in he got in with a contractor pass that was a valid pass. and walked right in the door. pretty clear that the response that they launched was remarkable. they are good at response. but it shows that we are still lousy at prevention. despite controlled access cards, metal detecters, and machines bad people get to do bad things even on a military base. all of thighs technical equipment those cards gives people working on a base a false sense of safety. it is also clear there have been no lessons learned since major nidal hassan s ft. hood massacre. this wasn t a jihad attack.
reporter: by 9:33, ambulances and helicopters descended on the scene rushing victims to local hospitals. schools near the navy yard locked down. the senate side of the capitol closed and air traffic at reagan national airport grounded throw it would not infer with the choppers. emergency now, exit, go, go, go. reporter: before 10:00 a.m., president obama was briefed in the oval office. three hours after the shooting spree began, they confirmed the gunman was shot and killed. president obama with another mass shooting. these are men and women going to work doing their job protecting all of us. reporter: monday s rampage of the navy yard is the deadliest since the ft. hood massacre in 2009. thousands of employees were
some legal experts say the brutality of hasan s crimes will change that. if it doesn t make sense to use it here, when does it? i think that president is going to have a hard time not signing that death warrant in this case and i think major hasan may very well be the first military defendant in a long time to be put to death. and one of the things that i was struck by was all of these families affected by the ft. hood massacre have really spread out all across the country from new mexico, wisconsin, alabama, and some family members say this is really the first time that they d all been together, gotten to know each other and really understood the depth of the sadness and the struggles that they ve dealt with during the last four years. kate? hopefully they can bring comfort oto each other. ed lavandera thank you. we re facing a brutal heat wave sitting over the midwest. what does that mean, more
have one last chance to address the jury at his ft. hood court-martial. closing arguments in the sentencing phase get under way in a short amount of time. he said nothing during the penalty phase except the defense rest. jurors will decide whether he gets the death penalty in the ft. hood massacre. boston magazine posting more photos of the takedown of dzhokhar is atsarnaev . several images of him slumping over the edge of the boat, falling off and being treated for a gunshot wound to the face. a toxic water leak at japan s tsunami damaged fukushima plant now considered a serious incident, the radiation threat level at the crippled
phase of the ft. hood military trial. the jury will then decide whether major nidal hasan dies by lethal injection or spent the rest of his life in prison. he murdered 13 people and wounded many others. good morning. reporter: good morning. the proceedings are just getting under way here in ft. hood. the jury will hear instructions from the judge and then prosecutors and perhaps nidal hasan might make closing arguments. however, nidal hasan passed up on the opportunity to speak directly to the jury during the sentencing testimony phase. he refused to give closing arguments last week before the jury reached its verdict. he s only really spoken at length in the opening statements where he said the evidence in this case would clearly show that he was the shooter in the ft. hood massacre and went on to talk about how he was on the wrong side of the war in afghanistan and he switched sides and that was his motive in