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>> wow. that is a big deal. pete williams. given that, i guess how are investigators now going to go and try to figure out a motive? i assume, as were seeing on the left-hand side of the screen, looking into the car to see what they can find in there, identifying him, going to his home. what else? i think we lost pete. tom winter, are you still with us? >> reporter: hey there, katy. katy, if you can hear me, i can hear you. >> i think someone in the control room, by the way, has opened my key so...

Police officers that they were put in an untenable situation on that day. some of it within the capitol polices leadership control and some of it not and now an incident today where the officers are directly attacked and they have to shoot and kill a suspect and one of your own colleagues is dead. thats a very difficult thing for any police department but one going through the trauma they have and it is trauma. speaking with law enforcement officer in the past that they have gone through in the ...

Shot. we dont know that for sure? >> thats correct. the indications are pointing the suspect was shot. not 100% confirmed at this point. >> jim, you have heard a little bit more information. this is how you build your profile. take all this information that you learned. what do you think we are dealing with here? >> you know, its leaning toward -- its not at the stage of absolute yet. but its leaning toward, as we analyze it, that it may be a purposeful attack, like toms reporting. theres shots ...

Enforcement officials have been briefed on the investigation whom nbc news has spoken with, tried to lunge at officers with a knife after hitting that barrier there. katy. >> again, one officer dead. the suspect dead after an incident on capitol hill. you can see the car right there. the other officer was transported to the hospital. they are still at the hospital. we did not get an update on their condition. andrea mitchell, you and i were together on air just a few months ago now watching the ...

D.c. police all responded to the incident, seemingly within minutes. so definitely a bit quicker than weve seen in recent months, to say the least. >> and what happens when congress -- im sorry -- when the capitol itself, the building itself and those who are still inside, because there are people like you working in there, what happened when you were alerted there was a threat outside? >> reporter: we have pager systems in each office in the capitol. they look like pagers. they sit on chargers ...

Update there from the u.s. capitol police. one of the officers who was struck by this vehicle, struck by the suspect, has succumbed to their injuries. that officer has now died. they are not i.d.ing that officer right now because they are waiting to inform next of kin. the suspect is also dead, shot by capitol police, died of his injuries. it is a male. it seems that they know his identification, but they have not released that as of now. i also heard that it was asked was this terrorism related...

Congress is not in session right now for the easter holidays. its good friday today. so the capitol is not quite as crowded as it normally is. there is still obviously many people at work at the capitol, but congress is not in session. there are some lawmakers who are there, including ro khanna, congressman khanna who we just had the air a moment ago. lets go to police chief carmen best. chief best, thank you for being here. what are we going to hear at this 2:45 briefing? >> thank you for havin...

Congressman kildee, thank you for joining us. i want to do a little bit of a reset, for anyone who might be tuning in right now, let me update you. a blue car, as you can see right there, rammed into the barricade leading into the capitol, and he rammed two police officers. the man got out of the car, wielded a knife and was shot by capitol police. pete williams says that man has now died. so the suspect, according to these law enforcement sources, has now died. we do not know the condition of t...

Make sure we have security, not just for members of congress, but there are thousands of people who work on our staffs every day. as you know, people reporting on the activities of congress who are at risk. so we have to make sure that in this moment were safe. but absolutely i want to see those barriers come down. i want to see busloads of eighth graders showing up on the steps of the capitol again. thats who we are. but a fence doesnt change minds. weve got to figure out a way in this country,...

There were a lot of threats to the capitol police over the shooting of ashley babbot. she was shot. it was ruled justifiable. that doesnt mean its justifiable to the insurrectionists. they all claim its murder by the capitol police. dont rule out -- im not ruling it in. but dont rule it out that this could have been a person that was attacking capitol police because of whats happened. we dont really know. it seems very -- almost suicidal attack, almost just dont care the outcome. it doesnt look ...