personnel responding to the scene. you ll hear more in-depth some of these stories, but i can tell you lives were saved because of the response of people both in uniform, the navy in uniform, with escambia county. on one of the darkest days of the base s history, you still saw some of that bravery and grit come out and even people who had been wounded themselves thinking about others and what could be done to save others. and so those stories are inspiring and keeps us going on a very otherwise very bad day. with that i m going to bring up the base commander of nas pensacola. thank you, sir. commanding officer of naval air station pensacola. this has been a very, very difficult day for us, for our families, for the navy family here. all i can tell you is that i am absolutely in awe of the
a good point just because this muhammad sayid is a saudi national who was there training. does not mean this is a case of terror. what s going on right now to figure out who this guy is and why this may have happened and how quickly and how broad will mobilization be at this investigation. with pensacola being a training base, would not be entirely unusual to form military personnel or doing training there. this does change the equation of what we are talking about. how to form national why were they targeted? was it about personal grie grievances, we always talk about terrorism and it is interesting that pete mentioned a little
need your comfort. that s why this morning i asked for your assistance in helping us deal with this case. we re going to get there. give us a little bit of time and we ll provide all of the answers we can for you. you can be proud of your community. you can be proud of your navy. thank god for the united states of america. thank you. mayor? thank you. governor, thank you so much for being here and as a part of that. i want to say to all of our escambia county residents how grateful we are that you re here. we ve gotten calls from our congressmen, senators, the white house and they have expressed anything they can do for our community they re willing to do. so we very much appreciate that. this is the tragic day for city of pensacola, again. i think the world of our base commander here who always says that as goes the base, so goes the town and as goes the town so goes the base. there s a deep affinity between
station at pensacola on florida s gulf coast is the second deadliest shooting on a military base this week. the mayor calling it a tragic day. a true military in the community and asking people to keep their distan distance. joining me now, blayne alexander and pete williams. let s start with you blayne, what do we know at this point? reporter: we are expecting to hear that press conference with the latest from the escambia county sheriff s office, we know the base is closed for the rest of the day. only essential personnels allowed in and out. we know that the shooting that we are learning more about where the shooting happened and how it unfolded. it happened in one of the classroom buildings. the briefing earlier, officials would not say which room, they
don t expect this to happen at home. this does not happen in escambia county and pensacola. it is a harrowing situation. what do we know of anything? what is security like there and the ability to respond quickly. somebody in morning described the heroic response. what the sheriff s office said they had two officers, two deputies who responded immediately. those were the two who were wounded in the encounter with the sheeooter. one was wounded in the arms and one in the knees. the injuries are said not to be life-threatening. the sheriff did tell us there was a considerable exchange of gunfire in the classroom building at the base on two separate floors so it unfolded of two floors in the classroom. pete, i know you will be listening in the press conference when it happens with