This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Suggested he wanted to die, a socalled suicide by cop. Police recovered his weapon. The president was golfing at a nearby military base at the time but the Vice President was safe inside the white house complex. A white house statement says no one within or associated with the white house was injured and everyone in the white house is safe and accounted for. Its the latest in a string of security incidents at the white house in recent years. In 2011, a man fired eight rounds from his car into the building, and a number of jumpers have scaled the fence, including a man in 2014 who made it all the way inside the mansion before being arrested, eluding eight secret service members. A followup report cited communication snafus and severe understaffing of uniformed officers. A plan to almost double the height of the perimeter fence is in the works. The shooting occurred at that checkpoint behind me. You can see the white tent where it has been