international airport and george, from federal bureau of investigation. shortly before 1:00 p.m. today we had an active shooter inside terminal two, lower level, by baggage. the active shooter shot at least 13 people. eat peop eight people are in area hospitals being treated. i don t know the degree of their injuries. five people have succumbed to their wounds and tragically are dead. we are not releasing any information on any of the victims until we identify them, which is going to take some time. we are able to respectfully notify the next of kin first. the investigation continues. we have area s.w.a.t. teams, broward county s.w.a.t. team, clearing the entire airport. there will be no movement in or about the airport until s.w.a.t. teams give me real-time information that it s safe. right now we re taking this
i talked to one man whose loved one or family member actually, it turns out, was inside. and they told the family, but have they released the name public yet? no, they have been making sure they let the next of kin first. you just said that, that s the priority, making sure they know. once the family members know they confirm to other people and that s how we can confirm it. but we have not heard officially from the officials out here yet. however, they did say we may learn some of the names beginning today. others, though, they are saying for the people, that it is hard to identify, if they are going to have to go through with the dna testing and matching dna samples, that will take weeks before they identify who the people were. and some of them, we do know there were international students as well. and the other would be the transgender people in there that lost their lives. they want to make sure they are sensitive about that and are identifying these people in the
seven people died in this tragedy. authorities have yet to release their identities. they say they are working to try and notify all next of kin first. and it s unclear if gildersleeve is one of them. his family saying they certainly hope he s not among the dead. erin what i m trying to understand i think a lot of the people watching you buy a ticket for a train under your name, it s scanned when you get on board, how is it they don t know who was on the train, they don t know who s missing? reporter: authorities are pointing to several potential factors. first of all, the impact was so severe that it actually expanded the search area. they think it is possible some of these passengers could have been actually ejected from the train. they also say it s possible that someone who had a ticket for the train never actually boarded and they also say it s possible that someone could have simply walked away without notifying authorities. erin thank you very much. outfront tonight, b
or irregular army has the right to follow its procedures and inform the next of kin first, but we do have that information. that i would guess, al qassam brigades are trying to put out to lend credence to their claim. of course, in any war, one cannot necessarily take the first word of any of the warring sides, whether they re established governments or guerrilla units on international terrorist lists like the gaza militants. one has to look for independent confirmation, but over the previous nights al qassam brigades have made claims on tv stations in gaza and those claims have, in broad terms, proved correct. thiv given in the past few days correct information about burr oeg across the border into israel to launch commando operations. they also gave correct information about the attack on the gilani unit and that devastating loss of live against
those who lost their lives. the pentagon and department of defense have been careful to say we have to notify next of kin first. but you are getting information on those who suffered today with that ultimate loss. that s absolutely right, erin. we know these are the first names of individuals whose families have been notified after that terrible tragedy today at the washington navy yard. the names are as follows, 59-year-old michael arnold, 53-year-old sylvia frazier, kathy gaarde, john roger johnson, 50-year-old frank kohler, kenneth bernard proctor and vishnu pandit. those are the names of the individuals who died in the shooting today whose families have now been identified. authorities are still working to reach out to the other families and let them know of what has