let me show you a few key areas to think about as we talk about this. for example you may have heard them talking about closing down the community college and evacuating it. it s over here at this end. also at this end and one of the reasons this area is so sensitive down at spend. the whole thing is a big issue. if you look at the northwest corner of the base, move up here, the northwestern western end of it this is where major hasan s shooting took place. we know that there s a gate down here. this is called the clear creek gate. down at this corner of the base. we haven t heard as much about that. we heard more about the gate over here, the bernie beck gate which is the main gate which has many of those thousands of people coming in and out every day. that s been closed. we heard talk about the core headquarters which is right in the middle up in here. and we can move not very far away to get to darnell hospital which is another one of the
tom foreman is here. ft. hood is in between waco and austin. it is about 214,000 acres. a big facility. spreads out this way. it is ft. hood right here. that community college we re talking about is right over in this area here. this is the clear creek gate, one of the main entrances to ft. hood. and over here is the burning back gate. this is where we ve been hearing that reporter locally down there talking. the gate that s closed is this gate in here. as we move in closer here, we can move into the northwest corner over here, wolf, this is where major nidal hasan s shootings occurred, off to the western side. now what we re talking about more, you mentioned the hospital earlier, the hospital is right over here. it s a big complex built in the 1960s. many, many troops who come out of afghanistan or iraq or anywhere around the world come to this base may very well go