The worst mass shooting on a military institution since fort hood in 2009. We are learning more tonight about aaron alexis, his history of violence and his apparent cry for help. Jennifer griffin is at the pentagon. She has those details, but we begin tonight with Senior Correspondent rick leventhal. Reporter the main gate was reopened this morning but only to walkins and essential personnel. The building is still a crime scene and the motive is still a question. We believe that mr. Alexis entered with a shotgun. Reporter the fbi is confirming that alexis did not use an ar rifle, but carried a shotgun purchased days earlier and a gun taken from a Security Guard that left 12 dead and several wounded. We believe that the deceased shooter acted alone. As such, with no other suspects at large, the investigation has moved into the phase of evidence recovery and information gathering. Reporter the Response Team is still inside building 197 at the Washington Navy yard. Methodically photographing and documenting the scene where the fbi says alexis got in with a valid i. D. He had been employed as a contractor and had passed security background checks as late as june of this year. When alexis started shooting, the metropolitan Police Arrived within two minutes. In seven minutes they were inside. But it took more than 30 minutes to finally end the carnage. We had officers who heroically went into a building, witnessing multiple casualties and continued to pursue and engage a gunman who was determined to kill as many people as possible. Reporter scanner traffic reveals some of the horror. We have a report on the fourth floor of a male with a shotgun. Multiple shots fired, multiple people down. We have an active shooter on fourth floor. Get you an update on the 3wi building location. We have an officer down on the third floor. Reporter his victims include 59yearold michael arnold, a navy veteran and avid pilot from virginia. 53yearold sylvia frasier, a Network Security administrator from maryland. 62yearold kathy gaarde of wood bridge, virginia, described as the kindest lady in the world. And also killed john roger johnson, 46yearold Kenneth Proctor and vishnu pandit. And mary francis knight. 58yearold gerald read, Martin Bodrog and richard ridgeal and a grandfather of nine who installed Office Furniture who was shot in the back while trying to flee. He didnt have to shoot my husband. I love my husband. Ill never forget him. Reporter federal sources tell us that he brought his gun to the gun range sunday night. Inside the navy yard we are told theres a mix of shock and anger that someone would attack this tight knit community and in a place they felt so secure. Rick, thank you. Lets take a deeper look at the shooter. National security correspondent Jennifer Griffin with exclusive military records and information about the history, hard times and warning signs of the former Navy Reservist alexis. Reporter a report from the newwort, rhode island, Police Report that alexis said he was hearing voices in his head days before he went on a shooting rampage. Quote, he first heard them talking through a wall while at the residents inn at middle town and then packed up and went to the hotel on the navy base and he heard them talking through the walls and floor and ceiling. An exclusive look at nearly 30 pages of his official navy record paints a different picture. Reviews from his supervisors were glowing in 2008. Quote, he has been on board a short time and has established himself as a get it done addition to the work center, possesses unlimited potential. Talented technician, eager trainee, dedicated over ten hours of offduty time to the atlanta food bank, distributing food to needy individuals. But later that year, he was thrown in jail overnight in jail. In response, the navy demoted him one rank and docked his pay by half for two months. Alexis was angered an appealed. I knew that there were some things that he was upset about with his veterans benefits. He wasnt getting paid on time or not enough. It was nothing to of this magnitude. Reporter his friends in texas described him as a loner who liked buddhist culturement he began work at the navy yard as a part of a new contract about ten days ago. He was working for the experts who hired him as an i. T. Specialist. Quote during which time we enlisted a service to perform two background checks and confirmed twice through the department of defense his secret government clearance. The last one was in june. All it revealed was a traffic violation. Raising questions among legislators about the reliability of background checks for security contractors. An issue that will be addressed tomorrow. The department of Veterans Affairs would not confirm he had sought help for mental illness. We continue to look into mr. Alexis past including his medical and criminal histories, but because that part of the investigation is still on going we will not comment further on that at this time. Reporter after his arrest in georgia in 2008, he continued getting good reviews from his navy superiors. In 2011 his immediate supervisor writes alexis will be a valuable asset to any civilian organization. That was the last thing written about him after he was honorably discharged by the navy and began work at the navy yard as a civilian contractor. A job he held until yesterday. Jennifer griffin, thank you. More on all of this, plus the Gun Legislation possibilities with the panel. New numbers tonight in the colorado flooding. State Officials Say as many as eight people are dead and somewhere around 650 are still listed as missing. Meanwhile the floodwaters and the danger are moving east. Correspondent alicia kuhn ya has the latest tonight. Reporter hi, bret. Pinpoint extractions are what theyre dealing with tonight and getting those with limited mobility to safety. For the second day in a year the forecast is dry for colorados front range mountain region. Since monday the National Guard has rescued hundreds of people still stranded after floodwaters destroyed road access to these Rural Communities nearly a week ago. Clear skies mean the arrival of food and water and also a way out. We were all there and we had nothing. But every little bit that we had we shared. When we got the bulk of our forces up in the community. That work is whats first and foremost is getting the folks out. Reporter while search and rescue is the priority, the focus now shifts to recovery. We had a beautiful place here. My own slice of heaven but its gone. Reporter the state estimates around 19,000 homes were either damaged or destroyed. The president has declared a major disaster in the area. Bringing up what could be tens of millions in federal dollars. So far, more than 6,000 people have applied for assistance from fema and lawmakers are promising colorado will emerge stronger. We know in the coming weeks and months and years, colorado is going to face a lot of rebuilding, well rise to the occasion. We will build it back better than it was reporter for those who suffer extensive losses wait to see if theyll get financial help, its a question of where to begin. We dont know where to start. Its not even like a day by day or a month thing. I want to think that far ahead, but its a minute by minute thing at this point update by te federal Emergency Management agency, the crews are attempting to evacuate people and are having to take printed photos of the devastation to show folks that it is all around them to convince them that it really is time to get out. Because they dont want to leave. Thank you. Last weeks massive boardwalk fire in new jersey was an accident. And is linked to a electrical wiring and equipment damaged during superstorm sandy. The faulty equipment under the board walk had been inaccessible since last years storm. Up next, trying to shut down obama care without shutting down the government. But first, heres what the affiliates are covering tonight. With the amazing story of two fishermen lost at sea for eight days were rescued. And how you can own some of the illgotten gain of jesse jackson, jr. , thats up for auction. Hes going to prison for illegally diverting campaign funds. And from our fox affiliate in phoenix. State legislators are debating whether to grant full Survivor Benefits to the 19 elite firefighters families battling the wildfire in june. Well be right back. My name is mike and i quit smoking. Chantix. Its a nonnicotine pill. I didnt want nicotine to give up nicotine. [ male announcer ] along with support, Chantix Varenicline is proven to help people quit smoking. 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Harry reid said legislation to keep the government running past the end of the government must be first passed in the house. He said the senate will do nothing until that. Republicans who control the house are debating about how to fund the government and whether to attach a measure to either kill or delay implementation of the president S Health Care law. Two weeks from today, the insurance exchanges that are the foundation of obama care are supposed to be up and running. Tonight, chief National Correspondent jim engel tells us how republicans are trying to stop without incurring the wrath of voters. Reporter theres fresh evidence today that obama care is deeply unpopular. A new fox news poll shows a whopping 68 concerned about their care under the new law with only 31 not worried. Even 56 of democrats expressed concern. Several polls showed deep doubts which the white house blames on others, not the law. The concerted on going effort to attack, appeal, defund and delegitimize the Affordable Care act. Reporter some like ted cruz are pushing to permanently defund it. But attaching a resolution threatens to shut down everything including pay for the military, which republicans fear would be blamed on them. And karl rove found people who overwhelming oppose obama care also oppose shutting down the government by a 2 to 1 margin. They think its a failed piece of legislation but they dont agree with trying a defund measure that will lead to the temporary shut down of the government. Reporter many republicans have a new strategy delay the law and the individual mandate by a year just as the president delayed other provisions including the employer mandate. The administration thinks those folks it was relief too . The same kind of delay at least that businesses will get . The president has delayed it or said he wants to delay it for big businesses and insurance companies. So American Families are saying what about our relief . Reporter the key to delaying a shutdown is getting the votes in the senate. One senator says matching the president s other delays might well get votes from Senate Democrats facing tight reelection races next year. This is a tough sell in some of the red states that democrats have to defend anyway. So i think it is quite possible. I think theyll put a lot of pressure on the leadership to go ahead and delay for a year. Reporter democratic votes for delay could change the political equation for the president. The narrative changes from simply republicans versus democrats to republicans and democrats versus president obama, thats better narrative for the republicans. Reporter a oneyear delay even satisfies some of those behind the permanent defund movement. A years worth of delay would be better than letting it kick in as planned right now. Anything that delays or stops obama care is a good thing. 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The United States will not do any of this by trust. This is not a matter of trust. Its a matter of verifying and verifying and then forcing. Reporter questions remain though whether the Security Council will agree on a tough chapter 7 resolution that includes the threat of military force. I think its a fact that the russians now have more influence in the middle east as a result of their intervention and the administration buying their solution than they have had since the 1970s. Reporter the president is also taking heat from the left. After this claim in an interview that aired sunday on abcs this week with george stephanopoulos. Folks here in washington like to grade on style. And so had we rolled out something that was very smooth and disciplined, they would have graded it well. Reporter liberal Washington Post columnist ruth marcus said that was embarrassing. He may have stumbled into the approach, but the indecision, the mind changing the lurching and note obama did not dispute it as much as dismiss them had consequences. On the foxhole a leading democratic pundit said had he had a way of getting the right answer thats much better than having a very clean way of getting to the wrong answer which is what a lot of americans and definitely at will of progressives felt happened in iraq. Reporter republicans insist even the framework sealed in geneva shows the policy has been full of inconsistencies. It more looks like frankly an effort to guarantee that assad stays in power and as i recall two years ago the policy of this administration was regime change. Reporter now, adding to the high stakes the president will host the israeli president Benjamin Netanyahu here at the white house on september 30th. They may immediate meet on the next week. These will come on a pivotal time. Thank you. Efforts to get to the bottom of last years benghazi attack will happen tomorrow. Catherine herridge on problems with the First Official review. Reporter the state departments investigation held up by the Obama White House as the final word on the benghazitebenghazi terrorist attack is deeply flawed, who told fox news in an exclusive interview, the committee will not hesitate to recall the most senior witnesses. We can have mrs. Clinton back. Our view is that we need to get to the facts. Reporter this republican staff report found the departments investigation known as the accountability review board, let senior state officials off the hook including Patrick Kennedy who green lighted the benghazi operation with substandard security. He did things that were dangerous and reckless and he did so while getting daily reports and knowing that ambassador stevens was out doing his job at great risk. 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We told you last month how a National ReviewOnline Reporter was able to obtain three free phones without being eligible. A recent audit discovered 42 of obama phone beneficiary, about 6 Million People have not demonstrated eligibility. We reached out to the fcc but its declined to comment. A tale of two covers. Virtually everywhere else, Time Magazine features Vladimir Putin with a black background and a caption reading americas weak and waffling. Russias rich and resurgent. In the u. S. , a Football Player and a story about paying College Athletes is on the front cover. The daily caller suggests that the cover choice may be covering up putins Foreign Policy triumph concerning syria. Rick stainal has a job lined up with the secretary of state john kerry running the departments Public Diplomacy mission and as you know, kerry continues to be heavily involved with diplomacy involving syria. We asked time for a comment, but no response so far. Its been a busy two days covering the story of the shooting at the Washington Navy yard. Take a listen. We believe at this time that the deceased shooter, aaron alexis, acted alone. We believe that mr. Alexis entered building 197 at the navy yard with a shotgun. We do not have any information at this time that he had an ar15 in his possession. The motivation whatever that motivation is is currently under investigation and were not not going to comment on it at this time. Were bringing in our panel early tonight. Stephen hayes, a. B. Stoddard and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. Charles, weve got some more information about the shooter and the shooting. Okay, i think right now its an open and shut case as to what was behind this. The report that we that you talked about, this incident on august the 7th at a motel in rhode island. He was hearing voices, auditory hallucinations. He had a sense there were three strange people who are obviously imaginary trying to shoot waves through his body preventing him from sleeping. He changed the motel rooms three times. This was a man who was clearly having a psychotic episode. Probably a paranoid schizophrenic. Clearly was somebody who needed psychiatric help. Whats so interesting about this is the police he called the cops. He needed help. 30 years ago the cops would have brought him to a psychiatric emergency room. He probably would have got antipsychotics and would have been hospitalized for a couple of weeks. Thats the way it was done in the 70s when i practiced psychiatry. But today, that doesnt happen. The cops left. He was left on his own. He was a man who shouldnt have been on his own. He should have the state looking after him. And he ended up killing people. Look, you want to respect the Civil Liberties of everybody. But there is a point in which if you dont take control of people who are clearly out of touch with reality, you are damaging them, exposing them and of course tragically, exposing a lot of innocents around him. Senator dianne feinstein, democrat from california, said this. After the shooting, this is one more event to add to the litany of massacres that occur when a deranged person or grievance killer is able to get a military style assault rifle. When is enough enough . Congress should resume a thoughtful debate on gun violence in this country. A. B. , a lot of talk about ar15 being used, that was not used. It was a shotgun that he apparently purchased in the virginia gun store saturday the 14th. The other guns used he picked up on the scene. What about this . The statement and the push and relooking at this on capitol hill . Well, this is something this didnt work, because he passed a background check because you are not youre not deemed mentally unfit to purchase a gun unless a judge says so. He cleared this background check at Sharp Shooters or whatever it is and got the gun. He was able once he got inside, once he killed or maimed people to get other guns. But he also sought medical help from the v. A. And we have a system at the military installations where according to the report out today, contractors can have temporary access even before the background checks are complete. So the system, whatever it is, we ended up with 12, you know, victims, at the hands of mr. Alexis. As for gun control legislation on capitol hill, i think that those on the side of proponents of new controls understand that they are not in a position to win that battle, in the short term it will be a marathon. In the issue like expanded background check, 90 of the country supporting them it is possible to win those, but not until they model the resources and motivation after the gun rights side of the argument. Until then its incumbent on them to work on Mental Health issues in order to keep people who get guns legally from busting into even just a parking lot where they dont need a badge. In this political environment, you heard brit hume on this panel yesterday saying if it didnt happen after newtown its hard to believe it will happen now. Especially in the wake of what happened in colorado with the two state lawmakers getting ousted for gun control efforts. Yeah, i think hes absolutely right. Theres virtually no chance this will happen. The fact that president obama came out and spoke while this was unfolding suggested to people that he was unlikely to take it as seriously as he had after the Gabby Giffords shooting and the newtown shooting. If he had been treating it that seriously he wouldnt have been out speaking about syria and the economy and other issues in addition to that yesterday. Theres a political wrinkle. Democrats dont want to push forward with any legislation or any kind of solutions on the Mental Health side of this question. Because they dont want to decouple it from gun control legislation. They believe that they will not be as successful in pushing gun control legislation if its not attached to Mental Health legislation. Republicans behind the scenes are thinking about whether they should make a concerted effort to push some Mental Health legislation to address some of the things that charles raised and let democrats block it if they want to. All right. Coming up after the break, more on this gun control push. Plus, the president on a host of issues and how hes standing this week. Comes to doing what , more is better. 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And he then went on to speak about the economy which is matter of central concern to the american people. Im just wondering he knew how bad it was, would he have gone forward with that speech . Again, john, we had the information we had. You can call it a political speech. The president addressed the issue. Political speech he called for congress to i know that its a fun thing to do to put run everything through the political sense, but the president called on congress to take action to ensure that we fund the government and that we dont default. Jay carney today still taking questions on the timing and tone of the president s speech yesterday, mostly on the economy, and mostly going after republicans. Were back with the panel. A. B. . I thought it was interesting not only was it just entirely inappropriate and something that was easily cancelled, but just coming off of the heels of an address to the nation about potential use of military force in the middle east which the president ended up going through with even there was a deal and then the vote had been scuttled, no vote in congress. He felt he still had to go forward and give this speech anyway. And then days later they have this situation with a terrible tragedy right in the Nations Capital with something they can easily he was not going to main street in some small town with a whole crowd set up. He wasnt on air force one when it was happening, he was right here. It was easily rescheduled or postponed. I think steve is right. I think he isnt prepared to jump into another gun control debate. Thats why he made remarks about it happening, but didnt push for anything. But it was an inappropriate timing today. He should have moved. I i heard someone on the other channel said they wishes could have yesterdays back. And jay carney is saying it was absurd. It was plainly a political speech. It was a partisan attack. Thats why he wanted to deliver it. I think the theme here over the past, you know, not only with syria, i think a. B. Is right on that, but also with this speech. If you go back further to the rose garden speech that the president gave, that he concluding saying hell take the syria question to congress and then jumps in a car and goes golfing. What we have seen from this president has been behavior that i think is unpresident ial. Over the past several weeks. Whether its syria, whether its not canceling the big syria speech and putting politics in front of national security. Whether its Something Like that where he thinks that his partisan speech is more important than finding out the facts and being able to address them in a regular way from the president who said we need to know all the facts before we can talk about these things. I think hes been unpresident ial. Charles, you had a strong letter to follow yesterday. I want to ask you about the gun control possibilities, the legislation push and lawmakers talking about it. In context, you had the fbi and Congressional Research service put out stats about these mass shootings. These are shootings where four or more are killed. 78 mass public shootings in the past 30 years resulted in 547 deaths. This is over three decades. Same time, 559,347 murders happened in the three decades. Thats 0. 1 of the total murders. Th the fbi. In this environment, even though this is tragic and horrible, is there any impetus to move this forward up on capitol hill . I think theres absolutely none. I think the reason is not so much the political i think effects of the recall elections in colorado, two state senators who had been defeated by pushing gun control, but its the simple fact of the rank opportunism. Every time you have a shoot its like somebody presses a button and you automatically say gun control. We know that the facts of this case in this particular case are. You can have all the gun control you want, all the background checks you want. He would have obtained the weapon anyway. So it doesnt apply in this case. Secondly, the only way youll have a successful gun control which lowers the murder rate is you do what australia did. And you confiscate all existing guns. In the absence of it will make no difference because you have a sea of guns out there that would take a hundred years to use up and wither away. So the access will always be there. In the absence of confiscation. This isnt a country that will confiscate. 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With some angst on the left and the right about what the president said in that interview with george stephanopoulos. In fact, traditionally, administrationfriendly columnist ruth markis wrote this. Quote, style, as the president would have it, matters. Adversaries and allies, foreign and domestic, take a measure of the president s steele. In the past few weeks, ive encountered not a Single Person outside the white house, republican or democrat, who has kind words for obamas performance. This about syria. Were back with the panel. Steve. Well, of course, style matters. But so does subs tatance. And to borrow one of the president s favorite phrases, hes presenting a false choice. The white house didnt do well on style and they didnt do well on substance. Theyre spinning this as a good deal for the United States, for our national security. And i cant decide which is worse, whether they actually believe its a good deal or if this is all just spin. Because if they really believe that its a good deal, then i think theyre so misguided on what happened here. If they dont understand that the United States got rolled and that russia came out with the upper hand, strengthened in the region, syria, bashar assad staying in power. Iran looking at us, understanding the president of the United States has a strong preference for process and International Diplomacy over any kind of military interaction. Former president bill clinton addressed that very topic with cnn in a new interview. Take a listen. Who cares how it came up . John kerry got asked, well, what can we do to stop you from bombing, and he said make the problem go away. So putin says, okay, ill do that. And so they say, well, this puts russia in a position of leverage and it guarantees that assad is going to be in power for a while longer. Thats a separate issue. The former president saying who cares how it came up. His wife, obviously, said what does it matter. But he says who cares. And what about his point . To his wifes credit, she and general petraeus were pushing the president for a more aggressive posture on syria a long time ago, throughout the two years when there was no discernible obamasyria policy and they were rejected. Now she is going to be quiet about what she actually wanted. Now that its all blown up. This is they stumbled on to an exit ramp. The back roads might still be jammed up. Theyre going to be back on the highway again soon. The job for president obama is to steel himself for this not to work, because there is no enforcement. And if there is any kind of chapter 7 u. N. Agreement, you know, the russians are going to veto it. Its going come back on him. The question will be whether or not he chooses to unilaterally approve the use of force in syria, where he cannot go back to congress, because he knows they would turn him down. That 80 of the American Public opposes the use of force in syria. And he has got to getted ready for the next step, something he didnt do over a twoyear period where he could anticipate there would be a chemical attack. He didnt do the diplomatic work or political work on the hill. One thing he can count objen, t russians will mess this up and it will cost thousands of troops and many years and untold millions for it to actually be carried out. Charles, theres ive heard some people say, why cant republicans who are critical of all of this just be happy theres not a war. The problem is, there still is a war, where, you know, more than 110,000 syrians have died. And everybody is talking, even the former president clinton is talking about this as if putin said, well, lets end the problem and the problem is ended. Are these people delusional . There is no chance in the world that were going to get rid of the chemical weapons in syria. Were not going to get the resolution we want. Were not going to get chapter 7. We are not going to get any removal of these two weapons. Its going to be an endless process. And assad stays in power, which is exactly what the russians have wanted. They will have achieved their objective. And obama, the champion of the nonlinear thinking, will be shown to have achieved nothing. Next up, some lasting images from the Navy Yard Shootings and some remembrances when we return. Finally tonight, 12 families are going home having meals, going to bed, without their loved ones. Today efforts to remember those who will never be going home as investigators search for answers. Minutes from now, a moment of silence in the house. Silence to pay respects. Thats it for this special report. Fair, balanced and still unafraid. It was the worst morning imaginable. It was traumatic. It was something that you dont expect. The men and women who helped protect our nation, those in uniform and the thousands of civilians who served the department of defense make enormous sacrifices for us, facing a workplace gunman should not have been one of them. You read about it in the news sometimes. These horror stories. But you never anticipate living it. Hes my husband and hes not here. All he did was go to work. This is the fox report. Still no motive tonight, but we do know the job reviews for the accused washington killer. And those reviews do not match up. Plus, friends talk about the aaron alexis they remember. Im sad, because i cant believe he would do Something Like this. He was a buddhist with a rap sheet. Got in trouble for shooting a gun one time. Now, were learning more about how the gunman got into the navy yard. [ sirens ] and about the victims of his rampage