Brzezinski: Only Thing Confirmed About Shooting Is the Response

Pity breaking news broadcasters, who have to treat seriously massive law enforcement deployments to breaking situations without any concrete information to go on.

Such was the case this morning, as reports of an active shooter at the U.S. Navy Yard in Washington, D.C. — the same site as a 2013 shooting that left a dozen people dead — appeared to fizzle*, leaving anchors feeling kinda had.

“Two federal officials are telling NBC no actual gunshots were heard at the Navy Yard,” said Morning Joe host Mika Brzezinski. “So on the peripheries we’ve heard about two suspicious people being seen; we don’t have that confirmed. We had reports of an active shooter; we don’t have that confirmed. The only thing we had confirmed was that there was a massive response, which we could see for ourselves.”

Sure enough most of the reports of the shooter were merely reports on reports that there was a shooter. Reportedly. *Nonetheless, the U.S. Navy still has the lockdown in effect and nobody at the scene has given the all-clear.

Watch below, via MSNBC:

BREAKING: Two federal officials tell NBC News that no actual gunshots were heard at Washington’s Navy Yard. http://t.co/3vzbO7QPjG

— msnbc (@msnbc) July 2, 2015

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