Cancelled. Major garrett is at the white house and joining us with the latest on that. It was a short agenda today. Only one public event for the president , a a 3 30 speech at the department of labor to highlight his efforts to expand the workplace apprenticeships. That event has now been cancelled. And the white house is contemplating where and how and if the president will give remarks about todays tragic events. I can tell you that the president has telephoned House Speaker paul ryan and is making other calls to members of the House Republican conference and leadership and the white house is reviewing the president s schedule for the remainder of the day gathering more information and contemplating when or if the president will make public remarks on todays tragic events. One of the things we do not know what the motives were, but if this was terrorism, this is exactly the kind of impact that they want to have. They want to scare people, create disruption and that kind of thing. Thats the larger publicity that comes. Such a soft target. We dont know his motivation, but he was targeting republicans if what were hearing from the report show that in the parking lot he was asking is it democrats or republicans. Lets be clear. They dont know that. He doesnt know who asked if it was republicans or democrats playing. He says one man said to him said who is that on the field, republicans or democrats. He informed the police of whether that might be relevant or not to the investigation. E we dont know if that person who asked was the shooter. But it is a line they want to follow up on. It is an interesting question to pose in the parking lot. We should also pose that Law Enforcement officials telling paula reid that there are no links to terrorism at this point, but it is early in the investigation. E ha been monitor Police Scanner all morning. Here are some of the clips of the radio activity shortly after the shooting happened. Shots being fired and there are people running awfully victims involved. We have one shooter. We have suspect. Give me your exact location. Baseball field theres also a victim down in the baseball field. You can hear the terror and the stress of the voices of the 911 call just coming in. This incident started at 7 09 this morning. Didnt jeff flake tell us they were there in the dugout calling 911. And that Police Arrived on the scene . E three minutes avenue receiving the first call. Jeff flake has just given an update to cbs news radio. Lets hear what he had to say. They were returning fire from right behind us. A lot of us took refuge in the dugout during most of the shooting. And more people would come in as it went on. One person who was shot in the leg made his way from the field to the dugout. Did the attacker say anything or indicate . There was yelling going on that i couldnt tell who was yelling what. We were just making sure those firing from behind us were friendly. Two Police Officers were shot and two congressmen . One congressman and a staffer shot in the chest. The one shot in the chest was ive got to go, but there were six shot total. That was an update from senator jeff flake talking to cbs news radio. Jeff flake did one of the kindest things under pressure that he got Steve Scalises phone and called steves wife to say your husband is okay. Everyone who was there treated him said he was coherent the whole time that he was taken to the hospital and we heard hes undergoing surgery. The instinct is to tell the wife rather than seeing it on television or hearing it on radio. We have a lot coming up in the next hour. Updates from police, but we want to go to jeff with new information on Law Enforcement and the weapons used in this case. Jeff . Cbs news has confirmed that one of the weapons used, and this was a long gun that was used. Its an m4 Assault Rifle. Now that investigators have that information, thats what it locks like, pretty intimidating weapon there. And this according to our Law Enforcement sources is the weapon that was used on that baseball field as this suspect targeted members of congress and other people on that baseball diamond. So now we have seen pictures of the atf arriving on the scene. They will assist local police and the fbi in gathering information and they will look into this weapon. Were told that it could take up to 24 hours to search information about this weapon. For example, where it was pu purchased. This is a process that is done by hand oddly enough in this day in age of advanced technology because it is illegal to store those types of records. So our sources are telling us that this is something that will happen by hand. It could take up to 24 hours to determine where the weapon was purchased. Also, with something called niben, the atf will be able to track whether the weapon was used in other crimes. Thats why agents are on the scene and will gather ballistic evidence to see if the weapon that you see here on the screen was used in any other crimes. So this investigation still early on, but it is well underway. Thank you very much, jeff. Were waiting to hear from senator rand paul, a republican from kentucky. Senator, tell us where you were and what you saw and heard this morning. I just finished batting at home plate and i was walking towards the dugout. I saw jeff flake and he says, can i have a ride. I said, yeah, i want to do one more trip to the batting cage. So the batting cage is in right field. The outside of the main perimeter fence. I was in the batting cage and we heard one loud shot. And i grew up in the south and knew what a gun sounds like. I thought somebody was firing a shotgun or something. Although we are in the city, not in the country. It was a little unusual. At first everybody stopped what they were doing. We were about ready to go back to doing what we were doing, but then there were five or ten shots in a row and everybody hit the dirt pretty quickly. Represent scalise was hit fairly early on in the barrage of bullets. He was at second base. It was at a point there werent as many people on the field. People were milling about. A as the first shots rang out, people took cover. Several congressmen went into the First Base Dugout and its two feet below the surface. People were getting down below the Ground Surface to avoid the gunfire. The gunman at first it was unclear where he was from. I got out of the batting cage and got behind a tree, a big oak tree behind the batting cage. It took me a few seconds. I wasnt positive if it was one shoot r or two. But there were two Staff Members that had run the perimeter of the outfield all the way to the right field corner. There was a 20foot fence separating me from them. So they are laying on the ground, but the bullets even though were pretty far away from the shooter, im 75 yards away from the shooter. The bullets are land iing a coue feet from me on the other side of the fence. They are hitting the dirt of the warning track. I can see the dirt poofing up as the bullets hit. Its a a tough spot to be in there. You have to decide to stay behind a tree or try to get the heck out of there. One of the staffers decided to scale the fence. It was about a 20foot fence and he was over it in two seconds. It was like, boom, boom, he was over the fence. And hes behind the free with me too. And at this point, it looks like theres a slight pause. Theres 50 or 60 shots and then theres a a pause. Hes either reloading or moving. I got the feeling that people, other congressmen and staff were changing their staff behind buildings. I got the feeling he was coming towards us. And that sort of decision to stay or go, had the Capitol Police not been there, i think it would have been a massacre because we had no weapons or defense. This was representative scalise, his Security Team. So the irony is he took this bullet and it sounds like hes going to survive and i wish him the best and our prayers are with him. His Security Team saved everybodys lives there. There would have been a a killing field had that team not been there. You cant say enough good things about the Capitol Hill Police. Some plolicemen never have a fight their whole career. Both of them were shot. Just amazing courage. Amazing example of doing their duty as they often say in circumstances like this. Can you tell us whether there seemed to be shooting a at random orso seeming to shoot wi intended targets . If i had to guess, i would say its at random its hard to tell who people are with hats on and their uniforms on. I get the feeling this was sort of somebody said he shouted out is this rs or ds and someone shouted back republicans. Thats before they knew he had a weapon. Thats when the gunfire exploded. I get the feeling it wasnt specific members. I get the feeling it was all republicans. Somebody else said they thought they heard something about health care. I cant confirm that. Thats hearsay. But i think it was politically motivated. Well probably find if i had to guess, there will be a Mental Illness component or some kind of psychological disorder would be my guess. Did you actually see the shooter at any time . Vaguely. Everybody was saying he had a blue shirt on by the third base dugout and i could see movement. I was kind of not putting my head out from behind the tree as much. And so the gunshots were pretty close to where we were within about five feet of where i was. So i was just trying to be concerned about which side of the tree to stand on buzz i wasnt sure which directions the bullets were coming from. I couldnt have identified the shooter. They did get the shooter. So from what i understand, he may be alive and if he is, we will get more story out of this. I cant say enough about Capitol Hill Police and without them i think it would have been a massacre. And we are very lucky to have such brave men and women guarding us. How many people were there when the shooting broke out . Probably 15 to 20 congressmen and 2 senators and 5 to 10 Staff Members and people who volunteer to help with us. Probably 30 or 40 people on the field. Completely defenseless. Without the Capitol Hill Police we had no chance. Thats when you start to wonder and have to make a quick decision. Do i stay or go. Is that protection going to last as the gunman advances. Still out in the open, but at least a moving target as youre running. Do you know how many people were hit . No, i think both Capitol Hill Police were shot. I think representative scalise was shot and i cant confirm, but at least one or two others were. I havent heard because im very concerned that there are reports of someone with a very bad gunshot injury, but i cant give you that detail buzz i dont know. Im very worried about at least one person. Senator, let me ask you. After whip scalise was shot, what happened . The sad thing is nothing could happen. He laid there but he was crawl lg so we knew he was alive. He crawled about 10 or 15 yards into the outfield. He was in the dirt of the infield at second base. He was able to crawl to the outfield. He was slow, but he was working and doing it with his elbows. He was trying to stay low and crawl at the same time. Thats a decision hes got to make. Do you lay there and hope he thinks youre dead or walk out there in five minutes and finish you off. He felt theres got to be a time you have to try to flee. Nobody could get to him because he was in the wide open field. At that point, hes the only one left on the field. The gunshots ring out. He falls. Everybody flees the field. But the gunshots are spraying the whole width of the field. People in the dugout are ducking down beneath the level of the field. Nobody could run out to help him. The good thing is i think the shooter gave up on i dont know if he could tell he was moving. But the shooter didnt shoot back at him that i could tell. So that was fortunate. But nobody could get there to help him until the shooters was brought down. Anybody thats been in a situation like this it seemed like an hour, but it was probably ten minutes. But i promise you without the Capitol Hill Police, we wouldnt have survived. Police did come, but it was probably you cant blame the local police. It takes awhile to get there. They were probably there in 10 or 15 minutes. But without the Capitol Hill Police there, we wouldnt have had a chance against the shooter. You suggest a scene in which everybody is trying to find protection. Everybody knowing that they might be in danger. Congressman scalise on his elbows trying to get out of the way. Everybody seems like a sense of enormous alarm they may be in the line of fire. Everybody was in the line of fire. People in the dugout were seeing the bullets careen iing off the dirt. The dirt would explode into the dugout as the bullets hit the dirt in front of the dugout. Where i am in right field, even though im outside the main fence, im right where the warning track begins in the very right corner of right field. And the dirt i can see the dirt of the warning track. I was trying to figure out which way it was coming from. By look iing at bullets hitting the dirt, they were hitting right next to us there in the outfield. Hes just spraying everywhere. He was spraying a target. We cant say enough. We just didnt have enough. Senator paul, you paint a terrifying picture. God for bid it happens to anyone, but im wondering how this affected you. You have had time to think about it. You saw people being shot and how this ahas affected you personally. Im not sure aye had time to let it sink in. I about had a heart attack running when we decided to make a break for it. We took off in right field and i had to scale a a couple fences and i think im in good shape until i have to run with gunshots behind me. It is a traumatic thing. Really more than the emotional thing is sadness. Im sad for the people who were shot, obviously, and i wish them well. But im also sad that what a great could be try. This game is one of the best things about bipartisanship up here. Ive gotten to know democrats through the game, house members, we joke around with each other, we have a Good Spirited game. Its for charity. Over 600,000 this year for the b boys and girls club b and is someone decides they are going to shoot up people raising money for charity because they are angry about politics. Something has to stop. And maybe well find that this was Mental Illness, but if its just pure hatred of people in politics, we have to figure out a better way. Senator rand paul, thank you for joining us this morning. Glad that youre safe. One of the most chilling things to hear him say that if it were not for Capitol Hill Police, it would have been a killing field there on that baseball diamond. They would not have been there but they are part of the detail for congressman scalise, who is the majority whip in the u. S. Congress. Lets go now to nancy corr tis on capitol hill. Nora, the house sergeant of arms has now called a briefing for all house members exactly an hour from now, 11 15 a. M. Eastern time. We understand that they will be briefed about this incident, briefed about stepped up security on Capitol Grounds in the midst of a day thats now anything but routine on capitol hill. A number of events that were supposed to take place have been postponed. There was a Budget Hearing schedule d for today on the Capitol Police budget. That has been postponed. Were told that votes on the house floor have been cancelled. And nancy pelosi, the top democrat in the house put out a statement a short time ago with her thoughts and prayers. There was also this very touching tweet from senator bill nelson of florida, who said, on a a day like this, all members of the house of representatives and the senate are playing on the same team radarless of party. That a reference to the fact that this practice was going on because of a game that was to take place tomorrow, a long standing tradition here on capitol hill. Democrats versus republicans for charity, which i didnt realize until senator flake said it this morning. The game is slated to raise about 650,000 for the boys and girls club. So this is something that members of Congress Take very seriously. Nancy, thank you so much. Major garrett is at the white house where we expect to hear from President Trump later today. Major . Thats right, the information here is coming to us very incrementally as the white house evolves the president s schedule. I reported a few moments ago the president cancelled his only public event of the day, a 3 30 speech at the department of labor. We can now report the president will make a statement on the shooting in virginia involving Steve Scalise and others. We dont know when. We dont know the venn you. It will be here at the white house. The white house senior staff is still working on that and developing more information and trying to pick the right timed a mist all these activities. And other events and other news thats coming about this investigation. And when to put that in the president s hands and when to have him address the nation. It will happen some time today here at the white house. I wish i could tell you when and the venue. I cant. Just that its going to happen. Thank you very much, major. When the president comes out to speak abts the shooting, we will bring it to you live. In the meantime, Julianna Goldman just talked to a witness on the scene. Heres what he had to say. Theres a man with a gun outside. I should stay inside. I looked out and saw a gentleman with a gun outside by the baseball field. He had an ak47 type weapon. And was exchanging fire with someone behind a black suv. Did you see him before shots were fired . I didnt, i came in the middle of the incident. Can you talk about what his mannerism, his demeanor, what you saw of this man . All i saw was that he was crouched down, as one does when bullets are flying, and moving from one piece of cover to another. At that point, i tray tried to get people away from