holding the american people for ransom. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s begin with the breaking news. this was the scene just a little while ago, only a couple blocks from where we are here in washington. police swarming capitol hill after gunfire erupted, forcing members of congress to temporarily shelter in place. we re told it all began with a car chase that started at the white house, ended not far away up on capitol hill, when the car slammed into a police vehicle, injuring an officer. a source says the suspect, a woman, was shot and a child was in the car. we re just getting the first audio of those shots being fired from a witness recording it all on her cell phone as it happened. [ gunfire ]
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take a listen. watch this, his riveting account of what happened. i m behind the car. i m hearing multiple gunshots. we re with police right now and we re we re trying to stay back right now but we are surrounded by police and we re seeing police swarming, guns drawn and we have heard multiple gunshots. i m actually standing by the car right now. it is not a good position to be in. officers are putting on bulletproof vests. we have police running, all guns drawn around me right now. there are probably ten different cruisers and officers getting out of their cars, guns drawn. they re running you a around me right now. when we pulled up the cars stopped around me. meantime i heard probably 20 gunshots. i m just staying down, using the car as shelter. i ve never in my life been in a situation like this. when he we pulled up, multiple,
town wins a $950 million lottery jackpot. you heard right. all except one guy who missed out on it. we start with this. we re just a few hours away from the start of the nevada caucuses. it is the fifth contest in the republican presidential race, but the first one to take place west of the mississippi we will have much more on that in just a moment. but first, here are some of the other top stories we are watching for you this morning. in syria anti-government activists say the military is randomly bombing residential neighbors. it has been the center of the uprising in syria. activists say as many as 260 people including women and children have been killed in the past day alone. cnn has not independently confirmed the accounts, though. here is what one brave activist told our anderson cooper last night. they have been bombarding an a area for like three hours with tank shells because a part of the syrian army led down to welcome the syrian army. so they bombard randomly
this is unfortunate and it shows that this guy is looking for some work on his election campaign and shows, how, how, you know, he is the history of the middle east and the palestinian people and the palestinian people, had been living in this area for thousands of years and we hope that he would reconsider his stateme statement. gingrich s campaign put out something to clarify his comments on the jewish channel and says that gingrich long supported the idea of a palestinian state in some form and his comments about them being an invented people was about the quote, decades long history that surrounded this issue, kelly? molly, thanks for that report. jamie? well, they had another one of those occupy wall street camps and they had to break it down and arrested dozens of protesters, the police swarming the encampment at five o clock this morning,