Reports of a shooting. We are told that staff in the capitol complex, again, are being told to shelter in place. These reports of gunshots being fired in the capitol Visitors Center. Now, the white house this these situations routinely put on lockdown immediately, as you can imagine. We also hear reports that the north lawn has also been cleared at the white house, and the pennsylvania avenue that runs right in front of the Capitol Building has been cleared as well as Lafayette Park all the way down to h street. We understand that now that there has been one Police Officer shot. Were just getting word on that. So, again, lockdown on capitol hill, the white house in lockdown as are people working inside the capitol complex, being told to shelter in place. At one point they thought maybe this was a drill but, apparently, this is no drill. Again, reports of one Police Officer being shot, other people saying there were injuries, and people are being taken to some sort of shelter. All of th
Go. We begin with a trip to the capitol. Its dont is taller than that of the u. S. Capital. The kansas State Capitol was built over 30 years, which is kind of unusual. It started after the civil war was over to read we became a 1861, but they9, were not able to start on the building because of the civil war. Whence they did it, they did it in sections. We are laid out like the u. S. Capital. They started with the east wing. Then they did the south wing that has the former Supreme Court room and in the north wing library and then finally the dome. It was quite a bit of money at that time, but they did put it out over the 37 years, and we are one of the few capitals where all of the money was raised before they built, so there was no debt associated itself. Lding there were equal numbers of free states and slave states. Kansas was going to break the tie, and i believe that is where the state lotto comes from the state motto comes from. Our state motto means to the stars through difficult
For africanamerican women in the city of topeka. Would begin with a trip to the kansas State Capitol only the second structure to serve as the capital building. Its dome is as tall as that of the u. S. Capital. They started in 1866 after the civil war was over. We became a state generate 29, 1861. We are 154 years old. But they were not able to start on the building because of the civil war. When they did, they built it in sections. We are laid out like the u. S. Capital. They started with the east wing, which has the senate chamber. And then the west wing, the house chamber, and then the Supreme Court room, and in the north wing, which has the state library and a former secretary of states office, and finally, the dome. That took 37 years. 3. 2 million. It was quite a bit of money at that time but they spread it out over the 37 years. All the money was raised before they built. There was no debt associated with actually building the capital itself. One kansas was about to enter the un
Capitol dome building itself. The shooter apparently entered on the senate side of things, and apparently pulled a weapon, and was himself or herself we dont know the gender of the shooter shift by Law Enforcement shot by Law Enforcement. We heard the individual has been transported to a hospital. Originally we had reports from a number of sources, including Law Enforcement, indicating that one Capitol Hill Police officer, one Capitol Police officer had also been injured in this incident. Now were being told by our capitol hill producer, chad pergram, who knows the hill better than anyone else here, that there is no officer down. We have heard from some eye witnesses that the incident occurred near the end of a given tour of School Children. This is a woman whose child was in one of these tours. Her husband was actually with the kid during the tour, and the husband was texting her from inside the Capitol Visitor Center saying, in essence, it sound like, quote, full clip of a gun had be
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