psychological picture of navy yard killer aaron alexis. one is of voices inside his head, another picture, vibrations of microwaves to send him messages. police say this information may explain why alexis s gunned down 12 people on monday. nbc s tracy pots joins us. what s the latest? authorities also know he was arrested at least three times, but not prosecuted, never convicted on those arrests. at least two of them were gun related. that s raising a lot of questions here on capitol hill and across the country. should aaron alexis still had clearance to get on that base and should he have been able to buy a gun? as washington remembers the victims it s a hole that will never be filled. reporter: the fbi is tracking every move aaron alexis made. how did he carry out and plan this attack, how did he get access to the weapons. it was a lawful purchase of a shotgun made in virginia. reporter: legal, even though the veterans administration was treating him for menta
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announcer: from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1-a in rockefeller plaza. good morning. welcome to today on a wednesday morning. i m matt lauer. i m savannah guthrie along side al roker and natalie morales. i m excited about this underwater lab. they call it aquarius. what was kerry sanders doing there? he was preparing. oh, yeah. his mask. he is not the guy that s going to try to set a record. he s going to be the guy that shows us. regulator. he s very regular right now. sometimes irregular. anyway, we ll check in with kerry a little later in the show. but we want to get right to our top story. it s the latest details on the troubled life of the man responsible for the mass killing at the navy yard on monday. officials don t yet know the motive here. they re getting a clearer picture of the events leading up to it. nbc justice colonel correspondent pete williams has the update. good morning. good mor
details pouring in about the mental history of the man who opened fire yesterday, killing so many workers at the washington navy yard. we are studying these pictures tonight of aaron alexis showing what his friends say they saw, someone smiling, unthreatening. we now know there is evidence he was hearing voices, had even reached out for help, a warning sign that may have been missed. we begin our team coverage with abc s senior justice correspondent pierre thomas. reporter: law enforcement sources tell abc news aaron alexis was a ticking time bomb, in recent days, descending toward madness. on august 7th, at 6:00 am, alexis called the newport police in rhode island and began a bizarre tale documented in a police report obtained by abc news. he claimed after an argument at a virginia airport, an unidentified person had sent three people to follow him and to keep him awake by talking to him and sending vibrations to his body through a microwave machine. he switched ho
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