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Streets coming in you can even tell in the town of killeen, somber, very quiet, not a lot of cars out on the road. and the entrances into the main gate completely quiet and guards are stationed up several hundred yards away from the main gate checking cars and asking people why they're pulling up into the area. so a situation that's very tense and a situation that many people are monitoring closely waiting to go seat conditions of the soldiers that were victims in today's shooting. >> ed lavandara on the scene for us now at fort hood. stand by, ed. we're going to get back to you. we're waiting...

The town of killeen, texas is very close by. one of the things we noted earlier that is worth remembering in all this, in fact this community has not only dealt with what happened on this base, with nidal hasan and this incident but 23 years ago just outside of the base at killeen, one of the biggest shootings in this country's history at the luby's cafeteria which affected many families connected to this base. so the civilian and the military community here has been through a tremendous amount in a very short time, wolf. certainly there are many people living on both sides of the base barrier...

Able to confirm the number of injuries. but you were saying that you heard there could be 15 which may include the shooter who has been killed. >> i would like to add in a situation like this as evan perez mentioned earlier you have kind of a fog of war situation and oftentimes much of the information coming in to a command post or coming in to the headquarters, whether it's at fort hood or relayed back to the pentagon or fbi headquarters, oftentimes the initial reporting coming from the scene is inaccurate. there's just, you know, it's the way it happens that people are reporting things and n...

Capabilities and possibilities. joined by jim sciutto and retired army major james spider marks. appreciate all of you being with us. general marks, the u.s. is moving assets into the region. talking about fighter jets to destroyers. walk us through what's happening with those assets. >> what we see right now, jim, thanks. if you could put the f 15s, the air force is moving f 15s into lithuania and some f-16s into poland. we have the positioning of high-speed attack aircraft. we also have the "uss truxton" a destroyer, which has left from the eastern, about to go through the bosphorus into the...

Patrol the air space to make small baltic nations feel better perhaps about the russian aggression. no direct threat against them from russia. countries are getting nervous. finally there are now discussions with poland about putting more u.s. air force presence into poland. the same thing, the countries on russian's flanks u.s. believes are anxious about the aggression. steps are being taken to reassure them. anderson? >> general marks, in regard to hagel's comments you said the beefing up of military presence isn't necessarily directed at russia. what do you mean? >> as barbara indicated, th...