In Police Custody in an area hospital right now. There are so many questions about who the gunman is and why he did this. Also, we are hearing stories of heroism and bravery on the part of Capitol Police and the First Responders who showed up on the scene in what is obviously would have been a chaotic and terrifying unfolding situation. We were doing batting practice and im on the third base side of home plate and i hear this bang, and i look over toward the third base dugout and on the other side of it is the cinder block dugout and i see what appears to be a rifle and a quick succession of shots. At first when i first heard the first pop ring out i thought it was a gun. I didnt know it was a gun, but within a matter of 30 seconds it was a barrage of bullets flying everywhere. As you can hear them going by, you can hear them skimming off the gravel and hitting the fence and after a couple of shots i realize there are trash cans right there and let me get behind them and then just laying on the ground. Having no selfdefense and no way to get to somebody. The field was basically a killing field if you were to run out there while the shooter was still shooting he would have shot everyone. Steve was laying out and he was playing second base. I got Steve Scalises phone and called his wife and i didnt want her to wake up and hear the news and not know what was going on. Just tragic to hear that. Lets go right over to Cnns Barbara Starr who is live from the shooting scene. Barbara, what is the very latest that youre hearing right there . Reporter good morning. We just had another briefing from Law Enforcement including the fbi for the first time this morning and the police chief running through the current Law Enforcement situation. Five people transported to hospitals. They are specifically not saying whether one of those five was the shooter. They are able to tell us from the Capitol Hill Police chief that the two congressional Security Officers appear to be not in lifethreatening condition. We know that the congressman also appears who was shot in the hip, not to be in lifethreatening condition at this point, but theyre not really commenting on this because of family privacy issues. So the issue is the shooter. We asked, i asked the fbi agent in charge, agent slater if they were beginning to focus in on an identity of the shooter. He said yes, but they are not ready to identify him yet publicly. The big question, of course, did he act alone . Every indication were getting from Law Enforcement at this point is he most likely did, even governor mcauliffe said they had no broader threat and they had no knowledge of a threat directed in this area, but not completely ruling it out. I think its important to say that the fbi made the point, they always look at all avenues and this is a very active investigation because it involved a potential federal crime of shooting a member of congress and it will be led by the fbi with federal agencies and local Law Enforcement in support of sthem. I want to take a minute and just explain to people this neighborhood where this incident occurred this morning because its part, i think, of the shock that people in this area feel. This is a neighborhood just about ten minutes south of the pentagon and about 30 minutes south of capitol hill. A beautiful, Old Neighborhood in washington. People have lived here for years. The homes are very lovely, small children and people were out walking their dogses and this is a neighborhood where people are out and about all the time. There are restaurants, bars, cafes and theres the ymca baseball diamond just a couple of blocks down the road here where this all unfolded, and i think it really adds to the shock of what has happened here and people are asking could it be a partisan attack and everyone were talking to is very much staying away from that scenario. Nobody wants to embrace that idea. They are really making the point this was a baseball practice session for a bipartisan game on capitol hill that is supposed to be raising money for chairity. Back to you. Absolutely. During that briefing you asked a very key question. They did not have many answers on a lot of questions and saying it was just too early to to say. If you cant say so much. How can you say for sure that the community is safe and the Alexandria Police saying every indication that they have is that this is an isolated incident. Thats the very latest we have barbara star standing by on the shooting for the latest updates that well be getting from there. I want to make sure everyone is aware that were standing by to hear from President Trump himself. We are being told he will be making a statement from the white house in just about 25 minutes from now. Well bring you that statement, of course, when the president makes his remarks in the aftermath of this horrible, scary, tragic situation playing out in alexandria, virginia, this morning and let me go to the capitol where brianna is standing by with much more. So much shock here, kate, and a lot of hugs being exchanged by members of congress and a number of them have come back from where they were practicing. Weve spoken to some of them. They are still very shaken up. They did not see the shooter, but obviously, they saw Steve ScaliseSteve Scalise injured. This isnt an event where its just members of congress. A lot of times, even the children of these members might attend if they are going to be up early enough for this. A lot of shock here as members figure out what happened. I want to bring in renee marsh. She has been looking at the time line here. There have been different discussions about how much time passed, obviously. These folks were under a lot of stress as this happened and the success seconds felt like minutes to them. Take us through that so you can tell the viewers exactly what happened here. Right, brianna. Were giving you the birdseye view of the event that unfolded. The del ray neighborhood that were talking about where this happened is right in the alexandria, virginia, neighborhood which is about eight miles from where you are right now at the u. S. Capitol. We know that the events and the gun shots broke out right here at the Eugene Simpson stadium. As you can see, it is a residential area. You have homes here. This is the ymca that barbara was talking about, even a coffee shop and a Day Care Center in this area. Remember, this happened around 7 00 in the morning so people are out and about doing their daily activities and so we want to zoom in on the time line of events based on all of the members of congress who were there and spoke to us, namely representative mo brooks who told us he was up for bat right here near the home base and thats where he heard a loud sound and a loud bang as he describe. He said it came right from this area, the dugout, right behind the thirdbase dugout. At that point he said people scattered and he moved right to the right of the home plate. And he was getting protection from the batting cage and there is netting in this area. He said at a certain point there was a pause in the shooting and thats when he ran for cover right around here. This is the dugout behind the first base, the walls are more secure and sits a lot lower so everyone kind of huddled into this dugout space right behind first base and then according to representative brooks, he says that he started to hear some more gunshots. These gunshots were coming from the right side of the dugout, but this time, brianna, that was Capitol Hill Police returning fire at the gunmen. So that is the information that we have as far as where people were. We do want to point out that representative scalise was standing right here around second base. That makes a lot of sense and he was in the direct line of the gunman behind the third base dugout. Renee, thank you so much for explaining that for us. I want to bring in shimon. I understand you have new details about the shooter. What can you tell us . Weve learned the identity of the shooter, his name is James Hodgkinson of belleville, illinois. Hes 66. Police were able to fairly quickly identify him because it appears that he left his vehicle. He somehow may have driven a van to the scene and off of that van police were able to identify him. Again, his name is James Hodgkinson. He is from belleville, illinois and hes 66. Police are scrubbing his social media and going through various information to try and learn more about him and perhaps learn a motive. We are told he is at g. W. In washington, d. C. And hes in Critical Condition and its not even clear if hes going to survive being shot and thats still something that we are told is unclear so police have not been able to talk to him or to learn any more from him, but again, its a pretty important part of this investigation that theyve been able to identify him, brianna. They thought there was a van that he was in . Yeah, and it appears that our producers on the scene have located a van that we believe belongs to him. It also has an illinois license plate. So we believe that van is linked to him and police and the fiber now in the process of trying to get a search warrant and we expect them to go out to an illinois location where he may have lived. Go ahead, brianna. Shimon, i know you are not there, but youve spoken to producers on the ground. I wonder if the van was there in the parking lot because we heard from congressman bill johnson who left five minutes before the shooting. He was at the practice and he left before it happened. He later recalled that he passed a van where he said that there was a man in his words, lethargically getting in and out of a van and that he had something that looked like a burlap sack. He went to Capitol Police here and reported it to them just a short time ago. Do you know where that van was . Yes. We believe it was in the parking lot and obviously dont know if thats the van that youre talking about or if that was the person that you are talking about, but we believe in that area maybe in the parking lot of the ymca, i believe. We dont have definitive conversation, and that is the van. Weve been told that police were looking at a van believed to belong to the shooter. Shimon prokupecz, thank you for that identification. James hodgkinson, a man from illinois. Hes working the details to get us more information. Thank you so much. Joining me on the phone is governor of virginia, Governor Terry mcauliffe. Thank you so much for jumping on the line. Thank you. I wish it were under better circumstances. Cant agree with you more on that, governor. We are just and i dont know if you had a chance to hear it, governor. We now know the oifgsz, they have i. D. Ed the shooter jam hodgkinson of melville, illinois. We had a briefing from the fbi and all of the Law Enforcement personnel and the investigation has just started, but i will say this, thanks to the heroic efforts of the Capitol Police today we could have lost more citizens today, but the Law Enforcement and the Alexandria Police, state police and everybody came together and were able to contain the situation, but we have real heroes today who acted very quickly, or else we could have a lot more serious injuries that actually did occur. Thats right. What could you say about what happened this morning, governor . Listen, this is another sad situation. Weve got to find out about this individual. Your job as governor is to keep your Community Safe and thats your number one job, and i have said and we have got to do a better job. This gentleman who started shooting at a ball field where people were having practice for a Charity Event. Obviously, this man should never have been in possession of a firearm and we as a nation and all of us need to come together in a bipartisan way with the horrible gun violence we have, 93 individuals a day have been killed in america. I, unfortunately, had to give the eulogy for a state trooper who lost his life on the streets of richmond. We have to get serious on this issue. We can hold the conversation about gun control debate. I have to ask you about the immediate breaking news were dealing with. There was concern on if the members of congress were targeted. He said i dont think its a coincidence that no shots were fired outside that field. Do you think they were targeted . We dont know. I just left. I just had a private briefing with the investigators and the fbi. I just left the command center. We just dont know at this point. We dont want to speculate at this point. We just dont know why that individual was at that ballpark and this is what were trying to figure out as you reported a few minutes ago and they are scrubbing the social media trying to find out more ideas about this individual. What would possess an individual to go into a ballpark early in the morning and open fire . We have to get them out of it and we dont know why and we dont know the motive and thats why this investigation has just started and were going to get to the bottom of it, and the community is safe now and weve all been involved and weve been Walking Around the community and we have to continue to Work Together and stop this horrible violence that we have. Governor, you have very long day ahead of you now. Thank you so much for jumping in. I appreciate it. Thank you. Byebye. Let me go back to the capitol and bring in Hakim Jefferies and hes a democratic member of the congressional baseball game. Democrats were practicing this morning, as well. Congressman, thank you so much. Can i just have your thoughts on what happened this morning . First of all, my thoughts and prayers are with representative scalise and the other victims who were impacted by this terrible tragedy. Were all pulling for representative scalise as he comes through surgery and hopeful for a speedy recovery. Thankful, of course, for the members of the Capitol Police who happen to be there and other members of congress. Had they not been there this could have been an even worse tragedy and so this is a tough day on capitol hill. A tough day for america, but were all pulling together. I did see on social media that the members and the democrats were practicing at a different field this morning when they got word. There was a lockdown and an evacuation of the democrats baseball practice. Were you there this morning . I was. I was actually in left field. We were taking batting practice and balls were being hit to various members of congress. We were all excited for this charity game that was going to take place tomorrow and in the middle of practice, coach mike doyle, a representative from pennsylvania called us all in to the the Pitchers Mound which was strange, but i ran in from left field and he indicated to us that there had just been a shooting at the republican baseball practice and he had no further details, but we were concerned that some members had been hit. So we then gathered in the dugout, prayed, first thing we did led by coach doyle for our friends and our colleagues on the republican side of the aisle who were at that practice and then members of the Capitol Police began to show up, urge us to shelter in place until they could secure the premises because it was very unclear at that point whether this would be a situation where multiple members of congress at different places were going to be under attack. Of course. And there is also going to be a briefing coming up starting right now for house members on exactly what happened this morning. You guys practice almost every morning and maybe definitely every morning. Did you ever feel unsafe . Never felt unsafe. We get up and go to practice at 7 00 a. M. Its usually between 12 to 15 of us on the democratic side of the aisle. Senators and members of the house, men women. Weve got two women that actually play with us and its a great time together. A great moment of camaraderie. We do this for a Charity Event tomorrow that raises half a Million Dollars for local boys and girls clubs and things of that nature and i never felt unsafe. In retrospect, when you think about the fact that both on the republican side and on the democratic sad and weigh gather on the same venue every morning with little to no security and that in a highly toxic environment that we unfortunately exist in right now in america, that there are vulnerabilities that well have to evaluate. Congressman, of course, police right now, fbi leading the investigation. They say its too early to say if it was deliberate. Too early to say if they were targeted and too early to say that it was a political motivation, but do you think its those things . Its to earo early to say. Im headed into a briefing for members of congress where well get more information and the fiber involved at this point along with the Capitol Police and theyll get to the bottom of what happened and well all have to evaluate led by leader pelosi and speaker ryan how we move forward to make sure that Public Servants do their duty and represent the United States of america. Do you want to play tomorrow . We dont know if the game will take place. Well see. That will be communicated to us at this briefing and well have to decide whats going to happen moving forward and that is a decision that members will collectively make along with our leadership. Congressman hakeem jefferies, thank you so much. We had you booked for a different conversation and i wish we were having that conversation instead of this horrible thing that were talking about today. I want to head back to a different part of the capitol where