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That this person is inside that buildin building? >> i can't tell you that. the area that i'm in right now there are a bunch of buildings. there are people running around from building to building. at this time it would be safe for me to assume -- this is an assumption -- that he hasn't been located at this point due to the fact that there is so much congestion in such a wide area. >> tyler, can you tell me this? we heard that this happened at about 4:30. does that sound about right to you? >> yes, ma'am. it was right there about that time i went on base, and about the time that that happened ...

Investigation, clearly, pamela, even though it's soldier on soldier as it's been described, they're not necessarily ruling out terrorism, are they? >> reporter: no they're not at this point. it's still very early on, wolf. but at this point we're hearing from sources they don't believe that terrorism was a factor here. but again they're still trying to sort of investigate, identify who this person was. i was talking to sources, wolf, oftentimes in a situation like this when you have a shooting, the person is mentally unstable. there are pre-event indicators. so are going to be scouring this pe...

Information that's coming from the scene and people are waiting for the briefing by the general. so there's really no other information going out other than what local media in texas is reporting. and it's already been put out there in public. but i'm not hearing anything new. >> let's bring in general marks. this is as we say the second mass shooting at fort hood within five years. second shooting at fort hood. it's an awful, awful situation. general marks, i know you know general milley who's about to do this news conference, the commander general at fort hood. i assume you served there at o...

Lavandara is standing by, he's over at fort hood at the gate there. he's joining us by phone. this news conference expected to begin, we're told, fairly soon, right? >> reporter: that's our understanding, several minutes away as you can imagine here tonight in fort hood and the surrounding area. a very tense situation. a lot of the victims at local hospitals are dealing with those victims and trying to save lives essentially at this point. we are told by one local hospital that they've taken in six shooting victims, that the conditions of those victims range anywhere from stable to several tha...

Will be able to both physically and emotionally heal as will the families. the families are amazingly resilient. we tend to focus in on the soldiers and their sacrifices. now's the time as was stated earlier, to pay attention to the families, to embrace those families, so this community will absolutely coalesce much beyond what they already do as a matter of routine and will stay very very tight together. because you know, the strength of our army belongs exclusively with those families. if the families aren't strong, the soldiers are distracted. so this is a very important time to focus in on...