Democracy. The fact that we have activity taking place outside the police tape this situation has expanded if you will. Okay. Kimberly stand by we are going to speak to senator jim monson who joins us from the phone, hes in the Parliament Building that has been locked down. Senator thank you so much for speaking to us. Thancan you tell us, please, whs happening inside the building, what you have seen, what you have heard. Well, the building right now is in a complete lock down. M. P. S and senators along with staff are in various locked down rooms. People are quite shaken. The whole idea of it happening in your own backyard, this kind of terrorist attack, didnt seem possible. But we are in a situation where, because my understanding is the one shooter has been killed and, there may be for sure there is one other one and there could be possibly three. Okay. You call this a terrorist attack, senator, what makes you say that . Can you tell us when it was that you realized that something w
What has everybody in such great anxiety at ottawa this hour is reports of shootings in other locations and Ottawa Police saying they are still look out for other suspects, they are stopping cars trying to go to quebec. They have asked the public to stay signed, schools are on lock down and police going door by door downtown in a search effort. A manhunt for additional suspects. This has been remark for people there. You can see the pictures. People are standing by, the rcpm has injuries difference. And we expect them to clarify whether or not there were shootings at more than the would occasions we mentioned the war memorial and the center block of parliament whether in facts there was a shooting at the shoot toe thole nearby and at the rideau certainty which is a nearby Shopping Mall or whether those were false reports, simply transmit today police because people heard the shots from the National War Memorial and got confused, canadas National Newspaper the globe and mail was able to
Reporter, you can see Police Officers walking slowly through parliament with weapons drawn. Then you hear shots ring out inside the building. Right now members of parliament are still holed up inside their offices. Joining us now on the phone is justin lang, a freelance journalist live tweeting from inside parliament. Justin, tell us about the experience, what you saw and heard while you were inside of parliament today. Im actually still in parliament. I wont say where i am because we dont know if theres an active shoot other loose. I can tell you that i am somewhere in centre block where the shooting took place. This morning i was coming into my office on the third floor of parliament and it connects to a hallway that overlooks the hall of honor, which is where we believe the suspect was shot and killed. I took a different route and subsequently ended up in a different part of the building. But i was i was heading back down to my office, i had a i had a member of Parliament Come up to
Little while ago from a canadian member of parliament who is locked down in the building. I was just taking off my jacket to go into congress. I hear this pop, pop, pop. Possibly ten shots. Dont know. Thought it was construction rather than anything else. Suddenly the security guards come rushing down the hallways and usher us all out to the back of the Parliament Buildings. Were standing around talking and one of the construction people said to us, probably a better idea to stand behind one of the monuments so if theres somebody inside shooting out then we have a bit better chance. We started talking to another woman who was apparently inside the parliament and saw the fellow wearing a hoodie and carrying a gun and then implications of this start to sink in. Lets bring in paula newton following this story. She knows the situation very well. She knows the scene. What are you hearing, paula . Whats the latest. Set the scene for our viewers in the United States and around the world who m
Created. We have no explanation to offer. Lets take you to ottawa. You talked to members of parliament who saw this with their own eyes. What did they share with you . The words i would use is strength and bravery. Everyone out here somber tone because of the death of Corporal Nathan cirillo. Today it was back to work and they also opened parliament to members of the media to also do our jobs including getting an opportunity to see inside the hallway where a lot of the action inside parliament took place. We want to show you that video. We also witnessed bullet holes in the grass panes in there and parts of the stone walls along this hallway thats called the hall of honor. On both sides of this hallway where this gunman busted through the doors and went running down the way, members of parliament, all of the members of government including the Prime Minister were meeting in rooms just off to the side. But this man ran straight toward the library, were told. He hid behind an archway at