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Lockdown mode. school canceled state offices in baltimore closed citywide curfew will go into effect tonight at 10:00, everyone under 14 has to be home by dawn. this morning marylands governor was on the street said he is encouraged by what he is seeing today. >> today i was pleasantly surprised, number one, that we had got all the fires under control, that there was no violence out here yet this morning and that the neighbors were coming out and pitching in to volunteer to clean up their neighb...

Mode. we could hear the police talking into their radios akts plans for a lockdown and plans to potentially get the iraqi prime minister out of the building through some other means if that had been necessary. but now, the senate sergeant at arms told me several minutes ago everything is under control, the man is in custody for questioning, they want to find out why he landed this helicopter here and so that is -- that is where things stand right now. im told from some witnesses on the scene it ...

Disorder. i think thats probably fine. i have questions about the initial reporting. was this pure coincidence that this arose after the rumor of a jihad, or was it just -- did they hear rumors that something was going to happen? was this connected? was that purely coincidence? and the second part is when this happens, they always talk about a second shooter, and there almost never is. is that assumption made out of caution so that you assume that theres somebody else out there? >> reporter: abs...

They are specifically trained. what you find is a lot of times the malls will have almost officers, off-duty details at the various malls. >> i am on the highway and i can see a large contingent of law enforcement in the direction of that mall. so the big question mark is do they have an active shooter or have they been able to cordon off the mall to determine where the shooter is? do they have the shooter under control? all of those things are going on in law enforcement mind. >> were told that...

Most of the northeast. temperatures look a little bit better in the south. atlanta, you will be at 59 degrees today. a lot of you happy about that. returning to normal. you had the coldest thanksgiving yesterday in 100 years with a low of 22 degrees. you are starting to rebound nicely. it should be a nice day in the south. look at all the sunshine, though. sunny across the deep south and the west as well. even up to the north. it is just cold up there. a little bit of rain pulling into the pacif...

See. a few dozen or so tourists actually sprinting over towards independence avenue. i then also saw police pursue a car that went out of my view. from what we have garnered so far, a chase ensued. after this, guy, after the suspect was apprehended, we presume, a helicopter actually landed on the west front, which turned out to be a medevac helicopter. the capitol police officer in that helicopter was not shot. he was injured when his car rammed that of the suspect. we were told the suspect is a...

All of us now are behind closed doors. again, many police vehicles are on the capitol. police vehicles, emergency vehicles. we have not gotten the all clear sign yet. i do know in just a moment the capitol police are going to hold a news conference. >> what was the last update you received via the e-mail that was sent out or the e-mail system or overheard on the announcement p.a.? >> basically just shelter in place. that was about 2:37 saying remain in place with exclamation points after it. fro...

>> this situation very close to capitol hill, where shots were exchanged. i want to point out that the crisis is over. president obama has been made aware of the situation. the house is no longer in lockdown mode. we are now hearing more about the series of events. i want to bring in nbcs justice correspondent pete williams, whos in washington now. pete, we know that this happened about 2:15 this afternoon when a black car tried to ram one of the security gates at the white house. walk us throug...

Incident. typically when there is any perceived threat, pennsylvania avenue closes down. however, its also important to note that the white house is not on lockdown mode. that means that people who have hard passes, who have actual white house passes, are being allowed entrance into the white house at this moment. they have also, by the way, pushed back onlookers to lafayette park, that is across the street from the white house. dozens of them still gathered sort of watching all of this unfold a...

Cruisers actively pursuing something towards constitution avenue, which is on the senate side of the capitol. but then after sort of the first boom, then the tourists were told to move by police. the police told them to move towards independence, which is on the house side. there is quite an extraordinary scene of tourists literally sprinting at the direction of the police over to independence avenue. we are still in lockdown mode here at the capitol, meaning we cannot go outside. the house of r...