i want to bring in a statement that roger williams, a congressman from the state of texas, put out just a few moments ago. at approximately 7:00 a.m. eastern time this morning an armed gunman arrived at baseball practice and opened fire. congressman williams was not shot, however, a member of his staff was shot and is receiving medical attention. the gunman has been detained and at this time we do not have any further information but will continue to release it as it comes to the surface. jeff flake pointed out earlier, prior we had only been reporting that five people, including the shooter, had been shot. according to jeff flake, it s a total of six people, including two capitol policemen as well, of course, as one aide and steve scalise. i want to bring in malcolm nance. malcolm, i know you re not on the scene, but sadly you re not new to crises like this. what s your take thus far? well, unfortunately, we re facing another mass shooting
opposite. this is all on the senate side. there are two senate office buildings on the other side of the street from the capitol. this all happened near the newer one, the so-called hart senate office building. there would be capitol policemen on the street, standing on the corners at all hours of the day and night. that s their normal posture around the capitol building, but it s u.s. capitol police who would have been on the scene. it s our understanding that the officer injured was a u.s. capitol officer. pete, we re looking at live pictures right now. we can see in our view a black car that appears to have crashed in front of sort of a guard station there. there s also what appears to be a black suv off to the side. are either of these vehicles, do you know, the vehicle that tried to ram the white house barricade and then was pursued? i can t be 100% sure because the car hasn t been described to me in any detail, but i would
greatly at the u.s. capitol since the last attack there in which russell weston entered and shot two capitol policemen, thousand there s a center that now there s a centers that a security before you get into the complex. the security situation has exchanged greatly on capitol hill. ba back to the specifics, he is said to be in his early 30s, we do not have his name yet. but the point is, these days, if the fbi picks up anyone showing interest in some kind of terror attack, they mount a sting operations and we have seen several of these involving a washington, d.c. metro system, someone who wanted to fly remote control planes into land mark buildings here in washington. so this is another in this series that we have seen. you never now how serious or