postponed. air traffic from nearby national arraignment suspended. helicopters airlifted the wounded to the hospital. as navy yard employees streamed out of the complex many colleagues were helping each other to safety. at the white house president obama paid tribute to the fallen. they are patriots and they know the dangers of serving abroad, but today they faced the unimaginable violence that they wouldn t have expected here at home. from the sound of it and you talk to military experts they say this didn t sound like a random shooting because almost everyone he shot was killed, 12 were killed as we know. the gunman himself was shot in a standoff. at least two or three standoffs with police. so he fought the death. the big question again remains he patiently entered the navy yard with a shotgun he purchased in virginia, shot one of the security guards and grabbed a pistol and perhaps the assault
capitol. if you take your car into the garage, the raburn garage where joe used to work you show your i.d. and let you in your car. they do a cursory search. if you have that i.d. they wave you in. this individual had that i.d. hat the first step to get you through the door. you re seeing enhanced security all the folks starting to come in to the navy yard, the gentlemen from the navy are out there searching their vehicles and making sure they have the proper credentials. in d.c. for most of the government buildings you show the i.d. you re brought up to the next stage. thank you. we ll be getting updates from both of you throughout the morning. in a speech yesterday president obama addressed the navy yard shooting praising the first responders. but he quickly turned to his planned speech on the economy where he criticized republicans for threatening a government
tell us a little bit about that area, the community at navy yard, what the set up is, how he might have gotten in there. reporter: well good morning. one thing that s been lost on the american public so far when you hear the term navy yard you expect a base that s isolated from the community. and this is very much the opposite here. this is in the mid. a thriving neighborhood in d.c. that s experience ad rebirth in the last few years after the nationals ballpark has been built further down the street. you have workers here that number in the thousands. many of them are middle class folks, hard-working folks that come from the surrounding areas. they are not all military. you have a lot of civilian folks who work in the building behind me. two of those victims that made it to the hospital at washington general are getting the status of designee so they can get all their treatment at walter reed. those are the type of people you
family our heart goes out to you. we apologize for lotion a loved one. with us on set this tuesday morning, mike barnacle, national affairs editor for new york magazine, john hilman and jim. reporter: officials are still shaking their heads what drove aaron alexis to do what he did and how did he initially enter that navy yard past armed security guard with at least one weapon? but all the focus yesterday was stopping the killing, getting the shooter, it was sheer chaos. morning rush hour in the nation s capital pierced by the wail of sirens. 8:15 the first reports that a gunman was on a shooting rampage
advocacy group you ve done with your organization and this question perhaps with the details we know right now. it is a valid one. what laws could have prevented this incident yesterday. this is still developing and does this show that there s this frustration because we see this lull, if you will, in the fight to continue to bring up newtown and reasonable legislation that might prevent a tragedy, perhaps not though in this case? after sandy hook massacre in december, what we did hear from the nra, the solution is arm every school teacher, custodian, volunteers at schools as the solution for getting a bad guy. as we ve seen at fort hood and now at the d.c. naval yard, arming people on even a naval base where you have thousands and thousands of people who are armed, a lone shooter with