miles apart. their hope was to focus on the economy today. they wanted that to be the message over the course of this week. a message the white house was concerned had been lost in so much of the conversation about syria in recent days. obviously the headlines for so many people that live here in washington, d.c., and frankly people watching across the country right now, is focused on what took place at the navy yard. peter alexander, thank you, sir. let me ask you to stand by. pete williams has new information. pete, what have you got? reporter: well, so just a little caveat here, thomas. we have been told that the tactical teams had entered a second building which is not adjacent to but virtually adjacent to the main building where the shooting happened this morning in the headquarters of the naval c systems command, that a tactical team was entering a second building, reports of a second shooter. and we ve heard this from a number of agencies. however, i think this is as good a
hospital talking about semiautomatic weapons. it s one of those rifles that contain a high capacity ammunition clip that fires whenever you pull the trigger. he also had a shotgun and a handgun. now, we don t know what weapons he discharged during the shooting spree this morning. we don t have a good figure yet on the casualty numbers on the dead and injured. we know that some of them were employees in the building and some of them were law enforcement people who responded, both from the washington, d.c., metropolitan police force, our main police department here, and also from the navy, from the navy s own military police who would have been present at the navy yard. so that s the situation at this main building, building 197, the headquarters of the naval c systems command. an annex way down the river and