we re lucky. not fortunate there weren t more civilian theres. very lucky because no one but the gunman was killed isn t the incident last night. now investigators are trying to figure out why the california man pulled out a gun and started shooting at point blank range at pentagon police officers. this investigation is causing headaches for commuters. the pentagon metro rail station remained closed all morning long. news 4 midday begins right now. good morning to you. welcome to news 4 midday. i m joe krebs. and i m barbara harrison. it s friday, march 5th, 2010. the investigation continues at the pentagon this morning as police try and figure out why a man would open fire on two police officers. that gunman has been identified as 36-year-old john bedell. he was shot by police and later died. news 4 s megan mcgrath has been following this story all morning long. she joins us from the pentagon with the very latest now. good morning, megan. reporter: well, good m
we have seen over the last couple months there have been four rounds of talks, one after the other has failed. there have been times were different committees have tried to get together to work out their differences on a smaller scale were both factions got together and try to hammer things out, each time is failed and that the situation we re in right now where it appears fatah will create a caretaker government which hamas is completely opposed to an end to a race is a specter of a round of violence so we are concerned to see where things go, it is in no one s interest to see chaos continue in the region. now ask for within the administration understands what is happening and whether this is a figleaf i believe they fully understand there is no chance right now of a jump starting the peace process. there could be peace between israel and fatah, there could be, but that is assuming that fatah wants to enter into negotiation without having all of the palestinian people beneat