seeing tourists still there and our reporters are walking around barely noticing and much of a difference inside there, but you do see these pictures outside where there is a larger security presence. we do see officers there and they are on the crime scene right now. set rick alexander is with us. if you were able to hear the briefing from the capitol police. any questions that would be at the front of your mind, and we don t know who the suspect is and we don t know what the motivation was. well, in a short period of time more information will be divulged as to who this subject is whether he or she was armed. it is a woman. we do know now it is a woman. we do know it is a woman. so more information is going to be gathered here, but there are no questions, really that are outstanding. i think the most important part for us to remember at this point these officers acted very, very quickly and something they re used to doing in that metro area. we have seen a number of other thr
avenue. any sense of motive? did the person or the suspect suggest they were trying to get into the capitol? again, there s no nexus for terrorism. it was a traffic stop. how many shots were fired and where did those shots land? we re not going to get into that right now? we re not going to get into those details. so thank you. was it a man or woman? it is a woman. we just heard it was a woman. the suspect was a woman we overheard as the briefing was ending. we ll double-check the tape on that, but i believe that you re right. we just got our update from eva malecki the u.s. capitol police communications director. the headline there, no nexus to terrorism and this was a criminal incident, no nexus to terrorism. what happened shortly after 9:00 this morning, police saw an
as a normal day on capitol hill. there s a lot of chatter in the hallways about these reports and about what people are seeing on tv and on twitter, but not in the increased security at the capital that we can determine at the moment and we know capitol police are responding to these reports and they said they are moving and investigating exactly what happened, but they are taking this incredibly seriously because this happened just steps away from the house where the house currently is in session. this is a peak tourist season, too. so a lot of folks coming in and out of the capitol, in addition to, of course, any time members of congress are in town there s always heightened security and when an incident like this happens certainly even more so. so that is mostly happening outside the building right now. inside the building, the members are still moving on. there s not a security situation and they re not asking folks to
initially said they were warning shots, but it is not clear from our view here whether those shots actually disabled this vehicle or not. we can t get a clearer read on whether there are any bullet holes or anything in this vehicle. we don t see any, but we ll hopefully get that information pretty soon. brian todd, stand by for us on the scene. just to remind people of what s happening right now. capitol police say a driver tried to ram into a capitol police cruiser and then tried to apparently run down capitol police officers. this driver has now been apprehended and there were shots fired at one point. no injuries reported. and there are some people who have used the phrase warning shots. our tom fuentes pointed out the police don t use warning shot. you shoot to disarm, disable or to kill a suspect. they don t like that term, but that is exactly what we are being told by metropolitan police and that s why we are using it, not because we know
no reports of injury. i heard tom talk about warning shots and we ll talk to the capitol hill police when we are on the scene in a couple of minutes here and we ll hear the nature of the shots fired and there are no reports of injuries and apparently the driver is now in custody and we re led to believe that the incident has concluded and we re getting on the scene right now and trying to get some information. ? for people, brian, who haven t had the pleasure of visiting capitol hill. it s a big area. the capitol hill is there and the lawn, and independence avenue and constitution on the other. it s a very big area and the capitol police are all around it, correct? brian todd brian, are you still with us. i m here, guys, if you can hear me. describe to our audience so they know the type of security normally seen up there on