Transcripts For ALJAZAM News 20131003 : vimarsana.com

There was chaos on capitol hill earlier today. Officers shot and killed a woman after a chase through washington, d. C. She tried to ram her car through a white house barricade. A young child was in the car. The chase ended near the capitol. A witness described the scene. I started looking at it, and going wow, i cant believe this is happening, and the next thing you know the shooting started. So you saw them shoot going the car yeah, we seen some shooting. Once the shooting started i got behind a tree, and he got on the ground. Libby casey joins us live from washington. Libby what is the latest . As you said, tony, high drama in washington today. This woman was trying to ram her car over some barriers. She drove all the way down to capitol hill and thats where she was finally stopped. And witnesses said police were basically able to lock in her car, cordon her in and stop her. And many witnesses came out when they heard the shooting, not always the best idea when you hear shots, but their curiosity overcame them. And we talked to one young man who said i heard this commotion, i came out, and i ah police swarming the car, and one of the officers grab a child wrap the child up and take them away. Earlier we heard from Capitol Police chief. At about 2 18 this afternoon, there was a vehicle in the vicinity of the white house that apparently attempted to pass a barricade. That vehicle was attempted to be stopped by secret Service Uniform division. Shots were potentially fired. They pursued the vehicle. The vehicle struck one of our vehicles here at 2nd and maryland 2nd 1st and [ inaudible ], and ultimately ended up at 2nd and maryland northeast. There were multiple crime scenes as a result of the vehicle fleeing. There were multiple shots fired at several different locations. This case is under investigation by the metropolitan Police Department the secret service, and federal bureau of investigation. Ill take a few questions. Reporter [ inaudible ] . This insid accident under investigation, but at this point an ut rised vehicle attempted to gain access at a very outer perimeter check point. I want to stress that, an outer perimeter check point of the white house. Beyond that there were multiple other check points that someone would have to go through. But this unauthorized vehicle approached the check point. Our officers acted appropriately, the vehicle fled at struck one of our officers. What is the ethnicity of the deceased . I dont think that is being released. Reporter can terrorism be ruled out . That is also under investigation. Reporter where the shots fired . There were no shots fired at the white house. These other locations are where shots were fired at it is all under investigation. Reporter [ inaudible ] . Ill let the chief of Capitol Police talk about that . Reporter has terrorism been ruled out . Can you id yourself again . Ed donovan from secret service. Good evening, kim dine, chief of the United States Capitol Police. You have heard the preliminary information regarding what hand at the white house. Subsequent to that, our officers attempted to make a stop and the vehicle eluded them. Our officer in an attempt to pursue the vehicle, struck a barricade. Ultimately the vehicle stopped at 2nd and we were able to apprehend the suspect. Reporter [ inaudible ] . The officer is doing very well. Thank you for asking . Reporter is he at the hospital . He was at the hospital when i spoke with him. But he is going to be fine. Reporter who was the injured . Who was the injured . I dont have the specific injuries . Reporter how was he injured . His vehicle apparently struck the barricade behind us. All around the capitol the security worked exceptionally well. We had a brief lockdown of the capitol, and we were able to lock things down and clear the event extremely quickly. Keeping everybody safe, notifying everybody of what was going on and cleared the scene rather quickly, as you know, we had a briefing probably within the hour. We obviously are investigating the incident. Multiple Law Enforcement agencies. This appears to be an isolated singular manner with at this point no nexus to terrorism . Reporter how can you rule out terrorism . From the facts and circumstances that we have thus far reporter it is true the suspect was of somali decent . Are you asking me or telling me . Reporter yes. Were not releasing that information at this point. Reporter where were the plates from . Reporter can you talk about the child in the car and where the child is now . My understanding is there was a oneyearold child in the car. I believe one of our officers initially rescued the child and took the child to ininitial medical care in the vicinity here and the child was taken to the hospital. Reporter boy or girl . Pardon me . Reporter [ inaudible ] . Were obviously still investigating that. Let me turn it over to chief lanier. Can you describe the child, boy or girl, what kind of ethnicity . I dont have that information. Let me try to answer a couple of questions real quick. There are certain questions were not going to answer. Were not going to answer any question about the suspect at this point. There is some video that has been released. I would caution you that that video only captures the incident a small part of this incident. As of right now, we do know that there were shots fired in at least two locations during this pursuit. The pursuit was from 15th and e down to the 100block of maryland avenue. It involved both United States secret service, and United States Capitol Police. Right now the suspect in the vehicle we do know was struck by gunfire and at this point has been pronounced. The child is approximately one year old, and is in Good Condition and in protective custody. Right now it is all very preliminary, we dont know which officers fired. How many rounds were fired. I will say at both the white house and the capitol the security perimeters worked. And they stopped a suspect from breaching the Security Location in a vehicle at both locations. Both the United States secret service and Capitol Police officers from what i have seen so far in this investigation acted heroically in trying to stop this suspect from entering the security perimeters at both locations. We have two officers that are injured. One from capitol and one from secret service. Fortunately both will be okay. So i will take a few questions but im not going to answer any questions that pertains to the investigation. Reporter [ inaudible ] . The suspect the last gunfire was in the 100 block of maryland avenue. And the suspect was pronounced some time later. Reporter [ inaudible ] . All of the information we have right now is this does not appear to be in any way an accident. There was a lengthy pursuit, two officers were struck, and two perimeters were breached. Reporter was the child related to the deceased . We dont know that yet. Reporter [ inaudible ] . We would first make next of kin notifications. Reporter was she armed . Were not going to comment on any information regarding evidence at this point. Reporter [ inaudible ] from the white house where was the car going, where were the different places where the shots were fired . I can tell you there were two places where shots were fired at this point. The pursuit started at 15th and e street, came out pennsylvania avenue. Entered garfield circle. There were shots fired after he is suspect rammed into a secret service vehicle, and the vehicle continued on 1st street up to constitution avenue, around the barriers, and on to 100 block of maryland avenue where the vehicle crashed and additional shots were fired there. Reporter [ inaudible ] . There was contact made with the barriers by at least one vehicle. But we know the barriers did go up, and at least one vehicle struck the barriers. Reporter was gunfire exchanged . Reporter [ inaudible ] . What now the information is two departments released fire. Reporter [ inaudible ] . I cant comment on that. Ill take one more question. Reporter [ inaudible ] . The crash was at the 100 block of maryland avenue, and there was another round of gunfire at this point. Reporter if all of this is preliminary how can terrorism be ruled out . All were giving you have just the facts we know. I can tell you i am pretty confident this was not an accident. Not an accident, terrorism . I just want to reiterate it does not appear to be. The officers acted very her heroically. And locked the scene now. Boy there is a lot to sort there. A lot of information to chew on there. Just watched a briefing from kim dyne, the chief of Capitol Police, and the chief of metro police, washingtons metro police force, kathy lanier. Here is what we know about this incident that unfolded at about 2 18. Apparently the suspect tried to gain access to an outer perimeter check point of the house. Failing that, there was a chase. No shots were fired at the white house. Were multiple vehicles struck in the course of this chase. A 23yearold veteran of the Capitol Police department was injured and not as the result of an accident and you are taking a look at a critical piece of video here, and cathy lanier warned us away from drawing too many conclusions based on what were seeing here. And part of what you heard there were gunshots, and i think there will be questions raised about that. A 23yearold veteran of the Capitol Police department was injured when his vehicle actually struck a barricade. It was not as a result of a collision with that vehicle there. A oneyearold child, and this sounds amazing but a oneyearold child was extricated [ technical difficulties ] dyne chief of Capitol Police. Is no apparent nexus at this point to terrorism. J. J. Green is on the line with us oh, is not on the phone with us. Okay. Were working to get j. J. On the phone with us. But were going to go to david shuster, who has been following the story all afternoon. To you, david. Yeah, just to set this up, so people have a better idea why this was so dramatic. Lets start with this dramatic piece of video. Were looking at the west front of the u. S. Capitol building, this first circle right here, this is garfield circle, this is where you pick up the video where the tourist saw something going on, and saw police with guns drawn. Here is the video, you see the black sedan, this is looking rest. She starts to pull out in reverse, rams a police car there, and starts to pull away. Now, again, this is halfway through the chase. And we hear shots fired right there by Capitol Hill Police. And i want to stop it right there again, again, this is halfway through the chase. It has already happened near the white house. So we saw the incident halfway through, but this is where it began. Here we are, white house grounds. Washington monument, according to police, the driver was going westbound on pennsylvania avenue at 15th street. There is a White House Secret Service barrier here. She ran into it, there was an altercation and continued along constitutional avenue. She goes along constitution avenue, and ends up right here, and lets pick up the video again. She is about to head around the second round about, towards constitution avenue, and you will see her circle around i think once or twice and again, this was shot by tourists who were on the lawn of the capitol, and then she continues and she is going to go out of view so where she is continuing is at this point and again, she is right near where this blew pen is. And this blue pen is going to be significant for another reason ill show you in a second. She goes here, makes a right, goes on 1st street and along constitution. While this is going on, starting here on 1st street, and over here, there are electronic barricades that go up when police say there is some sort of emergency. She already passed this particular barricade, but the barricade went up just in time just before a Capitol Hill Police car was giving chase. So here it is in real time, the barricade goes up, boom. No connection between the Capitol Police car and the woman it is just because the barricade went up. The Police Officer is goes too fast. The barricade goes up, and it wrecks the car. Thats where the Capitol Police car was wrecked. Here is the capitol building. This continues and the police talked about it ending on this side of capitol hill. Here is union station. Here is the United States Supreme Court. Somewhere around in here, and its not exactly clear how the woman drove around back here, but she tried to crash into another barrier. Again there you see the black sedan. But this is one block from the United States Supreme Court, a couple of blocks from union station, the Hart Senate Office building, so you can understand why there is such security concerns absolutely. You have more police between Supreme Court police, the Capitol Hill Police, the secret service, the metro Police Department, you have more Police Officers here than you will find anywhere else in the country. Thats why it is such a big deal because who would dare try to do Something Like this. A terrific look at that, and a great way to parse it out for us, and give us a look at the video, and particularly of that officer ramming that barricade. Now we know exactly what happened. David thank you. And of course all of this activity interrupted congressional action on the Government Shutdown where 64 hours into it, the war of wores heats up today. President obama placed the blame on House Speaker john boehner. The only thing that is preventing that from happening, right now, today, in the next five minutes is that Speaker John Boehner wont let the bill get a yes or no vote because he doesnt want to anger the extremists in his party. Thats thats all. Thats what this whole thing is about. And boehner shot back. He said the president could end the shutdown if he would negotiate over the Health Care Reform law. Wall street is still worried about the shutdown. Stocks fell for the second straight day. The dow was down just under 137 points. All right. Lets talk to Mike Viqueira . Mike is with us . Okay. Great. Great. Sorry, mike. I didnt know you were there. Im glad that you are as always. Mike you have been doing double duty today. You have been helping us with our coverage around washington, d. C. And the high drama there, but if you would bring us up to speed on the latest on the Government Shutdown. Sure. There was a lockdown at the white house for sometime when there was question about the nature of what was happening, but meantime the Government Shutdown goes on. And the fear and almost expectation is that this will bleed in and last until 14 days, and the next big deadline really does look like armageddon, and that is raising the debt ceiling, and if it isnt done, a whole list of ills will happen. The president warned about a Ripple Effect throughout the economy if this Government Shutdown continues. It should be that simple, but as i said, the problem we have got is that there is one faction of up with party in onehalf of one branch of government that so far has refused to allow that yes or no vote unless they get some passive partisan concessions in exchange for doing what they are supposed to be doing anyway. That is the theme from the president and democrats on capitol hill as well. They are trying to isolate john boehner, put him on the spot, because this is probably true, if he were to put the bill on the floor with no strings attached, it likely has the votes to pass, and the white house thinks thats a winning hand. So far its a stalemate. All right. Mike viqueira for us in washington, d. C. On a busy, busy, day there. Lets take a closer look at how the shutdown is affecting some federal agencies. The National Transportation safety says it is unable to send people to tennessee to investigate yesterdays deadly bus crash. They will not be able to release the september jobs report because of lack of money. But it is all hands on deck at the National Hurricane agency and fema. Some employees were told to come back to work after Tropical Storm formed in the gulf of mexico. David warren joins us with more. Yeah, the Hurricane Hunters are still flying and sending back vital information. The circulation here is not where the strongest convection of the storm is, so its not all that organized. Its still a Tropical Storm, and just a little intense indication and this could become a minimal hurricane. There is the Hurricane Hunter flying through the center of the storm. They are currently out surveying the storm. The latest observation winds 65 miles an hour, so just below hurricane strength. It is Tropical Storm. This shows exactly where the computers are trying to take this thing, and they definitely turn this storm as it continues to go north through the gulf, but there is a cluster here right at the mouth of the mississippi and mobile, alabama, and thats how the track is updated from the National Hurricane center. By 1 00 saturday winds at 70 miles an hour