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all along pennsylvania avenue, which goes all along all the way over here. >> my, my, my. >> here is the capitol building. a police car tried to ram or stop the suspect. right along here along constitution avenue and first street northwest, that's where this first capitol police car sits with damage to it. we believe that that did not stop it until suspect led police along constitutional avenue and delaware avenue. and this is the nat buildings. here is union stations. along the senate side the chase continued all the way until you get to second street northeast which is over here. and you can't really travel in

between the senate office buildings bought finding more barricades. right in between this area, second street northeast, near constitution, somewhere along in here is where this came to an end. the police say that shots were fired because the suspect either would not stop or could not stop her or because they had tried to ram her all the way back here up on constitution avenue. a very secure area. shots fired. you see the black sedan where it was disabled. and we see police activity in this area and to put it in perspective as to why so many people would have heard this. here are the capital buildings and the senate police station and this is where we think the exchange of gunfire came to the end. senators, back and forth between the capitol. >> appreciate it. i'll tee this up with a little

bit of a tease. we're getting amazing still photographs that we'll bring to you in just a couple of moments. we can do it now. we'll start to roll some of these threw. this is what david was mentioning at some point there was a collision, an accident. we believe that the police officer who was injured might have been injured in a traffic accident or another traffic accident, but it appears it was a traffic accident and the officer was not shot. you're taking a look at the police activity that started about 2:18 a number of jurisdictions responding to this. the lockdown order goes into effect. shots are being fired. heavy police presence. you see people scrambling for cover and some of the amazing still minimums which just seem to tell the story in a

completely different way than video does. some of those still images coming into al jazeera. randall pinkston speaking to one witness who has shared one or two shouts. >> three witnesses, a grandfather, father, and a son, who were having a hot dog break near the grounds of the capital when they heard gunfire. they immediately saw police just rushing to the scene within minutes, as one put it. now having heard the previous reports about a possible incident near the white house or the treasury, and then another incident near the grounds of the capitol, it sounds as if what they heard was the continuation of the chase. but they're not saying this. this is my speculation. they're not quite sure where the

shots are coming from, but they're pointing in the direction of the capitol building. this is less than an hour after this occurred. the grandfather, grandson all here in louisville, kentucky, here on a break to show the son the nation's capitol. they were you calm, cool, and collected, they said that they felt safe. the police chief told us there was apparently no terrorism was involved. it was a tragic incident but not involving terrorism. and we now know that the houses of congress have resumed their regular business. meanwhile, there is a heavy cordon of officers, federal and local cordoning off the area around the capitol where the incident occurred.

we saw one vehicle, possibly a police vehicle involved in some kind of collision. we don't know what it hit but still sitting in the middle of the street. we saw earlier the officer being taken away without knowing that person's condition. the capitol police chief did say there was a little girl involved but they have no information on that either. that's all i can tell you except that with all of this going on in the capitol of two weeks ago, the shooting at a navy yard people are more than a bit unnerved. >> that was september 16th, you're right, people are unnerved there in the nation's capitol. you mentioned that there was some reporting that a little girl was injured in all of this. i want to get back to joie chen. i don't know if joie's chen can speak to this, but host of america tonight, she's following this for us. >> thanks very much. here at america tonight's studios we're a few blocks away

from capitol hill, you can see the dome behind me. we did hear the chief's report earlier that there was a little girl he believed to have been involved. here in the studio with us is lee spivey, a government relations contractor who happened to be at the senate building this afternoon just about the time that this all started happening. you yo were coming in from lunc. >> right, coming in at lunch, two minutes before all this happened. the police started running outside, you could hear on the walkie-talkies there were shots being fired. >> you knew something was wrong. >> you could see all the police cars. they have large glass doors looking out on constitution, and there were secret service, which

you don't typically see on capitol hill. as this is happening, and as you're watching out the window the police say they need to move out from the doors. over looking the doors coming in from constitution. you could see police officers coming in and an african-american girl were in his arms and she had blood coming from her head. >> the heart has an atrium welcome area and the offices on the sides of it. you were on the second floor looking down. you done have any doubt what you were looking at. >> i was 20 feet away looking over the top. >> was there much commotion? did you see parents coming in with the parent with child, any? >> there was the police officerser, and no one else came in behind them. >> you mentioned blood on her

forehead. >> she was calm, her eyes were open. she looked like she was in shock with what was going on. >> yelling crying or anything? >> nothing out of her whatsoever. the police were in control, they were running to the nurse's stations there in the building. >> right, there is an nurse's station office between the heart building and the dirk son building. >> absolutely. >> you thought they were going in that direction. >> that's the way they were going. >> and as all this was happening you guys had been informed you needed to stay away. what hell's was happening in the heart building. >> still standing over the balcony we could see swat team running in. swat came running in and that's when i went into a friend's office and stayed there for a while. >> what's going on in your mind during all this? >> what's going on? it's not something that you see every day.

the running from the capitol reminded me when the governor of kentucky after the 9/11, and there was a feeling that something like that took place again. there was the concern. and the police had complete control of the building, which was reassuring. >> we're looking on the air at a bunch of visuals from outside of the heart building and you can see s.w.a.t. teams moving in very quickly. could you after all this all happened, could you tell what was happening outside? you probably heard ambulances. >> we stayed in the office 30 minutes. and they were allowing you out of the building, and so that's when we went back to the windows. you could look out the windows and see the car that was sitting there crumbles next to the guard stations at second and constitution. >> describe the car to us, because some of the visuals i've seen the car was heavily

damaged. i can't tell if it was after the collision. >> it was two-door black sedan. it was turned the opposite way if you were going up capitol hill. it looked like it was in a crash and turned around. it was heavily damaged. >> did you see all the commotion outside? i don't know at what point you were allowed to leave the building. but could you see the commotion going on outside? >> absolutely. we looked at capitol police secret service and fbi. >> this is the car that we could see here. this was taken from the heart building. >> we took that picture when they led us out of the offices. >> you could see that car across the street. >> that's right in the median, the supreme court, just so you know is right across the street from there. >> the heart building itself is clad in a lot of marble. was there much risk of coming too close and looking out the windows there, there? >> i wouldn't think so, no. >> in all that did you see--were

you aware--i mean, you've been on the hill for a while. were you aware of how much goes in action at the point of any of these incidents? i don't know if you were there at the navy yard shooting incident, but had you seen this kind of amassing of officers, manpower like this, all of a sudden? >> it's changed a lot in the years. i worked on capitol hill on 9/11, and i was sit acting my desk at the dirk son building. so things have changed quite a bit since then. >> thank you for coming in and explaining what you saw. what we're hearing from mr. spivey, he was a witness inside the heart office building right where the incident occurred, and he saw a little girl being brought in with blood on her forehead. obviously a lot of concern for her. >> absolutely. let's recap the story a bit and show you some amazing still images coming in to al jazeera

now of what happened today starting at 2:18 this afternoon. on the streets of washington, d.c. the seat of the u.s. government. there was a black vehicle involved in some kind of altercation with police. an attempt to stop high-speed chase ensues. a police officer's vehicle is rammed. there is a collision. there is a police officer who is injured. that officer was taken to the local hospital. at some point the vehicle comes to a stop. it crashes or it is brought to a stop. gunfire ensues. we understand that a woman is being treated now at a local hospital. a young child, as you just heard in joie's interview. a young child, we understand that there is an isolated incident with multi it will mul. at this point the situation appears to be unwinding a bit.

people have been allowed to go about their day. get back to business as usual to the extent that they can after being involved or so close to something like this. we'll take a break and we'll come back with more of our continuing coverage. this is al jazeera america. closest to the story, invite hard-hitting debate and desenting views and always explore issues relevant to you.

>> welcome back everyone to ankle's continuing coverage of the shooting on capitol hill. what a day, what an afternoon. you're looking at the capitol building right now as things begin to settle down. this isolated incident seems to be wrapping up. let's walk you through the afternoon beginning at 2:18 in the afternoon. there was an episode, an incident with a black vehicle, a twasedan in a confrontation with police in an attempt to stop the vehicle. those details are still coming in, and we're waiting for more of the story to develop to be sure. but there was a chase that ensued, and a massive response

from a number of law enforcement agencies in washington, d.c. metro police, capitol police, s.w.a.t. units, a number of law enforcement agencies responding to this high-speed pursuit through th the streets of washington, d.c. at one point you see the vehicle here badly damaged. there was a collision, we believe with this black sedan. there is a police officer who was injured in that crash, certainly in a crash, and you may have seen just a bit earlier what looks to be a police officer on a gurney being airlifted out of that particular scene. and then further along in the chase it all comes to an end, shots are fired. we've heard eyewitness accounts of the gunfire, people in buildings hearing the gunfire, hearing the crash. you can see here the frantic moments of police responding, of people running from that

particular scene, trying to get to safety. mike viqueira, our white house correspondent has been following these developments all afternoon, and he joins yo us n. mike, an extraordinary afternoon in washington, d.c. a city where you lived. a city you've covered for years. >> tony, you're right. when you describe the chase in washington, d.c. these are not just any streets of dc. they passed the monuments, memorial and government office buildings and traversed up capitol hill, when pennsylvania transitioned into constitution avenue. up past the u.s. capitol passing it on the capitol grounds and left to the chase to the senate office buildings and the supreme court. i'm on the third floor of the heart building. i have eyes on the vehicle in

question. it is a black two-door infinity. police have both doors open at this moment. they're swarming in the car. the area is taped off, brass rank and file on the applies. they've cordoned off the area. the u.s. capitol police, an enormous force by most standards, 1500-1600 officers, this was described as an isolated incident. you've gone through the i want at this point, this vehicle being chased, hot pursuit by officers after evidently ramming in to the iron pipes that stick out along the sidewalk here in virtually every part of official washington erected after

9/11 for security purposes. the media up against th the barricades that come up against the streets. after 9/11 those were raised up. anybody who works in this city knows there is a capitol police checkpoint at the base of the hill, the main entrances of the avenues that from which you approach the united states capitol. those gates that i'm describing are down there just outside of our museum studios, at third and constitution avenues in northwest washington. i would be interested to know and i think one of the questions that will ensue from law enforcement is why those were not deployed when this chase started 12 blocks away. as we've been reporting that adjacent to the white house complex. we describe the reaction by capitol police and the white

house. the shelter in place order that went throughout capitol hill not just on the senate side where i'm on, but the quarter mile away to the rayburn building. staff told it stay in place until situation is secure and law enforcement was confident that with what they're now describing an isolated incident and shots fired. people injured. >> terrific. mike viqueira for us. see you shortly on camera. let's bring in our national security jj green. i want you to address the information that you shared with us earlier if you would repeat it, the woman, the suspect in this case, that she's being treated at an area hospital. we're getting information on the child that is involved. the latest reporting is the child is uninjured.

we're not sure or are we sure--help me, that this is a child in question? we're not sure. this might have been a child. we believe this was the child capitol police, metro police are hustling out of the area as this is all unfolding. add additional information where you might into this narrative that's unfolding here. >> yes, tony, you're exactly right about all of that. where it started and where it ended. there are two suspects--a suspect at washington hospital center. two victims from this situation. one of them is a police officer. one of them is the suspect, the woman, who we were told by a shot. i've been told as well this person, the suspect, is believe to be from the connecticut or new york area. that has not been absolutely confirmed, but i'm thinking based on the information we have

that is where that suspect is from. we're told as well that an investigation is underway as to what the motive for crashing into those gates as mike talked about was, an then running afterwards. we're also hearing, too, after that crash which we've seen in the photographs as you've shown, that the police at that point had essentially the right to engage with lethal force at that point. this is what shorts are working on right now in terms of this investigation. >> terrific, jj, if you would, before i let go, talk to us about the number of agencies that would have been involved here. we mentioned capitol police. we mentioned metro police, and the kind of response, we didn't have a wide shot available. but the kind of response that would have attended something like this. >> well, tony, david schuster did an excellent job giving a man, a look at what kind of aerial was covered. when you look at that spanning

from the white house to the capitol over towards the heart office building which is not far from the union station, you're talking about secret service, park police, capitol police, fbi, and obviously any number of agents and officers that might be in the area at the time who might be disposed to lend a hand. this is another reason why we saw again such a massive response, police response. make no mistake about it. when a police vehicle is engaged physically by another vehicle, and essentially there appears to be hostile activity you're going to have attention attached, but there were literally hundreds of people involved in this situation. not directly on the scene, but certainly you had dozens of agencies, organizations looking at this watching and trying to figure out what was unfolding. then you have the situation taking place up on the hill where you have people up there

trying to figure out as well. what they need to do for their people who might be from other agencies and other organizations. >> terrific, jj, thank you. let's. >> you're welcome in let's roll through the pictures again. that's the aftermath of the crash and the gunfire. can you imagine you're in washington, d.c. you're a tourist. maybe you're just going through your workday. you're wrapping up lunch, heading back to work. 2:15, 2:18 in the afternoon, and there was a high-speed chase flying by you. a massive response from any number of law enforcement agencies. and you're trying to get out of the way. you're trying to get back into your office. you're trying to get away from the scene. heavily armed officers on the scene running in various directions. at the end of this is a crash. and gunfire. a woman, a suspect, in the

hospital now being treated. we don't know the severity of the injuries or the wounds. a young child involved in this as well who we understand at the moment may be okay. there is at least one, two crashes, an earlier crash before a final crash in which a police officer was injured and airlifted out of a scene. you're in your office, and you hear the gunfire. from outside of your window. just dramatic events. amazing scenes unfolding today. horrible scenes, tragic scenes in washington, d.c. you have additional information for us? >> yes, you know, talking about how one would process what was going on around them. we all know that washington is in the middle of a political brouhaha about the budget and

the looming crisis over the debt ceiling, and then something that takes everybody back to horrible days, a few weeks ago at the navy yard, at the pentagon, shots fired. what do you do? we met three people. two men and a little boy who are here on vacation to show the 13-year-old little boy the nation's capitol. they hear the shots fired, then they're swarmed around by police officers. they're not sure what is going on, but they maintain calm minds. they seek shelter, then they tell us their story. the little boy said he was worried. he thought there was a terror attack under way. so did the father. but they soon knew it wasn't that. they felt safe enough to hang around and share their story with us. certainly that young man will have quite a book report to write up when he gets back to school. >> absolutely, randall.

yes, again at least at this oh hour, as you take a look at the live pictures now, it appears as though the investigation will continue as mike viqueira mentioned, police are all over the infinity, the two-door infinity is h sedan. people are able to wrap up their business day and head home. let's go to libby casey, with a terrific interview with mr. chavez, who was a witness. >> we talked to david lowenberg, just 21 years old. he's here doing an internship. he and others are furloughed today. they're staying home.

he gives an account that is identical to what mean have today living east of the capitol building. he heard a succession of shots, 7-8, he admitted that it wasn't the smartest thing, but he came out of the apartment to see what was going on. we're in effort getting you vehiclvideo. but what we heard from david was that he saw police swarm a vehicle, a black vehicle. it was sedan like, he saw one of the officers grab a child. and he could not say whether the child had come from the vehicle or not, but the child, the officer scooped up the child and took the child away. at that point it looked like things were calming down, and that it was a contained incident. >> yes, all right, libby casey

for us. libby thank you. we're going to rerun a portion of that interview with mr. chavez. that was really good and really compelling. mike viqueira is on the scene with us now, and mike, am i right to say that at least in some circles people are beginning to get back to the rest of the day, wrapping up their day, and maybe getting out of d.c. for the evening? >> i think that's fair to say. i'm in the heart building looking out at enormous bay windows on the crime scene. i'm looking at the black infinity. the police have begun this investigation. dozens of officers in the street where constitution avenue begins to turn into maryland avenue and just to set the scene for folks. the proximity of these buildings, the building and the senate office building, the supreme court, they abut the

streets we're talking about. we're basically looking into the car at this point. the u.s. capitol police, some 16 hub officers here giving an indication of how practiced they are at this, how well trained and unfortunately how many times they've been through this incident and these sorts of scares that turned out to be a serious threat and at one point in 1998, the killing of two police officers and the number of false alarms after that. the earlier guest mentioned in the wake of 9/11 and the plane of the governor of kentucky violating the air space and i remember it very well. we were preparing for ronald reagan's state funeral when that happened.

at any rate these officers to give you an indication of how prepared they are, i talked to one member of congress who was walking up from union station a couple of blocks up from the heart building. heard the shots, was wearing his lapel pin that members of congress do wear to capitol police, ironically, when on capitol grounds. he was told by a capitol police officer to please take off that pin. every precaution being taken in case this was something other than the isolated incident that the u.s. capitol police now says it is. if it were some coordinated attack, god fo forbid. they talked about the shelter in place, over loud speaker, well trained and well rehearsed on capitol hill. there are go-bags that staffers keep. there are biological chemical

hoods that are kept around the capitol complex. all of this happening in the last 12 years. all of that kicking in, going through the protocols. it didn't last very long. maybe an hour's time, the loud speakers both within and without the these buildings, telling everyone that it was all clear. scene here out at constitution avenue. >> thank you so much. we're trying to get reaction sherrod brown and getting describes what they saw and heard outside. >> we thought we heard shots so

a lot of police cars, and then we heard shots. then the police told us to go back. we were simply walking back to our office. >> we heard shots. >> i heard three. >> we heard, three, four, five pops, probably. then the police--we were just walking. we were in the grassy area where people park, and then we were told to get back and get behind a car. >> i want to get back to mike viqueira. you said something interesting about how this all ended. and there was probably at least one certainly more than one, but at least one important security question that you think medes to be asked and answered. >> well, i think it will be asked, and i don't doubt there is a perfectly good explanation. in the wake of 9/11 a protocal was initiated--there is this

friction between capitol police and leadership and membership of congress. many rank and fire members think that the area should be opened to pedestrians. people should be able to come and go as they please. that drives security people crazy. i've talked to any number of police chiefs over the years, and at one point, who terry gainer, had proposed to fence and control access points onto the capitol grounds and funnel people through the particular area. and the rank and file, those who deal with the doling out of money said no, absolutely no way. it drives capitol police crazy. but after 9/11 they stationed police at the entrance to the capitol grounds. one of those being at the bottom of capitol hill on constitution avenue after sort of transitioned from pennsylvania avenue. they stopped trucks on a regular

basis to inspect their loads. they tell them to turn around and go a different way. they make sure that metro buses have been cleared. they block any suspicious vehicles. i think one of the questions that is going to be asked if this chase was initiated near the capitol 12 blocks away, why by the time police and law enforcement at various agencies involved here had chased this individual, this black affinity west--from west to east up on the capitol. why they were not deployed. there may an perfectly explanation, but i think that is one of the questions that will be asked. >> there are always these after-action reports in which questions like the one you're raising now there is an opportunity to raise that. and we'll see there are modifications to plans and deployments and how thing

operate from this point forward. appreciate it. thank you. we're waiting for a news conference from capitol police. a short time ago a brief to the media. >> at about 2 cycl 2:28 this afn there was a vehicle that attempted to pass a barricade. that vehicle was attempted to be stopped by secret service uniform division. shots were potentially fired. they pursued the vehicle. the vehicle came, struck one of our vehicles here at second and maryland. and ultimately ended at second and maryland northeast. where it crashed into one of our barricades. at this time the scene is secured--both scenes are secured. we initially locked down some buildings in the capitol vicinity. we have no information that this

was related to terrorism and is anything other than an isolated incident. >> we take a look at these live pictures. we're coming up on sunset and the sun sinking in the sky here in washington, d.c. randall, you talked to three family members who were in washington, d.c. to take a look at the seat of government. they were on a hot dog break, correct? >> yes, they were having a hot dog when the shots rang out. i'm sure that spoiled their meal right away. they are safe, they're find. they complimented all the law enforcement authorities who responded so quickly to take control of the situation. i just looked out the window along louisiana. and i can see a couple of blocks away there is a barricade set up on much of the capitol grounds still off limits in the vicinity of the crime scene. on the other hand there is a

bicyclist going by on the plaza near the pool. obviously authorities were able to ascertain fairly quickly this was, indeed, as the chef said, day so soonincident. after gunfire and after a police chase through the streets of the nation's capitol. >> it's important to here, look, this is a major metropolitan city in america, and it has had its issues and it's problems with crime over the years, as we all know. not--not surprising at all that we get these kinds of events that happen. it is just the proximity to so many major landmarks, so many major buildings in washington, d.c. and the

heightened response, it is in the aftermath of what happened on september 16th at the washington navy yard. it is the protocols that are always in place for this type of episode in front of those high value institutions there at washington, d.c. that we get this kind of response. and we got this kind of swift action from a number of different law enforcement agencies. >> you know, tony, we have to point out that on any given evening in certain parts of the city it's still the wild, wild west. that is of concern for residents who live there. but i must say even hat the height of the crime period, and of course you've been here longer than i have continuously. i've been in and out over the decades even over the height of the crime era this neighborhood was always relatively safe. there have been these incidents that have occurred, of course,

most north worthy the attack of the pentagon across the river. we've had someone trying to fly a plane into the grounds of the white house. shots fired from the south lawn. towards the white house a few years ago. so there are incidents. but not too afternoon. and thankfully we have a lot of people who we see and others we don't see keeping vigil at all times. to keep the nation's leaders and citizens safe. >> yes, i guess there was a convolute the way to say that crime happens in washington, d.c. as it does in any number of major cities and jurisdictions around the country, and at least the news we're get something not lynched, the information suggests that is not linked to any kind of terrorism, and it is an isolated incident at this time. apparently not even targeting the government. that's at least the information at the moment. as we know the information changes over the course of time.

there we have it. that's the scene. the black two-door affinity that you can see in the distance just behind that sign indicating route 95-route 50. that is the question here and the investigation in full swing as you can imagine right now. law enforcement, the yellow crime tape. it is a very active crime scene. we will take a quick break and come back and recap what we know at the moment. you're watching al jazeera america. closest to the story, invite hard-hitting debate and desenting views and always explore issues relevant to you. millions who need assistance now. we appreciate you spending time with us tonight. up next is the golden age of hollywood going golden but elsewhere.

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>> very quickly now. let's take a live shot here from washington, d.c. we'll keep an eye on this story for you. again, the investigation in full swing as you can imagine the black two-door affinity there is the center of the investigation. we understand the woman who is driving that vehicle is being treated at a local hospital now. the suspect in question who led police on a wild, dramatic high-speed chase through the streets of washington, d.c.

passing to many monuments and museums of the nation's capitol. we'll keep an eye on that story for any new developments but we want to work in some other news of the day. the government shutdown is hampering efforts sanctions against iran. the revelation comes two weeks before u.s. and iranian diplomats meet in geneva to discuss the nuclear program. a search of survivors after a boat goes down off the coast of italy after killing 100 people. the boat was carrying african migrants from libya. it may have involved human trafficking. >> a grim scene on an island where many hoped to start a new life. a boat carrying hundreds of migrantmigrants from africa sant tried to reach the italian island of lampedusa.

the body ran into trouble and set off flares, which is likely to have started the fire. >> the first witness reports we've heard suggest the boat caught fire. because of this everyone started to panic. they pushed forward and caused the boat to capsize. >> rescuers arrived at the scene in the early hours of the morning. more than 100 people were pulled from the waters and taken ashore. it's pleased 500 were on board, including pregnant women an children. it's one of the deadliest boating accidents involving migrants and the second one this week. it has led to calls to prevent such disasters from happening. >> behind this tragedy and many other tragedies there are criminals and criminal networks who are exploiting human being beinsin despair. the reality is human smuggling

is a crime, and we really have to step up our efforts in order to fight these criminal networ networks. >> thousands of migrants arrive in unsafe and overloaded vesse s many wind up missing. but still many come despite the risks. >> the u.n. team said they have made encouraging progress so far and if things continue t to go smoothly they hope to begin disarmament next week. this first phase has a novembe november 1st deadline and total disarmament must be completed by middle of next year. japan's crippled nuclear power plant has in language.

a storage tank overflowed and poored 110 gallons of radioactive water. the tanks hold contaminated water to cool plant. the battle in somalia still impacts u.s. military policy. we take a look back at the incident person northern as black hawk down and a warning to viewers. this story contains graphic images. >> it started as a mission to save lives in somalia. it ended in the worst fire fight for the u.s. military since vietnam war. >> the lesson that people took from the mogadishu, you could

not do an military operation that resulted in dead american services members. >> the troops were ambushed in 1993 while trying to capture the warlord. his fighters shot down two black hawk helicopters and captured one of the pilots. americans were shocked. osama bin laden mocked the soldiers, calling them paper tigers. president clinton asked for a show of power. >> aggressive thugs and terrorists will conclude the best way to get us to change our policies is to kill our people. >> even sow mogadishu has haunted foreign policy for years. the clinton administration decided not to intervene in the slaughter of rwanda in 1994, and it took officials six years to agree to lead a war in kosovo in 1999. the u.s. reluctance persists 20

years on with the obama administration now criticized for not responding to the syrian regimes chemical weapons attack on its citizens. the president's respons respon >> the united states is chastised and at the same time its blamed for its problems. >> i think it's just more war weariness. it's not so much related to the casualties as it is a perception that we're not very good at this, we're not getting much bang for our buck. >> it's the conundrum of the first arrested as the order as e lives when they send in the troops. >> let's get to our top story now, that's in the

washington, d.c. near the senate building and capitol building itself. we have new video we want to show you now. we have video at various times during the course of the day. but we haven't seen this video to this point. and obviously this is the police response. as we told you there was a lengthy, a lengthy chase, a high-speed chase through the streets of washington, d.c. and you're start to go see video where people are high tailing it out of the way. running away from the scene as the police lock down the capitol building for a period of time starting at 2:15 to 2:18 in the afternoon. you can see the sirens. i'll paul for just a second. [ sirens ] there is a two-door black affinity being boxed in. correct me if i'm wrong but i believe that is the affinity in question. you can see weapons drawn and you can see the driver of the

vehicle trying to escape. and managing for the moment seemingly to get away. did you hear that, did you hear the gunshots? the chase continuing let's just stay with it for as long as we have it. [ sirens ] again, this video just in to al jazeera america. this is the chase in question. that's the affinity. the two-door affinity. this is about to come to an end. okay, the cameraman is out of position at this point, but you saw dramatic scenes there. and here it is. this is the aftermath.

the camera lost the shot, but this is where this whole chase ended. you heard during the videotape the sounds of shots being fired and the car being boxed in close to the senate office building and not far from union station and the capitol building complex. we understand the woman driving that vehicle, the suspect in question, is being streeted for injuries at a local hospital in washington, d.c. randall, not much time before we hit the top of the hour. your thoughts as you take a look at that dramatic, dramatic video. >> well, people were able to get out of the way, and that apparently the only people affected in this whole thing was the woman, and the police officers involved. quite a dramatic afternoon. thank got it wasn't worse. >> our understanding this was an isolated incident, some kind of altercation started this.

there was a high speed class that ensued. let's roll through some of the pictures and then get back to the video. you saw scenes of that high-speed chase. capitol police, metro police, the secret service, any manner of law enforcement in the area. >> i was just going to say, tony, a great deal of coordination between the various branches. at one point years ago there was a point about they were not able to communicate with each other through the radios. that has been solved. there were officers of every branch of service that we can imagine involved in law enforcement. >> right here. here's the moment right here. it looks for the moment like the vehicle is pretty much boxed in. but we can see that the driver is looking desperately for a way out. police run to the vehicle.

they are in communication of some kind with the driver trying to get the driver to stop. but no, we get this. this kind of irrational behavior. so the driver finds a window to slip through, and i may have spoken over, but there was a moment right there when we heard the initial shots fired. the driver speeds off again. there was a bit of a round-about coming up. the driver circles the round-about a few times and takes off again a short distance before the chase comes to an end. take a look at this. let me pipe down here. >> all of this while the child was in the car? >> yes, that's our understanding at this point. all of this while the killed is in the car. you can see people on the lawn there, folks are running and trying to get away from this scene. and then others just curious, they can't keep their eyes off of this train wreck. we're going to leave you for the hour. we'll be back next hour with

more news here on al jazeera. once again, this al jazeera america. this is a scene from the police chase we have been talked about in the nation's capitol, and people making a mad dash away of the -- the entire congressional complex area -- capitol hill shut down, on lockdown as shots were fired. and in just a moment we'll see some video where police appear