accentuates some of the reporting, adds to reporting we ve gotten from the hospitals and elsewhere of multiple victims here. again, multiple vehicles have been swarming around this area for hours now. several headed up that ramp and south on 295 a short time ago. not sure what that was about. what we can also tell you is according to the one of the hospital spokes women here kind of gave a hint as to the kind of weapon that might have been used. she said the witnesses she treated, some of the people she talked to who were victims of the shooting reported shots in multiple succession, indicating it was some kind of semi-automatic weapon or something of that sort. that s some of the incremental information that we re getting right now. again did, heavy presence down here on 11th street. we re at the northeast corner of the navy yard. and again, a chopper, park police chopper has been circling fairly low above the navy yard for several hours now. not sure exactly what the purpose of tha
a very fluid situation with one shooter at least and the disposition of that shooter is not clear at this point. we re expected to hear from the d.c. police chief cathy lanier very soon. one of the officers just told us that she is going to be briefing soon. we ve seen tactical vehicles moving around here, some officers with tactical gear on. our photo journalist mark saw him. this is now blocked by the fire truck but that s the direction that we saw this. i couldn t see it with my naked eye but mark saw it with his lens. helicopters are swarming autopsy over the place as well. six local schools as well as one administrative building is locked down. it s a fluid situation and that could be by the police chief has not come out and briefed yet. down here is where we saw the fbi mobile command center move down 11th street down towards this possible entrance of the navy yard, towards that area of
of that potential development. this is such fluid information. such a fluid scene here that we have to say the word potential and stress ta at this time. potentially two other shooters. you ve got tactic it will gear being donned by police down here. they are setting up some kind of staging area down on 11th street southeast. this is a fairly large perimeter around the navy yard, about 3g,000 people work here. a lot of buildings in this facility. this was the naval sea systems command building where this shooting occurred at about, according to police chief, the call first came in shortly after 8:15 a.m. so you re talking more than four hours, wolf, of a very, very active crime scene. stand by, brian. because there s a lot of fluid fluidity we should say in the situation right now. but a manhunt clearly under way for potentially two other shooters, one shooter killed as a result of what s going on, all of this according to cathy lanier, the d.c. police chief.
it is on the ground, no doubt about it. it is traveling i-40 or south of i-40. clearly it is on the ground right now and on 15th street and rock well right now talking about arlington drive, tiffany drive. enterprise place. will rogers parkway. west river drive. sycamore avenue. 15th street, 11th street. highland boulevard. charter after knew. rock well. a bunch of restaurants and meridian avenue. thank you, steve johnson, for that. all those restaurants on airport and meridian. all those restaurant at i-40 and meridian, heading for those areas right now. reed timmer, are you with us? reporter: yes. we are still heading east of 162 west of the airport. it is chaos out here. there are cars going everywhere. looks like they are evacuating. [ inaudible ]
sense of that as the tornado passes over. certain places myriraculously spared and others torn away. south 13th street or 12th street, and the tornado crossed in, about from south fifth street to about south tenth street, 11th street, i was one or two blocks away from where houses were hit head on. you can see, i started driving, trying to get to my son s school. directly into there. and so now i was trying to get to him, and they kept all the kids in school, and it s the school is right off of fourth street. a major street in moore. tried to get to fourth street going north, and also power lines, large powerline poles were down, blocking as far as i could see. i had to go a half mile north and half mile east in back neighborhoods and just very lucky, happened to drive