Is that guy okay out there . Is anybody talking to him . The sbar video goes on for six minutes. E we counted 52 shots. It was all over five people were shot including Steve Scalise, a congressional staffer, tyson foods employee and two Capitol Hill Police agents also shot. Scalise remains in Critical Condition. The shooter has been identified as James Hodgkinson of illinois. President trump confirmed he died in a shootout with police. There have been reports the 66yearold was targeting republicans, but an fbi agent leading the investigation says its too early to tell. Nbc news has Team Coverage tonight covering this from all angles. Four reports from washington, d. C. To virginia to philadelphia bringing you angles of the top story. We begin with lauren mayk in washington. She has reaction from local lawmakers. You were at that scene just moments after the shooting this morning. Reporter we were on scene and police were still blocking off the area when we were there. Then we came back
Temperatures hitting 120 degrees. Plus, a terrifies one way crash captured on a dash cam. That and more on a special edition of early today. Good morning. House member oh Steve Scalise is in Critical Condition after a gunman opened fire on a republican baseball team. He was hit in the right hip and the bullet fractured bones, injured internal organs and caused severe bleeding. Scalise has already received multiple points of blood and doctors say he will need further surgery. Several others were injured during the shooting. Matt micah was injured. Zach b. A. R. T. Was injured but posted he was okay and in the hospital. His boss, Roger Williams from texas suffered a sprained incident during the sprained ankle during the incident. Capitol officers were injured. President trump visited the wounded officer in the hospital as well as representative scalise and his wife. The president later tweeted scalise is in very tough shape but is a real fighter. Pray for steve. Nbc has more on the shoot
Closing a portion at washington road and harriston streets, and if youre on route 1 you might run into detours. Watching 95, 295 to 495, average speed is in the 60s. Seeing everything look good there. Route 73 in new jersey, route 295. Everything looks good so far. You can see both directions moving northbound and southbound. Thank you. A congressional baseball practice ends as a gunman opens fire on lawmakers. Congressman shot in a hail of bullets. A witness recovering bullets recovering bullets at the scene. Majority whip scalise is in Critical Condition. Last night, President Trump and first lady went to visit him in the hospital. Officers are being called the capitol officers there are being called heroes for stopping the gunmen. Tell us more. Thats right. That security detail was there for congressman scalise. Senator rand paul was in a battle cage when the fire broke out. He said had scalise not been there it would have been a massacre. The attack happened at a baseball field in
And temperatures warm up in Lehigh Valley as well. Low 80s for philadelphia in suburbs and 70 in new jersey and even cooler at the shore thanks to the sea breezes, 71 High Temperature and 80 degrees in Lehigh Valley and 80 degrees for telling la wear. Were back in 10 minutes. First, Jessica Boyington has the first alert traffic. Watching 95 around broad street, our cameras showing on the northbound side we have Fire Department activity, Police Activity on the scene. An earlier car fire thats put out and still taking up some lanes. Within the last 15 minutes or so this car was completely engulfed in flames and the Fire Department have put it out. If youre moving northbound past broad street to the stadium area you might be trying to head towards center city or bridges, watch for delays there. Watch for a crash northbound between washington road and harrison street blocking the road there. Drive times, everything green for the most part. Schuylkill, rt 30 and 202. The attack on congressw
Showers moving through right now. Lets find out more about that. Dave murphy is outside. The parking lot is wet from that shower. It is. And karen rogers has your traffic. We had the shower come through and ill show you that in a second. Ill start with satellite, the wide view. You can see theres cloud cover around this morning but also some breaks of sun beginning to develop across the region. And as we take a look at storm tracker6 live double scan, you can see that we do have a shower and this is actually been producing some lightning so it may still be a thunderstorm and boy, a real big bloom of heavy rain now popping right into south philadelphia and just about ready to hit areas just to the north of the airport, fort mifflin is about to get hit and National Park in new jersey might get caught with some of that as well. Cherry hill possibly haddonfield possibly and farther up north south of jenkintown on 611, broad street outside of the city you can also see bloom developing. It d