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The white house to capitol hill, which i guess is about two miles away. and then outside the senate hart office building, gunfire was exchanged, an officer was wounded. it's unclear right now the extent of that officer's injuries. he was medevaced away from the scene. and that is what we know right now from this event that began just a few minutes ago with the sound of gunfire, many shots, multiple shots outside the senate hart office building. wolf. >> a disturbing situation. apparently, the lockdown has been lifted. just a few moments ago, we did get some eyewitness accounts of what people u...

Part of your screen, those live pictures coming in from the senate side, from the hart senate office building, you see a black vehicle there. that's the vehicle, apparently, that was seen outside the white house, at the corner of 15th and pennsylvania, trying apparently to get through a barricade into a pedestrian area on pennsylvania avenue, no unauthorized vehicles are allowed there, and police stopped it. then the vehicle turned toward capitol hill and went all the way up to the senate side, where police were authorized to use force to stop that vehicle. the vehicle was stopped. gunshots we...

They're more at ease when i say they, i mean the capitol police officers that are always stationed on the west front of the capitol, so it seems that there's a little bit more of a sense, at least a little more of a sense of relief here, but again, just as a precaution, they're telling all of us who are in the capitol to stay where we are, shelter in place. the one thing i want to reiterate, we were told there, the reports initially, were one injury, one injury as a result of the shots fired. >> we see lawmakers coming back into the u.s. capitol. some of them scurrying, some walking. as you ca...

Perimeter, if you will. >> ione from cnn espanol, thank you very much. we have gotten an official statement from u.s. capitol police. the u.s. capitol police have stabilized the incident, occupants may exit their shelter in place location. additional updates will follow. we anticipate a news conference from u.s. capitol police coming up fairly soon. it's now just 11 minutes after 3:00 here on the east coast. but clearly, this is a situation that has caused a lot of nerves to be rattled over the past 45 minutes or so since about a dozen shots, we're told, were fired outside the hart senate offi...

Majority leader, as you say, into the some sort of more secure part of the u.s. capitol? harry reid? >> you know, we don't know where harry reid is right now. can't confirm where he is at all, so we're not sure about that. one thing i can tell you in terms of move people, deirdre walsh just e-mailed that there are large crowds of people, meaning tour sists on the first floor. they're being moved down the escalators into the capitol visitor center. she reports that people are calm and it's very orderly, but the capitol visitor center which is kind of in the basement underneath the capitol compl...