is going to tell us what this gunman had to do, either to shoot his way in or bypass that security to get to a point where he has access to the building and got into the third floor and shoot into the building. our understanding is at this point from federal officials is he had a valid i.d. to get him on the base. and the vehicle checks for someone with a valid i.d. that s not a maintain tour vehicle check. typically not. if someone has a valid i.d. and they are not demonstrating suspicious behavior they will be allowed on the base. there are random vehicle checks. but occasionally they will do checks even if they have a valid i.d. seen they do a check with dogs and personnel to make sure you are not bringing anything illegal on to the base but it s he got in with the weapons. this is not a forward operating station in afghanistan, someone with a gun would be a rare sight.
contradiction. you have to control access right at the gate as to who you allow on board. although they allow people on, if a civilian drives up and wants to see the navy museum, that vehicle is inspected. everyone inside is identified and they know who is there. typically you need an escort to get on the base. while they can go into unsecure areas on the yard itself, to get in the buildings that is a different level of security. and that s why the investigation is going to tell us what this gunman had to do, either to shoot his way in or bypass that security to get to a point where he has access to the building and got into the third floor and shoot into the building. our understanding is at this point from federal officials is he had a valid i.d. to get him on the base. and the vehicle checks for someone with a valid i.d. that s not a maintain tour vehicle check. typically not.
if someone has a valid i.d. and they are not demonstrating suspicious behavior they will be allowed on the base. there are random vehicle checks. but occasionally they will do checks even if they have a valid i.d. seen they do a check with dogs and personnel to make sure you are not bringing anything illegal on to the base but it s he got in with the weapons. this is not a forward operating station in afghanistan, someone with a gun would be a rare sight. it would have been an immediate trigger. normally the only people you see armed were the forwards at the gate and guards at the buildings and the random police patrols around the base. typically if he was a civilian that would have been it could have been an indicator. but you saw from the people killed, 12 civilians.
neil: still waiting word from the d.c. police chief with what, if anything, they can pass along to us. the question we re asking, how this can happen at a military installation, after ft. hood, texas in 2009, where 13 people were gunned down and how can it happen again at a facility in d.c. commander, how the heck do you think something like this happened in a building supposedly as guarded as that? my thoughts and prayers to the families of those who lost loved ones or wounded in the attack. if you look at how you get on a naval installation, if you show an i.d. that is still valid at the gate, they can allow you on, and all throw there are random vehicle checks, unless something suspicious was raised, the vehicle would be given access. there s little outside parking
we must take these threats ce. st take these threats the public is likely to see and may be somewhat inconvenienced by vehicle checkpoints at various locations throe rorter: u.s. officials have been bracing for just such a plot after disdocu in binin laden s pakistan hideo in which he e lled for a strike against the u.s. on the tenth anniversary ofr 11 in zawahiri s most recent video last month, he called on his followers to focus on the u.s. track her down, he said,d,nd make an example out of her. the united states has been looking very intently the last few weeks for any sign of this attack coming because it made sense to u.s. intelligence that al qaeda would try it. reporter: police in new york say they plan a full show of force on friday morning with random vehicle checks, bag checks, bomb dogs everywhere, and preplanned exercises involving police and heavily armed national guard personnel at major transportation hubs. brian ross, abc news, new york. taking this seriously