奥巴马怒了 公开指责共和党进行政治博弈.

　　At least 13 people are dead and several others were wounded after a gunman opened fire at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday, police said, spreading fear and chaos across the region as authorities sought to contain the panic.

　　The incident, in which the death toll rose almost hourly, represents the single worst loss of life in the District since an airliner plunged into the Potomac River in 1982, killing 78.

　　D.C. Police Chi Cathy L. Lanier and Mayor Vincent C. Gray announced the mounting number of casualties in a series of news conferences. The suspected shooter, identified by the FBI as Aaron Alexis, 34, living in Fort Worth, is among the 13 dead. Alexis was a military contractor, one official said.

　　But even hours after the rampage began, it was still unclear whether the shooting was the act of a lone gunman, or if other shooters were involved. Lanier initially said authorities were looking for two more potential shooters dressed in military style clothing. But shortly after she announced a detailed description of two suspects, city officials said one had been located and cleared.

　　Gray said no motive is known yet. He said there is no reason to believe it was an act of terrorism, though he added that he could not rule it out.

　　Gray said that in addition to those killed, about a dozen people were hurt. It was not clear whether those people were shot or suffered other injuries, he said.

　　Lanier described the other possible suspect, who has not been located, as a black man in his 40s with gray sideburns, wearing an olive-drab military-style uniform. He, and the man who was cleared, came under suspicion when they were seen on surveillance videos.

　　Police are asking anyone with information on the suspect to call 202-727-9099.

　　Alexis was armed with an assault rifle and a handgun, two law enforcement officials said. One said he also had a shotgun. One official said all the weapons have not been accounted for.

　　The first, sketchy details about the suspect offered few hints about what may have gone wrong.

　　Alexis grew up in Brooklyn with his mother, Sarah, and father, Anthony Alexis, according to his aunt Helen Weeks.

　　“We haven’t seen him for years,” Weeks said of her nephew in a telephone interview. “I know he was in the military. He served abroad. I think he was doing some kind of computer work.”

　　Alexis spent nearly four years in the Navy as a full-time reservist from May 2007 until he was discharged in January 2011, according to a summary of his personnel records released by Navy officials at the Pentagon.

　　The officials said they were still researching whether Alexis had been employed as a dense contractor or a civilian employee of the Navy, and were uncertain if he was assigned to work at the Navy Yard.

　　He achieved his final rank of Aviation Electrician’s Mate 3rd Class in December 2009. Officials said they did not immediately know the reasons for his discharge.

　　The carnage began around 8 a.m. when the U.S. Navy said that three shots were fired at Building 197, headquarters of the Naval Sea Systems Command. About 3,000 people work in the building. As the noise that some thought sounded like construction work continued, the realization set in that a gunman was firing on them.

　　Rick Mason, a program management analyst who is a civilian with the U.S. Navy, told the Associated Press that a gunman was shooting from a fourth floor overlook in the hallway outside his office. He said the gunman was aiming at people in the building’s first floor cafeteria.

　　Terry Durham said that as she and co-workers were evacuating, she saw a man down the hall raise a rifle and fire toward them, hitting a wall.

　　“He didn’t say a word,” said her co-worker, Todd Brundage.

　　One man who said he was at his desk on the second floor when the shooting began recalled hearing a loud noise “like someone dropping an old metal desk.” The man, who declined to give his name, said there was a pause, then several noises close together and he realized the danger: “There’s a shooter in the building. I started walking toward the door and I heard people running down the hall.”

　　Employees described the chaos, as a fire alarm sounded and people shouted, “Where is he? Where is he?”

　　Gregory Dade, a Navy contractor, said he and a co-worker locked themselves in a second floor office of Building 197 as soon as the shooting went on, in fits and stops. Dade, called it “terrifying.”

　　He heard a woman scream, glass crashing and a series of gun shots. Then he heard shouting: “Get down! Get down! This is the police.”

　　Finally, about 11 a.m., he and a co-worker made a break for it.

　　At an exit, they noticed a trail of blood running to the next building.

　　Tim Jirus, a Navy commander who works in Building 197, said that as he was evacuating the building he saw a co-worker who had been shot getting into a police car, and heard more shots fired from inside his workplace.

　　A far worse sight lay just ahead. Jirus went to an alley where he thought he would be safe, and talked brily with a man there about what was going on. Jirus said he heard two gunshots, loudly echoing off the building. It caused him to spin around to look for the source of the noise. But when he turned back, he looked down and saw the man he had been conversing with lying on the ground, shot in the head.

　　Uncertain where the shooter was, he ran.

　　“I was just lucky,” he said. “The other person was shorter than me. There were two shots, he got that guy, he didn’t get me. . . . The randomness of it — standing right next to me, one person gets shot.”

　　At least two police officers were among those shot. Police on the scene said one is a D.C. police officer who was shot twice in the leg and was evacuated to a hospital. Lanier said he was in stable condition after engaging the shooter with gunfire. The other was a base officer. The D.C. officer, was conscious at MedStar Washington Hospital Center and his chances for survival were good, hospital officials said.

　　Janis Orlowski, the chi medical officer at Washington Hospital Center, said three victims in all were brought to the center, all in critical condition but alert, responsive and able to talk with doctors. The victims were also able to speak brily to law enforcement officers bore undergoing surgery or treatment, she said.

　　The other two victims at the hospital were female civilians, Orlowski said at a news conference. All are likely to survive.

　　The impact of the incident rippled across town, forces schools, offices and homes into an enforced lockdown.

　　Senate buildings on Capitol Hill went on lockdown at about 3 p.m., with no one allowed to enter or leave the building, though it was partially lifted toward the end of the day to allow staffers to go home.

　　The Nationals, whose ballpark is near the Navy Yard, postponed a Monday night game. Instead, they will play a double header Tuesday at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m.

　　Ten public and charter schools and a public school administration building in the District went on lockdown, and flights out of Reagan National Airport were brily halted, causing delays even after they began departing again.

　　Adm. Jonathan W. Greenert, the chi of Naval Operations, was evacuated from his residence at the Navy Yard complex shortly after the first report of shots fired, Navy officials said.

　　Greenert, a four-star admiral and member of the Joint Chis of Staff, was safely evacuated to the Pentagon along with his wife, Darleen, said Cmdr. Ryan Perry, a Navy spokesman.

　　Police closed the 11th Street Bridge as well as M Street SE between Second and Fourth streets SE because of the shooting. Entrances to the Navy Yard Metro station remain open.

　　As helicopters circled overhead and emergency vehicles continued to rush to the scene, crowds of onlookers gathered on sidewalks and at a construction site near the Navy Yard, but police pushed them back, yelling at them to keep a distance from the grounds.

　　President Obama on Monday expressed sympathy for the victims of the shooting and said justice must be sought.

　　“I’ve made it clear to my team that we want the investigation to be seamless, so that local and federal authorities are working together,” he said.

　　As a long day drew to a close, weary and stunned Navy personnel filtered into Capitol Hill in their tan uniforms, blue camouflage fatigues and civilian clothes, many of them saying little, just wanting to get home after a day spent running or hiding, and then waiting.

　　Tom Dick-Peddie, 46, was at work in another building in the Navy Yard and said they were on lockdown for about an hour and a half, then they were evacuated to another building. Shortly after 3 p.m. they were allowed to leave.

　　Kate O’Neill of Arlington and Stephanie Cates-Harman of Columbia, who work in the office of the general counsel, said their office had been ordered to shelter in place until 2 p.m. While some people were very upset, and others were calm, and tried to contact relatives to assure them that they were okay.

　　“Texts were going fast and furious,” O’Neill said.

　　据美国媒体报道，眼看着僵持不下的国会预算之争可能导致政府“关门”，美国总统奥巴马掩饰不住内心的怒火，他9月20日公开指责共和党国会议员拒绝为其医改法案拨款是在进行政治博弈、“把整个国家挟持为人质”。

　　由于美国民主、共和两党尚未解决2014财年(10月1日开始)的政府预算案，美国会众议院20日投票通过了联邦政府临时拨款议案，以使联邦政府可运营至12月中旬，但是该议案中包括禁止给实施奥巴马医改拨款的内容。根据立法程序，议案还需得到参议院批准后方可送交奥巴马总统签署生效。由于参议院由民主党控制，该议案几乎很难被通过，僵局意味着美国政府依然面临“关门”的风险。

　　当天，奥巴马在密苏里州堪萨斯市近郊的福特汽车厂发表演讲，要求共和党国会议员必须停止紧咬拒绝为医改法案拨款一事不放，通过预算案、调高举债上限，避免出现美国史上首次拖欠债务。“这里是美利坚共和国。我们不是什么香蕉共和国、不是个赖债的国家，我们不会不付帐。我们是世界经济的基石，全世界都在盯着我们的一举一动，以确保世界经济稳定。我们不能赖账，就连以此作为威胁都是不负责任之尤。”

　　随后，奥巴马谴责称，共和党国会议员无法在医保事宜上得偿所愿，所以他们威胁“要把整件事闹大”。奥巴马还出言讥讽称众议院以230票赞成、189票反对的表决结果通过临时拨款议案，“这多出来的40多张赞成票真是浪费时间、浪费精力”。

　　在演讲现场，奥巴马告诉福特汽车厂的工人们，政府“关门”将会伤害包括他们在内的美国老百姓的利益。他列举了倘若国会没有采取行动将带来的一系列灾难性后果：军方人员的薪水被拖欠，数十万美国人没法上班、小企业所需的贷款无人审批。

　　“有人想买一款F-150汽车，他最终需要支付更高的银行利息，这意味着你们售出的汽车数量将会减少。”奥巴马解释称，“这只是一个简单的例子来说明(预算案不通过)将带来多么严重的破坏性后果，这并不只是一个抽象的概念。”

　　At least 13 people are dead and several others were wounded after a gunman opened fire at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday, police said, spreading fear and chaos across the region as authorities sought to contain the panic.

　　The incident, in which the death toll rose almost hourly, represents the single worst loss of life in the District since an airliner plunged into the Potomac River in 1982, killing 78.

　　D.C. Police Chi Cathy L. Lanier and Mayor Vincent C. Gray announced the mounting number of casualties in a series of news conferences. The suspected shooter, identified by the FBI as Aaron Alexis, 34, living in Fort Worth, is among the 13 dead. Alexis was a military contractor, one official said.

　　But even hours after the rampage began, it was still unclear whether the shooting was the act of a lone gunman, or if other shooters were involved. Lanier initially said authorities were looking for two more potential shooters dressed in military style clothing. But shortly after she announced a detailed description of two suspects, city officials said one had been located and cleared.

　　Gray said no motive is known yet. He said there is no reason to believe it was an act of terrorism, though he added that he could not rule it out.

　　Gray said that in addition to those killed, about a dozen people were hurt. It was not clear whether those people were shot or suffered other injuries, he said.

　　Lanier described the other possible suspect, who has not been located, as a black man in his 40s with gray sideburns, wearing an olive-drab military-style uniform. He, and the man who was cleared, came under suspicion when they were seen on surveillance videos.

　　Police are asking anyone with information on the suspect to call 202-727-9099.

　　Alexis was armed with an assault rifle and a handgun, two law enforcement officials said. One said he also had a shotgun. One official said all the weapons have not been accounted for.

　　The first, sketchy details about the suspect offered few hints about what may have gone wrong.

　　Alexis grew up in Brooklyn with his mother, Sarah, and father, Anthony Alexis, according to his aunt Helen Weeks.

　　“We haven’t seen him for years,” Weeks said of her nephew in a telephone interview. “I know he was in the military. He served abroad. I think he was doing some kind of computer work.”

　　Alexis spent nearly four years in the Navy as a full-time reservist from May 2007 until he was discharged in January 2011, according to a summary of his personnel records released by Navy officials at the Pentagon.

　　The officials said they were still researching whether Alexis had been employed as a dense contractor or a civilian employee of the Navy, and were uncertain if he was assigned to work at the Navy Yard.

　　He achieved his final rank of Aviation Electrician’s Mate 3rd Class in December 2009. Officials said they did not immediately know the reasons for his discharge.

　　The carnage began around 8 a.m. when the U.S. Navy said that three shots were fired at Building 197, headquarters of the Naval Sea Systems Command. About 3,000 people work in the building. As the noise that some thought sounded like construction work continued, the realization set in that a gunman was firing on them.

　　Rick Mason, a program management analyst who is a civilian with the U.S. Navy, told the Associated Press that a gunman was shooting from a fourth floor overlook in the hallway outside his office. He said the gunman was aiming at people in the building’s first floor cafeteria.

　　Terry Durham said that as she and co-workers were evacuating, she saw a man down the hall raise a rifle and fire toward them, hitting a wall.

　　“He didn’t say a word,” said her co-worker, Todd Brundage.

　　One man who said he was at his desk on the second floor when the shooting began recalled hearing a loud noise “like someone dropping an old metal desk.” The man, who declined to give his name, said there was a pause, then several noises close together and he realized the danger: “There’s a shooter in the building. I started walking toward the door and I heard people running down the hall.”

　　Employees described the chaos, as a fire alarm sounded and people shouted, “Where is he? Where is he?”

　　Gregory Dade, a Navy contractor, said he and a co-worker locked themselves in a second floor office of Building 197 as soon as the shooting went on, in fits and stops. Dade, called it “terrifying.”

　　He heard a woman scream, glass crashing and a series of gun shots. Then he heard shouting: “Get down! Get down! This is the police.”

　　Finally, about 11 a.m., he and a co-worker made a break for it.

　　At an exit, they noticed a trail of blood running to the next building.

　　Tim Jirus, a Navy commander who works in Building 197, said that as he was evacuating the building he saw a co-worker who had been shot getting into a police car, and heard more shots fired from inside his workplace.

　　A far worse sight lay just ahead. Jirus went to an alley where he thought he would be safe, and talked brily with a man there about what was going on. Jirus said he heard two gunshots, loudly echoing off the building. It caused him to spin around to look for the source of the noise. But when he turned back, he looked down and saw the man he had been conversing with lying on the ground, shot in the head.

　　Uncertain where the shooter was, he ran.

　　“I was just lucky,” he said. “The other person was shorter than me. There were two shots, he got that guy, he didn’t get me. . . . The randomness of it — standing right next to me, one person gets shot.”

　　At least two police officers were among those shot. Police on the scene said one is a D.C. police officer who was shot twice in the leg and was evacuated to a hospital. Lanier said he was in stable condition after engaging the shooter with gunfire. The other was a base officer. The D.C. officer, was conscious at MedStar Washington Hospital Center and his chances for survival were good, hospital officials said.

　　Janis Orlowski, the chi medical officer at Washington Hospital Center, said three victims in all were brought to the center, all in critical condition but alert, responsive and able to talk with doctors. The victims were also able to speak brily to law enforcement officers bore undergoing surgery or treatment, she said.

　　The other two victims at the hospital were female civilians, Orlowski said at a news conference. All are likely to survive.

　　The impact of the incident rippled across town, forces schools, offices and homes into an enforced lockdown.

　　Senate buildings on Capitol Hill went on lockdown at about 3 p.m., with no one allowed to enter or leave the building, though it was partially lifted toward the end of the day to allow staffers to go home.

　　The Nationals, whose ballpark is near the Navy Yard, postponed a Monday night game. Instead, they will play a double header Tuesday at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m.

　　Ten public and charter schools and a public school administration building in the District went on lockdown, and flights out of Reagan National Airport were brily halted, causing delays even after they began departing again.

　　Adm. Jonathan W. Greenert, the chi of Naval Operations, was evacuated from his residence at the Navy Yard complex shortly after the first report of shots fired, Navy officials said.

　　Greenert, a four-star admiral and member of the Joint Chis of Staff, was safely evacuated to the Pentagon along with his wife, Darleen, said Cmdr. Ryan Perry, a Navy spokesman.

　　Police closed the 11th Street Bridge as well as M Street SE between Second and Fourth streets SE because of the shooting. Entrances to the Navy Yard Metro station remain open.

　　As helicopters circled overhead and emergency vehicles continued to rush to the scene, crowds of onlookers gathered on sidewalks and at a construction site near the Navy Yard, but police pushed them back, yelling at them to keep a distance from the grounds.

　　President Obama on Monday expressed sympathy for the victims of the shooting and said justice must be sought.

　　“I’ve made it clear to my team that we want the investigation to be seamless, so that local and federal authorities are working together,” he said.

　　As a long day drew to a close, weary and stunned Navy personnel filtered into Capitol Hill in their tan uniforms, blue camouflage fatigues and civilian clothes, many of them saying little, just wanting to get home after a day spent running or hiding, and then waiting.

　　Tom Dick-Peddie, 46, was at work in another building in the Navy Yard and said they were on lockdown for about an hour and a half, then they were evacuated to another building. Shortly after 3 p.m. they were allowed to leave.

　　Kate O’Neill of Arlington and Stephanie Cates-Harman of Columbia, who work in the office of the general counsel, said their office had been ordered to shelter in place until 2 p.m. While some people were very upset, and others were calm, and tried to contact relatives to assure them that they were okay.

　　“Texts were going fast and furious,” O’Neill said.

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