, as you mentioned, some metropolitan washington police officers not with any urgency at the moment but walking around the corner towards an entrance down there, very heavily armed with automatics and pump shotguns and the like. the disposition of the shooter is not known. this is on 11th and m street going down the street and there was a rescue chopper opened with a basket outside of it wit...

Cases, these are the initial reports, more information developing and certainly more throughout the day, as you begin to see some of the security vehicles move into the washington navy yard, certainly getting as many security personnel as they can in there and getting this situation resolved. >> im going to let you get more information from the pentagon barbara starr and i want to go to the scene. cnns paul corson is on the ground at the navy yard. paul, what are you seeing? >> reporter: right n...

They were inside of the building. now, these same people tell us that they have undergone training for situations like this so although they were very frightened by the sound of gunshots, there was a plan in place on what to do next. they all knew where to go to seek shelter. we are hearing that there is a ground stop at reagan national airport. we know that from their website. however, again, we know that from the faas website. however, we dont know if that has anything to do with the situation...

Be that he missed. we dont know that. >> thats for sure. so this is a very large building. 3,000 people work inside building 197. some people, some employees are still in there, locked in closets, locked in their offices. some people managed to escape. the gunman is still inside. so what does it look like inside that building from a police perspective, tom? >> oh, its a very difficult situation because if the person is locked in a closet, the police are going to have to go either now or later ar...

Thats exactly what they should be doing. >> i dont know if i would use the word encouraging but im sure glad those people were okay. but talk about lucky. the gunman just turned and opened fire on them and, of course, unbelievably their first insuran instinct was to get everyone out of the building which i would call heroic. >> a lot of the people would freeze and thats the last person you should do. what these people did was great. they saw the guy and went immediately to the exit and got out o...

Being one of the people injured during the standoff. as you mentioned, the shooter is apparently still barricaded in here. the national d.c. police and capitol police and police jurisdictions with a massive presence circling this navy area. you cant get on here without any kind of i.d. or clearance and it takes just -- its a heavily secured area of this part of washington, d.c., with walls all around it. so just to give you a lay of the land here, we are on m street and 11th street. we can hear ...

What can you tell us? >> carol, we are able to confirm now that defense secretary hagel and martin dempsey of the joint chiefs of staff have been informed about this incident just as the president has been informed. the navy command center here in the pentagon and the navy officials on site, of course, of where this is happenings, all hands on deck trying to deal with this situation assembling the most current information they can because, of course, if there are fatalities and injured, it will ...