but the uniformed division of the secret service is responsible for the grounds. it was in fact impacted by the sequester. these people have to deal with furloughs, not only to say they have may have been impacted to a certain extent by the government shutdown. despite that, security remains, of course, a priority here, and they are the first level of security, and the woman did not penetrate that level of security. she did not get through that checkpoint. there was at no time a threat to the president or his family. >> which is good news. wendell brings up a good point. as you look at the whole scenario, you talk about the woman ending up -- we do not know if she fired the shots but early reports were -- when we get ahead of ourselves the information always is changing and fluid. we get ahead of ourselves. turns out to be wrong because the early reports were a number of witnesses or a number of people were wounded in this, and