are you safe in this country? that s a good concern. you know we abide by our current policies and everything. a lot of those questions need to be directed to dod personnel. they re the ones who make the choices and decisions on that. as a soldier, i abide and i follow those policies as directed. i understand that you are not armed and that is the policy in these recruitment centers, that people do not carry weapons. that is correct, ma am. well, again, thank you. thanks for taking the time to be with us today. and we wish everyone speedy recovery and thank you for your service. again thank you, ma am. and join meg now by phone is chattanooga mayor andy berke. mr. mayor, your community has gone through a terrible tragedy. how are people pulling together? well, last night we saw spontaneous acts of kindness and
surviving for her life. the survivors speak about the ordeal. we have heard it before. we re soldiers we shoot all the time. we know what gunfire sounds like. it was only a matter of one or two seconds and we knew exactly what we needed to do. we ll hear more from sergeant first class robert dodge in a moment. this morning in chattanooga the community came together to remember the victims and pray for the survivors. this is your community. this is where we live. and something happened here that should never happen. that s why we join the military for this never to happen. is chattanooga safe after this ordeal? we ll ask the mayor andrew berke. and as we learn more about the man behind the attacks, exclusiver is er isr is er isr is er isr is interview with a high school classmate of the gunman. good day. i m andrea mitchell in washington. fbi investigation is in high gear trying to figure out what led a 24-year-old kuwaiti born
it s somewhat unusual that they still have no clue why he did it. so often in these case, andrea we ve seen the people responsible had left some kind of message or some sort of videotape message or manifesto or had said something or had been communicating on facebook. authorities say they have found none of that, nothing that indicate any connection to overseas terror. they still can t answer that fundmental question. his electronic devices have been taken to the fbi s crime lab in quantico virginia where all that is being analyzed. as they look back through his past context trying to reconstruct the past few days they re looking at other things too. they know that his father had been looked at. was briefly investigated 20 years ago after he gave money to a charity connected with a group overseas that was considered to be a terror group, hamas, i believe. but they looked at that and decided the father s interest was strictly charitable. that investigation was shut down. but t
as the gunman fired 22 shots. it sounded like a jackhammer. bam, bam, bam, bam, bam. it was really fast. i saw him take one shot and consistent shots after that. he then went to a marine reserve center. three marines there were killed. sergeant first class robert dodge was one of the survivors. as we were sitting there just doing day-to-day operations, we heard a single pop which kind of alerted us and a second or two after that is when the first fire started. at that time we went into a call of action shooter drill. we got down on the ground and moved to a secure location in the back of the office and barricaded ourselves in and waited for the all clear. nbc s sarah dallof is joining us at the recruitment center in chattanooga, tennessee where the gunman started his rampage. what s happening there today? reporter: good morning, alex. investigators were here all night and will be here throughout the day. they re focusing on the motive of the suspected shooter, wha