The largest salvage ever attempted. Today, september 16th, 2013. 3 c1 good morning. Welcome to today. It is 7 00 on the west coast. Im Savannah Guthrie. Matt is in colorado covering the floods. Alan natalie are here with me in the new studio. It is like americas living room. We have to say thanks to the crew. They worked tirelessly over the last two months. We will show you around the studio in a bit. A shooting at the Washington Navy yard. A search that is going on for the gunman. Lets go to tom costello. He is at the scene. Reporter good morning, savannah. We are fourtofive blocks away. There is a tremendous Police Presence and response to the incident fourtofive blocks down at the navy yard. At 8 20 or so this morning, there were initial reports of shots fired. Since then, really, an armada of Police Officers coming in. We have more coming in now. Unmarked vehicles, marked vehicles, d. C. Police responding to the scene trying to find the here is the. At least report, we have a report of seven people shot, including two Police Officers. We dont yet know the status of the suspect and where he is. They have been hunting him for the better part of an hour and a half. We believe that they have taken at least one, maybe two individuals away via a medivac helicopter. Whether more have rolled in because they have more victims, were not sure. An active and fluid situation in southeast d. C. At the navy yard. Savannah, back to you. Tom, thank you. This is a military installation, but there are civilians that work on the grounds as well, right . Reporter thats correct. We have civilian and military personnel. The people that work at the site are involved in sensitive subject matter, if you will. They are involved in the design of ships and that kind of thing. Jim miklaszewski at the pentagon gave you a better sense of the work that is done here. This is a very full place with 3,000 employees on any given day. I should tell you the department of transportation has been locked down and so has Reagan International airport. That is about three or four miles away. Air traffic is effected because of the ongoing operation. We want to get to Jim Miklaszewski at the pentagon this morning. Jim, good morning to you. Tell us more about the navy yard and particularly the security there. Reporter before we get there, savannah, i would like to report that one Navy Official i emphasize these reports are unconfirmed but it is one Navy Official who is at the navy yard and in a position to know. Reports as many as a dozen people were shot. It appears there are four fatalities, eight wounded, in this one gunman rampage at the navy yard this morning. Navy officials here in the building could not confirm the report, but they acknowledge that they have one of their own officers there at the building who reports that at least a dozen people were shot and as many as four appear to have been killed in this shooting. Still unclear, although, that report also says that the gunman has been taken down at this point. This is a very late breaking report. We are seeking further confirmation. These are reports coming from a senior Navy Official at the navy yard itself, where the shootings occurred, savannah. Jim, back to my earlier question. I think there are a lot of questions right now, more questions than answers. Do you know anything about the type of security . How could someone get on the facility . Reporter if you have an i. D. Card, civilian or military i. D. Card, you can easily drive on the base. Other civilians who go on the base have to have their cars checked. If you have an i. D. Card that allows you open access to the base, you can easily drive on to the base and if you had a weapon concealed in your car, that could be easily done. Now each of the buildings also has a certain level of security, but not as robust as you find on the outer gates. According to one official, there was a person working in the building, hiding under his desk, on the telephone accounting as it happened. How the gunman approached one of the military Police Officers and opened fire seriously wounding that Police Officer at least. This was a very chaotic situation according to those who were in the building at the time. It has been more than an hour and a half now that the s. W. A. T. Teams have been on the scene and we are just now getting reports that the gunman may have been captured or taken down. All of these reports coming from one naval officer at the navy command. Navy sea Systems Command at the navy yard, savannah. We will continue to let you work the phones and bring you the latest. Lets go back out to matt covering the story in colorado. Good morning, again. Savannah, this is a devastation situation. Five people now confirmed dead. More than 1,200 people listed unaccounted for. The flood damaged 19,000 homes. 11,000 people forced to flee. This is the fourmile canyon creek. Normally dry this time of year, now raging and angry, as you can see. People cannot get rescue operations in to find out how those people are and with the weather today, more rain and more gray skies, those choppers may be grounded again. Nbcs Miguel Almaguer joins me here in boulder. Reporter matt, good morning. The numbers are staggering. More than 100 miles of roadway washed away. The best perspective comes from the air. About 500 feet above the ground level, the view of the damage is extensive. Wow look at this. It is going to certainly take months to clean up this damage. The flood zone is actually about the size of the entire state of connecticut. Were over boulder here. The population used to be about 100,000, but some 15,000 people are in the evacuation zone. Many of these folks simply cant go home. The damage is just too much. Rock slides, mudslides, so many disasters. So much devastation. There are too many damaged homes to count. The focus remains on rescuing and evacuating thousands of people on the ground. One official said they havent seen this Many Americans rescued by the air since katrina. At one point, some 400 children were rescued. The military convoys are going doortodoor now. They are telling folks who refuse to leave this may be their best and their last chance to get out. This is the Big Thompson River that weaves through a residential neighborhood. It is flowing over roads and bridges. It completely wiped out this section of town. More than 150 miles of roadway have been washed off the map. They are either compromised or simply under water. You wonder how they will be able to rebuild. How long it will take. How can we ever recover from this . I know exactly inch by inch, mile by mile, community by community, they are taking this stuff back. Reporter those military rescue choppers should be back in the air later today, matt. In Laramie County alone, more than 1,000 people waiting to are rescued. We saw the moment where the chief was talking about it. I went up to loveland, colorado at the command center and i had a chance to talk to him. I watched a little bit of the press conference today. I watched at times you struggled to contain your emotions. Sheriff, is it because of the devastation or because of the frustration . It is the devastation, matt. You know, is there frustration . Sure there is. You want everybody to be out at once. We are still a small community. I know the voices on the radio. When i hear people trapped up there. It is personal. That is justin smith. The sheriff of larimer county. I spoke with governor hickenlooper this morning. I asked what he will focus on this morning. Our primary focus is to get everyone in harms way out of there. Focus on if someone is really at risk, how do we get them out there. We will have 16 or 17 helicopters in the air in the next hour and comb the entire landscape to get everybody out. The more than 1,200 people unaccounted for. You are very hopeful and so are the officials that once you get helicopters into the remote areas that are cut off and simply talk to people and ask them their names, you will be able to check a lot of people off the list. Right. You have to remember a lot of these folks lost their cell phones and landlines and Internet Connections four or five days ago. We have no way to get a hold of them. Im very hopeful that the vast majority of those people are safe and sound. We dont have any illusions. We know there will almost certainly be more fatalities. I know you have been dealing with weather officials the last several days. Even if it stops raining in the next day or so, when do you expect the waters to recede and the creeks and rivers to go back into their banks . We have a good weather forecast. We will get scattered showers, but nothing like we have seen. It will take it is like a python that swallows a meal. It will start receding or not getting worse in the next 12 hours and receding in the next couple of days. Governor, our thoughts and prayers with you and the people of colorado. Condolences on the loss of life. Thank you for joining me this morning. You bet. It has been a tough thing. Every time these roads, you see them broken, it is amazing how it brings people together at the same time. All right. John hickenlooper, the governor of colorado. Thank you very much. That was earlier this morning. The sky is brightening now, although the ceiling is still low. It is still raining. Not as hard as it has been the lets go back to al. He is in studio 1a. As you can see on the radar, the areas of precipitation are shrinking. High pressure starts to build in and we will get a bit of a break. That is good news. The problem with this, of course, has been the torrential rainfall. Even down into new mexico, 4. 5 inches of rain. This is about a 1,000year event. We are talking about this event happening once every 1,000 years. For the denver and boulder area, the next five days, we see clearing. We see temperatures warming up. That will help in the clean up and the rescue efforts. A lot of people want to know how they can help colorados flood victims. We posted that information on our web site today. Com. Al, thank you. An unprecedented salvage operation off the coast of italy. For the First Time Since the Costa Concordia 20 minutes ago. We have Michelle Kosinski with the latest. Reporter lets look at early this morning versus now. You see the huge difference . No . Take a look at our live picture again. You can see remarkably a thick dark water line along the edge showing off the progress so far. This incredibly delicately calibrated operation is slow. About ten feet an hour. It will take 12 hours. What an enormous step to getting this hulk out of here. Angry skies threatened over giglio. At dawn, a threehour delay. Then all systems go after more than a year of around the clock preparations. Everything absolutely under control. Reporter emotion around the world today. Just brings you back. Its horrible. Reporter from the more than 4,000 people who were on board that night. In that chaos, 32 lost their lives. Including two americans. In tel aviv, janice watched. On her honeymoon. Climbing up a ladder and in the darkness and thinking they would die. Im not sorry we are not there. Reporter it is the biggest cruise shipwreck in history. This is an engineering marvel. Similar have been done on a smaller scale. Here, the steep reef below is levelled with cement. A platform under water built. Cables extended down the ships belly pulled from machines on land. And it is actually working. The worstcase scenario is what . The structural failure. It will be localized failures. Not catastrophic. Reporter remember, two of the victims were never found. Once they get the ship upright and floating, that search will continue under water and in the ship. Next week starts the trial of captain francesco. Thank you, we have the latest with natalie and the crisis in syria. Today, the u. N. Inspectors say there is clear and convincing evidence that chemical weapons were used on a large scale in that attack last month in syria. They say the evidence is that surfacetosurface rockets containing the nerve agent sarin were used. Meantime secretary of state kerry is in france today to try to end the chemical weapons program. President obama speaks out on the economy on the fifth anniversary of the crisis. He is also looking for a new fed chairman now that one has taken his name out of the running. We have Peter Alexander with more on that. Peter, good morning. Reporter Larry Summers is one of the top economic advisors in the first term. He had worked with the clinton administration. He was the first choice to head the federal reserve. On sunday, president obama accepted summers decision to withdraw his name. Specifically democrats, summers conceded it would be tough, this confirmation battle ahead. The president is expected to announce the nominee as early this month. The current chairman ben bernanckes term runs out in january. One name we should keep an eye on is janet yellen. Thank you, peter. And miss new york is miss america. 24yearold nina doulouri is the first indianamerican to win the pageant. We will talk about that more in trending. Lets get back to the top story. The shooting at the navy yard. Pete williams has more on what has gone on here. We heard reports of multiple injuries. Pete, good morning to you. What can you tell us . It does sound there are reports of fatalities. We heard there are probably nine or ten shooting victims. The number of fatalities, were not quite sure of it, it could be four or five. It is still rapidly unfolding. There have been reports that police have known where the person firing the shots was and was responding to them. Were told this is still not over. That they have not declared this all clear by any means. We still dont have an hour and a half after this happened, or began, a clear idea of precisely where it started, how many people were involved initially. We heard conflicting reports of one shooter or more than one. That is yet to be nailed down. Whether this person is civilian or military. All we know it is a man who was heavily armed with at least one long gun or shotgun and a handgun. It is still not over. It is sounding like there will be fatalities as four or as many as ten shooting victims, wounded and killed. Still, a long way from over, unfortunately. Pete williams, keep us posted. Thank you so much. Lets turn to al with a check on the weather. That is right. We are looking quickly. We have sunshine along the west coast. Some showers in the pacific northwest. San francisco looking good. Partly sunny and 69. Denver, good news. You will see the fog burn off and temperature of 77. Phoenix will be toasty and sunny skies and temperature of 87. Nice car. Sure is. Make a deal with me, kid, and you can have the car and everything that goes along with it. [ thunder crashes, tires squeal ] so, what do you say . Thanks. But i think i got this. [ male announcer ] the allnew cla. Starting at 29,900. 7 21. Good monday morning. We have flight n delays for you back to business monday. Temperatures will be comfortable, 67 in San Francisco, 77 on the way to oakland and 77 degrees here in san jose. 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