there for a matter of years as well. is that right? not only lived there. i live here now, poppy, so this is home for me. yeah. here in pensacola. so i m currently residing here in pensacola itself. what is your reaction to this, and what can you tell us? again, the headlines are horrific. you ve got two murdered at least three injured, shooter dead. you know, yeah, absolutely. my myself being a former law enforcement person and having had the unfortunate experience of responding to these types of events over the years is very it s very saddening. but what is more touching, not only to me, but also to the residents here in pensacola, throughout escambia county and throughout this entire region, it means the world to all of us. it s the cradle of aviation. it s the economic engine in this community. it s a community out there, the
have had to focus a fair bit of training and preparation for. so bases like pensacola would normally have lockdown drills at some measure of frequency. whatever measure they believe was appropriate. they d view this on a routine basis so they could do it efficiently when the time came. i have no doubt that nas pensacola has been keeping up their protocol and they did the right thing. lock it down and then make sure people know it s locked down. people on the base and can t leave and various ways to do that. electronically as well as face-to-face. and then you make sure that the local media know it s on lockdown so the people of pensacola stay away and know they have to stay away from the base. then you bring in local law enforcement. from the press coverage i ve seen it looks like they did exactly that. they brought in the escambia county sheriff s office, local medical assistance coming in, emts as well as perhaps the pensacola city police, which is
and jim sciutto. this is cnn breaking news. all right. we do begin with breaking news this morning. i m poppy harlow in new york. i m jim sciutto following breaking news out of pensacola, florida. there was an active shooter on the pensacola naval air station. we re learning now that the shooter is now dead. our latest numbers, five injured. patients taken to local hospitals. no word yet on their condition. the base remains on lockdown. let s get straight to our victor blackwell. he s been making calls to authorities finding out what he can. do we know if there are any fatalities? we do not have that other than the death of this now former active shooter. i ll tell you what we know and don t know. as jim just said. the shooter is dead. we do not know if that was the result of shooting with deputies or others or a self-inflicted
some day care facilities there for sure for the little ones and there s a clinic. it s a fully functioning small city. there s even a grocery store and a gas station. there s a lot of people that are going to be affected by this. as i said earlier, the city of pensacola will be affected by this because they love the navy. they love the base so much and the navy is so important to that town. and there s a lot of veterans that live off base and work on base as well. there s a real interconnectedness to the navy family in pensacola that i don t think should be undercut. shimon prokupecz is also with us. and we just learned as victor was reporting, about the different sort of fbi teams that are going from mobile, alabama, from pensacola, et cetera. can you talk us through what they ll be doing now? these are most likely the crime scene technicians, the evidence collection, the men and women who do this. they go to the active shooter situations and come in after that and they put reco
naval base in which we all have a great deal of respect and love for. so it is very touching, very sad for us today. and i can tell you, for the residents that are here in northwest florida, we are all very hurt and disturbed by this. and we re all on alert. we re all paying attention. and our hearts and prayers go out to those who lost their lives and were injured. so this is very painful to watch when it occurs right here in your own backyard. and i know the wonderful residents here throughout this community, throughout pence coal athrougho pensacola and the region. are really touched by this. here we are again, mult pell american families will have to say good-bye to relatives as a result of gun violence. let s hope the figures stay where they are. americans imagine military bases are unusually safe installations. what are the rules when driving