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the only president who would reach approval ratings was george w. bush, number 43, after 9/11. who knows if we ll see any kind of those numbers again anytime soon. we have such a different situation, such a different division in the country. but we ll see. corresponded peter doocy is outside the capitol visitors center this evening where the public is waiting for the opportunity to go inside. good evening, peter. good evening, martha. the line is building on a chilly night here in d.c. with the sun down. everybody is from a different place and everybody has a story. this is rob and mark. you drove for her a half hours. why did you want to be here? what is your interest in coming to see a president lying in state? i wanted to come and pay respects to a great man who dedicated his life to service. i am very involved with my party ....
What s more how millions of other women would feel violated by it as well. that was an attempt to grapple a little with the damage he did in putting out the first version of this statement, and, you know, it s clear that democrats don t know how to handle this particularly. senator cloklobuchar, you mentioned, normally walks past our cameras when leaving the capitol. she went out of her way, winding through the capitol visitors s center, a mammoth underground building, to escape the cameras and drove away quickly when approached by one of our reporters. chuck schumer was supposed to have a press conference today at 12:30. that was canceled. obviously they ve all come out saying they will support this ethics committee investigation, but we ve not seen al franken today. he didn t vote on the senate floor today either. so you sort of laid out clearly the differences between these two cases, but, you know, it s ....
Rotunda and the plane of the governor of kentucky go awry. they didn t know what they were dealing with. they evacuated everything and ran everybody out. they have gotten away from that because they found it actually was not as safe. they would clear the building and there would be this jail break. everybody would run for the hills. people would get injured. maybe this is a way to do this in a more calm fashion. just to bring people up to speed, the capitol visitors center on lockdown. congressman mike mccall said they were ready to shoot this down, if necessary. we are starting to hear from members of congress in important roles with regard to security and safety. if you are just joining us right now, this gyrocopter, basically a one-man operation has been able to apparently come from florida at one point in time and land now on capitol hill. nothing happened. it landed there. the man has been detained. there are reports that he came all the way from the tampa bay ....
The mall but this situation is still ongoing because the entire capitol complex including the capitol billing itself and the capitol visitors center is on lockdown. capitol police are continuing to investigate a suspicious package. they say this is related to that incident. members of congress they are still out on recess so likely not many members were inside at the time and they are not due back into washington until monday. it s a weekend. many staffers were not inside at the time, but congressional staff, poppy, they received a message from the capitol police that they if they were in the capitol building they should shelter in place. poppy? just so i understand correctly, the people that were inside the capitol and those outside wanting to get in still at this point cannot move inside or out? reporter: that s right. the capitol complex is on lockdown, even though this shooter, suspected shooter has been neutralized by self-inflict ....