Joint statement. It was scheduled for about 15 minutes ago. They are about a third of a block away from here. We hope to clarify what caused this. There is a standing down and some military personnel are leaving at this hour. You might say that media outnumbers the amount of Emergency Personnel on the scene. Again, hopefully we will be hearing from an admiral who is chief of naval installations wells the mayor and some other local Public Safety officials. Tell us what it was that led to this tense situation here earlier this morning which, indeed, now is sort of winding down. Derrick ward, live outside the navy yard. This is video from a bit earlier today. The mayor we saw in that live picture along with the police chief, cathy lanier and some folks from both the fbi and the United States navy you see here gathered just a few maybe half a block away from where he is set up. At this point, we would imagine they are sort of matching up their information we see the mayor there in the pink
Normalcy this afternoon but there are counsellors and chaplins on hand counseling those people who need help who were emotionally upset by seeing police here, relieving the nightmare of the horror of the shootings of two years ago. [ sirens ] the emergency call came in at 7 29 a. M. , prompting this immediate response. Heavily armed local and federal law officers converging on the navy yard, which was put on lockdown. Employees sheltering in place. The initial call came from someone inside the navy yard who said they thought they heard gunshots. We did take every call seriously and when we heard a call go out for a potential active shooter we brought the resources. Reporter the report of a potential active shooter turned out not to be true but Officials Say the caller did the right thing by alerting police. The two and a halfhour incident closed m street between south capitol and 11th street southeast. Other buildings with federal agencies and even some schools were closed as well. Off
Gunman massacred a dozen people. Police say the Lessons Learned from that dark day in 2013 ruled in a smooth, wellcoordinated response today. This turns out to be a great exercise for us and fix what we wanted to fix and nobody is hurt and no evidence of any shots fired. Reporter the navy is evaluating if todays Police Action may have brought back disturbing member ries for some employees, especially the ones who worked here at the time of the 2013 shootings. Ness based pop the events of a couple years ago, we have counselors and our chaplins are with them now, providing the support that they need or desire. Reporter now lets go to my colleague, news4s pat comes who has reaction from some of the people at the navy yard. Pat . Reporter chris for many people at the navy yard, the shooting scare is hard to deal with up here and really hard to deal with here. Today, on the day of the big shooting scare at the navy yard, people who were here two years ago when there was a real shooter, when
Joint statement. It was scheduled for about 15 minutes ago. They are about a third of a block away from here. We hope to clarify what caused this. There is a standing down and some military personnel are leaving at this hour. You might say that media outnumbers the amount of Emergency Personnel on the scene. Again, hopefully we will be hearing from an admiral who is chief of naval installations wells the mayor and some other local Public Safety officials. Tell us what it was that led to this tense situation here earlier this morning which, indeed, now is sort of winding down. Derrick ward, live outside the navy yard. This is video from a bit earlier today. The mayor we saw in that live picture along with the police chief, cathy lanier and some folks from both the fbi and the United States navy you see here gathered just a few maybe half a block away from where he is set up. At this point, we would imagine they are sort of matching up their information we see the mayor there in the pink
Normalcy this afternoon but there are counsellors and chaplins on hand counseling those people who need help who were emotionally upset by seeing police here, relieving the nightmare of the horror of the shootings of two years ago. [ sirens ] the emergency call came in at 7 29 a. M. , prompting this immediate response. Heavily armed local and federal law officers converging on the navy yard, which was put on lockdown. Employees sheltering in place. The initial call came from someone inside the navy yard who said they thought they heard gunshots. We did take every call seriously and when we heard a call go out for a potential active shooter we brought the resources. Reporter the report of a potential active shooter turned out not to be true but Officials Say the caller did the right thing by alerting police. The two and a halfhour incident closed m street between south capitol and 11th street southeast. Other buildings with federal agencies and even some schools were closed as well. Off