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Law enforcement presence and a variety of other agencies all coming into this area in washington with the united states capitol and the supreme court not far away and a variety of office buildings for both the house and senate. >> carl, you have new information what can you tell us. >> we are told by two senior congressional staffers as well as an eyewitness that the event appears to have started off the capitol itself, and a car was being chased by several police vehicles east on constitution avenue, essentially onto the capitol hill complex and two or

Allowed in the hallways, and maybe this incident is coming control. congratulate lynn herridge is live in d.c. >> a short time ago i was on the phone with an eye witness, former house staffer who works in the national security area, which is how i know them. they told me they were at fourth and constitution when they heard a dozen gunshots ring out. they seemed to be coming from second and constitution. so that's continue with what we just heard from correspondent mike emanuel. he said if he walked towards that area, the iron barricades went up in all of the roads that lead into the capitol bu...

Killed in july 1998. >> all right now it is breaking news coming into fox that there may have in fact been shots fired inside the capitol building as was originally reported and then quickly changed to outside. kathrine what can you tell us. >> reporter: thank you. a short time ago, i was not able to get to someone in homeland security. a couple of them are out this week due to the shut down. this is the hub where they monitor incoming threats in the d.c. area and neighbors ational. they said they had notification of shots fired outside of the capitol and what happens is the secretary of homel...

Is to go inside, get away from the windows and get as far away from the windows. and we heard shots fired and if they in fact hurt anybody. it is one of these breaking news modes where you are trying to figure out what happened. let's go to my colleague chad, what do you have? >> they are hearing right now that there is at least one injured capitol police officer and we may quickly here see a helicopter arrive to take that person out. this happened in an area that appeared to be between the house -- excuse me the capitol building and constitution avenue. we may soon see a helicopter come here ...

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