thousands upon thousands of people have stormed the capitol and have breached the house chamber. [closing bell rings] at the moment we see peaceful protesters on the outside. we can only hope it remains so. let me turn it every to connell mcshane. connell a record for the dow, a historic moment. not a good one for the country. connell: not at all, liz. we'll stay on the shocking scenes in washington. the united states capitol grounds breached by an angry mob in support of president trump. there have been shots fired. we know one person has been shot. we've been watching throughout the afternoon as the protesters swarm the complex. police at this hour, 4:00 p.m. on the east coast are trying to take control of a fluid and developing situation. live pictures from washington this afternoon. i'm connell mcshane coming to you on "after the bell." stocks as we close out are off the highs of the day, but still

a 43point gain for the dow, put -- 438 point gain puts it at a record close even with everything happening. the s&p hit a record high, closes up 21. the nasdaq is in the red down 78. most of what is happening on wall street seems related to where we are in georgia, weave been here all week, we're coming to you from atlanta's mercedes-benz stadium. the market is up even in midst of the turmoil that democratic controlled congress will boost stimulus. our fox team coverage includes, lauren sim some on those markets. we have edward lawrence on capitol hill. he is inside the senate russell office building. we start on the streets of washington with mike tobin. mike, what is the latest? reporter: we're on the south side of the capitol building. i want to show you where some police officers are staging. what we saw before you came to

us, dozen of police officers in heavy riot gear. they marched up to the south side and west side the side connects to the wall looking down to the washington monument, with the heavy riot gear and shields at ready. presumably they're going inside, one of the things demonstrators told me, they are separate from the blm demonstrators. they're not van dieing. we know there are vandalism. windows are going too rooms. ransacking offices. demonstrators, i want to show you also the police in the tactical vehicles. >> you covered antifa. they burned down -- >> people are getting so emotional and they want to talk and interrupt. let's go around to the east side of the capitol where you probably consider the front of the capitol where the steps are. of the southeast steps don't have as many people on them. if we get to the center of the capitol, or the front entrance, that is one really loaded with people.

when you talk to people out here, as far as what was accomplished, mostly they will say they sent a message to them. who are them? both republicans and democrats, particularly the republicans who didn't cooperate with president trump, who didn't do what he wanted them to do, who aren't opposed to the certification of the electoral college. let's keep on walking to you see the scene here. you have more police at the ready. we still haven't seen big action from the police. it appears as always the case with the police when it comes to crowd control, connell, is that they don't want to have the big conflict and create the ugly scenes. now you're looking at the front of the capitol. this is where the people are standing. a lot of flags flying. a lot of trump flags flying. people saying -- [inaudible]. chanting usa. sometimes getting worked up with -- [inaudible] skirmishes break out from time to time but for the most part you have people who are just milling about trying to make a

point to them and again them being the republicans and the democrats. connell, back to you. connell: mike, thank you. mike tobin is live on the capitol grounds outside of our capitol complex today in washington. still looking at live pictures from there. let's go inside of the complex now. those who are inside earlier in the day have been locked in place since then. the steps of the capitol that you're looking at now where the house chamber is, is the main, kind of building or complex people associate with capitol hill but it's a sprawling complex that includes the house and senate office buildings essentially across the street from where those pictures are. edward lawrence is inside, has been inside one of those buildings, the russell senate office building throughout the day. he joins us from there now. what is the latest from where you are? reporter: exactly. mike tobin was walking towards our position. we're on the senate side of the capitol, russell senate building

on the senate complex side. i can tell you as you said at top of the show one person was shot inside of the u.s. capitol. we're trying to figure out who did the shooting and who was actually shot but one person was taken to the hospital from here. we also know that tear gas was used inside the u.s. capitol, that to get protesters under control here. you have said in this they breached the house and senate chambers in this. in fact when they were inside the house and senate chambers they tried to barricade the doors from the inside. so capitol police could not get inside the house and senate chambers to get them. we do know that the police are going through the hallways in the u.s. capitol building trying to clear the hallways systematically. we understand now that the understand side has been fully cleared. most of the protesters are on the house side. police are trying to go through to try to figure out exactly where these people are and get all of them out of the building. it seems they're working from the center of the building on the way out, sort of as a circle to try to clear from the center inside of the building first.

then they will work on the outside of the building to get some of those people away. right now the capitol police have cleared -- connell: edward, jump on to you for a "fox business alert." live to wilmington, delaware. the president-elect of the united states is now speaking. here is joe biden. >> all of you have been watching what i have been watching. at this hour our democracy is under unprecedented assault. unlike anything we've seen in modern times. now the assault of the citadel of liberty, the capitol itself. an assault on the peoples representatives and the capitol hill police, sworn to protect them. and public servants who work at the heart of out republic. an assault on the rule of law

like few times we've ever seen it. an assault on the most sacred of american undertakings, the doing of the people's business. let me be very clear, the scenes of chaos at the capitol do not reflect a true america, do not represent who we are, what we're seeing are a small number of extremists dedicated to lawlessness. this is not dissent. it is disorder. it's chaos. borders on sedition, and it must end now! i call on this mob to pull back and allow the work of democracy to go forward. you heard me say before in different context the words of a

president matter, no matter how good or bad that president is. at their best the words of a president can inspire. at their worst they can incite. therefore i call on president trump to go on national television now to fulfill his oath and defend the constitution and demand an end to this siege. to storm the capitol, to smash windows, to occupy offices, the floor of the united states senate, rummaging through desks, on the capitol, on the the house representatives, threatening the safety of duly-elected officials. that is not protest.

it is insurrection. the world's watching, like so many other americans. i'm generally shocked and saddened that our nation so long beacon of light and hope for democracy has come to such a dark moment. through war and strife america has endured much and we will endure here and we will prevail again. we'll prevail now. the work of the moment and the work of the next four years must be the restoration of democracy, of decency, honor, respect, rule of law. just plain simple, decency. renewal of a politics. that is about solving problems, looking out for one another, not stoking the flames of hate and chaos. as i said america's about honor,

decency, respect, tolerance. that's who we are. that is who we have always been. the certification of electoral college vote is supposed to be a sacred ritual which we affirm, the purpose is to affirm the majesty of american democracy. but today's a reminder, painful one, that democracy is fragile and to preserve it requires people of goodwill, leaders of the courage to stand up, who are devoted not to the pursuit of power but, or the personal interest pursuits of their own selfish interests at any cost but to the common good. think what our children watching television are thinking?

think what the rest of is looking at. for nearly 2 1/2 centuries we, the people, in search after more more of a more perfect union kept our eyes on that common good. america is so much better than we've seen today. watching the scenes from the capitol, i was reminded as i prepared other speeches in the past, i was reminded of the words of abraham lincoln in his annual message to congress, whose work has today been interrupted by chaos. here is what lincoln said. he said we shall nobley save or merely lose the last best hope on earth. went on to say the way is plain, peaceful, generous, just.

a way which it followed the world will ever applaud and god must forever bless. the way is plain here too. that is who we are is the way of democracy, of respect, of decency, of honor. and commitment as patriots to this nation. notwithstanding what i saw today, we're seeing today, i remain optimistic about the incredible opportunities. there has never been anything we can't do when we do it together. this god-awful display today is bringing home to every republican and democrat and independent in the nation that we must step up. this is the united states of

america. there has never ever, ever, ever, ever been a thing we tried to do that we've done it together and we have not been able to do it. so president trump, step up. may god bless america, may god protect our troops, and all those folks in the capitol who are trying to preserve order. thank you, i'm sorry to have kept you waiting. >> [inaudible] connell: that is the president-elect of united states, joe biden live from wilmington, delaware, speaking two weeks ahead of his own inauguration on the day in which the congress was to have certified that election by counting the already certified electoral college vets by the states. that process as we know by now was interrupted. can we listen, to see if the president-elect is still speaking? here he is.

>> enough is enough. connell: just caught the tail end of that. enough is enough. in the same tone we heard in his prepared remarks there but these remarks from the president-elect come as these pictures you're seeing from capitol hill are still with us. protesters milling outside of the capitol. again, this whole day started with the certification of his election. it's, most of the time a largely ceremonial day. it should have have been today as well. we knew there would be protesters on the scene, what we do foe know edward lawrence rejoining us from inside of the capitol complex it has turned into this but it has and it continues. reporter: it turned quickly into this throughout the day. as you mention the electoral college process was paused. where they were in that process is they had adjourned the joint session and they were going to their respective houses. they were having debate on the

senate side and on the house side about arizona's, objection with arizona's electors. that was put in recess. both house and senate in the middle of that debate. we got about 90 minutes of that debate. we're looking at about three hours total. 90 minutes in. they put a pause to that. no clue when that will come back and restart that process. obviously the capitol police inside trying to clear the u.s. capitol of protesters. we're told the fbi and atf are also inside of the u.s. capitol going room by room, trying to figure tout where protesters went, where they are, get them out of the middle of the beginning. we're told the senate side is mostly clear. they're working on the house side now. reaction is coming in from all over. vice president mike pence tweeted out about this pretty soon after it happened. peaceful protest is the right of every american but the attack on our capitol will not be tolerated. those involved will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. senator tom cotton also tweeting

that violence and anarchy are unacceptable. we are a nation of laws. this needs to end now. house minority leader kevin mccarthy saying that they have a right to be heard, protesters but they must remain peaceful. there are windows and cabinets, windows broken inside of the u.s. capitol. cabinets have been gone through, offices ruffled a little bit there is some damage inside. the capitol police cleared the senate side but there were clashes as they were clearing that between the protesters inside and the police were inside there as they were trying to clear the building. so house speaker nancy pelosi, senator chuck schumer releasing a joint statement calling on protesters to leave. calling on the president to tell protesters to leave. business going on again inside of the u.s. capitol has been paused. some staffers are still on lockdown in their offices as the police are trying to go through and get to those people as well as get protesters outside of the capitol. once they get outside, it is

likely we've seen in the past they will create a buffer around the u.s. capitol but again, they're working inside trying to get control there before they work on the outside of the building. back to you, connell. connell: all right. adding to that, edward, just in from a white house source to fox, we're expecting a taped message on camera from president trump to be delivered to us, i guess any minute now is the way it is being phrased. it will be out shortly. they will present that on the president's twitter account. we'll monitor that. there are calls from all over the country, for the president to say more, say more than the few tweets that we had earlier in the day today. remember it was this president earlier today speaking in washington who had encouraged his supporters to move towards capitol hill. they did that. unfortunately much more. our coverage continues here in just a moment. we'll be right back. ♪

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white house joins us with more. i heard it. audience, admit the president does encourage protesters or support es to go home. i see him on our screen, guys? are we ready to play that. he encourages his supporters to go home but also talks on and on about how the election is fraudulent and that type of thing. give us a minute here. we'll get it racked up. blake, your thoughts? reporter: i listened to it too. it literally dropped on twitter moments ago. one minute two seconds. president on four or five different occasions tells his supporters that have stormed the u.s. capitol building at least in some instances to go home. the president, it had taken several hours up until this point for president trump to tell those supporters to leave the u.s. capitol but he has done just that. there had been some criticism from those very close to the president, for example, his former chief of staff mick mulvaney saying the president's initial comments were not enough. the president's former communications director had

him -- >> it is a very tough period of time. there has never been a time like this where such a thing happened, where they could take it away from all of us, from me, from you, from our country. this was a fraudulent election but we can't play in to the hands of these people. we have to have peace. so go home, we love you. you're very special. you've seen what happens. you see the way others are treated that are so bad and so evil. i know how you feel. but go home and go home in peace. connell: that was it. the president of the united states on twitter, blake, he go home in peace. we picked it up a few seconds in. a lot, i think it should be said of the emphasis here was on the so-called stolen election, the fraudulent vote as the president called it. feeling the pain of these supporters of his in washington

and then he did say, almost reluctantly it sounded to me, go home, go home in peace there at the end. other thanly one minute from the president on tape. reporter: there were really a couple different messages from the white house today, connell because when weigh heard from vice president mike pence on twitter, his very first reaction was in part, he said, let me pull it up here real quick, the vice president said, the violence and destruction taking place at the capitol must stop and it must stop now. anyone involved must respect law enforcement officers and immediately leave the building. so the message was clear from the vice president, get out of there. but there had been calls from those who had been very close to the president for president trump to echo just that. it took him some time to do it, a couple hours until this message just dropped. but now we hear the message from the president saying, telling those protesters to get out of the capitol building and to go back home as he put it. connell: in that time not only was the capitol complex breached, these protesters moved

on to the floor in the house of representatives, inside of the chamber. there were shots fired. a young woman was shot. we saw video circulating earlier of that person being removed from the capitol complex. the president of the united states also attacked his own vice president who was up on capitol hill saying that mr. pence didn't have the courage what should have been done to protect our country and our constitution. as a final thought blake as we take the break. the vice president didn't have that power, that option available to him as he said right earlier today in a lengthy statement? reporter: the president started the day at about 11 or 12 earlier this morning calling on the vice president repeatedly and publicly to send the election back to the states. essentially to sidestepped the election and the will of the american voters. as the president was imploring the vice president to do so repeatedly, publicly, multiple times, the vice president mike

pence put out a statement saying no. i'm not going to do it. i can't do it. there is the constitution and i will not do it. that was sort of the process playing up out on capitol hill, certification of votes, a really formality should have been playing out today. instead all lawmakers had to be pulled out of the floor while the process was taking place, there was a breach at the u.s. capitol. connell, it should be said, you know this, i know this, but for anyone who has never really been to the white house or been specifically to the u.s. capitol in this case, there is a heavy presence, law enforcement presence. there are safeguards put into place to prevent something like, the reason why i bring that up is because for those of us, i'm sure you would agree anyone who has sort of been there seen the security measures it is stunning to witness what we just witnessed over the last couple of hours.

connell? connell: yeah. i have seen people that are not members of the house of representatives even on the floor of the house of representatives is quite a shocking scene if that makes sense in of itself, even if you've been up there in official capacity, whether a member of the media or others paying a visit, you don't set foot on the floor of the house of representatives. you might walk through the hall there get up to the door, but being very close. of. reporter: you need special passes to even sort of get inside of the chamber, yet alone on the floor, even to get to that point, layers of security, et cetera. it is, yeah, it was you know, what we -- connell: hearing from colleague rich edson by the way on the ground of more tear gas that he is witnessing on the west front of the capitol as we look at the split picture now on your screen. we don't see that. rich does, he is there we'll take you there for more as the situation develops, more coverage in a moment.

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♪. connell: it has been quite a day in washington, d.c. we're hoping the worst is behind us. some of the feeds from reporters in and around the capitol complex do show some of the mob of protesters that have been there throughout the day encouraged moments ago by the president to go home and go home in peace have started now slowly to leave the complex. and i know i mentioned rich edson, our colleague in washington earlier had said that he spotted some more tear gas from his location and i believe rich is with us now, live, if you can hear me, rich. what is it like there? we were trying to figure out if people are, seems behind you, they are starting to leave a little bit? what is the latest? reporter: thousands of people have left, connell, but there is still thousands of people here. there is a massive crowd. major police presence.

awful lot going on here. show you what is going on here, this is how people are streaming out. honestly about, i don't know, five, ten minutes ago, you had officers deploying tear gas up on that promenade there. people are -- up way into the capitol area on to the actual building itself. now this stream that you see coming from off of the west front by the lawn here, this has been a good, i would have to say for an hour, hour and change you have people leaving at this pace. there are still thousands of people on the lawn, to give you a sense how many people we have had here over the course of the day. we have had flash bangs. we have had plenty of tear gas-fired throughout the day on this side. you had people go to the right towards the capitol office buildings, that is the house side on your right. on the left side, you had people going into the senate office building this all started hours ago after the president spoke about a mile 1/2 from here at

the ellipse which is in between the washington monument and the white house. after that tens of thousands of people streamed across the national mall to where we are here. you have had the president speak since that time. you have had violent people breaching inside of the capitol. you had a mob inside of the capitol building. and now it appears as though that is dissipating. you have got, connell the mayor of washington, d.c., muriel bowser telling everyone has to be off the street by 6:00 p.m. you have had a massive police presence here. metro police department, d.c. city police department has come here to assist capitol police. right now seems to be dissipating. but again thousands of people are still here and all the way up into the capitol. so this isn't finished yet, connell. connell: yeah. 4:34 seems like a heavy lift to get everybody off the streets of washington by 6:00 p.m. rich, ask you a question, may be

difficult for you to hear and difficult to make a judgment, you know washington pretty well, capitol hill police a organization, so well-respected, when you got there was there heavy enough police presence? were they not ready for this? reporter: absolutely overwhelmed. i have to say the capitol complex is big. you have the capitol building and the office complex on either side. the capitol hill police department is robust. they typically, if it were a week ago or a few days ago they have got a perimeter around here making sure there is no, you know, odd vehicles or anything looking to attack the capitol building. there always is a fairly robust police presence here. they were simply overwhelmed. you have tens of thousands of people rushing into the capitol, rushing towards this area, and then many of them, who decide to go into the capitol building. it was entirely overwhelmed.

and you now had to have officers come from other areas of the city to assist. for anybody to get in there, we tried getting into the capitol building a little bit earlier today, just as course of business with things going on in there. we have passes to get in there. they weren't letting members of the public in there. so the capitol hill police were watching out this morning to make sure that only credentialed media, staffers, people who have passes, people who are supposed to be in the building are actually there. clearly that didn't work going later in the day when you had all of these people show up and breach it, connell. connell: all right. thank you, rich edson live on the, outside of the capitol in washington, d.c. a significant piece of political news and a "fox business alert" into us. it is official, the fox news decision desk can officially project democrat jon ossoff will defeat republican david perdue

in georgia. that does now give democrats control of the united states senate first time in six years. this complete as clean sweep much washington for the democrats. they control the house. soon will occupy the white house. fox earlier projected democrat rafael warnock would win his election unseating republican senator kelly loeffler in the other georgia runoff. we have victories by warnock and ossoff. the ossoff win is official. giving democrats 49th, 50th seats. work in kamala harris the tie-breaking vote. she will be president of the senate, poised to break the ties. the democrats take control of the chamber. the balance of power in washington is official. more from washington, here in after the atlanta in just a moment possible with verzenio, proven to help you live significantly longer when taken with fulvestrant. verzenio + fulvestrant is for women with hr+,

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connell: new tweet from president-elect joe biden moments ago after his remarks in wilmington, that america is so much better. the scene outside of the capitol. let's speak with republican congressman french hill. he joins us. been a guest on our program number of times. congressman what is your day been like? what is happening from inside of the capitol to your point of view today? >> thanks for having me. we were prepared for doing our constitutional duty today. that is certifying the election, going through the debate accordingly. unfortunately we have witnessed exactly what the framers of our

constitution feared the most which is to have the heat and torment of american people come into the capitol over the frustration of losing an election. that is why our constitution designed the electoral college to be those supposed to be held in the states and for the states to design our federal elections. so it's a sad day in the capitol, connell. it is sad. i'm really outraged by what has happened. we welcome first amendment protests but we don't welcome people breaking into the capitol and shooting people. connell: what role do you think the sitting president has played in all of this, congressman? >> i thought president trump's tweets and his one minute video late and were inadequate because anyone who has encouraged people to march on the cap tome and encouraged them to say that the election was stolen and that somehow the vice president of

the united states and house and senate can overturn the elections from november 3rd, that is just raising expectations and creating a false narrative. and so, anyone who has done that, contributed to that breach, frustration and contempt of for the american system and our great republic. and so the president has to bear some responsibility for the actions this afternoon after his remarks at noon. connell: speaking of the american system, i think there is plenty of reason to believe that the system has been holding up and will continue to hold up well despite everything we've seen today. in some way the financial markets might reflect that. the dow jones industrial average was up 438 points for what it is worth on a day like this, focused on other events, most likely runoff elections and their ramifications here in georgia where i am, that said what is your level of worry, congressman, what do you think happens next, a broadway of

asking the question for the country? >> we need our leaders to come together in the next two weeks and have our peaceful transfer of power. show so the world and to the american people that the american republic is sound and that we will once again as we have for 144 years transfer power in this country in a peaceful, inaugural ceremony january 20th that is the most important thing we can do over the next two weeks. democrats and republicans need to work on the tone and the civility around that exercise. connell: there is one thing, or it is one thing to talk about democrats and republicans coming together but what about inside of your own party, the division there, that is so clear and evident inside of the republican party itself? what happens next there? >> well the republican party has the, its group. we have a debate going on right now about the electoral college and what is the right role for

congress in certifying the votes. we have republicans, conservatives on both sides of their interpretation of the constitution but look, the democratic party has a huge fraction in it. speaker pelosi lost her large majority. he has more members of her far left progressive caucus driving policy in the democratic house conference. she now has a major split over her rules package where conserve democrats are opposed to her waiving all the budget rules as it relates to the green new deal. look, our party always has challenges inside but what we have to do as republicans and democrats is pull together for the peaceful transfer of power and to put the constitution and our capitol and our american sperms at the forefront, not our parochial interests. connell: congressman, thank you for calling in. you're all right getting home today, all that from the capitol? >> i just hope we can have food

delivered here. we will see what happens. we're going to be here, hopefully the speaker and leader will reconvene. all the best, thanks. connell: all right. congressman french hill from arkansas. a little bit of a lighter note there at the end. everybody has to have dinner. we'll be back from more coverage in washington and here in atlanta. research shows people remember commercials with nostalgia. so to help you remember that liberty mutual customizes your home insurance, here's one that'll really take you back. wow! what'd you get, ryan? it's customized home insurance from liberty mutual! what does it do bud? it customizes our home insurance so we only pay for what we need! and what did you get, mike? i got a bike. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪

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♪. connell: there is a statement just in from acting defense secretary miller. full activation of the d.c. national guard and speaking of washington, d.c., mayor muriel bowser who you see on the screen just wrapped up remarks live in washington. the chief of police is speaking now. let's listen to this to hear what they're saying. >> -- situation remains under investigation. the metropolitan police department will be taking the lead on that investigation. mpd continues to provide personnel resources, assistance on the grounds of the u.s. capitol and requested the assistance of law enforcement partners who were previously in place mutual aid agreement. as you heard from the mayor, a 6:00 p.m. curfew has been put in place tonight. it will be in effect until 6:00 a.m. tomorrow january 7th. we have advising everyone, everyone, that is not engaged in

essential activity to get off the streets and adhere to the curfew. if you are found to be in violation of the curfew police will be required to take action. again, i want to reiterate, make it clear, police abide by the curfew that the mayor set in place or people will be subject to arrest. lastly, i know that many of you are are familiar with the metropolitan police department. understand there is no better agency in the country to handle first amendment events. they happen on a regular basis here in our city. however, today's events were not representations of peaceful protests. today what we witnessed was unlawful riotous behavior. people that engage in unlawful behavior will be held responsible. we'll take any questions you have after the secretary has a chance to speak. >> thank you, mayor bowser, chief conte. three 3:00 this afternoon we

mobilized the d.c. national guard, to 1100 strength. re-establishing the safety and the confines of the u.s. capitol. we will also be working with other federal law enforcement entities combing here to the metropolitan police station to add additional support and capability as they continue deliberate planning to look how a clearing operation will be conducted. thank you. >> how does this work? >> [inaudible] >> okay. >> [inaudible]. >> yeah. hi, mayor, chief conte. could you please confusion around deployment of national guard. we understand council put out a statement the originally the department of defense refused to allow the d.c. guard to reinforce capitol police officers at the capitol. can you clarify what happened there? >> i'm not sure what statement

you're referring to, evan but let me be clear, i requested on guard assistance two or three days ago in, in supporting the d.c. government's operations, metropolitan police department traffic box and that request was approved by the secretary of the army. additionally as i understand it, i will turn to the secretary to speak to this directly, the united states capitol police department requested additional guard support today. so let me go to the, to the secretary. >> this is ryan mccarthy. when we were working through the additional request there was, sorry, confused. there was additional requests that came forward from the capitol police and for to us truly understand the specifics behind their request and how we would support the operations a lot of questions were asked. a little bit of confusion. but as we worked through it we ultimately made the

determination about a half hour later to mobilize the entire d.c. national guard. it has been incredibly fluid. but i have to go through the secretary of defense. ultimately get the final approval to mobilize personnel as well as to conduct operations in cooperation, coordination with local authorities. >> [inaudible]. >> ali, wamu. >> ali, wamu. >> the citywide curfew, mayor, that can't apply to federal property, correct? >> curfew applies across the city. we will, if your question is, are people who are on the capitol grounds subject to the curfew, they're going to be subject to following the lawful orders of a police on the grounds and they will be ordered to evacuate the capitol grounds. >> next question.

connell: mayor muriel bowser, chief of police and other officials in washington, d.c., are holding a live news conference this hour and they're holding it about one hour, an hour six minutes before a curfew is to go into place at our nation's capitol after what has been a dramatic day to say the least there with protesters descending on and breaching the capitol grounds. earlier today. edward lawrence inside the capitol complex rejoins us. sounded like a heavy lift to clear the streets of washington in an hour's time. that is basically what they're saying, edward, right? reporter: she said, you heard there, 1100 national guardsmen will come on the area in the complex around the city to push these folks out. you heard her say capitol police would clear the grounds of the entire u.s. capitol. they're working from the senate side. they are finish up the last bits

of the house side. pushing all the people off the capitol grounds. one interesting note, twitter flagged the president message where he sent go home. told the protesters. you can't retweet it. or ford or like it. they say they have flagged that because the president in there said that the election was stolen and because of that, because that sentence that he put in there, they have flagged it. so you can't now retweet it or get more publicity for it. connell? connell: wow. so now that can't be shared with people which would have been the intension of getting a message out like that. that said, from where you are, do you get the sense that this is dissipating at all? i should point out the last few minutes we've had reports of tear gas being fired in and around the complex. you can see it getting dark. "the sun" sets in washington at the top of the hour this time of year which is always a worry for authorities, right, edward? reporter: there is more after

calm feel than there was an hour, hour 1/2 ago. there are people mulling around here. as you said night falls, bad things happen when night comes down. people wearing masks because of coronavirus. they may feel emboldened. people are trying to got control of the situation now as opposed to when the night comes. connell: edward lawrence live inside of the capitol hill complex. as you look at the wide shot on it. we pull up to the 5:00 hour, quick word on the markets. where we began our coverage this hour. the dow in the middle of all of this reached an all time high up by 438 points. lauren simonetti joins us. some people might be tuning in saying how could that be possible? seems like the focus is on other events, if anything the focus on the senate elections seemed to help the market today, right? reporter: in the beginning, the morning, connell. we were calling it into the stimulus rally, it turned into a

resilient rally that juiced the gains. the dow you noted in record territory. the s&p is so close. yes, stocks did close off the lows. as the trump-backed protesters stormed the capitol. the images you've been watching on the screen this whole show. we saw the fear gauge, the vix, that spiked on this news. and in the wake of the georgia runoff, president-elect government spending, infrastructure, higher taxes. let me show you how it played out in the markets today. the 10-year yield pierced 1%, first time since march. it helps the financials. they drove the rally particularly on the dow. jpmorgan, goldman sachs. higher rates are good for the banks, so the regionals did well as well. infrastructure spending, that boosted the cyclicals, materials, industrials. so you saw big gains for

caterpillar and freeport-mcmoran. but the threat of higher taxes and regulation are, that hit big tech, and let's show you those names. they were down not much today. you have to remember the nasdaq was up 43% last year so, you know, 3%, 4% at the most for netflix looking at that screen. one more thing the, connell. if you look at the energy sector, everything energy-related did well, whether it was the solar stocks like sunpower, up 20%, or the fossil fuel companies, energy was up today. connell, remarkable day on wall street. connell: all right, lauren, thank you. if anything, it's a bet from investors that this, too, shall pass, and we will get past this in the next two weeks, inaugurate a new president and move on from here. just a quick programming note for our audience as we wrap up our coverage this hour, we're here in atlanta, and we had a significant figure in the economics world, the president of the atlanta fed sitting with

me, but he's been very understanding with all the breaking news that we weren't able to get him on today. i'm going to tape an interview with him right now, and we'll bring you that on tomorrow's program. thanks for joining us on "after the bell." i'm connell mcshane in atlanta, we'll see you tomorrow. ♪ ♪ lou: good evening, everybody. the republic today witnessing some of the most remarkable scenes in american history. you're looking at tens of thousands of president trump's supporters who turned out in washington, d.c. to hear from the period of time of the united states -- the president of the united states, to demand free and fair elections and, and to make their voices heard. following an hour and ten minute long speech by president trump at the save america march, supporters walked from the ellipse just outside the white house on the national mall down