And good morning. Welcome to today on a monday morning. Im matt lauer. Good morning, everyone. Im savannah guthrie, and it is an anxious morning for folks up and down the east coast. Hurricane sandy strengthened over the night. Want to give you the information we know right now. Sandy is a category 1 hurricane with wind speeds of 85 Miles Per Hour. Its located about 285 miles east of cape hatteras, North Carolina. Emergency officials in new york city and washington, d. C. Had taking unprecedented actions to deal with this storm. Thats righ the mass Transit Systems shut down, schools cancelled. The stock markets are also closed. The first weatherrelated closure in 27 years, and just take a look at this nasa image from space. This is one massive hurricane. 800 miles wide which means its impact is going to be felt across a massive region for a very long time. You forgot to mention one precaution. Starbucks in new york and long island closed this morning. Dont hear that very often. Weather
Normalcy this afternoon but there are counsellors and chaplins on hand counseling those people who need help who were emotionally upset by seeing police here, relieving the nightmare of the horror of the shootings of two years ago. [ sirens ] the emergency call came in at 7 29 a. M. , prompting this immediate response. Heavily armed local and federal law officers converging on the navy yard, which was put on lockdown. Employees sheltering in place. The initial call came from someone inside the navy yard who said they thought they heard gunshots. We did take every call seriously and when we heard a call go out for a potential active shooter we brought the resources. Reporter the report of a potential active shooter turned out not to be true but Officials Say the caller did the right thing by alerting police. The two and a halfhour incident closed m street between south capitol and 11th street southeast. Other buildings with federal agencies and even some schools were closed as well. Off
Gunman massacred a dozen people. Police say the Lessons Learned from that dark day in 2013 ruled in a smooth, wellcoordinated response today. This turns out to be a great exercise for us and fix what we wanted to fix and nobody is hurt and no evidence of any shots fired. Reporter the navy is evaluating if todays Police Action may have brought back disturbing member ries for some employees, especially the ones who worked here at the time of the 2013 shootings. Ness based pop the events of a couple years ago, we have counselors and our chaplins are with them now, providing the support that they need or desire. Reporter now lets go to my colleague, news4s pat comes who has reaction from some of the people at the navy yard. Pat . Reporter chris for many people at the navy yard, the shooting scare is hard to deal with up here and really hard to deal with here. Today, on the day of the big shooting scare at the navy yard, people who were here two years ago when there was a real shooter, when
Normalcy this afternoon but there are counsellors and chaplins on hand counseling those people who need help who were emotionally upset by seeing police here, relieving the nightmare of the horror of the shootings of two years ago. [ sirens ] the emergency call came in at 7 29 a. M. , prompting this immediate response. Heavily armed local and federal law officers converging on the navy yard, which was put on lockdown. Employees sheltering in place. The initial call came from someone inside the navy yard who said they thought they heard gunshots. We did take every call seriously and when we heard a call go out for a potential active shooter we brought the resources. Reporter the report of a potential active shooter turned out not to be true but Officials Say the caller did the right thing by alerting police. The two and a halfhour incident closed m street between south capitol and 11th street southeast. Other buildings with federal agencies and even some schools were closed as well. Off
Gunman massacred a dozen people. Police say the Lessons Learned from that dark day in 2013 ruled in a smooth, wellcoordinated response today. This turns out to be a great exercise for us and fix what we wanted to fix and nobody is hurt and no evidence of any shots fired. Reporter the navy is evaluating if todays Police Action may have brought back disturbing member ries for some employees, especially the ones who worked here at the time of the 2013 shootings. Ness based pop the events of a couple years ago, we have counselors and our chaplins are with them now, providing the support that they need or desire. Reporter now lets go to my colleague, news4s pat comes who has reaction from some of the people at the navy yard. Pat . Reporter chris for many people at the navy yard, the shooting scare is hard to deal with up here and really hard to deal with here. Today, on the day of the big shooting scare at the navy yard, people who were here two years ago when there was a real shooter, when