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The gunfire captured on cell phone video by an eyewitness seemingly came out of nowhere, aped at members of congress and their staffs. >> i hear the big blam, and i thought it was a car backfiring until the i see the rifle barrel, and a white male taking careful aim at congressmen, staffers, whoever he could get ahold of. >> reporter: witnesses say the gunman identified as 66-year-old james t. hodgkinson appeared to be laying in wait with a long gun behind the dugout at this alexandria, virginia ymca baseball field. on the field, republican representatives practicing for the annual bipartisan ...

Aimed at members of congress and their staffs. >> i hear the big blam, and i thought it was a car backfiring until the i see the rifle barrel, and a white male taking careful aim at congressmen, staffers, whoever he could get ahold of. >> reporter: witnesses say the gunman identified as 66-year-old james hodgkinson appeared to be laying in wait with a long gun behind the dugout at this alexandria, virginia ymca baseball field. on the field, republican representatives practicing for the annual bipartisan congressional baseball game. >> all of a sudden there were multiple gunshots being fired. >...

Four including the taker who was shot and killed. otherwise congressman scalise, matt mika, and police officer crystal greiner. i should also mention that local police chief said when his officers arrived here they walked into what they called a combat situation. this is how that unfolded. >> gunshots heard on this eyewitness video rang out from behind the third base dugout. shaky cell phone video capturing the moment that witnesses say the shooter, 66-year-old james hodgkinson, opened fire shortly after 7:00 a.m. as the republican congressional baseball team, including 22 members of congress,...

He was there on field and our correspondents, specialists and guests, they are standing by with full coverage of the day's top stories. we have more information coming in right now on the shocking attack. i want to quickly go over to cnn's brian todd, i should say, over at medstar washington hospital center. brian, what are you learning? >> reporter: wolf, tonight congressman steve scalise, the third ranking house republican, is fighting for his life here at washington hospital center as is at least one other victim at another hospital witnesses are telling us that if congressman scalise had n...