Your side. Kimberly tonight the calm after the chaos on capitol hill. People spent hours stuck in the Capital Building and Visitor Center after a man shot and killed himself on the west lawn. Richard reeve joins us with the developing story. Rich, what did the man leave behind . Richard it was a back pack, a carry on, and a single gunshot that calls the lockdown. The capital is pretty much back to normal. They are cleaning up the scene right now. This is a very bizarre incident this man committing suicide in broad daylight in a very public place. It was a total heavily armed lockdown in the u. S. Capitol. It sounded like a balloon pop. Richard the police ordering staffers and visitors to shelter in place. The Urgent Police and fire response after racing will gunshot rang out just after 1 00 saturday afternoon. 50, 60 people, and everybody started scrambling. Richard Robert Bishop was snapping this selfie close to the capitals western base when he heard the shot. He just walked up. When
Responsibility to mitigate serious crimes and terrorist events. Of course we do need to be ready for terrorist events. He thinks officers need military equipment because they patrol, quote, urban areas. Communities need to trust their police officers. That trust wasnt built in ferguson when the streets looked like a war zone. Has chief belmer forgotten this . I guess the police chief thinks thats all okay because it happened in an urban area. Thankfully, not everyone agrees. Missouri senator clare mchaskill plans to hold Senate Hearings next month on the militarization of Police Departments. Congressman adam schiff is urging the attorney general to help local Police Departments buy body cameras. A group of civil Rights Groups and lawmakers wrote a letter to the president asking for the Justice Department to help make other changes to local police forces. They want to make racial bias training mandatory. To implement diversity hiring, and retention guidelines so Police Reflect the commu
Families who sacrifice daily for our freedoms, our hearts, our prayers with all of our deployed soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines will not be home for christmas. So you decided to do this trip. Tell me more about that. Mrs. Trump i wanted to come and visit military families and also the servicemen and women. Its very important that we support them. Holidays are coming. Not many of them, they will be with their families. So for me its very important to show them that the president and i, and the country, we are behind them. Sean you know whats amazing, we are on the uss george h. W. Bush, who recently passed away. They put as many as 5,000 people on this ship. I was watching you as you are watching the jets come in and out. If we tipped it over it would be the size of the empire state building. What did you think when you see this . Its incredible. Even when i flew over here, you see the ship, its very small and then you are approaching and its really big. It was great to meet some of
Prayers with all of our deployed soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines, whoor will not be home for christmas. So you decided to do this trip. Tell me more about that. Mrs. Trump i wanted to come and visit military families and also the servicemen and women. Its very important that we support them. Holidays are coming. Not many of them, they will be with their families. So for me its very important to show them that the president and i, and the country, we are behind them. Sean you know whats amazing, we are on the uss george h. W. Bush, who recently passed away. They put as many as 5,000 people on this ship. I was watching you as you were watching thean jets come in and out. If we tipped it over, it would be the size of the empire state building. What did you think when you see this . Its incredible. Even when i flew over here, you see the ship, its very small and then you are approaching and its really big. It was great to meet some of them who serve here. Now today there are 3,000 s ser