total lockdown in the capitol hill offices. the office are just across the street from the capitol building where the lawmakers work, and this is where the house members work. the senate is on the other side and i presume that was shut down as well because of the incident. chris, thank you for joining us. for those just joining us, we re waiting for the capitol police to hold a news conference. we re told a car actually tried to ram the white house gates. the fern was person was armed because he opened fire on constitutionual avenue. he opened fire. six do toe a dozen six to a dozen shots, and trying to ram the white house gate brings this to a different level. catherine herridge gave us a timeline what the snows stand by. we re going mike emanuel live on capitol hill.
commit an act even with the tourists in front of the white house. so pennsylvania avenue was cleared for a while. it has now been re-opened. people are in lafayette park across the street from the white house, and all is secure here, trace. just so we re clear on this, wendell, you said the president is in the white house. at the time of this by our clock, maybe 45 minutes ago, was the president also inside the white house at the time the gates were rammed? he was in the west wing. wendell, stand by if you can. brett, the next step in this investigation, you know it s going to be intense, they re going to go over every bit of this from the white house gates down to the capitol. we have unconfirmed reports the report may have been wounded or injured in some capacity. that s not confirmed. so, we cannot tell you that happened. but the capitol police will come
the out who gates, white houe gates. the is sayings the gates are three blocks away on the other side of the white house and this is not close to ramming the white house gate and shooting at the white house. after that, after failing to ram the gates open, suspect took off and there was a car chase, and that s where the car was pushed off the side of the road by police in a pit maneuver, and there might have been six cars boxing in the suspect s sedan, pushing this person, which we now believe is a woman off the side of the road, and then that is when the gunfire happened. brett, and we re still looking and still scanning the wires and talking to our police sources and nobody has told us if they know where the gunfire originated from. we know shots were expired that somebody was hit but we do not know who fired the shots.
congratulate around laid out a pretty good timeline and chain of events, connecting the dots. give us an idea what is happening right now. we know the lockdown has been lifted. what s the talk and what are congressional members seeing or doing if anything. talked to some really good sources on capitol hill who says the suspect was a woman, small child in the car, she rammed a police barricade near the capitol, injured a police officer in a cruiser. the officer was airlifted out of here by helicopter. and is receiving treatment. my understanding is the woman may have been shot and that the child in the car is okay. but i don t have final status of what happened to the woman, but apparently after ramming the white house gates, came down here to the capitol, ran through a barricade, injured an of. the officer has been taken for treatment, and the coast is now clear. they have cleared the situation. so, clearly they feel like there s no longer a threat to lawmakers or staffers up here on
but for an hour or so it was quite tense. trace: stand by. live for us an capitol hill. the headline is that the suspect has been confirmedded as a woman who tried to ram the white house gates, then tried to ram through a barricade near capitol hill, and then opened fire on an unknown number of people and earlier we mentioned the fact she tried to ram the white house gates and had a baby inside the car. brings this to an entirely different level. let s tabling brett beir. the president has been briefed about the shooting. it s up clear if he was briefed about the ramming of the gate, but this is quite a different matter. sure, trace. and anytime the president would be briefed on any of this, especially if it happened at the white house. they would be. take all precautions. adding to what mike just reported, have another couple of sources on capitol hill.