going, became radicalized and shot all those at ft. hood. nobody suspected he was capable of doing something like that. we ll continue our live coverage of the situation in san bernardino after this break. the only way to get better is to challenge yourself,
literally looked like if you were going into a room and turned on the light and there was a bunch of bugs and they just scattered. everyone instantly went to their rooms, locked their doors. you could just feel the intensity and the sense of fear in the area. heart-breaking story unfolding. joining us on the phone right now, the retired u.s. amy lieutenant general russell honore. i m sure you ll understand if we have to break away to go to lieutenant general mark milley the commander general at fort hood. he s about to deliver a statement and answer reporters questions at a news conference at fort hood. you ll understand why we ll go there, we ll have live coverage. but when you hear about soldier on soldier murder at fort hood again, what goes through your mind, general honore? you know, the army post by
pain that the president referred to in his remarks today. obviously sharing the shock that many americans feel to hear that something like this has happened again in the same place, wolf. and they re getting ready for this news conference, michelle, at ft. hood. the commanding general mark milly, lieutenant general of the united states army, will be briefing us momentarily once he gets to that microphone. we ll of course have live coverage. stand by for that. joining us on the phone right now is retired staff sergeant alonzo hundre alonzolunsford. shot in the 2009 attack shot by major nidal hasan. alonzo, thanks very much for joining us. this brings back awful memories, i m sure. just tell us what s going through your mind as you watch this story unfold. well, right now i appreciate you all having me on. i m dealing with a lot of emotions. and i would first like to give my deepest sympathies for the
lavandara is standing by, he s over at fort hood at the gate there. he s joining us by phone. this news conference expected to begin, we re told, fairly soon, right? reporter: that s our understanding, several minutes away as you can imagine here tonight in fort hood and the surrounding area. a very tense situation. a lot of the victims at local hospitals are dealing with those victims and trying to save lives essentially at this point. we are told by one local hospital that they ve taken in six shooting victims, that the conditions of those victims range anywhere from stable to several that were in critical condition. so you know intense care is going on right now and very close scrutiny being paid to the situation and the conditions of those soldiers. so even though things appear to at least the initial danger here has settled down, there s still a great deal of concern here. i ve just pulled into the fort hood-killen area tonight. i can tell you driving the
well as local law enforcement and state law enforcement as well to clear the scene. that has not happened yet. they are still going building to building, wolf, clearing the scene. that is why of course it is still on lock down, why people are being told to stay in their buildings and stay away from the windows. and until they clear the scene, we re not going to be able to confirm certain information such as whether there could have been more than one suspect. what we have learned, wolf, as barbara starr reported, we ve learned from sources that there are multiple deaths, one of which is believed to be the suspect in this case. and also, wolf, we re hearing from sources that it s believed that this started as a soldier on soldier incident. we don t have any information from there because this is all still very early on as we said they re still clearing the scene. everything is preliminary. and we re awaiting this news conference you see there setting up. lieutenant general mark milly,