police officer shot, a second officer was shot. he was a base officer. we don t know exactly where these people sustained their injuries but i m just giving you information as i m getting it in. you have a chance to talk to some of those witnesses, renee. how many were i know 3,000 could possibly be inside that building because that s how many people work inside building 197. how many people were evacuated and how many people remain inside? is there any way of knowing that? these two individuals that i ve been speaking to at this point, they are unable to give me those kinds of numbers. so we don t know at this point. at least not from these two individuals. but i can tell you that on the way here i stopped inside a subway that was right by the police line and i spoke to a gentleman who works at the navy yard. he s spending the morning inside of this subway because he cannot
two law enforcement officers, one of them from the mel politan police, carol. we saw at least one emergency helicopter taking what we presume is an injured person to the hospital. barbara starr, you were hearing that some of the injured were being treated inside the building? all right. we lost barbara again so let me head back to brian todd. are you still with me, brian? reporter: i am, carol. yes, carol, i am hear you. i m reading a twitter feed from the u.s. navy. confirming several injuries with reports of fatalities. that s according to the u.s. navy twitter feed. several reports of fatalities. i can repeat the information i gave a moment ago. the suspect described as an adult black male, 6 feet tall, bald, wearing dark or black
the only information that we hear at least for right now that they re getting are from people from inside the building, calling emergency workers on the phone. we lost lou again. we re having little technical gremlins this morning. let s listen to wusa. 197 the naval sea systems command headquarters, building 197, everyone told to stay in place, shelter in place. there are about 3,000 employees as i mentioned before. i m seeing right now on the opposite side of the camera here a lot of just residents, folks who live, work in the area whoa are outside of their offices and outside of their homes on their cell phones just trying to figure out what is happening here. obviously there is a lot of buzz on social media as i was coming here, a lot of folks that i know
i m not sure if you heard the description of the suspect, tom. he s a very tall, african-american man, 6 feet tall, dressed all in black, armed with some kind of rifle. at one point an employee said they spotted him down the hall. he turned towards them and fired seemingly over their heads, they started to run from the building and get some they started getting some of their fellow employees out. does that say anything to you about the shooter? well, if it s true that he shot deliberately over their heads and tried to avoid shooting them directly, it might indicate that he was after one particular person. maybe he works there and has a boss that he doesn t like and wanted to go after him. but when you hear of ten people being wounded and possible fatalities, then it sounds unusual that he would not deliberately shoot everybody he sees in this case. so i don t know if for sure you know, eyewitness accounts of what happened can vary from the actual incident and it may just
three shots at least were fired by what the military is describing as an active shooter at the washington navy yard, inside a building where several hundred people work. security forces began entering the building at this hour. we have no word whether they were able to take this person into custody. they are awaiting what is happening with the shooter. the navy has told us and says it is okay for us to report this, so i want to be very clear to our viewers that they are getting phone reports from people inside the building, who have been told to shelter in place, to stay there and await help, and those phone rorpds are telling navy officials here at the pentagon that perhaps several people were injured. we were told a few moments ago they are able to evacuate some people. we don t know if that s the injured or the people that were told to shelter in place.