taken his own life before the incident was over and that is just going to be the very beginning of this story. and the questions that will be asked. our coverage will continue in a moment now with sean hannity. thanks for being with us. i'm megyn kelly. welcome to "hannity." this is a fox news alert. a gunman opened fire earlier today. at least four people are dead including the shooter and 14 are wounded. some critically. many of the victims are still in surgery at this hour as a massive investigation into exactly what has happened now ramps up as we await that press conference. let's go out to jennifer griffin who is in washington tonight and she's been gathering details since the story broke. jennifer? >> reporter: sean, we understand that the all clear has been given at ft. hood so life is returning to normal after that shelter in place order had been in effect for almost five hours.

when we first heard that shots had been fired, we talked to sources on the ground at ft. hood and they told us that the shots were fired outside the first medical brigade unit and that the gunman eventually was cornered in an area by the motor pool. he eventually, according to an internal justice department memo, reportedly took his own life after shooting 14 individuals. four people are dead, including the gunman tonight. according to federal law enforcement officials. we also understand from hospital officials that six individuals have been brought to their hospital at scott & white memorial hospital. they are -- some of them are in surgery. some had been shot in the neck, in the abdomen, in the extremities. so a very, very vicious and violent scene at ft. hood earlier tonight when the shooting occurred. sean? >> jennifer, thank you so much. as we now move forward and check in, joining us from the phone

from ft. hood is a woman who r0 recorded a video. she lives at the post with her husband who is an army staff sergeant. fiona, our thoughts go out to everyone at ft. hood, not once, not twice, tell us what you are doing. >> this is steven. the sirens went off earlier this afternoon around 16:30. our son was playing outside. we heard the sirens going off. we called him inside, locked all of the doors, shut all of the windows, blinds, kept away from the window and monitored the tv. got phone calls and text messages from our unit just for accountability purposes to see if we were all good to go and that was really about it, sir. >> do you know any of the people whose names have been mentioned here and do you know anything about the shooter who has been identified? >> no, sir. i don't know who the soldier is,

what his situation was at all, sir. >> you don't. our thoughts and prayers go out to everyone at ft. hood tonight. what an unbelievable situation. not the first time. a second time. we're awaiting a press conference, anywhere between 10 and 14 minutes from now. joining me from washington is somebody who knows the ft. hood area very well. that's former homicide detective, friend of the show, attorney, ted williams. ted, thank you. you know the area. they've gone through this not once, now twice. >> hi, sean. what a tragedy. i had two tours of duty at ft. hood, texas. it's one of the largest bases in the united states and it's such a tragedy and the question is why? why, sean? they are clearly now looking to try to determine a motive. you know, these are men and women who have served courageously in war zones and they have now come back and some of them are innocently dead at the hands of one of their own.

this is such a tragic incident, sean. >> what do we know about the fact that even those people that have served so well that they have this issue involving carry permits for those people on base? to me, that's got to be a big issue. these are people issued weapons by the military that have used them in war and people are in a situation there that they can't defend themselves? >> well, you know, when you use the word carry, try to remember, you have one of the largest bases, as i said, in the united states, and you have over 10,000 civilian employees going through that base on a daily basis as well as military personnel and they have stickers on their car and they are waved in. and so, you know, it's so easy to get a gun on that base, unfortunately, and there's really no way, unless you screened everybody and that would take hours upon hours and that just cannot be done, to be

honest with you, sean. >> we all know the motivation -- i was concerned when the official position became this was an incident of workplace violence when we know that the shooter in that instance was saying. [ speaking in foreign language ] before he fired a weapon. >> you're exactly correct. let's not call this major hasan. this was hasan the coward. he shot 13 of our best and brightest. and this is a man who wounded over 32. he was hasan the coward, hasan the terrorist, as far as i am concerned. i will never consider this man as a major in the united states army. so i think that what we have to do -- what they are doing right now to law enforcement authorities, sean, is they are looking into every aspect of this man's life to try to determine what was the motive? the motive that would make him go on that base and to shoot and kill some of his fellow

soldiers. >> we're awaiting the press conference. our hope and prayers is that we get more information about the motive was. regardless of which, those families and many families getting bad news tonight, as four are dead and many more wounded. 14 are wounded. ted, thank you for being with us. be on stand by. we welcome into the studio our panel is with us tonight and k.t. mcfarland, a former fbi special agent and former navy s.e.a.l. and also a foxnews.com reporter. some of the news covered tonight, almost immediately people go, it is not terrorism. and i'm not like -- i'm not saying it is. i'm saying we don't know. why do people -- there is this obsession after the last incident where it was terrorism to say that it is something that it is not. it infuriates me and the reporting says at this point it

is not is way too early to tell, isn't it? >> it's way to early to tell. what's the take away from that? i guess it's not terrorism, i'm not going to worry about it? that becomes the narrative. even if later it's found to be untrue. we don't know. but let's talk about what we do know. we have american men and women coming back from combat. many, many tours. our service chiefs have warned us about this for years. we are not giving them the adequate treatment that they have. they are coming back with massive posttraumatic stress syndrome. suicide attempts, all this stuff. >> i have met many of these men and women that have been overseas fighting in iraq and afghanistan. there is some 250,000 of them suffering real trauma from ptsd. >> absolutely. >> now, these people are suffering. are they getting the care that they need and at the end of the day are we really turning our backs on these guys? >> it's 1% of the population and what have we seen the president do and -- >> he went to a fund-raiser

tonight. >> they are cutting back benefit after benefit. the benefits that men and women in uniform have earned. civilian employees don't get their benefits reduced. and here we have men and women who go and fight and die and bleed for us and not only do that but we're looking at them as now, what is wrong with these people? we are not providing the mental health issues that they have. the number of people who have contemplated suicide, veterans coming back, it's like 50% within the last year have thought about suicide. >> we're awaiting that news conference at ft. hood. we're told it should be in about seven minutes from right now. when that happens, we'll bring it to you live. jonathan, you're a former navy s.e.a.l. and former fbi special agent. there is a bond inexplicable that you cannot explain to people among military personnel and this has now happened twice.

it's got to be devastating for this community. >> it is. and going along with what k.t. was saying, what is devastating is the fact that these men and women are charged with carrying weapons overseas. they are charged with taking another person's life and in accordance with what our country is fighting for and yet when they come back, they take those weapons away from them. they don't trust them with those weapons. i've seen national guard and soldiers at an airport or doing security after a major event that happened somewhere and they don't even have any ammunition in their magazines. why are they not >> that's a gr. why do you think that would be? >> well, i think it goes to the same nonsense assaying that we know that this is not a terrorist or this is a common shooter or a soldier on soldier shooting when we don't actually know it. i mean, there has to be more commonsense. we need to stop acting like amateurs when it comes to how we deal with the military and these bases. >> look, we're being told

certain things about the shooter but it's really too early to tell. i mean, that's the bottom line. i don't want to speculate on a program but i do think that those that have rushed to a conclusion and tell us it's defd definitively not something, i think they have done us a disservice. going back to the hasan incident, if it's terrorism, let's call it what it is. it was not a place of workplace violence. this man was screaming before he fired the bullets and all of those people were killed and injured. >> reaction? >> first, i was the one who has been reporting all night about the not terrorism-related. to be clear, my information that we reported on foxnews.com was from an official source who said currently this is the preliminary information that we're sending out. so at least my people aren't saying there's nothing relating to terrorism, there never will be. it was the initial, here's what headquarters is saying as it

happened. sometime between now and whenever we'll know a lot more. >> i'm certainly not questioning your reporting in any way, shape, or form. i was talking about another network specifically. but in reality, there is this knee-jerk reaction to tell people that it's not that when i think we should suspect the worst. k.t.? >> any time i hear squad cars going, my first reaction is that. and so the idea that we're all going to be so politically correct that we're not going to jump to any negative conclusions, we should just have no conclusions. >> one of the things that 9/11 commission report did remind us, that there are a group of people that are at war with us . >> absolutely. >> i did not agree with a lot of the 9/11 commission report but that part i agreed with. it seems that as distance grows from 9/11, we seem to be for

getting that and overseas contingency operation, workplace violence in the case of ft. hood. seems that there's a reluctance, a resistance to say that this might be terrorism. >> sean, you go on twitter after this malaysian flight and you see people saying this could have happened. they could have taken the plane. it could have been terrorism. the american public, we're ready for this. the american public is confident enough. they are mature enough to be told this could be terrorism. >> yeah. >> and the only reason i can even fathom is that people don't want to over react because they are afraid it's going to hurt their career. >> it looks like people are moving closer to the microphones. we expect that press conference to take place in about three minutes from right now. you can see a little more activity, at least on the outskirts of that. jonna, let's talk about what you are reporting. >> i was getting on a plane or

landing in killeen right now or austin and then a drive. i this i when i got on that flight nidal hasan had been killed. the details changed. it was still on lockdown. we don't really know what is going on. >> i think we all agree there's consensus here on that but you do have sources and they are telling you -- >> that it looks like it was some sort of personal -- >> dispute? >> yeah. yes. i mean, there's obviously a large number of people who were injured. so i -- i mean, i'm not going to speculate on what kind of situation that could possibly be. but i think certainly there are a lot of questions that are not answered right now. >> let's go to access of guns on a base. i don't think, as ted was saying, that every person on a base should have access to a weapon but certainly men and women in uniform can't have access to a base yet we give them that in the field when they are out there on the field fighting wars for us.

does that make sense? >> that certainly doesn't make sense when you think about what could have happened if an authorized person had a weapon, something like this went down, they could have reacted very quickly and maybe fewer people would have died. >> if people are coming on to a secure base, it's better for them to know this person has a weapon than to just check it out and let him go through and they may have a weapon in their car and you would never know it. a lot of the policies that they come up with, they don't make sense. just like joe biden said a woman should take a shotgun and go out and shoot in the air. not a month later a gentleman goes into the navy yard and shoots a number of people and kills them with a shotgun. >> by the way, if you go to youtube and google women with shotguns, you have one woman after another firing a shotgun and filing back and -- >> right. >> meanwhile, if they used an ar-15, there was very little

recoil. certainly there's got to be more security on bateses lises like a plan devised so that when an incident happens like this, there's got to be rapid response. right? >> i can't imagine, just based on the people i spoke with, the witnesses, the civilian and military who responded who saved the lives of many, many wounded. >> uh-huh. >> i can't imagine that they did not do everything possible. i think that there's no other place that is prepared for this. >> guys, stay right there. we've got to take a break. as you can see, we're awaiting the press conference. we expect it any minute now. on the phone, on the way to the scene, is casey. i know that you're there and headed over to ft. hood. tell us what you know. >> yes. good evening. we're about 15, 20 minutes or so from the main gates at ft. hood in killeen, texas, where this press conference is going to start. you know, we've been racing here from dallas once the news broke with this shooting.

but at this time, we expected to hear from the public affairs officials from the post actually making a statement. this will be the first statement that they really made because all of the information that has been coming out at this point, frankly, has been coming from the justice department and other places within the federal government and not so much from ft. hood. and they will be answering reporter questions in terms of what went down here this afternoon and on this very large military installation when these shots rang out and some of the eyewitnesss have been telling local news outlets that they heard roughly 20 shots happened outside of a medical facility

this first medical brigade and that has very similar similarities to where this shooting happened in 2009. major nidal hasan opened fire in the processing facility and that, too, was a medical facility where soldiers were either about to deploy overseas or they were coming back. so they were receiving immunizations and checkups and things of that nature. so the shooting today happened outside of a medical facility. the srp, by the way, where the 2009 shooting took place was just torn down really within the last month or so. they levelled it to the ground and there's now a memorial where those people lost their lives on november 5th, 2009, 30 others injured. again, motive, things of that nature, we just don't know at this point.

it's far too early. but we sure hope that this press conference that is supposed to begin at any moment from now we hope to learn -- >> casey? >> yes. >> if your sources are telling you that they heard 20 shots fired, we've got four people dead and 14 people injured. >> if this is in fact an active duty soldier, they have active firearm shooting and during the month-long court-martial we spent the entire month here for the court-martial of nidal hasan and they went into great detail during that court-martial about how he had been going to shooting ranges and practicing and there were things of that nature. so we're putting two and two

together and and i don't know if it was extremely calculated. you have to caution, as you well know, sean -- >> early reports could be gone and you can hear detectives say that in a traumatic situation like that. >> most military, one of the things that i would say in response to what casey was saying -- we'll check in with you later this hour -- is that in fact a military personnel would be trained to count how many shots were fired. we'll find out. we're told we're about five minutes away from the press conference. we're going to continue our live continuous coverage on the fox newschannel. the shooting at ft. hood.

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we know we're not the center of your life, but we'll do our best to help you connect to what is. this is a fox news alert. we are moments away from the news conference. we have 14 people injured and four people dead, including the shooter. joining me now is colonel allen west. colonel, i wish this was under better circumstances. we'll talk about your new book out in the days to come. one of the things that frightens me about the coverage of this and i'm watching people

definitively say, we're told it's not terrorism. just like major hasan we're told -- now, i don't know what it was. we're told it might have been a dispute. it may turn out to be a dispute. we cannot rule it out. why are people so quick to rule it out? >> because i think that's the worst case scenario that no one wants to deal with. no one wants to believe that we have another terrorist attack at the exact same place in ft. hood, texas. so there are people that don't want to go down that path. they don't want to try to make that case again and so they are wishing away a possibility that could come about. >> now, earlier this week, right here on the fox news channel, foxnews.com, there was talk about a ft. hood-inspired jihad. our reporters got word from the fbi and others that in fact that's not true. we talked to the guy.

don't report the story. now, this happens, what, two days later? >> absolutely. >> that seems a little odd to me. >> i have to tell you that when i heard about this ft. hood shooting, i remember exactly that occurrence. i believe that was up in the kansas city area and that's not too far away from ft. hood, texas. you can hit i-5 and get down there pretty quickly and enact whenever. once again, the most important thing now is the commanders on the ground have to do their due diligence. they have to find out the motive. they've got to go into this guy's barracks and go to his off base quarters if he lives off base. we should not start ruling things out until we find out definitively. >> did we make a mistake after hasan by the official line of the administration was, this is workplace violence? was that a mistake? >> that was a huge mistake. >> why? >> because it really didn't put the right type of security protocols in place. if you go back and you read the

after action report on the ft. hood shooting, there's no mention of islamic extremist, jihadism and major hasan said i'm a soldier of allah. you saw what happened at the navy yard. >> why does my mind -- and i was here in new york on 9/11 and kids that i graduated high school were in those towers and i would go to church the weeks after and i would see the children of this kid that i went to high school with and now they were fatherless and i met many, many people that lost loves ones where i live. >> uh-huh. >> why do my thoughts immediately -- if a plane goes down and we can't find it -- or in this particular case at ft. hood the first time, is it wrong that in my mind i say what is the motive? are we doing enough to protect

ourselves? >> your mind is on track. in the military they treat you to prepare for the enemy's most dangerous course of action. not the most likely. in boston you had so many people say, don't worry, this is not terrorist related and then we come to find out it was. >> early reports tonight -- and i'll just be very clear tonight -- there might have been some dispute. you've been in the military. you're a colonel. what do you know about these men and women in the military in terms of when disputes arise? >> let me tell you about my understanding and my experience. if two soldiers have a dispute, chances are they are going to go fist-to-fist in the barracks or whatever. not too often you're going to see soldiers go after a gunfight

cor corral. chances are it was a privately owned weapon. and if you go down to the motor pool where this happened, why did you take the time to shoot at 14 different individuals and obviously there was time to reload. >> all right. let me ask you this about. because we now know, for example, after the deadly shooting at the washington navy yard, there was a lot of renewed interest at that time about why most military personnel are forbidden from carrying firearms on military bases. now, i don't want to get into a gun dispute, a gun discussion, but that rule seems a little odd to me considering we are arming these guys and sending them out to war but yet they can't have one on them. >> after 2009 shooting people asked me how can this happen when you have soldiers walking around and armed with weapons. i tell them, that's not the case. the only people carrying

military installations are your contracted police or military police. >> that's it? >> and that's it. as a matter of fact -- >> so they take weapons away from most military personnel? >> yeah. your assigned weapon is in an arms room and you don't draw it out unless you go on a rifle range or deployment. the thing that a lot of people don't understand is that those were civilian contract police who shot major hasan and in the navy yard case, those were d.c. police. it wasn't even military police z.y assailants. >> so if, in other words, someone were to sneak a weapon into ft. hood, huge as it is -- >> huge. >> -- that means that the soldiers are sitting ducks. >> absolutely. it's a free shooting zone. >> this goes back to man-caused

disasters, major hasan was workplace violence. have we gotten too far away from 9/11 that we don't remember the impact of that? >> i wrebelieve that's part of and we have a civilian leadership that doesn't want to believe that it exists. if you don't want to admit that there's evil. if you don't want to admit that there's an enemy, you don't have the right type of security protocol in place. >> it's great to see you, colonel. tell us about the name of your book. >> "garnia of the republic." it came out yesterday. i'm here to do whatever needs to be done. >> thanks for being here. all the best to your dear friend and joining me now to explain the security measures that in fact were in place at the ft. hood post, fox news correspondent, former f-18 pilot herself, lea is joining us.

tell us about the security measures and what you know about them. >> well, sean, you were talking about soldiers and service members not being able to carry weapons on base. that's true, of course, except the military police officers on base. they also have contracted police on many bases. at any rate, they are all law enforcement officials that have all been trained. they all go through active shooter training. i'm told by former fbi special agent that that training has changed in the past several years, much because of the columbine shooting that happened back in 1999. previously when law enforcement officials had everyone shelter in place and establish a command post before going in. but those rules have since changed to get to the location, have everyone shelter in place and immediately go to the last known location of the active shooter, not clearing any other room, just trying to get to the

location and that's to decrease the number of injuries and deaths. this particular base, as you mentioned, is the same base of the 2009 shooting involving nidal hasan. now, there was an independent review of that shooting. i have it right here. i've been looking through this, sean, and it highlighted the need for the department of defense to review its approach to forced protection to go beyond looking at external threats. some of the findings that it came up with was that the law enforcement officials actually responded pretty quickly back in 2009 after the first 9/11 call they were at the area within 2:40 and another minute later nidal hasan was incapacitated. it talks about weaknesses in background checks for people who have access to the base and that

there was some of the force protection policies that focused on internal threats. sean, as this all plays out, as we learn about what happened here, it will be interesting to see if some of these recommendations were followed and what happened here. >> lea, i think you raise a lot of good points here. it appears that the gun type policy was traced back -- i found the department of defense and directive that they had literally signed in effect back in 1992 by donald atwood deputy secretary of defense. there was specific changes, is what you're saying, after the initial ft. hood incident with major hasan? >> actually, sean, what i'm saying is that law enforcement officers changed the way they dealt with the tactics and that was a result, from what i'm told by former fbi special agent, this review that i've been discussing is a d.o.d. -- an independent review that was

conducted after the ft. hood shooting to assess why that shooting happened, how it was handled and what things could possibly have prevented it. and might prevent future incidents like this. so it would be real interesting to see if those recommendations were implemented and what played into this particular shooting, sean. >> lea gabrielle, thank you for joining us tonight. herself an f-18 pilot. we've been given a 2 1/2 minute warning. ok, here's the way the system works. let's say you pay your guy around 2 percent to manage your money. that's not much, you think except it's 2 rcent every year. does that make a difference? search "cost of financial advisors" ouch! over time it really adds up. then go to e*trade and find out how much our advice costs. over tispoiler alert.dds up. it's low. really? yes, really. e*trade offers investmen advice and guidance from dedicated professional financial consultants. it's guidance on your terms not ours that's how our system works. e*trade.

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in regard to the investigation and the fbi at the state level and the texas rangers, texas state police, along with local law enforcement of kpd along with army cid and army military police. we have confirmed that there are three victims who were killed and then the shooter was killed and there were 16 injured being treated at scott & white and here at darnall. our thoughts and prayers go out

to each of those injured and killed and their families. our focus now is to focus on the families of the injured and to focus on the families of the killed and assure that they have the best care and counseling available. i do ask the ft. hood community or anyone in the local community if they have any information relating to this incident to please contact either the fbi or the ft. hood department of emergency services. events in the past have taught us many things here at ft. hood. we know the community is strong. we know the community is resilient and we know the soldiers who have served in iraq and afghanistan are strong and we will get through this. thanks to all who have supported us. thanks to local community who has supported us over the last several hours and many years and thanks specifically to scott &

white for their medical care and their ability to additional casualties. and with that, i will take your questions. >> do we know a motive? do we know what set this man off? can you identify him? >> we do not know a motive. we do know that this soldier had behavior and mental health issues and was being treated for that. >> what's his name? >> at this point, his next of kin has not been notified so i am not going to confirm his name. we do have his name but the next of kin have not been notified so i'll wait until that has been done. >> has he served overseas, sir? >> he served in combat. he served in iraq for four months in 2011. >> was he suffering from ptsd? >> he was currently under diagnosis for ptsd. >> can you describe what happened? >> it's under investigation. the exact sequence of events and

timeline of events are not 100% clear. it's believed that he walked into one of the unit buildings, opened fire, got into a vehicle, fired from a vehicle, got out of a vehicle, walked into another building and opened fire again and then was engaged by local law enforcement here at ft. hood. >> with the express news, did he begin this thing with an argument? we have heard that there was an argument in the wtu and that is how this started and that he was also using a semiautomatic handgun of some kind. >> he was using a 45 caliber smith and wesson semiautomatic pistol that was purchased recently in the local area. i am not aware of an argument at the wtu. there are some initial reports there may have been an argument in one of the unit areas but i don't have any indication of an

argument at wtu. >> had he been at wtu? >> he had not been assigned here to wtu. >> had he been at another one? >> that we don't know. he recently arrived at ft. hood in february from another installation and we're checking with the other installation to determine the background of the soldier. obviously we are digging deep into his background, any criminal history, psychiatric history, his experiences in combat, all of the things that you would expect us to be doing are doing done right now. go ahead. >> were all of the injured soldiers -- >> they were a direct result of the gunfire. in some cases there was some glass that shattered and some have superficial wounds from that. others, one was jumping a fence and got injured there but it was

as a result of -- >> was this soldier in the process of being transitioned out of the military? >> he was not out of the process of being transitioned out of the military. >> where was his body found? in his car? in the street? next to a building? >> his body was found in the parking lot where he was engaged by the police. >> can you describe how they engaged this man? >> military police officer responded and he was approaching her at about 20 feet, he put his hands up, then reached under his jacket, pulled out the .9 mill and she pulled out her weapon and then she engaged and then he put the weapon to his head and he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. go ahead. >> have you ruled out terrorism? >> i'm not ruling out terrorism. all i'm saying is there is no indication of it at this time. we have fbi and all of the

appropriate federal agencies and the various organizations searching all of the internet, twitter, facebook and normal association you would do and the investigation on that part is ongoing. we do not have any indications of that right now but >> we're not ruling in or out anything. >> congressman decided that to add financial studies we've had a level, and make a response in 2001 that these "inaudible"ñr >> i'm not sure i understand what he said i don't have fort hood as a target. >> did he have any family? the soldier is marryed and did have family.

we're in the process of notification. >> where did the victims go? >> i do not know that. to our knowledge one weapon, 45 caliber smith & wesson. if i said nine mm, i misspoke. i don't know how much ammunition. >> what normally goes on in that buildi building? >> it's administration building. >> how far apart are they? >> not far way from each other. the 49th transportation ba tallin, yes. would have gone to that for administration purposes. that is his unit. i did not say his rank nor name.

i'll do that when his family is appropriately notified. >> he was undergoing behavioral health and psychiatric treatment for depression and anxiety. and a variety of other psychological issues. >> he was not assigned to wtu at the time. >> what she did at that time, she did her job and what we'd expect of a united states army military police. he was not diagnosed with ptsb. he was under going a diagnosis process to determine if he had ptsd. it's a lengthy process. >> did he have a traumatic brain

injury? >> there are reports he self reported a traumatic brain injury. he was on medication. he was not a wounded warrior, not wounded in action to our records. no purple heart in that regard. >> sir you said he came from another installation? >> at this time we're, i got folks calling that installation and talking to that chain of command to determine the background information of the soldier. sorry? what state? >> it's here in texas. okay. a couple more questions. yes, ma'am? all of the wounded and killed were military.

>> sir, what can you tell us about protocol as far as carrying the type of weapon this soldier has and other soldiers allowed on base? what can you tell us? >> if you have a weapon and on base it's suppose to be registered on base. this weapon was not registered on base. >> the reaction, first thing that went through your mind that there had been another shoot something >> immediate reaction was casualties. what kind of casualties? do we have one, or more shooters? are those shooters secure? to provide protection for the local community. >> was the fbi on the scene? on monday? >> we have a local fbi liaison officer but no. no. large fbi assets were not here. they're actually inbound to help with the investigation but no. there is local fbi available to

us. >> we're dealing with issues coming back in light of what happened today are the programs have with them? >> we'll have to re-examine the programs to see if there are any gaps i'm not ready to answer that yet. >> over the years we've had three this, is the third we've had first. are you concerned beyond the fact this is not first time? are you concerned this place is becoming a target for people for whatever reason, i mean, would your reaction have been when this began not again, here? >> my reaction is not, not again here, my reaction was to immediately make sure we had a read on the casualties and immediately look for one, or more shooters. i wasn't thinking about not again or any of that.

>> what are you thinking now? >> now, my concern is with families. those injured and those that are killed. >> what are your thoughts on carrying a concealed weapon? >> you're not allowed to carry concealed weapons on base. i don't think soldiers should have to conceal weapons on base we have law enforcement agents. i don't endorse carrying concealed weapons on base. exact time probably 10, 15, maybe. max. i think law enforcement acted rapidly and swiftly. i'm not going to get into a debate with you on carrying weapons on a military

installation. the shooter was a male. and officer that engaged the shooter was a female. about 15, 20 minutes we don't have a time line. >> let me go to someone else. >> anyone else. go ahead. >> talking about how change is made. i think response from law enforcement and medical folks displayed lessons learned from

the previous case. last question? >> how much indication of premed beings of it? >> i do not know. that will be part of the investigation. i don't know about premeditation. last question, go ahead >> considering he did have a weapon not strerjed carried on base are you considering changing protocol or practices? how to check vehicles as it's approaching base considering this happened? >> i will be viewing procedures. correct. thank you very much i appreciate it. appreciate your support. we will hold a regular press conference daily. until we get all of the information out into the public

that we have that is appropriate. i don't have a time for that. but first one will be tomorrow. and colonel garver will put that out i ask for thoughts and prayers for fallen and wounded in this particular case, thank you very much. >> that is lieutenant general mark a. mille. we're expecting a hospital press any minute. we'll bring that to you live we know the soldier fired shots at the first medical brigade, that fort hood went into lock down. lock down ended about 10:00 p.m eastern tonight. we know that the shooter is a male, he died of a self inflicted wound. i'll give you more information on him in just a moment. there is no evidence, they said this is linked to trim but they're not ruling it out at

this point we've got three other victims killed tonight. the number of those injured went from 14 to 16. they're being treated, some seriously injured in a local hospital the focus is on the family of those that have been injured and those that lost loved ones we're asking the public for information to go to the fbi saying we'll get through this. other things we're putting together, we're getting pieces of what happened. as we understand, the shooter went into medical and transportation brigade, firing shots a military female mofr confronted the shooter in a parking lot and she is being heralded tonight as a brave soldier. we learned about the soldier that he was being treated for