our thoughts and prayers are with those injured. right here on the fox news channel, continuing coverage on "happening now" now >> jon: we begin with this fox news alert, the shooting of steve scalise and others on the ball field -- the shooter is now dead. to speed beyond the gunfire rang out after 7:00 a.m. this morning at the ballpark. the public and lawmakers had gathered to practice for their charity baseball game, which will go on as scheduled. the good news, it appears that the victims will all survive. among the injured, congressman scalise who underwent surgery for gunshot wound to the hip. also injured, a congressional staffer and two police officers.

capitol police officer sprang into action. >> i was the first out to steve and then brad, another member from ohio who is in position came out and applied pressure on the wound. >> he seems okay to you? >> he was coherent the whole time, he laid out there for at least 10 minutes alone on the field. we could not get to him while the gunman was over by the third base dugout with a clear view of the field and everybody on it. >> jon: the suspect, james hodgkinson of illinois has now died from his injuries. john roberts is in the white house where president trump addressed the shooting a short while ago. we begin live in alexandria at the field where the shooting took place. >> over the last hour, we began to learn some more details of the shooter.

we learned that he was from southern illinois, it appears that he was politically active. his hometown paper reports that he has written a number of letters to the editor, and in those letters he often railed against republicans, their tax policies, and called for them to be voted out of office altogether. we have also learned that he was a volunteer for the bernie sanders campaign. senators condemned those shooter's action take a look. >> i am sickened by this despicable act and let me be as clear as i can be. violence of any kind is unacceptable in our society and i condemn this action in the strongest possible terms. real change can only come about through nonviolent action and anything else runs counter to

our most deeply held american values. >> the fbi has taken over this investigation, as of the most recent press conference they said it was too early for them to have a motive, but early today several congressmen who are at the baseball field said that as they were leaving, hodgkinson came up to them and asked them if the players were democrats or republicans. >> based on the question he asked me, i would make that assumption, he asked me if this team was the republicans or democrat team. i responded that it was the republican team practicing, and he proceeded to shoot republicans. take that for what it's worth. >> and again, just to stress, law enforcement officials have said that they do not have a motive at this time and not ready to say that he was targeting specifically

republican congressman. updates on the four individuals who were shot apart from the shooter, steve scalise is in surgery after being shot in the hip. the security detail, they are both being treated at the hospital as well. one of them were shot in the foot and one of them was hit with bullet. the fourth was an aide to roger williams, zack barth. the charity game that they were practicing for here today, tomorrow it will go on as scheduled. >> jon: thank you. >> heather: just a short time ago, we heard from president trump delivering a statement on today's shooting

supporting congressman steve scalise and his family and the others injured this morning and praising the heroic capital police, we just mentioned to them. they are worth mentioning over and over today, they saved countless lives. the president was supposed to headline workforce development event at the labor department today, that has been canceled in light of the shooting. john roberts is live at the white house with more. >> a very heartfelt statement from the president this morning, said he gives prayers to those who were injured and we understand that one of the people who was injured is in fairly great condition. though president offering his prayers to those who were injured, and also as you mentioned, enormous praise for the two capital police officers who were on congressman scalise's detail. senator rand paul said this morning on fox news that had those officers not been there, this morning's incident could

easily have turned into our massacre because of the way they were trapped inside the ball field by the fencing there, and the gunman seemed to know that as well. the president was saying in his remarks just a short time ago that everyone who was on that field this morning shared a common bond. here's the president. >> president trump: everyone on that field as a public servant. our courageous police, our congressional aides who worked so tirelessly behind the scenes with enormous devotion and our dedicated members of congress who represent our people. we may have our differences, but we do well in times like these to remember that everyone who serves in our nation's capital is here because above all they love our country. >> some members of congress who are on that field this morning have suggested that the increasing vitriolic nature of the rhetoric of politics may

have had something to do with inspiring the gunman to go out there today and start shooting republicans. congressman rodney davis of illinois said the language that has permeated our culture these days is nothing more than political, rhetorical terrorism. of the president and his remarks today do not allude to the atmosphere of political rhetoric, but he did urgent unity. >> president trump: we can all agree that we are blessed to be americans, that our children deserve to grow up in a nation of safety and peace. and that we are strongest when we are unified and when we work together for the common good. >> the president spent much of the morning working the phones. he put in calls to congressman scalise's wife. he cancel an event that he had

set for the afternoon at the labor department, he was set to unveil an apprentice apprenticeship program. we do not know when that will be rescheduled with the president is expecting tomorrow to resume his regular schedule. >> heather: what are drastically different day there on capitol hill today. john roberts, thank you. >> jon: as we saw moments ago, lawmakers from both sides of the aisle are thinking about their colleagues during this ordeal. several congressmen and senators and their aides found themselves in the line of fire this mornin morning. >> i was about 20 yards from the shooter, we were taking batting practice, i was the shortstop, scalise was at second. i heard a gunshot and they yelled "that's a gunshot." initial shot, he was trying to hit trent and he missed.

he fired two more times and i saw scalise go down. >> jon: former homeland security advisor for the state of new york, you bring an interesting perspective to the because of your experience. >> i am counsel for the sergeant of arms. we talk about this type of situation, how do you respond, what are the things he tried to do. in my former career i worked for the state police. what do you do to try to eliminate these threats and protect them? here is one of the nightmarish scenarios. but for the capital police being there at this time, that could have gone on for a very long time. members aren't armed at a baseball game. >> jon: the shooter, i am expecting, did not expect that he would face return fire because the capitol hill officers who were there were apparently plainclothes.

>> a lot of things that we take for granted, the ability to get out into the public, that is our democracy. you have to have that interaction between our representatives and the people. if you think you can actually put everybody in an envelope outside of the capital, very hard. >> jon: 535 members of congress, you can't hire 535 capital police to guard each one of them eight hours a day and tomorrow for the other 60. >> people are concerned about copycats, they are concerned about the public schedule, how did this guy know that this was a practice that was going on, they kind of scrub those schedules to see if there were other events that could provide a target as well. and you say wait a minute, you can't do that forever. but in the current situation you have to take a step back and

look at the vulnerabilities right now. >> jon: everyone of these events kind of changes the learning curve. one of the changes that will take place going forward after this? >> i think what is so unique about this obviously, as with the gabby giffords' situation, you have an individual that is targeted, not a group of individuals particularly on a partisan basis, i was obviously deranged. but nevertheless, do these gatherings provide another vulnerability, another target for individuals. are there ways that you can listen? you don't eliminate the risk, you manage it and that is really what you are going through right now. >> jon: we have heard a little bit about the suspect, and i have seen some of the postings on his facebook page.

are we going to hear in the days ahead of that there were warnings, that he said "man, i'd like to go to washington and jude all those guys," things like that? >> you are developing a profile of this individual. there are going to be statements that are going to jump out. those are the rantings, and again, as with terrorism generally, it is so difficult to be able to determine when someone is actually going to do something or if they are just saying something. >> jon: he was a big bernie sanders supporter and volunteer and hats off to senator sanders for going to the senate floor and absolutely deploring the conduct that his former campaign volunteer perpetrated this morning. many members of congress and their staff. thank you. >> heather: breaking news for you, we want to take you out to san francisco, this is just

outside of the downtown area where apparently a workplace shooting has happened. we can tell you that "usa today" and it "usa today" only is it saying that police have an unidentified person in custody following this shooting that happened at an ups facility in san francisco's neighborhood. san francisco general hospital is located about a mile from the city, they are reporting that they received a multiple of victims. they are told to expect as many as six including the suspect at the hospital. this is a very large facility, a ups processing facility and as we said, it is about 2 miles south of the downtown area.

according to other reports, the gunman opened fire on the third floor of the building. the shooter, a male, believed to be a ups driver was taken into custody and is being transported to the hospital, that is now being reported by two news outlets. we will continue to follow this story as it develops. what is believed to be a workplace shooting happening in san francisco right now. >> jon: still to come on "happening now," we are waiting for an update on the condition of congressman steve scalise who is reportedly stable at a d.c. hospital. you don't know whether the surgery on him is finished or not. we will talk to a trauma surgeon about treating that kind of gunshot wound as we get more information on today's attack in virginia. >> i couldn't hear the gunmen, i heard the police saying to get down, i heard some of the players saying "just shoot him."

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>> heather: fox news alert, president trump letting us know that the house majority whip is in stable condition after today's shooting. congressman scalise underwent surgery at medstar hospital in washington. another victim at the same hospital is also in stable condition. two other gunshot victims are at george washington university hospital and that you should see the scene there right now. dr. kelly powers as a surgeon at stanford hospital and is familiar with gunshot wounds. tell us about the facility where they are working on congressman scalise right now. >> nice to see you, unfortunately these circumstances are not so great. i did my fellowship at medstar. he could not be at a better place and i honestly mean that

from the heart. it is the number one trauma center. >> heather: let's talk about that. he was shot in the hip, tells about the danger of that. >> the reason that the hip or upper thigh is so dangerous is because of the femoral artery, both those major arteries feeding the lower extremity oxygenated blood. if those are compromise, that could lead to -- the biggest issue, bleeding. >> heather: you have probably heard the reports about how he was lying out in the middle of the baseball field trying to drag himself to safety and there was a line of blood trailing behind him and no one could get to him because the shooting was still happening. >> he is lucky in the sense that the representative was there on the scene who knew the most

important danger was the loss of blood. he quickly took from what i was told his belt off of representative scalise and tied it around his thigh to stop the blood flow. probably saving his life, if he did not do that i don't know that we will be having the same conversation right now. >> heather: he said that one of the first things he did was obviously try to stop the blood and that he was looking at the entry and exit wound. >> during trauma when someone comes with a gunshot wound, we want to find an entry and an exit. if we see the exit, bullets on the ground would tell us it was not in the body cavity. of the school of thought now is if it is not near a neurovascular structure impeding a direct artery and compromising tissue, leave it in. >> heather: we do know he is

in stable condition right now. we also know that two police officers that were there as extra protection for him -- they happen to be there because he is allowed to have that, one of those officers in the same hospital with him and was shot in the foot. >> again, unfortunate circumstance but lucky to have hospital like medstar. a great team, he could not be in better hands. >> heather: timing and a lot of luck. thank you so much for joining u us. >> jon: republican lawmakers practicing for a friendly charity baseball game against their democratic colleagues diving for cover this morning as shots rang out on the field. in spite of all the partisanship, our government is coming together when it matters most. we will speak with one lawmaker about the mood on capitol hill after the horrifying attack on his colleagues. >> we are grateful for all those who chipped in to help. >> i joined in the majority

leader and am offering prayers to those who are injured, i was absolutely shaken by the news of the shooting early this morning at the baseball field in alexandria. many of my friends and colleagues were practicing.

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>> heather: will take you back alive to the scene in san francisco at ups facility where there has been a workplace involved shooting. ups is telling the associated press that four people have been injured and taken to hospitals in the san francisco area and that the shooter was in fact an employee. if you are in that area, the police are still asking people to stay away for safety purposes, this is specifically in the potrero hill neighborhoo neighborhood. which is about two and a half

miles downtown -- outside of downtown san francisco. once again, the shooting suspect was an employee, four people injured as we know right now. >> jon: fox news alert, congressman steve scalise is now out of surgery and in stable condition. staffer zack barth and their two capitol hill police officers who were also injured are now all expected to recover. though shooter james hodgkinson died from his injuries. some information suggests the shooting was politically motivated. to speak of the game is tomorrow night and i actually laughed a little early, probably a couple of minutes before this all happened. as i was getting into the car with one of my colleagues, there was a guy that walked up to us that was asking whether it was republicans or democrats out there. it was a little odd, he kind of walks towards the area where all

this happened. >> jon: congressman joe crowley of new york is the chairman of the house democratic caucus. this is a day when you don't wear blue labels or read labels on capitol hill, do you? >> you certainly don't. this attack today, this horrific attack that involved my colleague steve scalise, a former staffer as well as the two police officers, was an attack upon all of us. an attack upon the institution, the house of representatives and the american people were attacked today. >> jon: have described the house as our family. a big and fractious one, but our family. >> i think often times people have a misinterpretation, we disagree. as families disagree from time to time, we don't agree on everything. we have the opportunity to debate and sometimes it does get out of hand. sometimes we may say something that we come to regret.

but it makes us no less of a family the same. steve and i are friendly, he is a member of the house republican leadership and i a member of the democratic leadership. we may not agree on just about anything, but we are pleasant to each other, i think that is something the american people need to understand. >> jon: that's the terrible irony, this was in preparation for the baseball game which is a long revered institution where if both sides fight against each other but for a good cause. >> it is in the best of spirits. we don't practice on the same field, and that is for a reason. we have our secret weapons and they have theirs. but it is all for a good cause, for charity, for the boys & girls club of d.c. for a literacy program here in the region. both democrats and republicans are committed.

there is one game here that has been going on for a better part of a century, has been a hallmark and something that members on both sides of forward to. doing it in camaraderie, doing it for the best of reasons to help people who have less than we do. >> jon: we hope it is certainly a moment when members of both parties can as they already have sort of link arms and support one another. what do you say to the viewers out there who might be taking the political rhetoric a little too literally these days? >> one thing i would say to them is when i had the opportunity today, i walked up to my good friend paul ryan, the speaker of the house, and i said "paul, you hit it out of the park." you did a great job, you did us all proud. that's what a democrat says to the republican speaker of the house. i set it with sincerity, amended sincerely. paul did a good job.

my constituents and all the constituents throughout this great country needs to know that we are first americans. we are all american's first and an attack upon one as an attack upon all of us and that is how we are taking this today. all political persuasions unite here today in opposition of this attack and say it was disgusting, despicable no matter what the political cause, never take violence into action. >> jon: good advice, let's hope we can all take that to heart. congressman joe crowley, democrat of new york and democratic head of caucus in the house. >> heather: lawmakers offer prayers for their colleagues and prays for the capitol police after the attack on the ball field. congressman steve scalise and three other victims are recovering from their injuries as they get strong support from the president. >> president trump: america is praying for you and america is praying for all of the victims of this terrible shooting. i spoke with steve's wife

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>> heather: a fox news alert, on a terrifying day just across the potomac from washington. congressman steve scalise recovering after undergoing surgery when he and three others were shot. a man opened fire at a ballpark

in alexandria, virginia, where congressman scalise and other lawmakers gathered to practice for tomorrow's congressional charity baseball game. that suspect has now died of his injuries after a shoot-out with police. lawmakers coming together today to show support for their colleagues. >> good afternoon. house members and senators are stunned at this hour, you can still see it on their faces house speaker paul ryan address the entire house of representatives and called on members to come together. >> we are united, we are united in our shock, we are united in our anguish, an attack on one of us is an attack on all of us. >> under the capital dome, nancy pelosi echoed a bipartisan

tone and called for unity. >> we are not one caucus or the other in this house today, we speak for each other in saying that we send our thoughts and prayers to our colleague steve scalise. >> this annual baseball event raises hundreds of thousands of dollars for local for local boys and girls club's here in the washington, d.c., area. scalise loved playing in the event, licata about him at practice of years ago. he is a regular at second base for the g.o.p. team. his lawmaker teammates are still stunned. >> this political rhetoric and political discourse has led to heche, has led to gunfire. i never thought i would go to baseball practice for charity and have to dodge bullets. >> all are praising the heroism of capital police and local first responders. the big concern is if he had not

been there, there would not be any security and the concern would be that there could have been a massacre. >> heather: thank goodness there wasn't. thank you. >> it's really unfortunate the damage that was done, i think what we saw today was people pulling together and hopefully what comes out of this is a greater sense of unity and a recognition that we may be republicans and democrats but we are all americans and we need to work together and try to solve our problems in a way that maintains its ability and does not lead to these senseless acts of violence. >> jon: a republican senator reinforcing that despite the political climate, americans have to work together and violence should not be the solution. joining us now, vice president of the legal action for the center for american progress and former general counsel and senior advisor for

senator kirsten gillibrand. i want to play a little bit more of what your former boss had to say as well as minority leader nancy pelosi when they spoke on the house floor right around noon today eastern time. >> i asked each of you to join me to resolve to come together. or to lift each other up and to show the country, to show the world that we are one house, the people's house, united in our humanity. it is our humanity which will win the day and it always will. >> i prayed for barack obama and i continue to pray for him. i pray for donald trump that his presidency will be successful and his family will be safe. this is about family. >> jon: the question i guess is how long can this a spirit of unity that has temporarily overtaken capitol hill, how long

will it last? >> very good at statement, there can be differences in politics without being disagreeable and taking language to a point where people are attacking each other's motives. that can and should happen and i think this will help with that. do we expect this to last three, six, eight months? no, but the question is, can we start having debates about policy. i talked to senator scott this morning and one of the statements he made was very eloquent talking about how people can get together. there are still bipartisan's prayer groups on the hill. of those allow people to see each other as individuals and people who share goals but maybe not the same political ideas, and that is an important part of this. i think it will help over time. i can't predict how long it will go on, i think it will happen in good effect for a while and

start some people thinking about debating on policy but keeping things a little cooler and looking for where we can find ways to work together. >> jon: give us your perspective, michelle. it does this horrible event, does it possibly have a silver lining? code it cooled down some of the rhetoric? >> without question, i think this gives us a moment to reflect on where we have been as a country and the language in the way we are interacting with one another. my former boss, senator kirsten gillibrand is cocaptain of the women's congressional baseball game and next week is their game. as a congressional staffer, i worked on the house and the senate side, i think about those moments of going to the game, they are with your republican colleagues and her democratic colleagues and it truly is a moment of bipartisanship. after that game, but we found is

the senator was able work with her colleagues and others to move forward on legislation. these moments are so important because they both develop relationships, the old kind of relationship that we used to see on capitol hill, where you can coordinate and work with members, but it also fosters a type of respect for one another in the sense of the word of how you can work together as colleagues and friends and on the baseball field working together to get that win. >> jon: congresswoman gabby giffords who became the victim of this kind of crime, she released a statement saying "it doesn't matter if you are a democrat or republican or representative or a staffer or a sworn officer, if use serve in the institution of congress, you are connected to your colleagues by a shared sense of ideas far

greater than yourself. most court if only the shooter had only understood that before he opened fire. how do you get that message out to the broader public? >> and most of these cases, you have somebody who has some sort of a significant mental problem. one thing you can do i think is start talking once again in ways that lower the temperature. you see it on twitter, facebook, people tend to do it almost as if they don't act like there is another person on the other end. of the house in the senate are very human institutions when you get down to it. individuals can and do work together. we have throughout society, not just on the political side, looked to cool things off just a little and act like there is somebody else, another human being on the other end of the

line. you can find ways to work together if you just think of them is another human being, which we do not do sometimes no now. >> jon: of the people, by the people, for the people. thank you. >> heather: fearful for their lives on a baseball field, today's attack in virginia shows that people can be targeted anywhere. if the public figures may be especially vulnerable. our next guest is keeping our nation's leaders safe is similar to tracking terrorism all around the world as we continue to hear from lawmakers who are caught in the middle of the attack and are putting on a very brave face. >> this is a charity baseball game, we probably have played it for almost 100 years. it is for a very good cause. i can only speak for myself, i hope we continue the game.

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>> my first thoughts go to the heroism of the capitol police who were there and responded immediately in a manner that likely saved the lives of a number of people. it's fortunate because steve scalise is a member of leadership, he had a security detail there. otherwise we would just be a bunch of guys out practicing on a normal morning. the fact that we practice there every morning, a group of congresspeople together. >> there were 22 members here today. >> may have been something which somebody was able to anticipate our being there and being vulnerable. >> heather: the vulnerability of our nation's leaders, talking about the shooting of house

majority whip steve scalise at congressional baseball practice this morning. we have heard many times today that if it was not for his security detail, this could have been a massacre. former cochair of the new york antiterrorism task force, thank you so much for joining us. you've been listening to the same reports that we have been hearing throughout the day. because congressman scalise was in a position of leadership, he had to have this extra security detail and they stepped in and saved countless lives. >> think if they weren't there, and if leadership was in at that practice. the congressional staff, everyone on that baseball field this morning was very lucky that there were congressional police there to stop this. >> heather: we are still having the baseball charity game tomorrow, we will obviously see a dramatic difference in security. >> you are going to see a tremendous security, perimeter

is built around field, it will be very difficult for anyone to get in there. many people today are looking at suspects. we want to identify people who are kind of outside the norm, may be writing letters to individuals. if the secret service tells us all the time. we will look into filled the network with the secret service, if someone is writing letters more than normal, they are saying things that anyone can recognize as disturbing. >> heather: how can you possibly do that, there are so many folks on social media, many of whom hide behind anonymity. they say things like that, how do you differentiate and pick out who is going to cross the line and become violent and who is not? >> if we had the answer we would probably be able to stop terrorism, right? it is very similar in a lot of

ways. you have to find out who was crossing the line, who becomes dangerous, how do you identify that person? can you get informants, wiretaps, do you just look at social media? what determines whether you expand surveillance on that individual. these are questions we have to figure out. unfortunately in this country, we are seeing more and more extremists at every level. we've got to figure out how to stop them. it is not good enough to have a guy with a gun next to you. >> heather: you don't want to live your life like that, surrounded by armed guards constantly. thank you so much for joining us on this tough day. >> jon: steve scalise, republican majority whip from louisiana has a long history of serving his state and despite their differences, new orleans mayor and democrat reminds us that we are all part of the american family.

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>> jon: fox news alert, louisiana congressman a majority whip steve scalise in stable condition now after undergoing surgery for a gunshot wound to his hip this morning. he is one of the most powerful men in washington on those who know him best back home are offering their prayers. his political career started in louisiana at 20 years ago, we are live with the hometown response to today's events. >> no doubt the congressman has very deep roots in louisiana. he was born in new orleans and attended college at lsu in baton rouge. he has a home in his district

that encompasses almost all of southern louisiana. he got her start in state politics serving in the louisiana house and senate from 1996-2008. the 51-year-old sits on the energy and commerce committee and also chair to the republican study committee. he became house majority whip in 2014. the republican also has been an ardent supporter of president donald trump. in fact, he spoke at this rally we attended back in december last year, listen. >> we know what our mission is, we can't be more excited about the prospect of donald trump being our next president. >> reaction from fellow louisiana residents has been pouring in. or the government said in a statement that this appears to be an outrageous, cowardly attack on one of our own. steve scalise is a friend, colleague, and fighter for the people of louisiana.

the mayor of new orleans had of this to say a short time ago. >> we go to battle politically, but personally we are very expectable of each other and like each other and that's why an attack on one of us is an attack on all of us and importantly, an attack on the country. >> he has two children and his wife is said to be en route to the east coast to be by her husband. >> heather: we will have continuing coverage on this brutal attack on democracy at a baseball practice for a charity game tomorrow night. that is happening after this break, stay with us.

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designed to wrangle the boat. he has had personal contact with every member of the republican caucus and is very well known. thank you for joining us today. >> this is the live look at the home of the suspect who went on the shooting rampage outside of the capital. one of the victim, the third most powerful republican in the house. federal agents are now at the home of james hodgkinson searching for evidence and emotive on the attack of scalis scalise. another person shot, a staffer and two police officers.