to the area, it was gridlock as you can imagine, 295, 695, all of the exit ramps to get into this section of town were closed off. d.c. police officers standing outside of their vehicles and the marine barracks, which isn t far. the on this side the guards outside armed, stationed outside, they ve evacuated that building as a precaution right now. and really the whole area is shut down as a precaution as the active search continues for the gunman at around 8:20 inside. we ll show you the scene live, all the fire trucks and the paramedics, the emergency vehicles, more and more vehicles arriving each moment and they try to stabilize and control the scene, making sure no one gets in or out at this hour. i ll send it back to you for now. john, thank you so much.
metropolitan police. heartbreaking information. brian todd, you stand by. i want to go back to barbara starr. i thought you said earlier that some of the victims were being treated inside the building or on the scene or near it. what can you tell us? well, in the initial moments of this, some of the injured are being treated. that is the information that we had as this unfolded. they, of course, are trying to get these people to medical care. on the question of fatalities, we want to be very cautious here. there is some information emerging that there is or may be a number of fatalities in this incident. the navy is not yet officially confirming it. the navy is very aware. i just got off the phone with them of some twitter reports out there of a particular number of fatalities but this is a very sensitive matter, of course. nobody wants to be wrong.
marines taking no risk, no chances here. much more fire power on the street corners here. and let me tell you the faces of the people that i see walking around here, there s definitely concern on the faces. i saw one man trying to explain a little bit to his young children what was going on as they were leaving the school. so definitely something that people are trying to get away from. and the shopper put something in the basket and flew right over here. so far we know, one washington, d.c., police officer has been hurt. the shots that injured him came from inside the navy yard. the u.s. navy has tweeted out that there were several more injuries although we don t know whether they took place inside the building, outside the building. the gunman has now barricaded
himself in one particular room inside this building. barbara starr, are you getting any more information from your sources? well, carol, i just got off the phone with the navy at the pentagon. this is still what they call an active shooter situation. how do they know that? they tell us that they are getting phone reports from inside the building. they are quite comfortable in telling that to journalists. they want people to know that they are getting the best information they can in this very fluid, very fast-changing situation. so the latest that the navy knows is that the shooter still active inside the building. i want to go back to what so many of my colleagues are saying. i ve been on the washington navy yard as so many people from cnn have many, many times. but i have to call ahead. i have to get my car cleared. i have to have an appointment. i have to be able to tell the guard at the gate who i am and why i am going on to the
in comparison to a handgun or assault rifle. fending on the kind of ammunition in the shotgun he could inflict an extreme amount of casualties for example by using a slug which goes through one person and through another person and possibly i think we lost lou s connection. we go to barbara starr with what a shelter in place order means. take it away. the washington navy yard is a compound of many buildings, this incident taking place by all accounts at one of them. so what they want to do is keep everybody as safe as they can and make sure that nothing is done jeopardize people s safety further. they re saying stay in your office, stay secure. this will also mean as security forces go through the compound, go through that building, they