may be fired in 30 days. so there could be disciplining action involved that could have been a precipitating event. and my colleague david gura is standing there in virginia beach outside of the municipal building number two. and one of the last questions brought up there during the press conference dealt with whether or not the complex will be open come monday morning. and a lot of people aren t away of this complex. it is some 30 buildings, it is basically what runs the city of virginia beach. the largest city in all of the commonwealth there. what do you get a sense of what is shut down at this point and i imagine that it will be tough for many people to come back there to that complex. reporter: kendis, there are parts of the campus closed. you could see the police tape prohibiting us from getting closer to building number two but what you re citing is accurate, the center of the government is here. i keep saying it is like a college campus and over here there is a juvenile det
but, again, i m so proud to be from virginia beach. i m proud of our first responders in the way they reacted to the through this terrible ordeal. but i also know the strength that lies within our community and i know growing up here, i know we have deep inside of us and now is a time for all of us to show that and show what we have. and the strength is in our neighbors. i do want to ask you, because as i mentioned at the top, you were there in 2007 in virginia tech when that massacre took place. when you found out about this, what was your initial reaction? not again? well, not again. my initial reaction was i was in disbelief this could happen again. but then, like i said earlier, it went from a helpless college kid to now a councilman of the largest city in the state of virginia and i want to do something. i want to make sure that so what are you going to do? we have those well, we ll
more or less how many times did the shooter shoot? don t have that specific information and i don t think i ll release that until after the investigation is completes. so as i said, that will be the last question. how long will the fbi be in the building, do you estimate? i just said that is the last question, but considering you re local, we ll let you ask that. i can t give you the exact number of hours or days, but we re going to be there until that investigation is completed. they have teams going in and out. they are rehab iilitating with food and water and housed locally. so in police work, we stay until the job is completed. thank you. so there you have the latest update coming from the officials there in virginia beach. including the special agent in charge for the atf, a sean benedict who talked about the weapons that were involved in all of this. pete williams is still with us
for in our local hospitals. i want to also thank the outpouring of support and love that has come not only in hampton roads in virginia, but of course this country. and it is just so, so important, as we continue in this healing process. so, i d ask all of you that are viewing this today to continue to please lift up virginia beach. continue to lift up these victims and their families, as we continue this healing process which will go on, not for days, but months and years so, thank you. i will turn this over to our mayor of virginia beach, mayor bobby dyer. mayor. thank you, governor. it s been about 23 hours since this horror was imposed upon the city of virginia beach. and let me just say this, we will not be defined by this horror. we will go forward.
we have heroes with our military, we have many members of our public that help and save lives. but most of all, let me commend the officers, the people that ran into a building with an active shooter shooti shooting .45-caliber bullets and saved many people. without question or reservation, virginia beach is a city of heroes. and the strength of virginia beach are the people of virginia beach. and there is no doubt that going forward that we will detype define ourself as a city with love and compassion for those neighbors that we lost. and their families. and we re not going to just do this over the next couple of weeks. this is going to be a long-term thing. this is virginia beach. thank you. and at this point i would like