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Allowed to leave their offices on the base throughout the night. many spending hours hiding and waiting for the carnage to end. the washington navy yard is the oldest land-based naval installation in the united states. it employs about 3,000 people. today, it is closed for the day, as they continue the investigation here. this morning, we are finding out some of the names of the victims. all civilians or contractors working for the military at this installation. these are the names we know right...

Office. . overnight police releasing the names of the victims. they were all civilians who were contractors who worked here at this installation. none of them were active duty military. those killed range in ages from 46 to 73. ill read the names we know right now. michael arnold, 59. sylvia frasier, 53. kathy gaarde, 62. john johnson 73. frank kohler 50 and kenneth proctor, 46 and vishnu pandit, 61. they went to work yesterday like any other day and didnt go home. these are people whose lives w...

>> he was far enough down the hall that we couldnt see his face but we saw the rifle and he raised and aimed at us. >> people were trying to get over the wall over the spaces. it was just crazy. >> some of the survivors. a dozen people were not so lucky. i want to bring in joe johns who has been at the press conferences and received the names of some of the fallen. these this is the first we have heard of the identities. >> absolutely. thats right, anderson. and authorities told us in this news ...

You dont hear normal things, or the police cruisers zipping by. 7 of the 12 victims names were released. well read them one by one. the first one, michael arnold, 59 wreerz old. sill korea frasier, 53 years old. kathy gaarde, 62. kenneth bernard proctor, 46. john roger johnson, 73. frank kohler, 50. vishnu pandit, 61. and "the washington post" this morning reporting arthur daniels, 51 years old. of course, there are five other victims. we dont have their names as yet. theyre waiting to notify th...

He was a buddhist, a buddhist with apparent anger issues. and were learning the name of the victims. rick? >> greta we just came from a news conference with the mayor of washington. the police chief, and the head of the fbi office here in washington, d.c.. and the metropolitan police department handed thus list of seven of the 11 people who died at the scene. there was a 12th person, the shooter died. one victim died in the hospital. lets get to this very sad list of names, these are the seven p...

Him. nonetheless, his family said they certainly didnt see what happened yesterday coming. >> this was something that nobody expected to happen, so, you know, i just want to let everybody know that, you know, whoever got hurt, families and victims, the alexis family as well as the little family, our hearts go out to you. we apologize for the inconvenience of losing a loved one. we also lost a loved one. >> 12 people ultimately died in building 197 monday. all were contractors or civilians. one a...

Thats right, anderson. and authorities told us in this news conference moments ago that seven families have been notified and these are the seven families they have reached out the and told their family members had been killed. the names are 59-year-old michael arnold, 53-year-old sylvia frasier, 62-year-old kathy gaarde, 73-year-old john roger johnson, 50-year-old frank kohler, 46-year-old kenneth bernard proctor, 61-year-old vishnu pandit. all of the individuals who were killed were described ...

Another, an avid golfer. the 12 men and women whose lives were cut short here yesterday by a gunman hell-bent on taking as many lives as he could. they are being remembered today, not just by the loved ones whom they left behind, but by all of us so deeply touched by the senselessness of this tragedy. im joined by erin mcpike, who is here with more on the victims. >> many of these victims were in their 50s, in the prime of their lives. we have been talking to their family members and neighbors a...

Thank you so much. as the nation struggles with the aftermath of the massacre carried out by aaron alexis, people closest to him are trying to square his actions with the man they thought they knew. alexis moved from place to place in recent years but we know that he spent a good deal of time in ft. worth, texas. thats where he became friends with michael, who joins us now. thanks for being with us. whats the first thing that went through your mind when you saw alexis face on tv yesterday aftern...

0 continues. were here to push congress. >> is there at least a thinking that since this happened in the shadow of the capitol, that since this happened three miles from the white house, is there some thinking now at least that maybe this, because of the location, will galvanize lawmakers? >> i dont think theres any one event. weve had congress people shot, weve had young children shot, weve had people at work shot, people at the mall shot, people going to a movie theater shot. i dont think ther...