just day-to-day. and it s like everything else. if this can happen on a ballfield in alexandria, virginia. ups office in san francisco or another mass killing within the last four or five days, another disgruntled employee situation. the reality is it can happen anywhere at anytime. bill bratton, thank you, as always. coming up the congressman whose district includes that ballfield in alexandria. we ll talk to him when the 11th hour continues.
sort of experience it and everything goes back to normal? i don t know any kind of big takeaways that will happen, if it will change her congress works. i think with this particular individual, given what he asked us about whether it is republican or democrat, given the information we now know about him, it is clear that this guy is somebody that was filled with rage, political rage, and he decided to take it out by trying to murder people and have the capital police not been there, with scalise, i think he would have killed and ten, 15 people. if the capital police weren t there, if steve had slept in this morning, we would have all been defenseless. i have a glove out there that can stop line drives and ground balls, not going to do very much with a rifle or a pistol firing at you. martha: what changes in terms of the security for members of congress, if anything? on the hill, there s a lot of security. now, we are off-site with this ballfield and it s never really
the left hip, there was pictures broadcast of him being evacuated from the scene. last we heard before the update, he was in surgery and in stage condition. we now now he is out of surgery and doing better, but as random as anything else, the attack where appareapparently this mid ages man, from the state of illinois, and aggravated with the republican party specifically approached the ballfield where members of congress, republican members of congress were practicing for the annual charity baseball game that we have learned in the past hour will go on tomorrow night as planned. fwaupz bits a good causes. course records received by nbc
a fellow lawmaker describes it as a grewsome scene. he was dragging his body from the second base infield, which is dirt, to the outfield to get away from the shooter while all this firing is going on. so we re seeing our colleague as we re under fire. he s lying on the ground but there s not a whole lot you can do. brad winstrop, a former combat surgeon, compared the scene to being like when he was in iraq. the gunman reportedly fired as many as 50 or 60 shots as lawmakers and staffers ran for their lives and took cover in any way that they could. remember, it was an open ballfield. in addition to scalise, congressman roger williams confirms a member of his staff was also shot. it is unclear if one of scalise s aides was wounded as well. we know there were other aides laying in the outfield between second base and that fence on the other side of the fence where that batting cage was
unifying message in response to this shooting, brooke. that s what we re hearing all throughout capitol hill here as well. jim acosta down the road from me, thank you so much. we are learning more details we ll let you listen to some of the harrowing dispatch calls that began just after 7:00 a.m. authorities from monroe word of shots being fired and there are people running, possibly victims involved. shots being fired. we ve got 225, give me your exact location. the ballfield. there s also a victim down in the baseball field. we have another down. does anybody need a chopper? we ve got some witnesses that are trying to leave. i m trying to keep them on the scene. all right. let s go to cnn s renee marsh