>> i have seen this woman perform and she is totally connected to her audience. "early start" continues right now. i heard three shots. pow, pow, pow. 30 seconds later, i heard four more shots. it was just crazy. >> 13 people dead after a mass shooting at the washington navy yard. we are breaking down exactly what happened, who the gunman was, and new information this morning about all of the victims there as well. good morning. welcome to "early start." i'm zoraida sambolin. >> and i'm john berman live at the washington navy yard. it is tuesday, september 17th. it is 5:00 a.m. in the east. here in washington this morning, people are waking up to

flags at half-staff. schools are reopened. people going back to business. but not at all business as usual. not after what happened here behind me at the washington navy yard and these blocks just past here. it's the oldest naval installation in the united states based on land. some 3,000 people work there. and there are so many questions this morning about what happened less than 24 hours ago. how did a man get inside? how did a man have the weapons he had and carry out the shootings that he did? and also why? these questions may never be answered but one answer we do have right now is that 12 innocent people are dead this morning. today, people are still reliving the horror that happened here. >> reporter: chaos and fear in the nation's capital, after a gunman opened fire at the heavily secured navy yard on

monday morning in washington. less than three miles from the white house and two miles from the capital. >> multiple people down. >> reporter: the death toll, at least 13 killed and at least eight more injured. the rampage now appearing to be the work of a lone gunman identified by the fbi as 34-year-old aaron alexis, an i.t. contractor and former navy reservist. alexis died in a gun battle with police inside the complex. the frightening events unfolding minutes-by-minute. 8:20 a.m., frantic calls began pouring into 911 moments after shots were fired. >> just standing here maybe three feet away and having a conversation and we heard two more gunshots and he went down and that is when i ran. >> the gunman entered building 197 of the navy yard with an active military contractor i.d. and security clearance. the fbi says alexis began firing from a fourth floor balcony on to office workers in an atrium down below.

>> we have a third individual arrived with a gunshot into the head and into the hand. >> reporter: within minutes, metropolitan police and the fbi swarmed the area. >> we have an officer down. >> reporter: by 9:33, ambulances and helicopters descended on the scene, rushing victims to local hospitals. schools near the navy yard locked down. the senate side of the capitol closed, and air traffic at reagan national airport grounded so it would no interfere with the choppers. >> everybody saying, go. emergency now, exit, go, go, go. >> reporter: before 10:00 a.m., president obama was briefed in the oval office. three hours after the shooting spree began, law enforcement officials confirmed the gunman was shot and killed. president obama lamenting yet another mass shooting. >> these are men and women going to work doing their job protecting all of us. >> reporter: monday's rampage of the navy yard is the deadliest shooting on a military installation in the u.s.

since the ft. hood massacre in 2009. that killed 13 and injured 30 others. throughout the afternoon and night, thousands of employees were allowed to leave their offices on the base throughout the night. many spending hours hiding and waiting for the carnage to end. a live picture right now of the u.s. capitol. president obama has ordered flags in half-staff in honor of the victims. i do want to clear up one thing. one of the things that added to the drama, to the horror yesterday was the report from officials here that they were on the hunt for a second, possibly a third suspect here. possibly two more gunmen. that appears to be over at this point. now they are saying just this one lone gunman acting by himself. this morning, we are finding out the names of some of the victims. they were all civilians or contractors working for the military here at the washington

navy yard. these are the names we know right now. michael arnold, 59. sylvia frasier, 53. kathy gaarde, age 52 and john roger johnson 73 and frank kohler and kenneth proctor and vishnu pandit, age 61. our hearts go out to all of their families. these people weren't doing anything yesterday but their jobs, going to work just like they did every day. as for the gunman, this is what we know this morning. he was 34 years old. a defense contractor. a former navy reservist and did lead a life full of contradictions. pamela brown is here following that part of the story. good morning. >> good morning. that's right. pictures emerging who this gunman was, aaron alexis, but we don't know how he was able to carry out this shooting and why we have learned he was an employee of a company called the experts. a subcontractor of hewlett-packard that refreshed computer equipment for the navy

corps. we spoke with some of his family and friends and they say she are shocked that he was capable of doing something like this. >> reporter: law enforcement officials say 34-year-old i.t. subcontractor aaron alexis entered navy yard building 197 legally with a valid military issued i.d. and an intent to kill. armed with an ar-15 and semiautomatic lock and a rifle, his motive is unknown. >> we are looking to learn everything we can about his recent movement and his contact and as an associate. >> reporter: pictures of a complicated man at times quiet and polite and spoke several languages and worshipped at this buddhist semple. >> it is incredible this is all happening because he was a good-natured guy. it seemed like he wanted to get more out of life. >> reporter: other times, he could be explosively angry. >> he might be a little angry at times, but i don't believe -- i don't believe it. >> reporter: alexis was born in queens, new york, joined the navy as a reservist in may of

2007. according to pentagon officials, he was discharged in january 2011 following a, quote, pattern of misconduct. while it's unclear what that misconduct was, he did have several run-ins with the law. he was arrested in seattle in 2004 for shooting out the tires of another man's vehicle described in the police report as an anger-fueled blackout. his father said his son was suffering ptsd after helping post-911 rescue efforts at ground zero. in 2008, cited and briefly jailed for disturbing the peace in georgia. and arrested again in 2010 for discharging a gun in ft. worth, texas, where he lived until recently and never charged in that case. one of alexis' friend in ft. worth said he was locked in a financial dispute with the company that contracted him to work for the navy. he did some civilian contract stuff or maybe government contract stuff in japan for about a month, and then he came back over here.

i was excited, because i was the one that picked him up from the airport and he's like a brother, you know, to me. after that, he just didn't feel like he was getting paid the correct amount or just issues with that. >> reporter: alexis had been staying at this hotel, not far from the navy yard since last week. and a law enforcement source tells cnn alexis recently purchased one of the guns used in the shooting at a gun store in lawton, virginia. he also passed two security clearances last september and this past july before starting work at the navy yard. his violent rampage has left his family devastated. >> very hurtful. heart going out more to the victims and people who got hurt because it's more lives lost. we don't need that right now. >> reporter: government officials say at this point they do not believe this was an act of terrorism. evidence response teams will be processing multiple scenes at this hour trying to figure out how this unfolded and what

the motive is. that is the big question that remains here, john. we have learned that from officials, they do believe he was a lone gunman. >> that goes back to what happened here yesterday. so much of the horror based on the fact that, at one point, d.c. officials said they were looking for two other men who may have been involved in this. one other was cleared immediately. why so much focus on the possibility of this second or third person involved? >> well, according to a law enforcement source i spoke to, there is someone in the video that officials are still trying to identify and interview at this time. at one stage they thought this person was a second suspect. now i'm told that the first one was doing something in the video that made authorities want to talk with him. and made them more curious to talk to him beyond the other people on the scene in the video. something about this person but, at this point they do not believe this person was actually involved in the shooting. >> still may be helpful for information, but not a suspect right now? >> right.

>> pamela brown, thank you so much. i appreciate it. >> thank you. some of the many questions this morning about what happened here involved how did this man get into the building? just how tight is security here at military post in the united states? if a gunman like this can just walk in with a gun and start shooting if, in fact, he had the gun before he went in. one thing we do know as pamela just reported, aaron alexis had permission to be on the site and he had clearance and those who work at the navy yard say this place took security very seriously. >> you go past armed security guards. and then your credentials are computer read and there is a kiosk to go through and it either gives you a green or a red light but the green light shows your credentials are recognized as somebody who is supposed to be in that building. >> however, a federal source does tell cnn that a government audit found that the navy yard in other installations may have increased the security risk. they did this in an effort to cut costs and given convicted

felons routine unauthorized access to navy facilities. ohio congress mike turner who is on the armed services committee has now asked the pentagon inspector general to give congress more information about this audit. he wrote, given the disturbing events of today, i am highly concerned that the access of controlled systems at our nation's military installations have serious security flaws. we will speak to the congressman turner in a few hours now at the "cnn newsroom." but first back to new york with zoraida sambolin with more of today's news. >> great to have you, john. coming up. >> all i now i got three kid living in this house and i got to, you know, this is all contaminated. >> the rain has stopped in colorado but just the beginning. colorado drying out this morning and the death toll is rising as rescuers finally gain access to some towns. we will have the very latest straight ahead.

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welcome back to "early start." sorry about that. my mike was falling there. in colorado this morning, some residents breathing a sigh of relief with thousands of homes damaged. rescue crews were finally able to rescue hundreds of folks stuck in their homes but sadly the death toll continues to rise. it is now at eight. torre dunnan has more. >> reporter: conditions in flood ravaged colorado are showing some signs of improvement but many people are still waiting to be rescued. the national guard says this is one of the biggest rescue operations in recent history. >> it's the greatest number of americans rescued by helicopter

since hurricane katrina. >> reporter: but in contrast to hurricane katrina, officials are promising a swift response to get aid to those who need it. >> i am very gratified and encouraged that a lot of what people perceived is the old fema is gone, and i think what we see now is an agile partner that will move a lot faster. >> reporter: at least 3,000 families have registered with fema for help and that number is expected to rise. meanwhile, as the weather improves, some people are returning to their homes to get a firsthand look at the damage caused by the floodwaters. >> it's ruined. the basement is gone and it stinks so bad in there, you can barely stand it. >> reporter: nearly 18,000 homes around the state have been damaged and hundreds in one county alone where nearly 200 businesses have been washed away. in boulder county, officials say it will cost at least 150 billion dollars to repair miles of roadways and bridges damaged by the flooding. in longmont, colorado, i'm torre dunam reporting. >> indra petersons is watching the forecast for at least a week now. i saw sunshine yesterday and i got so excited for those folks.

>> definitely more sunshine on the way today. it's like a day in between here before storms come back to the area. we have broken record after record in the boulder area. they actually broke the record for the amount of rain in a day. so about over 9 inches of rain. the last time we saw that record broken was in 1919 and there it was only 4.8 inches. they pretty much doubled the highest amount of rainfall for one day a last thursday and broken the amount of rain in september and amount the rain so far in the year. unbelievable amount of record rainfall hitting the area. good news today, they are drying out. we are seeing a little bit more of a westerly wind so drier conditions expected. doesn't mean you can't see a stray shower here or there. after tomorrow, a cold front sliding in from the pacific northwest and with that we will enhance our rain chances wednesday night in through thursday and we should see drying so a little system kicking through wednesday and

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pop, pop, pop. >> the next thing i heard was five more shots. the captain that was in the office said, come on, ma'am, let's go. he just grabbed me by the arm and we took off down the side steps. >> massacre at a washington, d.c. navy yard. a former reservist murders 12 people and shoots several more before police shoot him. new information this morning about the slain gunman and the people whose lives he took. we are live with that. welcome back to "early start." i'm zoraida sambolin. >> and i'm john berman live at the washington navy yard this morning. about 30 minutes after the hour. 5:30 in the morning on the east coast. washington, d.c. just beginning to wake up. they are waking up to flags at

half-staff. they are waking up to people going back to work, going back to business, schools reopened. but not at all business as usual. there's still so many questions about what happened here at the washington navy yard just a few blocks behind me. how did that man get inside? what caused him to open fire, ultimately killing 12 people inside? the chaos here started just after 8:00 a.m. when authorities say that aaron alexis, a 34-year-old from ft. worth, texas, he used his military contractor i.d. to get into a building here at the washington navy yard. he walked in and began firing down from an atrium. >> they were quick shots like bam, bam, bam. two seconds later, bam, bam, bam. i just started running. >> everyone said this is no drill. go, go, go. emergency exits now. go, go, go. >> people were yelling to close the doors, lock the doors.

we heard a very loud gunshot very close by and we looked up and we saw bullet holes in the wall to the conference that we were in about a foot down from the ceiling. >> he was far enough down the hall that we couldn't see his face but we could see him with a rifle and he raised and aimed at us. and he hit high on the wall. >> as we came outside, people were climbing the wall trying to get out over the wall to get out of the spaces. it was just crazy. >> alexis is the only gunman now, officials say. yesterday, there was word that there was maybe a second, a third possible person involved in the attack. that is no longer the case. officials say that aaron alexis was a lone gunman. this is what we know about him this morning. we know he had an ar-15. a semiautomatic rifle. he also had a different rifle and a glock, that is a handgun with him. it is believed the ar-15 was the main murder weapon used from the atrium above and also the weapon

you'll remember used by adam lanza in the newtown massacre and james holmes in the aurora massacre. we do not know how he came upon the ar-15 and how it was bought. he had security clearance for this building. investigators are working through the night to collect all of the evidence and scouring the facility to find out everything that might possibly explain what led to this brutal unthinkable crime and sometimes is there no good explanation. we have seen a trickle of law enforcement officials, police and fbi right behind us here. the bulk of the work happening all night several blocks away. something we should note here. his coworkers and the people who did come across him at the navy yard, say that alexis seemed to be a good worker and a lot of these people say there was no indications that he had any kind of disagreements with anyone here. now as we mentioned, against the man you're looking at right now,

he has been identified as aaron alexis, 34 years old. a former navy reservist who had been working as a military contractor, an i.t. contractor. he was employed by a computer consulting company called tf. birth. his security clearance was renewed in july. despite the fact there seems to be some incidents in his past. he had several run-ins with the law. arrests that involved guns. he was discharged from the navy reserves in 2011 for, quote, a pattern of misconduct, a pattern of misconduct. i mentioned the arrests. they involved a seattle incident in 2004 for shooting out a man's tires. he was also cited in 2008 for disturbing the peace in georgia. and just in 2010, in ft. worth, texas, he was arrested for firing a gun in public. believed to be in his home

there. still those who knew him describe alexis as quiet and polite. he spoke several languages. he worshipped at a buddhist temple. very involved in the buddhist community in ft. worth. still his father says, this is his father, says his son suffered from ptsd after helping with the rescue efforts at ground zero after the september 11th attacks. that is just his father saying that right now. unclear about that account. one friend said he was in the middle of a financial dispute with the company that he worked for recently. so a lot of different threats here and they are not always along the same lines. we are joined now by mary ellen o'toole. a forensic special agent. you heard the account of that man. so many contradictions. some of the biggest this man apparently studying buddhism, a huge part of his life, yet we heard he liked violent video

games and he had three arrests we know about and some involving violent, certainly firearms here. seem to be pretty big contradictions. >> i would call them inconsistencies. we all have them as human beings. but in this case, what is really very stunning is that you have him described as a quiet guy to an aggressive guy. that shift in mood, that shift in behavior suggests someone that is unpredictable and someone that is unstable. what you look at is where does that mood swing take them? that aggression with a gun is very, very significant and i think it was downplayed over the years, but that is someone who is very unpredictable. >> you're saying they seem like contradictions but it is possible for one person to live with these contradictions. you have had arrests that involve some violence while, at the same time, studying peace and bued hawaddhism.

that is possible. when you have someone that is what i would call an injustice collector. they go through life and they feel like they are wrong every time they turn around. they have been passed over for a job or demoted or discharged from the military. when you combine an injustive collector with someone who copes with using guns if somebody slights them, that combination is very dangerous, especially if you have an injustice collector who feels his rights have been violated or feelings hurt and then he acts out with a firearm. very dangerous. >> you're focusing on his discharge from the military and focusing on the friends who say that he had lost employment, may have been looking for work, may have been frustrated there. those injustice collections, those frustrations is that where you would start if you were investigating this man? >> i would start there. that is what we see in the mass homicide. that is where i would start to

look at. it didn't just happen two weeks ago. these crimes are not impulsive acts. >> this seems to involve a level of planning and seems difficult to walk into a facility like this without thinking about it and shoot up people from an atrium. >> everyone i hear people say that person just snapped, it's stunning to me. these crimes take sometimes months but they take years just in thinking about it. you have to get to the point in your thinking that killing other humans is okay. so you have to be able to basically hurt people and objects. that thinking doesn't just happen a year ago or two years ago. that is an evolutionary process. so they are going to be going back in his childhood and looking for patterns of behavior that demonstrate a certain amount of callusness that we saw yesterday. >> whatever explanation they come up with, never going to be satisfying, i think to the people here who lost loved ones

and whose lives were upturned. >> not ever. >> mary ellen, thank you for shedding light on this. to the extent that is possible, appreciate it. one of the questions has to do with security here at u.s. military facilities like this one all around the country. these are the questions raised in 2009 when an army psychiatrist major nadal hasan opened fire at ft. hood and killing 13 and injuring dozens. he had clearance to be there. he was an officer there. by all accounts as pamela brown told us earlier, aaron alexis had passed his background checks and had clearance to be here at the navy yard too. still, that is something that will not provide any comfort to those who witnessed the shootings here. >> i think right now, a lot of people are wondering just how safe the building is or how safe the office environment is. >> security is a balance between total safety and -- and -- and freedom, right? so you have to provide some level in the middle so that

people can actually get to work. >> people who do work here at the washington navy yard say that security, generally speaking, is tight. you do have to go past a series of armed guards. you have to show your i.d. to both humans and often a computer system that verifies you're supposed to be there that is the swipe kind of card. security experts say still even with the security, there is only so much that you can do to stop a person who is bent on destruction. again, cnn reporting he drove a car onto the facility here. he had the clearance he needed to be there. still the questions remain how he got from the car into the building. did he have the guns on him when he went in? did he have to go through a metal detector? those are the key questions and the things investigators are looking into this morning. we are following all of the developments for you from the washington navy yard here this morning. there is much more to come. first, back to zoraida in new york for the other news of today. >> it seems like he had two

different personalities when you talk to people who knew him say he never would have harmed anyone, that they expected maybe him to harm himself but not anyone else. yet this. >> yes, yet this. in the end, zoraida, he is dead. the u. harm to himself, whatever actions he finally did take did lead to his death. the thing that is tragic is it led to the death of 12 other innocent people. >> john berman thank you. 41 minutes past the hour. coming up the death toll is rising in colorado as the floodwaters recede. rescuers gain access to towns left after last week's major flood. costa concordia pulled upright and pulling up the cruise liner and taking a massive team effort. we are live with matthew to tell

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in colorado some relief. break in the weather meant rescues could resume and hundreds picked up by helicopter and also by boat but many remain stranded and the death toll is up to eight across the area. we are concerned about the folks who are unaccounted for so indra petersons joins us with more. >> they need the water to recede and looks like dry air will be pushing into the region so that is the good news. unfortunately, as we move in through tomorrow, we will have to watch one other system making its way through. a cold front is expected to slide through wednesday through thursday. watch for enhanced showers but nothing like what we saw last week. but either way so many rain already in play. where is this water expected to go? unfortunately, this is concern as it makes its way down the south platt river so looking for

concerns in nebraska as the water heads in their direction. >> thank you, indra. 45 minutes past the hour. in italy this morning one of the most complicated salvage efforts in history is a big step closer to completion. the costa concordia is upright for the first time in 20 months since it was grounded killing 32 people on board. matthew chance is in italy and is watching all of the salvage efforts. a lot of people skeptical they would not be able to see this sight. >> reporter: a lot of people were worried. particularly the people who live on giglio. if it had gone wrong this ship could have turned into the biggest environmental disaster this part of the world has ever seen. it inside is 20,000 liters of toxic fluid and the fuel from the engine. chemical waste from the cleaning

materials, rottin' food and mixed with the sea water. awful stuff that would have caused environmental damage to this surrounding area. at the moment it seems to have been avoided. the salvage, first step of the operation appears to manage to have gone as planned. you can see the brown water mark along the side of the costa concordia and where it's been lying underneath the sea for the past 20 months. so this step of the operation very successful indeed. >> very successful. what happens next? >> reporter: now salvage team has two things. first of all, stabilizing the vessel. it looks like it's standing there pretty safe but if the sea picks up it could tip off over and standing on a fragile platform. they will take it away in the spring but before they have to look for two bodies never recovered from this disaster. 32 people died and 30 bodies recovered and two people they still haven't found and believe they could be inside that ship

wreck. >> i know the families are looking for answers there. matthew chance live in italy, thank you so much. here is what is coming up on "new day." chris cuomo is live in washington at the navy yards. good morning to you, chris. >> how are you? i'm picking up on where john berman has been this morning on reporting. a lot of questions coming up in this situation. one of the terrible facts, this is the seventh mass shooting in the past decade where ten or more people were killed. all too observe, we see patterns and that is a big part of the search this morning for investigators to figure out how this shooter got to where he was. what kind of clearance he had. how did he get a weapon into a secure naval facility? and then, of course, the big question, the haunting one is why this happened. we are learning more this morning and that is an important effort. people struggle with how much to dig into the shooter's past but only by learning why these shootings happen do we have any chance of helping to prevent them in the future. of course, we are also learning

about the innocence, about those who lost their lives here for no good reason. we will deliver it all to you this morning as we work the story very hard on the ground here in the nation's capital. zoraida? >> we want to learn more about the victims and keep their memory alive. thank you so much, chris. we will be right back. ♪ for a strong bag that grips the can... get glad forceflex. small change, big difference.

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52 minutes past the hour. monday's tragic shooting in washington, d.c. was felt all around the country. last night sports teams from coast-to-coast paid tribute to those who lost the navy yard attack. andy joins us now with more in the bleacher report. that is nice to hear, andy. >> that's right. sporting events at times are the best way for team to come together and we saw that last night on "monday night football." steelers and bengals are big

division rivals but before football it was about those who lost their lives. everybody at paul brown stadium paid tribute to the people who lost their lives in washington, d.c. bengals won 20-10 and pittsburgh is 0-2 to start the season. first time that has happened in more than a decade. washington nationals postponed their game against the atlanta braves last night due to yesterday's tragic shooting. washington's park is a stone's throw away from the nearby navy yard. in the face of the nationals, bryce harper tweeted this yesterday. thoughts and prayers go out to the victims and responders at the navy yard. it is absolute sickening that people do this. make up for the missed game the nationals and braves will delay a day/night double-header today. second straight week, the tampa bay bucs safety dashon goldson penalized for an legally

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that's it for "early start." thanks for being with us today. "new day" begins right now. >> this morning, the navy yard shooting. a day of terror. >> the navy family today suffered a horrific attack. >> breaking new details from inside the military facility during those terrifying moments. >> i heard three shots. pow, pow, pow. >> the survivors who fled for their lives. >> we heard two more gunshots and he went down and that is where i ran. >> the names of the dozen

innocent lives lost, just released, fathers and mothers. and new information on the gunman. his possible motive and his troubled past. what drove him to this? we are live in our nation's capital this morning with all angles covered. your "new day" starts right now. good morning. welcome to "new day." it's tuesday, september 17th, at 6:00 in the east. i am live in washington, d.c. just behind me in building 197, where 12 innocent people lost their lives, many others inside kept until close to midnight as investigators worked the scene. this morning, there is new information for you. kate? >> good to see you, chris. also sadness and horror in washington. we don't want to lose sight of the other tragedy unfolding out west. colorado still in a state of emergency. many of those towns cut off by flooding are still unreachable. and the death toll is rising. we are going to take you there

live this morning. and we are also going to take you live to italy. take a look at this live picture. that is the costa concordia. overnight they were finally able to right this massive ship. the images just stunning. what is next? we'll get that coming up. but first, let's get straight back to chris in washington. chris? >> thank you, kate. as i was saying, there is new leading to new questions about the man police say is responsible for the deadly shooting here at the navy yard. two big questions we're tracking at this hour, how this man got clearance and the ability to smuggle at least one weapon into a security facility and then, of course, the biggest question of all. what motivated this attack. the suspect does not as yet fit the description of past mass shooters. there have been seven mass