to enjoy all of these years. ♪ welcome to "street signs." we have two major breaking news stories at this hour. first, a mass shooting at the d.c. navy yard. on the right of your screen, a live shot from the chicago board of exchange where options trading was briefly halted. scott is joining me as well today. welcome. great to have you with us. i want it get to the big breaking news at this hour, several people are dead following a shooting at washington, d.c.'s navy yard. among the dead at least one shooter and d.c. police say there could potentially be two other shooters on the loose.

it's a fluid situation. we need to know a lot about this. eamon javers has been live on the scene and covering it from the start. what do we know so far? bring us up to date? >> hi, mandy. those numbers you gave, that's the latest information we have here as well. seven dead as many as 15 shot here at the washington navy yard and just within the past couple of minutes or so the official u.s. navy twitter account put out a tweet saying that the shelter in place order remains in place here at the washington navy yard and now that is interesting because the police presence where we are, which is about five blocks away outside the security perimeter, this police presence here has really lessened in intensity over the past i would say hour or so but the navy saying that the shelter in place is still in effect for those people who are inside the navy yard which is behind us. now meanwhile we had an opportunity to catch up with a naval officer who said he witnessed some of the horrific scenes from this morning. take a listen to that. >> we heard what sounded like a

pop gun or gun shots going off in the building but like far away like it wasn't close to us. a couple minutes later somebody was running through the hallways telling everybody to get out of the building. after that the fire alarms in the building went off which is the automatic way to evacuate the building. and so i work up in the safety section part of our job is to make sure everybody gets out of the fire exits and to the right side of the building so they can monster them. i ended up on the back side of our building in an alleyway. evacuated a bunch of people, pushed them in the right direction to get them out. and then there was an individual who came from the building behind us, came up was talking to me basically saying that hey, there's a shooter in your building and heard two more shots, one of them hit him and he went down in front of in and i took off from there. >> guys, we're expecting to hear from d.c. officials here in the next several minutes or so. not sure exactly when that's expeo start but we might get new information. we might get some grim new

figures here on the number dead here. this number of fatalities is expected to rise. there was a lot of shooting here this morning and, of course, people caught at 8:20 this morning, very vulnerable moment. this is a mixed civilian and military work force inside the washington naval yard. inside there, just like any work place at 8:20 in the morning, a lot of people reporting for duty, a lot of people reporting for work, people clutching their coffees on the way to the desk, caught in unsuspecting way this morning in a tragic situation here in washington. >> thanks so much. eamon javers in washington, d.c. let's bring in colonel jack jacobs and stewart baker former assistant secretary at the department of homeland security. thanks to you both for being here. colonel, begin with you, what does it say as eamon reports said the shelter in place remains in place? what does that tell you? >> i think that d.c. police and the naval aauthorities are trying to be as cautious as they possibly can. it's unlikely that there's anybody left any more shooters. it would be a very strange thing

if there were more than one to say nothing of three. but i think they want to be as cautious as they possibly can because the worst thing in the world for them is to say it's all clear and, in fact, it's not all clear. they're going to take it room by room, floor by floor, building by building until they're absolutely certain there's nobody left. >> i would like to ask you with regard to the military base itself is it safe to assume we can say it is not safe to have a domestic military base? you obviously have military bases off shore and they can be in dangerous situation when you see something like this you don't know whether it's work place violence or terror, a lot of questions out there, is it safe to say our military bases are not safe' ven on domestic turf? >> we've had two pretty serious shootings on military bases where the response was forced to be delivered by police officers. a lot of the people who are getting shot probably are terrific to handling firearms,

but most military bases don't allow firearms except in the hands of the police and this does raise a question of whether or not wl we should think about that again. >> mr. baker, give us an idea what's going on behind the scenes in the department of homeland security where you used to work as we're trying to rule out this was an act of terrorism? >> they're deeply handicapped by the fact that there is no secretary of homeland security. there is no deputy secretary of homeland security. no permanent one. so they're having to make this up for the first time with temporary staff. but they are meeting in secure facilities, pulling in information from all the components, looking through the intelligence to see if there's any indication. >> i do apologize, mr. baker. we're going to break in now. we have to get a briefing from the d.c. police. let's listen in and see what more we learn. >> navy yard.

at the time that we last reported to you, we did not have a definite number and we still are working on a definite number of fatalities but at this hour, it appears that we have at least 12 fatalities and we're continuing to try to ascertain how serious the situation is. it doesn't get much more serious than that, obviously. we have one of the officers for the metropolitan police department is injured. he appears to be -- is going to be fine as far as we know. we have no known motive at this stage. there were people who asked earlier if this was a terrorist event. we don't have any reason to think that at this stage but we're continuing that investigation to try to determine what the motive is. we also don't know for certain whether there are other shooters. there are been reported other people in the building at the time. we're continuing to engage in

that investigation and we'll have better information on that later in the afternoon. we will be back here at 4:00. we'll be back for another press briefing at 4:00. but now, let me ask chief lanier, she will provide more detailed information on some of these issues. >> i just want to first start off by saying, as far as the initial response here this morning, you've heard we have at least one officer gunshot wounds that is currently being treated but the response by uniform police officers from both the metropolitan police department and united states park police was absolutely nothing short of heroic. with at least 12 confirmed dead at this point, i think the actions by the police officers without question helped to reduce the number of lives lost. our hearts go out to the families of certainly all the victims here, but our gratitude

to the front line officers of the metropolitan police department and also the united states park police who ran into danger this morning to try to reduce the number of victims. i'll start from the top and go through quickly. right now we're confirming at least 12 fatalities. we had a few additional folks who were injured. they were not fatally injured. we have additional officers injured. only one injured by gunfire at this point. some other injuries sustained by multiple different police agencies on the large response inside. we are officially now transitioning to an fbi lead, so the fbi will lead the investigation. the entire investigation will be processed and handled as a unified process, but with that said, any additional information that anybody might have, that they want to share for the investigation, you can call 1-800-call-fbi.

i have a slight update on the lookout for potentially two additional individuals involved in this shooting. the first is for a white male, between 40 and 50 years of age, wearing a tan -- sorry white male wearing a tan -- what appears to be military uniform consistent with naval uniform and a beret style hat. we have a lookout for a black male, between the ages of 40 and 50. and an olive military style uniform. he is approximately 5'10", 180 pounds. medium complexion with gray side burns. graying side burns. we have no indication of any motive at this time. we are updating and asking for family members, we know a lot of folks have cell phones and can contact family members but if you're looking for contact within your family members that may have been inside the navy

yard today, ncis has established a phone number now for reunification, 202-433-6151. a secondary number, 202-433-9713. right now, we have an impact to the area. a large part of the area is still on lockdown. asking residents to stay out of the area and remain in your home. we do feel like the area is safe and we still do have an active search for potentially additional suspects. we're asking people to remain in their homes and stay out of the area. again, there is multiple agencies here. we've gotten support from a lot of our counterparts in the regi region. maryland and virginia and the federal agencies here in washington, d.c. there are very, very few questions that we can answer at this point. still a lot of information coming. we will be doing another update in two hours. i think at this point we would take a limited number of questions. we would ask please for your patience and we'll go from

there. >> chief -- >> right here. >> we've asked people to stay out of the area around the navy yard. we have sent out text alerts to the residents around the area and ask them to stay out of this area until we send out an additional follow-up. >> chief, why do you believe there were two additional potential shooters? did they engage the officers or were they seen or how did this happen? >> the question why do we believe there's two' dishl suspects. right now we have multiple pieces of information that would suggest that we have at least two other individuals that were seen with firearms. we know both of those individuals were wearing military style uniforms, we do not know if they are military employees. these are people that we really are believe that are involved in some way trying to locate those individuals. >> chief -- >> what can you tell us about the shooter who is dead? >> i can't tell you anything at this point. i can't comment on anything related to any evidence or

anything on the scene. two more questions. >> [ inaudible ] suspects from eyewitness or video camera footage. >> we have reason to believe these people may be involved and need to talk to them. >> were there victims -- >> you have been listening to a live press conference by the d.c. police on the navy yard shooting. it seems as if they are soliciting for the public's help here in terms of the investigation. there is no indication of the motive at this point. but they are still looking for two potential additional shooters. one white male, 40 to 50 years of age and a tan military uniform and beret and a black male in an olive uniform at this stage. once again, there is no known motive in the navy yard shooting but they are on the lookout for at least two additional potential shooters. let's get back to our guest, colonel jacobs and stuart baker. we will get to those guests in one moment's time. in the meantime -- i apologize. we're wafk watching the fluid situation as to whether or not the press briefing is over. i believe it is. colonel jacobs and stuart baker.

i would like to ask you, if it you just one shooter that is one thing and we can potentially rule out terrorism, start to focus on work place violence or disgruntled employee, but once you have the possibility that he was in cahoots with one or two or more other shooters that completely changes the dynamic in terms of a potential motivation. what are your thoughts on this? >> like i said earlier it's very unusual for a situation like this to have more than one suspect. and if, in fact, there are two or three or maybe even more, that puts a different spin on it altogether. it means there was an organized attempt to do this that took a lot of planning and so on. it also means that they -- the other two people, if they are involved, also needed to have access into the area because you can't get into a military establishment without having your vehicle searched unless you have an i.d. card. which means that all of them had

to have had an i.d. card. even if they came in different -- even if they came in the same vehicle. it's all very strange. >> mr. baker, given that it's a mixed facility and that you have civilian and military folks working there, some 3,000 in total, i believe, how many civilians would even have access or how many people on the property at a place like this would even have security clearance to carry a firearm, which is a -- it's a secure place, but doesn't necessarily have to be the most secure place in the world given that it's not a base so to speak? >> in general, the military is remarkably stringent in saying people who were in combat six weeks ago, can't bring weapons on to d.o.d. facilities. my guess is that nobody but police had firearms on this facility. >> i want to you, colonel, you

say obviously you would have to have proper i.d. to get through the gates in a facility like this. your vehicle would be searched. they would probably, therefore, may be known to the people inside but you have to ask a question, if this thing can still -- if this kind of thing can still happen, are the security protocols of such military facilities sufficient? >> this what is would normally happen in a circumstance on a base like this. people who do not have a department of defense parking sticker on the windshields of their cars, and a government i.d. military or drjt o.d. government i.d. their vehicles are searched. which means that if these people managed to get weapons on to the base, they had to have had a department of defense parking sticker and have a department of defense i.d. card. that's usually, you know, unless you have a military member who is going to do something like this, that's usually sufficient. you can bet that after this,

most military posts are going to have complete examination of all vehicles, whether you have a d.o.d. sticker and i.d. or not. >> mr. baker, i'm wondering because this event takes place less than a week after the observance of the 9/11 anniversary, whether the response to this was any different than it otherwise might have been had it happened at a different time of year? what your thought is on that. >> no. i think our response to these sorts of events is pretty much standard playbook that got a fair amount of workout in the boston marathon bombings, so my guess is pretty much everybody, apart from the new people who are filling in because the administration hasn't named anybody at the dhs, pretty much everybody had been through this before. >> stuart baker and colonel james, thank you for your input into this as we say. very dynamic, fluid situation and at this stage there is still

no known motive with regard to the shooting at the navy yard in washington, d.c. still ahead, two other really big sisters today. we've got options trading being halted for 17 minutes earlier. the latest on that. >> larry summers out of the fed race. who will take ben bernanke's place? we're going to get bond king bill gross' take when "street signs" returns. things i prefer to do on my own. but when it comes to investing, i just think it's better to work with someone. someone you feel you can really partner with. unfortunately, i've found that some brokerage firms don't always encourage that kind of relationship. that's why i stopped working at the old brokerage, and started working for charles schwab. avo: what kind of financial consultant are you looking for? talk to us today.

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points right now on the dow jones industrials. the nasdaq in the green after a very brief dip into the red. the markets are rallies from the get-go and global stocks higher after former treasury secretary larry summers withdrew his name as a candidate for the fed chairman position. but the news breaking within the past few minutes, options trading halted for 17 minutes. let's get to bob pisani on the floor of the nyse. another glitch out there. >> happening a lot. [ inaudible ]. >> i don't know whether it's just me but i don't to be hearing -- . >> we seem to have a technical problem with bob's sound. in the meantime stocks as we said are rallying and this was after larry summers bowed out to become the next fed chairman. let's bring in pimco's bill gross. always great to see you on "street signs." before we get on to the issue of fed chairman i would like to ask

you about the market reaction today or lack of reaction i should say to the naval yard's shooting. do you think that it is a little strange that there should be no reaction at all in terms of the negative one to what's going on in d.c. right now? >> well, that's a tough one. obviously a tragic event, our hearts go out to the victims and, you know, the associated family, but i don't think at the moment it's a market moving event in terms of financials or financial policies. we'll have to see going forward whether or not it's associated with terrorism or not. that perhaps would invigorate markets perhaps on the downside. we don't know that yet. >> bill, is it market getting it right today? summers really going to make that much of a difference to the dow jones industrial average? >> well, a little bit to the dow. a little to risk assets certainly to the extent that markets prefer certainty over

uncertainty and, you know, that ratio shifted significantly yesterday with the withdraw of larry summers, you know, perhaps i think it has. would summers have been a good fed chairman, perhaps. i think there's uncertainty that came with it. the markets today are reflecting, you know, a reduction in -- of uncertainty not just in equity markets but in bond markets too. i think that janet yellen, she's not a slam dunk nominee but it's going to be difficult for the president to introduce a new contender at this point. i would say in the bond market go with yellen and in the stock market go with yellen with a capital "d" and that capital "d" applies to dove. >> uncertainty over what, summers was going to end any fed stimulus earlier than janet yellen or perhaps somebody else and that's why the market seemed to be spookz by the prospects of his taking the next position of fed chairman is. >> i think so. larry summers was on the record if terms of qe and posing that

mildly i suppose, but not on the record in terms of forward policy or policy guidance which is what we're going to expect in terms of wednesday's meeting. the market didn't know how dove-ish larry summers was. they know how dove-ish janet yellen is, if she's the eventual nominee and the eventual chairman and so, you know, i think the lack of uncertainty has produced these upward flows in markets today. certainly the bond market. >> i'm going to ask you bill, to weigh a little into the political speak here. it feels like janet yellen has become the frontrunner more by default than design. do you feel there's any possibility that the president might resent the pressure to elect yellen and seek to nominate somebody else is. >> i don't think so, mandy.

janet yellen was always the frontrunner in terms of the market, in terms of investors, was the frontrunner basically in terms of, you know, the congress and the senate and so to the extent that rumors were floating that larry summers was the choice of the certain choice, you know, of president obama,p perhaps those were rumors instigated by summers himself. we don't know. we know that the markets prefer janet yellen and we're seeing that reaction today, are we not is it. >> we are seeing that reaction and keeping a dove i'm sure is more politically palatable to those in charge because it makes them -- they don't need to make the tough decisions they would otherwise have to make. but does having yellen necessarily mean the punch bowl is going to be taken away at a slower pace? do you think the market is -- as to scott's point, really getting it right on this? that we're not going to see monetary policy as stringent as perhaps under summers? >> i think so. janet yellen is on record in terms of recent speeches,

historical speeches, in terms of, you know, her view and in terms of this policy rate and its connection to 6.5% unemployment. as recently as three or four months ago she released a major speech which basically said, that once we reach 6.5% unemployment, she's going to look around as a decider, as a potential decider, for a number of things, not just the unemployment rate but the participation rate, the work week, hours worked and wage growth and all those in terms of consideration. now perhaps on wednesday, you know, we're going to see from a bernanke and perhaps from a yellen influence bid, the introduction of an inflation minimum that establishes not only unemployment at 6.5% but an inflation minimum at 1.5%. that's a very dove-ish statement for treasuries on the front end and a dove-ish statement for stocks as well. >> bill, what happens if they do taper this week? there seems to be a debate raging as to whether that move is actually priced in to the

bond market. we've seen, you know, the ten-year yield go back towards 3%. today it's dropping, of course, at 286. is it priced in and what do you think is going to happen in a couple days? >> i think it is, scott, and i think all along that the taper is not been a dominant influence in terms of bond markets. the dom napts influence is really the policy rate and the forward guidance and to the extent on wednesday we get a substantially increased and more firm policy guidance going forward and in terms of where that policy rate will be the markets will take heart. it's true on wednesday we'll see the release of the 2016 forecast from not only fed governors, presidents and members as well and that guidance in terms of inflation, that guidance in terms of growth rate will be important. i think we're also going to see substantial improvement in terms of inflation floor as i suggested and that will anchor, you know, the front end, the fed

funds level for perhaps another two to three years. >> what is pimco doing on the back of summers' exit, bill? i understand pimco has been selling government-related holdings which includes treasuries. what are you doing now. >> we've been preparing for this. we didn't think that larry summers was a slam dunk. we all along thought that janet yellen was the choice going forward. so what does that mean the terms of what we did and doing. what we did is sell longer term treasuries. look at the long-term treasury market today. going down in price, not up in price. we bought five year, four year, three year treasuries. look at the price of those securities today, going up not down. so it's a front end, curve yield, friendly type of environment. if janet yellen is the choice. and importantly if on wednesday we see forward guidance firming up in terms of those choices going forward. so pimco has been benefiting. pimco is on the right track.

we're beating the market for the year. we're -- we've got smiles on our faces. >> ten seconds. a yes or no answer. five years on from the collapse of lehman, are we any safer? >> we're safer because banks are recapitalized and have more capital but there are a number of technical difficulties that still lie ahead. >> always a pleasure to have you on the show. bill will be joining us for our coverage of the fed decision and of course ben bernanke's news conference as well, wednesday, 2:00 p.m. eastern right here on "street signs." the fed show. you must not miss it. >> speaking of a technical difficulties, a market glitch and our microphone glitch have both been worked out apparently. bob pisani there at the exchange. >> technology is just a problem these days. we had around 1:40 eastern time some problems with the option pricing with opra. one of those obscure agencies. option pricing reporting authority report option quotes, sales for all the option exchanges. the fee that opra provides from

the exchanges for options went down around 1:40. nothing to do with the exchanges but this opra. let me show you what happened to some of them. ness dak moving to the downside. nasdaq has an options business. so does nyse and cboe. as far as we can tell nasdaq had nothing to do with this. this whole system opra is run by essentially the computer business of the new york stock exchange. that's the organization that runs the computers for the new york stock exchange and the nyse that controls opra. slight move to the downside but the overall market moved to the downside as well. the s&p 500 dipped from its recent highs. we're only a few points. you see that move to the downside. the important thing i want to point out, it appears like business here, am mention option business up and running, nasdaq as well, still trying to confirm some of the other exchanges to make sure they are still up and running. back to you. >> thanks so much. bob pisani on the floor of the exchange. coming up next, more news out of the navy yard shooting where 12

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yard shootings here in washington and offering to lend whatever federal assistance that local investigators will need. >> i've made it clear to my team that i want the investigation to be seamless so that federal, local authorities are working together, and as this investigation moves forward, we will do everything in our power to make sure whoever carried out this cowardly act is held responsible. >> of course the news gets worse and worse. we've just gotten reports that now 12 people have. killed in this incident. the senate majority leader harry reid has just a few moments ago announced that the senate is going to adjourn for the rest of the day in light of the event and we'll wait and see whether or not these reports that the district of columbia police chief has suggested, potential additional shooters bear out. i have to say from walking around downtown washington around the white house, it sure doesn't feel like a lockdown situation. it makes they think that the authorities actually don't think there were -- are people at large in washington. >> john, i was listening to the president's speech and after talking about the shooting, it

seems as if they became very political in his tone and started talking about partisanship and started talking about the debt ceiling and it just felt to me like it was a little inappropriate. was it a mistake to do that? >> i don't think it was mistake. i recognize a lot of people of our network seem to think it was a mistake but look, the president's got to deal with a lot of things at the same time. and even though this was horrific event, and something that the federal government as that sound bite indicated is responding to and trying to assist ole authorities with, treasury still open, state department still open, the pentagon is still open, and there's a lot of business the government has to do in addressing the economy is not only the president's number one priority it's also the american people's number one priority, mandy. >> john harwood, thank you for joining us live from the white house. coming up next, much more on the deadly favy yard shooting in d.c. spoo we'll have a live update

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welcome back. show you the market and the so-called larry summers rally weakening a bit, not nearly with the gusto of what we had earlier and 112 there, nasdaq after touching a 13-year high is now going negative. by about four points. there's the culprit, at least one of them. apple is down 3%. mandy, down 14.5 bucks at 4.50. little weakness a strong dow. >> indeed. a scene of chaos outside of the favy yard in d.c. here is what we know at this hour. 12 people are dead, one shooter neutralized and may be more shooters at large. straight to eamon javers with more. have you learned anything on top of that?

>> hi. we have gotten the press conference within the past half hour or so from cathy lanier in which she said they are still on lookout for these two suspects they think might have had something to do with the shooting this morning. one a black male, one a white male. the black male described as having gray side burns. those are two individuals they'd like to track down and talk to find out what roll, if any, they might have played in this. we have new reporting now from nbc's pete williams who just filed this report saying that the dead suspect who was shot in this altercation was a 34-year-old texas man who used a former employee's i.d. to get into the navy yard here. still no motive on what drove this attack. pete williams reporting that fbi have the -- owner of that i.d. and questioning the individual now. this suspect was able to breach the perimeter security at the washington navy yard, get access to the facility and conduct this

heinous, heinous crime which has now claimed the lives of 12 victims we are told. more have been injured on top of the number who have been killed here. we're going to wait and see more detail here about what it was that this person did to get access to the facility and whether or not he was involved with anybody else. guys? >> thanks. eamon javers continuing to cover that story in d.c. for more bring in nbc news investigates bob windram. welcome. good to talk to you. let's talk about this report from eamon and this report from our colleague over at nbc, pete williams, 34-year-old texas man used a former employee's i.d. card to gain access. what's your reaction as we're searching for a motive and the understanding there still could be two possible suspects on the loose? >> i think it's fair first of all to say these are more likely persons of interest rather than suspects. at this point, the officials in washington are not certain these people are involved. these are people who are

unaccounted for, who were seen in military garb. this is a navy yard. and with weapons. i'm not sure that we can say this is part of a group working together. as to the motive, one of the first things, of course, we looked at this morning was, is this a jihadi attack? is this something similar to what happened at fort hood with major nadal hassan? and everything we have been told so far today is, that the indications are pointing not to that but in the opposite direction. the disgruntled worker. and that continues to be even at this hour, the leading theory. >> disgruntled worker, that theory certainly holds up if it's one person. but it gets complicated doesn't it with the implication there could be potentially two others involved? >> right. but we again do not know that there are two others involved. we know they're on the lookout for two other people who are unaccounted for who they saw in the area.

but once again, this has been a day of a lot of confusing data being passed back and forth. we had different names before. one of the other networks came out with a different name. that person appears to be quite alive and being interviewed by d.c. authorities. so the question right now is, whether there is one person, whether these people who they are looking for are persons of interest, or whether they are suspects. and it's probably going to take the rest of this day and maybe into tomorrow to determine which is which. >> bob the question also is how this continues to happen not on a regular basis but certainly more than it should on a military installation and if pete williams' report is to be believed, which, of course, it is, how does a 34-year-old man use somebody else's i.d. to bring a firearm into the military installation miles from the white house.

>> something that certainly is going to be investigated. it you look at -- if you look at the case in ft. hood, there was similar concerns again about this. what we think we are seeing here is, you know, someone armed with multiple weapons. and that was one of the things that we were hearing, you know, about an hour ago. again, it's confusing. but the issue here i think is more not only whether they can get into a facility like this but how they can move freely in a facility like this. >> lots of questions. bob, i'm afraid i have to jump in here because we're getting more details on the shooter. let's get back to eamon javers. >> that's right. mandy, we've got new reporting from nbc's pete williams. reporting the name of the shooter here in this situation this morning, the shooter was 34-year-old aaron alexis f

originally of ft. worth, texas. we're told he began working as a civilian contractor. that might give us a clue of how he was able to get on to the base here and get through that military security perimeter if he was a civilian contractor, he would have had the i.d. and the things you need to get through that security checkpoint. pete williams reporting 34-year-old aaron alexis originally of ft. worth, texas, identified as the shooter here this morning at the washington navy yard, mandy. >> thank you very much for that. we'll keep on keeping up to date with you over there live on the ground as soon as more information becomes available. >> much more on this developing situation in washington after this short break. [ tires screech ]

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welcome back to "street signs." i'm diana olick live at washington hospital center. you can hear above me another medivac helicopter coming into the helicopter. we have no word as if this is anyone else coming here as this shooting is already six hours old but it's a live hospital

scene obviously. we do know that the only three shooting survivors were brought here to washington hospital centers. two females and one male. washington, d.c. police officer. they are all in critical condition but all expected to survive and all were awake and alert when brought here. able to tell officials here at the hospital what happened of the rapid gunfire. the one police officer is being treated here we know was shot multiple times in the legs. one of the female civilians shot in the shoulder, the other in the hand and head. so far that's all the information we have from here. we are not expecting to see any more victims brought here as of now. we'll have more after this break. you really love, what would you do?" ♪ [ woman ] i'd be a writer. [ man ] i'd be a baker. [ woman ] i wanna be a pie maker. [ man ] i wanna be a pilot. [ woman ] i'd be an architect. what if i told you someone could pay you and what if that person were you? ♪

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welcome back. we continue to get in more details regarding this shooting at the washington navy yard that began a little bit after 8:00 this morning. pete williams of nbc news reporting an identity of that

gunman being from ft. worth, texas. 34-year-old aaron alexis. identifies say he recently began working as a civilian contractor and he has been identified by checking his fingerprints. we did get a briefing just a short time ago as well by the chief of police, who mentioned still this search for apparently two others who may be involved. describing them as persons of interest rather than potential suspects. i can also tell you that a tweet has been sent out from the washington, d.c., police department in which it says, and this comes at about three minutes ago, three to five minutes or so, the white male in the tan outfit has been identified and is not a suspect or a person of interest. remember, the police had said they were potentially looking for two other individuals, a white male in a tan outfit wearing a beret and a black male in a military-style uniform as well. no information regarding that second person of interest. but again, the white male in the

tan outfit identified, not a suspect, not a person of interest. >> let's bring in former fbi special agent harold copis. harold, take us inside what you think could have been in the shooter's mindset. >> well, you never know on something like this where this person is coming from. but i'll tell you right now the guys in the behavioral science unit in quantity co are analyzi what is happening. they will piece together his life and find out what his issues were. >> i suppose given this report that this individual, mr. alexis, recently began working as a civilian contractor. i suppose people like you would want to know was it a recent workplace situation that went bad or was this a gentleman who was planning something for some time, attained a job as a civilian contractor with the motive of carrying out some sort of heinous attack like the one we saw today.

>> we won't know. you'll have to look at every footprint this guy has made, whether it's social media, friends, something went wrong. it would be pure speculation what set this guy off, but whatever it was, was major. >> walk us through. what do you think authorities need to do right now in terms of further steps? >> let me tell you, it's like moving chess pieces. that guy sitting in the command center has got just a row of people working for him and he's looking at different things. one of which is going to be a guy that's going to be in charge of the video. that type facility will have tons of cameras so we'll have to have people looking at that. the background on this particular shooter. was there two more shooters? that would be unusual. that would really be a conspiracy of the highest order. can't dismiss it. every person that saw something

is being interviewed. this thing is massive. you probably cannot have enough people to work this case right now in its chaos. organized, but still chaos. >> thank you very much for joining us, harold copus, fbi special agent. we'll have a recap of the markets and triple digit gains on the dow when "street signs" returns in just a moment. weekdays are for rising to the challenge.

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before we hand things off to the "closing bell" we want to show you what the market is doing today. in case you missed it, larry summers took his name out of the running as the next fed chairman. stocks liked it. at least they did a little earlier. still a pretty good day. the dow triple digits, once again up 112 points. boeing is having a really nice day and that is certainly contributing a good amount to what you're seeing out of the dow jones industrials. there's boeing up 3.75%. >> since you mentioned the dow actually, it's not like we came off a bad week. we came off a fantastic week. it had its best weekly gain since january. we've got 0.7 of a percent. if we look at the russell 2k, the small cap stocks, they have within hitting record highs today. off those highs as we speak right now and that index is up 25% year to date. >> it's been a rally to remember in september and a surprising one at that, given what august had done.

people were expecting what is a historically bad month for the markets, september being rocky given everything that's in front of us, the fed meeting this week will be critical. >> the emerging markets have been coming back this month as well. wednesday is the big day we all have to watch out for. >> thank you for watching "street signs." scott, thank you for joining us on the show. "closing bell" is next. good afternoon. welcome to "the closing bell." i'm maria bartiromo. >> i'm bill griffeth. we continue our coverage of the naef yard shootings. the backdrop is a market that is significantly higher today. we will have more market coverage on a day after larry summers took himself out of the running for the fed chairmanship, and that sent the stock market higher, although the bond market, which had sharply higher prices and lower yields has reversed itself. we'll talk about that coming up. in the meantime, much more cong