>> reporter: good afternoon, dylan. well, the situation has finally calmed down after many, many hours of commotion hoar. two of the british compounds were raided, as you know. one of them where the six british personnel were taken hostage have been released. they were given into the custody of the police, and that premises has been vacated, but the main compound in the downtown tehran had been occupied up until about an hour ago, and it took the tehran police chief to actually physically go into the embassy and convince the basij militia members who had overtaken the embassy and looted it to leave the place. they finally listened to police chief and vacated the area after extensive damage was done to the embassy. paperwork was burned, an embassy vehicle had been set on fire, and they tore down pictures of queen elizabeth that were in the embassy. dylan? >> all right. ali, thank you so much. with us here in studio today is congressman ted deutsche, democrat from florida. he has happens to be on the