held and we have new information on the shooter, where he went on the base that you ve been able to assess that and give us new information. reporter: the commander s comments have narrowed down what we re looking at. this is the base stretching out this way, this is the main gate here. it seemed to focus on a relatively small area here. if we go into the big medical center complex here, which general marks talked about, if you look at the whole complex, remember what the commander said. the shooting began over in this area. the gunman then got into his car and he moved towards what the general referred to the motor pool area. you really get to the motor pool area, a very short distance off. you start seeing right here a lot of military vehicles over here. typical of the motor pool, the transportation folks there. then you move further down the way, you come all the way down to more of it down here. this is all as we thought, all day long, along what s called tank destroyer road here
tragic events unfolded. reporter: fort hood is located north of austin, south of dallas, pretty much in the center of the state and out in a big wide open area where it was established in world war ii for tank combat operations. they needed all of that room around them. this is the main part of the base running rectangularly this way back and forth. main gate right down here and even though it s a big base with many, many thousands of troops and civilians working there everyday, the bulk of this incident happened right in this area here. if we zoom in past a gate to the hospital complex, there is the commander says the shooting began in the parking lot outside of this hospital complex. from there, he said, the gunman got back into his car and drove toward the motor pool area. you can move this way just a very short distance and you start seeing some of these military vehicles, typical motor pool area, and that continues a bit down this road. this road by the way is called
tank destroyer road. a tribute to the history of the place. and if you were to continue following tank destroyer road you would come down here to where the incident involving major hasan happened back in this area. but as it is, according to the commander, this seemed to come to an end somewhere up in here. we don t know precisely where yet. but, again, a fairly small area from start to finish with this tragic event that once again has shaken this army post. a little earlier i spoke to a retired lieutenant general of the u.s. army. i asked him how was it that the shooter got this weapon on to the base and whether this shooting now will change security procedures in the future. given the history of fort hood, will questions now be asked as to how this soldier managed to get a private weapon, a semiautomatic on to that base? especially given what happened at fort hood in 2009? well, you know, fort hood is in texas and you ve got open
this incident happened right here. zoom past the gate to the hospital complex. this is where the commander says the shooting began, in the parking lots outside of the complex. from there, he says the gunman got back into his car, moving to the motor pool area. you can see some of the vehicles. and this road is called tank destroyer road. if you were to continue following the road, you would come here to where the incident involving major hasan occurred. and a fairly small area from start to finish with this tragic
brigade building being of some interest in all this. remember don, we heard somebody talking about the degree to which everyone ran from this area when it happened. this is called one area is called tank destroyer road. this goes through the middle of everything. it speaks to the history of the place and it leads to the area down here where major nidal hasan did his shooting some years ago, the main building where that happened was scheduled to be torn down after his trial was done. here we go again, and for the people of killeen and this base, it s not just this time, it goes back to 1991. there was a cafeteria out there, and although it happened on the civilian side of the community, many people on the base very strongly tied to that. at the time, that was the biggest massacre this country has known. it s been eclipsed by virginia