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These multiple injuries, there's something wrong. and the only thing that i think say is we have to work together to get rid of it. i'd like you to put my trauma center out of business. i really would. i would like to not be an expert on gunshots and not be an expert on this. >> it's part of the remarkable press conference at about 4:00 eastern this afternoon. that was the chief medical officer at the washington hospital center, where some of the victims of today's shooting at the navy yard received treatment. that doctor's name is janet orlowski and coincidentally and amazingly, she had given...

We have some new information from nbc news's investigative unit about this ongoing investigation into the mass shooting at the navy yard. according to law enforcement sources in washington, authorities tell nbc news that they have located aaron alexis's rental car in a garage across the street from the building where the shooting occurred. authorities are in the process of obtaining warrants to search the car and to search the hotel rooms of aaron alexis and his fellow contractors at the residence inn where they were reportedly staying in southwest washington, d.c. these same sources tell nbc ...

Many of them sheltered in place. they owns have their purses, don't have their briefcases, they may not have their house keys. so, on a personal level, it's very disruptive for those people. on a larger scale, this is a tremendous asset to the u.s. navy, this navy sea systems command and the naval yard in general, and it's basically, it's on a virtual standstill right now. the navy yard is operating on only the most limited personnel tonight and tomorrow, and potentially for the next several days while the fbi continues their investigation. >> courtney kube, national security producer for nbc ...

Identified the man who allegedly opened fire at the navy yard, killed 12 people before he himself was killed. the man is aaron alexis, 34 years old. according to his aunts, he grew up in brooklyn, new york, with his mother and his father and his brother. he had been in the navy reserve for about four years. we continue to learn more about him as each hour passes. but here's the basics of what we know so far. he did serve in the naval reserves, but he was never on active duty. he never deployed to a war zone. he joined up in the spring of 2007 and was out of the naval reserve by 2011. his last ...

Weapons that he may have had, and does that tell us anything about what it might have taken for him to get that kind of weaponry into the navy yard facility? >> sure, good questions. and i guess i have two answers to that. there's nothing that we know of in his past, even though he had treatment at v.a. hospitals for some psychiatric issues, nothing that would have disqualified him from buying a weapon. remember that the federal standard is a judged mentally incompetent. that's the phrase in the law, or mentally defective i think is the word that the statute uses. so, a judge has to make a fin...