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From the white house, pennsylvania avenue outside of the white house does remain closed following the police response to the navy yard this morning. a law enforcement official telling our jim acosta this is standard security precaution in light of any potential incident. not coming from the white house, i was wrong on that. coming from a law enforcement official to jim acosta. pennsylvania avenue remains closed as they assess the situation. let's go to renee marsh. renee what are the capitol police saying? >> reporter: they're warning people essentially letting people know -- that has caused t...

Any shots inside. this just shows how one 911 call can set this into motion here. police certainly not taking anything for grants. they are still going room by room we're told throughout that building. >> jeff stay with me. as we get some more analysis i do want to read this to you just coming into u.s. at cnn from the capitol. as jeff was just talking about, the capitol is about a mile away from the washington navy yard. as a protective measure, enhanced security measures may be visible and observed as the u.s. capitol police continue to concentrate our assets on the capitol ground. they say ...

They say that they're also in communication with law enforcement on the scene there at the navy yard. but strategically they say they have additional units in the field as well as around the capitol ground. so, of course that's very significant because where this is happening is not very far from the capitol, so they are taking precaution there. as you know and as evan perez reported, both the atf and the fbi are there on the scene. but at this point there has been no report of an actual shooter. poppy. >> renee marsh, thank you very much for that. tom fuentes, i'd like to go to you, former fb...

Security. >> how is that legal? >> reporter: following this unprecedented stunt, new questions about security in the nation's capital. how did the u.s. military capital police and the secret service all miss this? the stunning scene playing out wednesday. a 61-year-old florida mailman doug hughes looking to deliver a message to washington carrying 535 letters, one for each member of congress protesting government corruption. >> this is not good people. >> reporter: ultimately landing on the capitol ground where he was quickly arrested. the flight wasn't a surprise. hughes blogged about his pla...

Supreme court, fought for, laid out an argument, and won that argument so that our values as a country could be exhibited on that capitol ground, and i want to say thank you for that. you're a powerful man and a great friend. i love you, brother. great on you. we don't mind suing the federal government when they overstep their bounds. and we need a president of the united states that understands we're not going to walk into states and their sovereign rights and sue them. that's not what the department of justice ought to be about. the department of justice ought not be about running operations...