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Of naval employees work. that's where some intelligence activity happens and just other sort of functions of the u.s. navy. this is not the pentagon. this is the navy yard which is a sprawling facility in the southeastç corner of washington. but you're right, those memories of that 2013 shooting with that contractor who was able to enter the building there and we have no idea if it's a similar situation or not. several things have changed since that happened of course in twirtd. 2013. the workers we've been able to speak to so far hearsay they're certainly on edge with that so fresh in their ...

>> lieutenant commander scott williams telling us that he and other colleagues heard someone say, stay away get out of the cafeteria get out of the building, but not saying they heard gunshots or saw a gun. he is now in a safe place while law enforcement investigates what went on here. >> pamela brown, you have some new information to share. >> so we're learning a little bit more about what initially elicited this response. apparently there was a phone call placed to 911. someone said there was a shooting on the second floor of the building on the navy yard. law enforcement were made aware and...

Or -- exits or adjoining offices. we weren't near an exit so we just sheltered in the offense. and that was the last we saw. there was no struggle or anything like that just everyone running to get to an exit. >> was there any mention of a weapon? >> no not from what we could hear. there was no mention of a gunshot near the cafeteria or anything like that no mention of anything like that. just get out of the building stay away from the cafeteria and that's when we took shelter. >> what happened then? did law enforcement respond immediately? >> absolutely. i thought the response from law enforc...

Out of the building this time. >> what a traumatic deja vu for you to have to live through again. what has changed in terms of security that you have to go through? >> i think the command has done a much better job as far as you know the level of security that's on the base. i think that the -- all the civilian and military workers are much better trained. everyone is of course more vigilant. nobody wants something like this to happen again. i think probably a lot of people were able to run for the exits. and those that weren't, had offices that they were able to go and lock themselves into. >...

I thought the police response was great. they got us out of there and they got us out of there safe. >> so they escorted you out of the building. did they have guns drawn? set the stage for us there. >> they were definitely in a defensive posture where they had their weapons drown and they were making us identify ourselves in the rooms and stuff like that. and you know so they were -- there definitely was something going on but nothing that we could see. we were staying low to the ground as they were escorting us out with their hands up. there was definitely something going on. they were defin...