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Entire area. there are helicopters going around. all of the streets are blocked off, and right now, these buss that are being escorted out of here so they can continue. this lockdown situation, and i can tell you, as a parent of students who good to school 45, minutes north of here, im receiving messages from the district, explaining they have -- my kids schools in a lockout situation, where they have a higher police presence in those schools. this is happening all over this area. very delicate ...

Stay with us. joining us now is robert costa of the national review who was also at the capitol as this event unfolded. robert, where were you and what did you see? >> i was actually just walking outside of the u.s. house. walking actually with representative michele bachmann from minnesota, talking politics. it was a beautiful day on capitol hill, and i said good-bye to her, walked back into the capitol and almost immediately it was a lockdown situation. i did not hear the shots, but the cops i...

Stood at the moment, wolf. >> no all-clear has been given on the speakers there in the russell senate office building? >> no. >> its still a lockdown situation? >> thats right. >> clearly, this situation is sun folding even as we speak. im looking at these monitors and we can see a lot of police activity. were here on capitol hill ourselves, and we can hear the sirens going off. theres emergency personnel, police, local police, capitol hill police. obviously, theyre deeply concerned about whats ...

Importantly, in this situation does he have a hostage? a lot of times people will say, why dont they just go in and blast gas in there and go in there gun blazing and get the guy? we dont know that right now. >> even though hes barricaded in some room by himself, that creates problems of its own, doesnt it. >> well, no, thats a much easier situation. as long as they can verify that theres no hostage involved and they only have the shooter and hes contained within a particular location, you know,...

People who work in the affected buildings. can you remind us once again what people do in that particular building? >> sure, carol. let me say all of these reports are very preliminary. again the situation just unfolding about 15 minutes ago. several shots fired, people injured. people trying to get out. we dont have a firm count on how many injured. this is something called building 197, it is at the headquarters for the naval sea systems command, a large element of the navy bureaucracy that ov...

Right that order to stay indoors for people that lockdown situation right now for people to not go in or out of the buildings if theyre outside already, you see down the sidewalk here on l street you see the folks obviously folks that are dressed to go to work, they were ready to go to work this morning, theyre not being allowed any closer in, and just like every corner around this quadrant of the city right now, it is shut down to vehicular traffic. police have basically stationed themselves at...

>> we are. >> reporter: is this someone -- >> no, sir. >> reporter: this happened around 8:20 this morning? >> i didnt look at the clock. >> reporter: what were hearing is around 8:20 this morning. >> yes, sir. >> reporter: youre very lucky. very blessed. im glad to see that you all are with us and some people were not as lucky. thank you so much. thats the situation from here. >> you heard those frightening eyewitnesss account. these people were in the hallway, they saw the gunman, the gunman t...

Clothing, dark top and jeans. ten victims associated with the shooting. at least one of them is a metropolitan police officer and another officer not affiliated with the metropolitan police. and according to the twitter feed that im reading right now, reports of fatalities. again, we can tell you massive police presence all and us here. this is m street and 11th street southeast in washington. again, this is a secure facility and its very difficult to get on this base under normal circumstances....

Washington navy yard. people who work there have parking passes, have stickers in their cars. so this is not a place in washington where someone can just drive on or walk on. this is a secure area. i got an e-mail a couple of minutes ago from one of our very fantastic producers on "the situation room." she lives in the neighborhood and she wrote to me, the houses are about half a block away plus that elementary school, linda tells us her neighbors can see all of this from their windows and roof ...

Continues to pose a threat to people. >> does it say anything to you -- i dont know. it seems to be an unusual gunman. heres a guy dressed all in black, armed with some sort of rifle. doesnt seem to be a high-powered weapon at all and we know that there are ten injuries right now, including two police officers. what does that tell you about him? >> typically what happens in these situations is somebody comes in, they have a gripe and they come in to find one specific person and so they will shoo...