Need to be here. The report of a potential active shooter turned out not to be true but Officials Say the caller did the right thing by alerting police. The 2 1 2hour incident closed m street between south capitol and 11th street southeast. Other buildings with federal agencies and even some schools were closed as well. Officers at the navy yard search building 197, interviewing employees. Emotions ran high because thats the same building were in 2013, a lone gunman killed 12 people. But today, the investigation revealed there was no gunman, no shots fired, no one was hurt. Im very proud of all of the officials that anticipated the call. We know that there have been a lot of Lessons Learned from previous incident fatality here at the navy yard. And we have found that there has been a clear, coordinated and convincing response to this scene. Reporter heres what will happen next. Law enforcement agencies that responded here today will hold an afteraction meeting with the navy. We are goi
Joint statement. It was scheduled for about 15 minutes ago. They are about a third of a block away from here. We hope to clarify what caused this. There is a standing down and some military personnel are leaving at this hour. You might say that media outnumbers the amount of Emergency Personnel on the scene. Again, hopefully we will be hearing from an admiral who is chief of naval installations wells the mayor and some other local Public Safety officials. Tell us what it was that led to this tense situation here earlier this morning which, indeed, now is sort of winding down. Derrick ward, live outside the navy yard. This is video from a bit earlier today. The mayor we saw in that live picture along with the police chief, cathy lanier and some folks from both the fbi and the United States navy you see here gathered just a few maybe half a block away from where he is set up. At this point, we would imagine they are sort of matching up their information we see the mayor there in the pink
Normalcy this afternoon but there are counsellors and chaplins on hand counseling those people who need help who were emotionally upset by seeing police here, relieving the nightmare of the horror of the shootings of two years ago. [ sirens ] the emergency call came in at 7 29 a. M. , prompting this immediate response. Heavily armed local and federal law officers converging on the navy yard, which was put on lockdown. Employees sheltering in place. The initial call came from someone inside the navy yard who said they thought they heard gunshots. We did take every call seriously and when we heard a call go out for a potential active shooter we brought the resources. Reporter the report of a potential active shooter turned out not to be true but Officials Say the caller did the right thing by alerting police. The two and a halfhour incident closed m street between south capitol and 11th street southeast. Other buildings with federal agencies and even some schools were closed as well. Off
Need to be here. The report of a potential active shooter turned out not to be true but Officials Say the caller did the right thing by alerting police. The 2 1 2hour incident closed m street between south capitol and 11th street southeast. Other buildings with federal agencies and even some schools were closed as well. Officers at the navy yard search building 197, interviewing employees. Emotions ran high because thats the same building were in 2013, a lone gunman killed 12 people. But today, the investigation revealed there was no gunman, no shots fired, no one was hurt. Im very proud of all of the officials that anticipated the call. We know that there have been a lot of Lessons Learned from previous incident fatality here at the navy yard. And we have found that there has been a clear, coordinated and convincing response to this scene. Reporter heres what will happen next. Law enforcement agencies that responded here today will hold an afteraction meeting with the navy. We are goi
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