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Suggests they have the perpetrator. and i think that backs up the idea this was crime from outside the capitol area, and that is -- there are barricades, police everywhere. every now and then you get a car that speeds through and the capitol police have to jump in and chase them. that happens, and if it is a large area, someone targeting the capitol, which we know happened in the past, or something a little more nefarious, we would still be locked down. so to me, the way this resolved quickly, definitely stems from the standard outside d.c. crime. >> susan, giving us the details. our senior pr...
I don't know if you can see that image or have a monitor there but somebody seriously injured on a stretcher, being taken from the scene here. >> and that is obviously a great concern at this point. i talked to congressional source who was in the hart senate office building, which is not terribly far from where i am, on the fourth floor, was facing constitution avenue. heard shots fired outside. saw police swarm to the area so that's another indication this was outside activities, perhaps crime coming through the capitol hill area. as of about an hour ago, and so obviously our thoughts and pra...
Confirm -- trying to determine what, if anybody, who has been injured as a result of this, but it's my understanding this was a high-speed chase that crime into the capitol hill area, and it's my understanding capitol hill is now in a lockdown stage. >> ted, give us a sense of the neighborhood. one reporter gave us a lay of the land in d.c. that the outside neighborhoods, very close to the capitol grounds. correct? >> very close to the capitol grounds, and this was not really that far from the navy yard where be did have a shooting several weeks ago. but the area, you have a lot of congress me...
Car. with the small of gunpowder. are we going ted williams now? a former d.c. homicide detective. what do you make of the situation? >> well, from what i understand, there are all indications that this is the -- as a result of a high-speed chase that came into the capitol area, and what our viewers must understand is that you have numerous police departments in washington, dc. the capitol police, the metropolitan police, the federal protective service police, the fbi. numerous law enforcement agencies, and when these things happen, if there's a high-speed chase and it's headed into the chapol...