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Yard. tom, just talking to rick mason, an eyewitness that described security procedures, they show them but not regular checks and no magnetomteres. somebody walked in with a firearm clearly. >> i think any of us who cover official washington from time to time, we're struck by how good the security is at any federal building and then maybe the next day or couple weeks later it isn't so good. i don't want to speak to what was happening at the navy yard this morning but clearly they will be evaluating procedures. four shots, one in surgery

Is now deceased. police went to the home of this individual, have been in contact with him conducting their investigation relative to him. it may turn out to be an extraordinary coincidence that he resembles the shooter, was an employee at that facility, may no longer be an employee there. to give you a sense of what's going on apart from at the scene itself, there are investigations spreading out to include this one in which this id card that was found, may be information of a name put out by other news media sources, in likelihood, this is just a coincidence, if you will. additionally the po...

I ran from there. >> chilling eyewitness testimony. nbc news justice correspondent pete williams joins me. mik is reporting seven dead perhaps as many as 15 shot. as more information comes in we're hearing a much grimmer toll. >> yes, and we've been cautioning all along the number will change. we're still trying to sort out whether all of these victims were inside this building 197 or whether some were shot outside. we've been hearing all morning long, some people saying they thought this all started outside the building and then went inside or started inside and came outside and went back in ...

Suspect you may be concealing something on your body. even to get into building 197 where the shootings occurred, there's another layer of security. your normal pass doesn't even get you into parts of that building. so there are several layers of security to even get into this building. it's not clear yet whether this individual was military or civilian, an employee there had his own id card or accessed the building and the base through somebody else's id card. all of that is under investigation as we speak. i can tell you there is an update, andrea, that military officials here are reporting ...

Bang bang. the officer here in the or. we believe he's no longer there are. sort of gotten out of there, listing critical but stable condition. there's a heavy police presence at the hospital, andrea. there are guards stationed out front. when you walk around the facility, there's a lot of plain clothesed metropolitan police officers making sure everyone on the grounds are supposed to be there. the doctor told us more reports of deceased victims who will not receive care obviously because they were deceased. . >> we just lost that signal from luke russert. we'll get back to him later. rick mas...