was hurt while trying to keep others safe. that officer who was working without pay because of the government shutdown was released from the hospital a short time ago. our chief congressional correspondent dana bash was in the office of senate majority leader harry reid when the capitol complex went into lockdown this afternoon. thankfully everyone is okay for the most part. she joins us now. dana, tell us about your experience. >> reporter: well, that announcement that you just played was exactly what we heard in the office of the senate majority leader. it's not often that's where you're sitting at all as a reporter. it just so happened we were waiting to go do an interview with him. it was myself, several members of our crew, several of our producers. and we were trying to figure out frankly if it was a test or not. because there are sometimes actually often tests. but it became clear pretty soon that this was not a test, that this was not a drill, this was the real thing particularly as we started to see security move around, given where we were in