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Entire area. there are helicopters going around. all of the streets are blocked off, and right now, these buss that are being escorted out of here so they can continue. this lockdown situation, and i can tell you, as a parent of students who good to school 45, minutes north of here, i'm receiving messages from the district, explaining they have -- my kids' schools in a lockout situation, where they have a higher police presence in those schools. this is happening all over this area. very delicate situation. you consider the -- you consider the anniversary of the sandy hook shooting that is com...

Stay with us. joining us now is robert costa of the national review who was also at the capitol as this event unfolded. robert, where were you and what did you see? >> i was actually just walking outside of the u.s. house. walking actually with representative michele bachmann from minnesota, talking politics. it was a beautiful day on capitol hill, and i said good-bye to her, walked back into the capitol and almost immediately it was a lockdown situation. i did not hear the shots, but the cops immediately reacted in a way i have never seen before and for about 15, 20 minutes it was very intens...

Stood at the moment, wolf. >> no all-clear has been given on the speakers there in the russell senate office building? >> no. >> it's still a lockdown situation? >> that's right. >> clearly, this situation is sun folding even as we speak. i'm looking at these monitors and we can see a lot of police activity. we're here on capitol hill ourselves, and we can hear the sirens going off. there's emergency personnel, police, local police, capitol hill police. obviously, they're deeply concerned about what's going on. john boughtner, one of our photo journalists heard what he says was about a dozen g...

Importantly, in this situation does he have a hostage? a lot of times people will say, why don't they just go in and blast gas in there and go in there gun blazing and get the guy? we don't know that right now. >> even though he's barricaded in some room by himself, that creates problems of its own, doesn't it. >> well, no, that's a much easier situation. as long as they can verify that there's no hostage involved and they only have the shooter and he's contained within a particular location, you know, they will try to get the person to give up and surrender but at the end of the day that's a ...

People who work in the affected buildings. can you remind us once again what people do in that particular building? >> sure, carol. let me say all of these reports are very preliminary. again the situation just unfolding about 15 minutes ago. several shots fired, people injured. people trying to get out. we don't have a firm count on how many injured. this is something called building 197, it is at the headquarters for the naval sea systems command, a large element of the navy bureaucracy that oversees all shipbuilding, submarine programs, that sort of thing, very technical work, they do the b...