The highrise Apartment Building up in flames. The death toll rising tonight. The mother who dropped her baby nearly ten stories to safety. Announcer this is a Special Edition of World News Tonight with david muir, reporting tonight from washington. And good evening on this wednesday night. Were back at the capitol in washington tonight, because of that awful scene that played out this morning. As lawmakers were practicing for an annual tradition, the congressional Baseball Game, when a gunman opened fire. It was not long before the gunman allegedly asked, are they democrats or republicans . He was told they were republicans. Five people were hit, including congressman Steve Scalise, a member of the house leadership. Tonight, hes in Critical Condition. After trying to crawl across the field to safety. Authorities now say James Hodgkinson was the attacker, the husband and Home Inspector from illinois. Who had Strong Political views. Tonight, that gunman is now dead, taken down by two Cap
survival. 15-year-old isaiah christianson and his 16-year-old sister olivia were at jazz band practice. rehearsal. and all of a sudden we hear this like loud pop, you know, people were thinking something fell. i thought like someone popped a balloon. reporter: authorities say eleven-year-old ahmir jolliff was killed with seven people injured. the suspect taking his own life. we have a male subject found in the hallway. reporter: among the five injured, perry high school principal dan marburger being called a hero. his daughter writing on facebook, it is absolutely zero surprise to hear he tried to approach and talk dylan down and distract him long enough for some students to get out of the cafeteria. that s just dad. tonight, authorities saying the principal and two students remain hospitalized. lester. jesse kirsch, thank you. for decades, he was the face of the country s most powerful gun lobby. today wayne lapierre, the ceo of the national rifle association said he was
it was a loud pop, pop, pop. and it was just endless. probably at least my dad thinks that it was 100, i think it was 50 at least. but just an endless pop, pop, pop. it sounded like if you are standing on top of a fire work that is just endlessly going. i just had a bad feeling. it seemed uncanny and i had watched fireworks the night before and i m like this is too fast and i just grabbed my dad and we ran. and suddenly everyone was running behind us. people were shot behind us. they let us go back to get our things and another girl was there just dead, another man shot in the ear. it sounded like it was coming right next to us. and apparently it might have either on the roof or it was probably within 100 feet from us, but i can t tell if they were from above or on the