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Gre congressman who was at the ball field this morning and escaped gunfire. our specialists are also standing by. first, to our senior national correspondent. alex were we're learning new details about the shooting from police tonight. update update our viewers. >> we are, wolf. this is an active crime scene. what you see is a mix of federal and local law enforcement officers. that baseball diamond about wtw blocks away. this is a federal investigation led by bi. special age ent named tim slate moments ago updated. the attacker is named as james hodgkinson. flyers are handed out asking the pub...

>> yes. he was still conscious. he was fading quickly but was still conscious. he wasn't talking. he had a clear chest wound. i did not see the bullet wound in his arm. i found out about that later. but speaker ryan called me about an hour ago. i just want id to let yed to le that matt mika will be okay. the bullet missed his heart. just clipped a lung. it'll be a long recovery for him but he will survive. steve scalise, from what i'm hearing, he is still in critical condition, but i think everybody will be okay from this. >> when you ran out to steve scalise, what was he like? >> i didn't eve...

Fired at him. that's when he dropped. we were able to help the victims and get to them. >> you say you were sheltering right near matt mika, former congressional staffer who loves baseball and loves going to these games. describe his condition. how did he seem to you? >> he was is very critical. i could see him, he had been shot. he was seriously bleeding. every time we tried to get over to help him, of course the police officers were engaged. he was probably about four feet from the suv that the detail was in but they could not render any aid because of the intensity of dw gunfire. myself and...

>> steve scalise was near second base. one of the first struck in the hip. >> there was gunfire all around. some investigated some 50-something shots. i think that's an understatement. it seemed to be a lot more than that. but for ten minutes or so, we were trying to decide whether we would leave or take the injured. >> at 7:09, first 911 call came in to alexandria police. >> shots being fired. >> units arrived on the scene within just three minutes. joining the fire fight already under way between hooj kinson and tleet capitol police officers assigned to protect scalise. >> making it to the d...

The world. i'm wolf blitzer. you've in "the situation room." >> this is cnn breaking news. >> we are following breaking news on what appears to be a deliberate and politically motivated shooting attack on members of congress. heavily armed gunman opening fire this morning on a republican lawmakers and staffers as they practice for a charity baseball game in a quiet neighborhood just outside washington, d.c. the barrage of gunfire, captured on video. [ gunshot ] [ gunshot ] tonight, the house majority whip, steve scalise, the fbi clarifying a short while ago that three other people were shot, t...