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If we weren't behind all of these trees you would be able to see the top of the washington monument as well as the other museums here. we're talking a little bit about the tourists. you can see there are coach buses kind of stacked up here in front of the u.s. capitol. if you're visiting washington, this is a place that you would very likely find yourself coming across, maybe crossing this street, independence avenue. it of course is one of the main east/west avenues here in washington. on the other side constitution avenue. they both parallel the national mall. for people who are visiting, we...

Bombing of the united states capitol. there's been attacking on the capitol historically over the years. it's not new that people do that. but sometimes these people are one off or it could be something unrelated to the capitol but someone who wants to get around the barricades. we don't have to answer to that yet but we have a good response by the capitol police. whatever was afoot, they stopped it quickly and no one was hurt apparently. >> jim, please stand by for us. i want to go to pete williams who has been on the phone since this happened roughly 40 minutes sore 0 aeg. what haveou learne...

No trap in there. they're looking for anything that could endanger everybody they protect. if there's nothing found, they'll tow the vehicle for crime scene processing or they could do some light processing even right there. but first they got to make it safe. your question is right on. first they make it safe, the investigation then is all into the person that they took into custody. who are they, why are they there, what was their intent and what was their capability. so the detectives and the special agents will be really looking at that real hard and of course the person is going to be cha...

I want to bring in now former d.c. detective and msnbc legal analyst ted williams. walk us through what metro police, what capitol police are going to be up to as they take away the suspect presumably back to police head kwauquarters to out what happened here. >> in a heightened state of alarm. as jim and clint have already represented -- somewhat -- remember several years ago we had a woman and a child who have tried to get through a barricade and there was a shooting. the woman was killed and thank god the child was not hurt. the sad commentary is that there are a lot of unfortunately mental...

You know, so that could be totally unrelated to the political world. but it just happens in a major city right there on independence avenue as you've pointed out earlier. so i think it's good news though. here's the good news. nobody is hurt. the woman is in custody. they're going to sort through her reasons within a few minutes if they don't already know. those detectives, you know, they're just like journalists. they dig right in. they're going to dig right in with here. they're going to know all about her, know where she lives. they're going to talk to her family, have gone through her pers...