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with me as well is ruth marcos who has covered her for years. i wanted to share for all of us that she underwent what is called a pulmonary lobectomy and two nodules in the left lung were discovered incidentally at the sloan kettering, and they were at gw hospital at a time to treat broken ribs in a fall. and the thoracic surgeon says that they were found and scans before the surgery indicated no evidence of disease elsewhere in the body. and no other treatment is planned, and chief juses tis ginsberg is resting comfortably. and ruth, this is i believe her third experience with different forms of cancer. we have seen that she comes back in each instance without missing
well, yes. i should say a couple of things here. i think that the based on the information we have, we have been told from a couple sources and we re waiting from a third source that the gunman had died. i think he died more than an hour ago at gw hospital where he was taken. obviously was shot several times and did not survive. so that changes the course of the investigation a little bit, since there s not going to be a prosecution of him. now the questions are, was anyone else involved? did anyone help him? did anyone know about this in advance? when and where did he buy the gun? the atf is tracing that right now. when and where did he buy the ammunition? those are all questions they ll try to answer. when did he get here? also, the motive. you know, it s pretty clear that this man, james hodgkinson from bellview, illinois, had strong political views, and he s expressed them over the years.
senators were at a baseball practice. tomorrow there is a bipartisan baseball game scheduled and this was the republicans practicing. police responded. two officers engaged in open fire, according to the alexandria police chief. they re interviewing witnesses, they re working with the capitol police and the fbi. they did tell us and confirm that five people, five people were transported in ambulances to the hospital. we have confirmation that congressman steve scalise is one of those people, an aide and two capitol cops and we re being told, joe, that there will be an official press conference in about 90 minutes. joe? also being told that steve scalise and the two police officers at least are in stable condition. just to get a feel for the level of chaos there, senator jeff flake said that gunfire was ringing out, as many as 50 to 60 shots ringing out. at one point he heard more shooting start and while he was down started screaming, are you
sure. i want to bring back kristen welker who is live at the white house. kristen, i want to point out that this is not yet confirmed. nbc has not confirmed this, but the washington post is reporting a spokesperson for gw hospital where some of the victims were taken, steve scalise who is in surgery went to medstar but a spokesperson from gw hospital said two victims from the shooting are in critical condition. we know that at least two capitol police officers, possibly an aide, steve scalise and the shooter were all taken to area hospitals. that shooter, who was confirmed a male, jeff flake said it was a man with dark hair with a blue shirt on. we know another eyewitness, a woman said she saw a man with a white beard walking towards the field. she went into a ymca to make that 911 call. rand paul, who heard the shots fired, who believed it was a semiautomatic weapon, possibly the sound of an ar-15, didn t