nearby here. we believe, or at least the investigators tell me they believe that he came to the navy yard today carrying only that shotgun. that once he shot his way in, that he then grabbed two other weapons, taking an ar-15 semiautomatic weapon, perhaps from the guard station there, and then shooting a law enforcement officer and taking the officer s handgun so that by the time he was shot and killed, they recovered three weapons. the shotgun they believe he had in the first place and the other two that he picked up along the way. stunning. absolutely stunning. nbc news justice correspondent pete williams. thank you very much. appreciate you being here. you bet. all right, more on who the apparent shooter was today. we ll have a live report from one of the places where he reportedly worked before coming to washington, d.c. plus, there s lots more ahead. stay with us. we are confronting yet another mass shooting, and today it happened on a military installation in our nation s
military i.d., he had some sort of a common access card, something like that that would have been able to get him on to the base, potentially into navy sea systems command as a visitors, or frankly, if he was there doing some sort of a contracting job, he may have had someone who would have even escorted him in the building. courtney, in terms of the ongoing nature of this, we re just talking with pete about how there still are a lot of people who are still on site at navy yards not being let out to go home yet. they re still maintaining this is an active investigation. as somebody who covers this part of washington and deals with government officials who cover this part of policy, how disruptive is this going to continue to be as this investigation continues? can you tell yet? oh, i mean, tremendously disruptive. think about, there s thousands of people who are working in this building, who were working at the navy yard today. for one thing, just on a very basic level, they couldn
breaking news for you. we have some new information from nbc news s investigative unit about this ongoing investigation into the mass shooting at the navy yard. according to law enforcement sources in washington, authorities tell nbc news that they have located aaron alexis rental car in a garage across the street from the building where the shooting occurred. authorities are in the process of obtaining warrants to search the car and to search the hotel rooms of aaron alexis and his fellow contractors at the residence inn where they were reportedly staying in southwest washington, d.c. these same sources tell nbc news that it appears this is about how the incident actually went down and may be getting at some of the difficult questions we ve been asking about how he got access to this secure facility. the same law enforcement sources in washington are now telling nbc news that it appears that aaron alexis entered the building armed and that one of
i breaking news for you. we have some new information from nbc news s investigative unit about this ongoing investigation into the mass shooting at the navy yard. according to law enforcement sources in washington, authorities tell nbc news that they have located aaron alexis s rental car in a garage across the street from the building where the shooting occurred. authorities are in the process of obtaining warrants to search the car and to search the hotel rooms of aaron alexis and his fellow contractors at the residence inn where they were reportedly staying in southwest washington, d.c. these same sources tell nbc news that it appears this is about how the incident actually went down and may be getting at some of the difficult questions we ve
ongoing and fast-moving developments of the story, one of the very first questions from reporters was do you have any idea how the shooter got into the building? how could the shooter access this high-security building at the navy yard? authorities at one of those press conferences, as soon as they were asked that, said they do not know, and it remains one of the many unanswered questions still tonight. joining us now is nbc news national security producer courtney kuby. thanks for being here tonight. i know it s been an exhausting day. thanks for having me. this building where the shooting took place, the pentagon is part of your beat. you ve done a lot of reporting on military institutions in washington. tell us about this site at the navy yard. this is the headquarters of the sea systems command. it is, right. it s the navy sea systems command building, where the shooting took place today. so, basically, you know, you mentioned there s about 3,000 people that work in that buil