i don t know if it s the building i worked in or not. it s called building 197. that s all i know. so we re all wondering how a gunman could get into the facility in the first place. to get into the complex itself, there s heavy security at the front gate. you have to show the i.d. and then check out. well, i m speculating but if the person were if they worked on that base, they would be able to show their i.d. and maybe they drove a car on. if the gun was in their car, they could just drive right through the gate and park their car and take out the gun and start doing the bad things. so i m sure they didn t come through the gate all armed looking threatening. they probably came through the gate like they would on a normal day and once they were in they started causing problems. okay. thanks, matt. i understand barbara starr, who is reporting live from the pentagon, just got the defense secretary s feelings from what is happening.
but the washington navy yard has a secure perimeter to enter the washington navy yard. it is generally not open to the area. there are things for people to see and enjoy but they have to pass through a guard checkpoint essentially to get onto the washington navy yard and especially to go into this building. you can t just drive there, park your car, get out and wander around. so there s going to be a lot of questions to answer here about how someone did this. and you know, carol, as you say, the reports very, very early on. this is, i m looking at the clock, this is less than an hour ago tragically that the first shots were fired. the navy is getting the security forces on site as fast as they can and trying to get medical care of course to the people who are wounded. we don t know how many.
headquarters for the naval sea systems command which runs programs, shipbuilding programs both surface warships, submarines, a lot of classified work. this is a place where an awful lot of people come and go all day long, hundreds of people work in the building, thousands of people on the washington navy yard. this is a situation that by all accounts one hour later they are still trying to get under control. carol? er that still trying. you stay there at the pentagon. we have our justice correspondent evan perez on the phone right now some more information. evan, as far as we know, according to the u.s. navy, one report of an injury confirmed. there may be more. we don t know what s going on inside that building. do you know anything else? reporter: the fbi is now on the scene and they re trying to get into the building to try to secure it. now, this is still an active situation. it doesn t appear as barbara
programs for building ships and submarines, classified work, highly secure, not at all clear at this hour how anyone with a weapon could have gotten inside. the best information the navy is getting is from people inside the people. they re telling people to shelter in place, trying to evacuate people where they can. this appears to be a situation involving still at this hour an active shooter. carol? it s a very early hour in the morning, barbara. how many people do you think are in that building right now? well, this is washington and the bureaucracy, the u.s. military starts early. the reports were three shots were fired at 8:20 this morning east coast time, here in washington. at that hour i would say that almost everyone was in the buildi building. you mentioned a news report the fourth floor. we ll try and get more information what exactly is
right now. the gunman is still not apprehended at this time. all right. brian, thanks so much. stay on the scene. we re going to go back to wjla because they have more eyewitnesses who want to tell their story. let s listen. the fire alarm went off first and i was on the phone and someone said hey, this is not a fire alarm. someone has been shot in the building. we went around trying to get people out of the building and as we were exiting the back door, we noticed him down the hall. we heard shots. as he came around the corner, he aimed his gun at us and fired at least two or three shots and we ran out of the building to get out and there were still shots in the building. reporter: he aimed a gun at you? he aimed the gun at us. you were there, too? he was far enough down the hall that we couldn t see his face. he hit high on the wall just as we were trying to leave.