we will -- i want to thank the alexandria police, the sheriff's office and the alexandria fire department for their rapid response to the requests for assistance in 911 call. appreciate their rapid response and certainly saved lives. >> was there one shooter. >> at this point we're going to gather the investigators together and look at what we have and put this incident together, again, it's very early on and there's a lot of witnesses to be interviewed. once we have more information, we'll certainly pass on whatever information we can to make sure that you have the information you need. >> chief, was any of your officers injured. >> i'll turn it back over to the alexandria chief. >> thank you chief. >> can you tell us what the status,/worry not going to answer any questions at this point. as the chief pointed out this is an active on hoy going investigation. we

because they're collecting information and evidence. it would be be premature. we'll come back in an hour and a half and give you an update on what we can speak to and perhaps answer any questions. >> any other shooters out there. >> this is a stable situation at that is point. there's no additional threat. we consider this incident to be a closed incident under investigation. >> thack thank you very much the. >> suspect is in custody? >> that was chief brown talking there of alexandria police department a statement from chief villa rosa. they made statements as you can see her septembering no questions as very early on in this investigation. but a couple things they did confirm. he did just say we consider this a stable situation eighths closed incident and an active investigation. so one would assume obviously there's no more of a threat of anything else happening following what has already happened this morning. he did also confirm that five people were transported from the scene and that obviously coordinates and goes along with what senator jeff flake of

the harrowing account of how it all went down this morning. we know that senator or that congressman scalise was among those that was injured. two capitol hill police officers representative staff from representative roger williams' office he's representative from texas and then also a guy who goes out there and helps senator flake referenced that he work for tyson. that he was the fifth person that was shot in the chest. they are going to give another update they said about an hour and a half from now obviously at about 10:30 this morning. and we'll await those details. >> you know, um, already you can see this thing becoming nasty as far as politics go on social media. and i am encouraged by that picture with the democrats there huddled in all in prayer for their fellow lawmakers and i would hope on this day you see people for what they are, which is fellow

extreme state of tragedy here. this heightened chaos just shots rinking out just moments after 7:00 o'clock in the morning. >> and the fact of the matter is, they were out there practicing for one of the few bipartisan traditions that goes on in our area every year and has for decades now. the congressional baseball game. you heard senator flake talk about it. it's something that's been going on it's a tradition many look forward to. it's a big deal. it was going to be played at nats park tomorrow. 10,000 possible come out. they were hoping to raise some $650,000 for charity for under privileged children right here in the district of columbia. so to see it get politicized now via social media is most certainly diss heart dering but we don't know why this person did this. there's lots of questions that need to be answered concerning the horrific events that went down this morning at a simple baseball practice. >> we can say

congressmen who was out there earlier representative dee santos from florida himself a republican described a strange incident just moments before this -- gunshots rang out. he says i'm quote hearing this is from fox news and these are the words of republican dee santos from florida. said, that he had a very strange encounter with someone shorely before representative scalise was shot and the man basically said that he had asked or it said a guy walk up and asked whether it was republicans or democrats out there. just letting you all the information that's coming in because there was speculation or whether these players were targeted whether the gunman new in fact who they were. >> and senator flake said there were about 25 members all republican there that were out taking practice this morning. fondle practice before the game tomorrow night. bob is still on the scene there. and bob, you know, it's h

follow the harrowing account that senator flake gave us live on tv, but what are you sensing and feeling now? >> reporter: >> as soon as he was done speaking a number of the ball players went that way basically heading east with detectives. he went past us this way so clearly investigators are debriefing the members who were here. i want to pan off and show you something here in the parking lot over there which is in about the location where the senator said the gunman was firing from at the end, you see two officers with guns drawn standing over some clothing in the parking lot there. so we believe that is the clothing that the gunman was wearing and it may look bloody we want to be a little careful there. but, you know, it's hard to describe what i'm seeing from this distance other than just generally speaking that it's clothing. if any any way it would describe how this person woodreeve. but we believe they are standing

evidence which is the clothing that the gunman was wearing i do want to play for you a clip from the inter vow we brought you live here on fox5 with republican senator jeff flake of arizona who was here, who was on the ball field, who saw the shots, saw the gunman, ran for his life, and tells us what happened here this morning at simpson park in the del ray section of alexandria. here he is. >> -- was standing near joe barton watching some of the batting practice and all of a sudden we heard a shot, very loud shot everybody thought sounded like a gun and then boom, rapid succession after that. he had a rival of some type. and it was obviously a large gauge rifle. and, um, there were people in the field. one staff was shot out in the feel. and he ran with a wound to the dug out. a lot of us dove into the

out and tried to get as many as we could. but then at that point, there was firing behind us from the security detail the capitol police, and i started yelling back, are you friendly? are you friendly? making sure that was our guy. we didn't know if there were other shoots that had us surrounded and would come into the dug out. so we didn't know whether to run or not. but as soon as we found out we had friendly behind us, then we stayed and tried to keep down. i poke my head up at one point zahn the shooter behind the back stop behind the fence but he could -- he still had line of shot, a line of fire into the dug out. >> firing through the fence? >> well he was firing around but he still could have fired into the dug out. that's why i kept everybody d down. joe bar barton's boy ten-year-od shagging balls went got him into the dug out and stuffed him under the bench. >> joe barton is who, sir. >> joe barton congressman from texas. he's the manager. >> did this appear to be

>> well it look like only one shooter. so you got to assume he knew what he was doing here. >> senator -- >> whether he was targeting certain members we don't know. >> reporter: again, as we look at the picture live here of these officers standing over some clothing. our image is being blocked by other investigators and officers here. but that's where we believe the gunman eventually went down in the parking lot there right behind the dug out and if we pan to the right when you were hearing senator jeff flake talk about where people were, where congressman majority whip scalise was standing which was out on the ball field if you pan all the way to the right here you'll see behind the car here the dirt infield here. and i don't know if it's going to be tough, from this angle but there does appear to stuff out in the field. if you go to the right just underneath the

there's equipment and clo clothg out on the ball field where some of these members, staffers were when the shots rang out, and just basically some as you her the senator say dropped in place. including the congressman scalise from louisiana who was out there by second base. just, you know, fell to the ground others were able to scurry into this dug out but being fired out across the way. eventually the gunman running hyped home plate behind the back stop into the parking lot where he was eventually dropped by one of two capitol police officers. a male and female officer one of whom was wounded but were able to return fire in hail of bullets as you heard the senator mention i mean he was seeing, you know, dirt, you know, pop up in front of him from where the bullets were hitting not far from him in a direct line of sight basicly from this gunman. and so that's the ball field. we're out here. this is monroe avenue. thedd

which is closed now as police still just two hours after this whole thing started at the early stages of their evidence gathering and information gathering as they speak to witnesses stand guard over the gunman's clothes. worry not sure if the rifle that the witnesses including senator flake report seeing if that arrival is there as well. you see the guns drawn by at least one of the two officers standing guard over that pile of clothing. i have not been able to see the rifle perhaps that's already been taken away as evidence and i'm kind of looking in a wider area of that parking lot and i just -- there's other stuff there. oy just don't see anything from this distance that looks like the weapon it may be there. but an active scene in terms of the post shooting investigation but quite a morning here, guys, in the del ray section of alexandria. >> unbelievable. unbelievable just how it all went down, and what was actll

just going on taking place on a ball field that is in the middle of a neighborhood. >> lock ins have been lived in alexandria schools. we had told you just out of abundance of caution kids kept in the classroom the lessons were not disturbed but there was a flock we're told that has now been lived. if you've been with us for a hill while now you saw our bob barnard getting some information from fox's -- fox news reporter or producer i should say chad pergram. he's letting folks know via twitter congressman scalise is under going surgery for a hip wound, and that basically another female we heard that u.s. capitol police officer was also shot and also add med star in the district. but five in total transported to medically

we were heartened to hear that the injuries sustained by the five don't appear to be life-threatening, again, though, congressman scalise who is the whip there in congress has been taken into surgery under going surgery right now for a hip wound, of course, we wish him the best out of this. >> it is amazing that when we hear the counts over and over again including senator jeff flake when he said 50 shots was an understatement the number of shots rang out we're only talking about five people being hit. but there was an all out battle exchange between those two capitol hill police officers that were acting as security detail and the lone gunman from the account we can recall that the gunman was the third place -- third base dug out and the security detail was shooting from behind the first base dug out while the congressmen were huddled inside the dug out. you can imagine

flake saying that joe barton a representative from texas had his ten year-year-old son there who was shagging balls helping out with the practice and they actually put him under a bench to prevent him from being injured at all. but, um, we know of the capitol hill police officers one was a woman senator flake referred to as crystal and then the other was the one i think if i'm recalling correctly he said was the one that took out the shooter. >> right. >> he was injured but -- >> who was injured. >> though injured took out the shooter. >> exactly. exactly. also, to mention i think you mentioned, holly, a gentleman who works for tysons food -- tyson foods who helps are you practice shot in the chest. they're just trying to help out congress people ultimately lo looking to unite at this huge tradition, this baseball game to help kids who need a little h help. so of course this gunshots ruining that for right now. but i'm sure the mission will go on. >> i'm sure.

the 25th district of texas it was his aid that representative flake referred to as zac. his aid was the one, um, that was shot and transported and congressman roger williams we saw he was on the one on the stretcher when we first went out there to bob we were seeing him transported. >> he was giving the thumbs up. >> he was actually as chad reported was one of the founders of the congressional baseball caucus. so very ept gallon all that was going on that this morning. >> holly right not we want to go to bob ba barnard. he's with former mayor bill you'll from alexandria. bob, good morning. >> reporter: guys, good morning. bill you'll here at the scene with us this morning. first of all you were in the area. what do you make of what you're seeing and hearing this morning. >> very sad tragic. these types of things don't happen here in the city of alexandria, and i'm a member of the ymca and i was leaving my home to head here for my morning -- daily w

do every morning. around 7:30 and i started getting text messages from friends wanting to know if i was okay. why? what's wrong they said there's shooting incident over by the y. i call the y on my way as i was in the car and they said we're in lock in. and no one can get in, no one can get out and so i said okay i'm heading to get as close as i can. arrived here and i've been on the scene for almost an hour, and i'm very cognizant of the fact this congressional republican team practiced ornithes field quite often about maybe once or twice a month. have been doing it for several years, and don't know the facts but it seems like apparently they were targeted for some reason. >> reporter: you mentioned some shots hit the y over there. >> yes. the y -- but between us and the ballpark the ymca is right there. >> i was told by the manager on duty in the y because i had a direct phone conversation with him and he said that we're okay. except for a couple of bullets that come through one or two window pains and but no one was injured on the inside. >> reporter: i know the school are no longer

you believe there's people still -- not trapped but stuck inside the y. >> it's my understanding they're still in one because the whole area is roped off as a crime seen until the police can, you know, feel comfortable enough to let folks leave and start moving their cars around and i'm sure some of the cars the patrons at the y were hit as well with bullets and so, you know, that all still needs to be investigate. >> bill yule long time mayor of alexandria as we leave your thoughts on what's happened here in these last couple of hours. >> i think like i said it's very sad, tragic, and prayers go out those that were injured and wounded and hope that, um, it's not life threatening but certainly for alexandria this is a dull moment. >> bill yule thank you very much. thanks for being with us. long time mayor of the city of alexandria and again, guys, as you look at the very large crime seen because bullets were going east and west and you have seen there in

believe the gunman was eventually felled by a bullet from one of the two capitol police officers who were here basically protecting the majority whip scalise from louisiana. the clothing is there. there's other evidence to the left as you're looking at your tv screens towards that blue shack there. there's other evidence i've gone as close up the street as i can to get better look at it i don't see the weapon that was used which has been described to us as rival. we see what appears to be the clothing being worn by the gunman still in the parking lot here. i've not seen the weapon it business that a bag and other things and again a lot of officers whoever. the ball players who were here up until maybe a half hour ago who were waiting to be spoken to by investigators are now gone. so really the people inside the perimeter here now at least here closest to the ballpark appear only to be police investigators and some paramedics a

guys. >> interesting that you brought up the weapon, bob, fox news is reporting they spoke with representative brad winston representative from ohio in that his account was that the gunman was firing a rifle and then a pistol before he was taken down by that capitol hill police officer acts as security detail. so details stelle emerging about all of this went down this morning. terrifying for everyone that was i will say, you know, we didn't comment on this earlier, all allison, it struck me so much you think about the day and age that we live in. when senator flake said he grabbed, um, the congressman scalise phone and called his wife so that his wife wouldn't have to turn on the tv this morning and hear that her husband has been shot. >> right. and holly to me that speaks to the fact that at the end of the day, regardless of your politics, you know, you are going home to if not just yourself going home to familiar, you're going home to

when this story -- when this story hits and then even you and i, we report on it, you say it's a congressman who has been hit. this congressman is a real person and i am really glad that it doesn't look like anyone will succumb to their injuries today. and i'm just selflessly hoping this serves as a reminder that you know we're more the same than we are different. >> congressman scalise again we do know is in surgery as we speak for his gunshot wound. right now let's go to anjali hemphill near the baseball field as well and has talk to several people. anjali, what are you hearing? >> reporter: yeah, guys, we've been running around this del ray neighborhood speaking to several neighbors and people who not only witnessed this horrific and frightening incident this morning but they also ducked and took cover. some of them ran to their nearby homes. not knowing where the bullets were coming from. where the shooter was. quite a terrifying experience that they have described t

this morning. you can see behind me here the street is block off. still plenty of police presence but many people were actual until nearby dog park when this shooting started. they heard the gunshots ring out. they say they immediately knew it was gunshots. they themselves hid behind cars. and i'll let them take it over from here and tell you more of what they witnessed. >> we was in my car. we was just leaving the gym and we heard a loud bang, and so it was a brief silence and then she look at me i look at her multiple gunshots and i hid behind my car. i just hid behind my car and i just realized and i piqued from behind my car and i could see the guy at the dug out pacing hollering get out of here, get out of here! he just holler. fearing multiple gunshots. at some point there was a little silence. she was back there with me she called my name and took off running towards her car. towards her home. i ran behind. there was a ymca bus i ran behind the ymca bus and hid

enough to see the guy was just behind the dug out pacing just shooting. just randomly shooting. unloading the rifle shooting and just letting it go. i mean, i ran down abreu silence i ran down the street and hid behind the second house. i hit on the side of the house and laid on the ground behind the bricks. they a brick house and i didn't come out until i knew the police was here. >> reporter: that witness with very good vantage point of of the shoot he tells me he did see the shooter. i don't believe any information about the shooter has been released but it was a man possibly late 40s, 50s wearing a blue shirt. and he did describe him yelling the words, get out of here!, get out of here! as he was firing shots off towards the baseball field. several other witnesses report hearing dozens of gunshots, 50 to 100 say think it all went on for minutes one witness described ten minutes as she made it all the way to her house a couple blocks away before she heard the gunshots finally stop.

hearing police return fire at that gunman as well. that's the latest with some witnesses out here. plenty more coming up later in this newscast. back to you guys. >> anjali thank you for working that for us. we appreciate it. we do know tom fitzgerald also has called in to us and said that the security profile of the capitol has not been raised not officially been raised. however, capitol hill police are encouraged to be more visible and that could be more over displaying of their weapons. just to be more out there so that there feels there's a higher security presence but the actual security level has not been raised. >> we want to check in with our wisdom martin. if you've noticed the shots, it just seems like this whole area is very tuck in little community here. we heard from the former mayor yule said he was working out at the y when he got word of it. that's not too far away. we saw a church near that bal

and so businesses are also there and clearly they have been impacted you see the road shut down and just the proximity to this madness and our wisdom martin actually spoke with some of those business owners for their reaction to this shooting much wis? >> joe so i did talk to and it's interesting former mayor bill yule was on his way to the y. i talk to people at the ymca, they went into lock down mode and the good news that everybody is safe. no injuries. bullets did hit the building. now, swing coffee which is 500 east monroe directly across the street from eugene simpson stadium park, they're direct ale cross the street, i talked to a worker who was in the store. he says at 7:15 they opened. workers, staff and customers were inside. they started hearing those gunshots. they actually saw the gun battle taking place on the baseball field. sitter didn't last long. a couple of minutes.

door. went into their particular lock down mode. look out the window at some point, saw cars on the streets with shattered glass. and saw a couple of people scattering here and there. the street is, was shut down. once the police arrived there on the scene. talking about monroe street east monroe street was shut down. and they have been told that by the police that their business is going to be closed. everything on monroe street will be closed probably they can expect for it to be closed for six to eight hours because this is obviously a crime seen and they're going to be inves investigating it for while. he was swings coffee which is directly across the street from the park. also talked to discover will he time learning center which is behind swings coffee. they say that they are safe as well. they did go into a bit of lock down mode but they are safe and that's the only remarks that they had to make couple other businesses in the area didn't really want to talk about but they did say they were okay. also the people at swings said they witnessed some of the bullets that actually either went into the glass or into

building over at the the ymca. this is a busy -- it's early in the morning but still a busy time of the day you have people stirring, people going to work out. people coming to work in the area. so they're over here practicing this could have been even worse than it already is. >> it's amazing. struck me as you were talking there, wis, was the fact you were like for the people in the coffee shop who were not in it,, we hear the people that were in it felt like, you know, it seemed like forever. but just imagine all of that going down. just in the regular course of a wednesday morning. >> right. right. early in the morning when your day is just getting started again this is something, this baseball game has gone on for 57 years. they've been practicing at this locate democrats and republicans have been practicing here, you know, getting ready for this game that will take place tomorrow and then all of a sudden you have this happen. this game not sure the status of the game now, but it's supposed to take place tomorrow at 7:00 p.m. at nats stadium. >> yeah. >> yeah

>> senator naked said like 10,000 people come out to the game. >> it's a big deal. >> it's for charity. it's a how much deal. as you mentioned earlier this is one of the things both sides can agree on to do this together for charity. so... >> thanks, wis. speaking of bipartisan support for causes that help us all in this case the baseball game the proceeds go to help under served kids. just scrolling through twitter and congresswoman gabrielle giffords who herself was victim of a horrific shooting that left her with a brain injury she stepped down from her position coming out and just saying that her thoughts and prayers are with her former colleagues and seeing other congress people on both sides of the aisle doing the same thing. our maureen umeh has been chechecking out social media imt with regard to what other politicians are saying how they're weighing in on this which looks like a

charged shooting. >> it is a politically charged shoot wagon we're seeing from the congressional members weighing in absolutely calm. everyone calling for unity and togetherness at this time. let's read i was couple of tweets. first one coming from president trump who talked about representative steve scalise from louisiana he says true friend and patriot was badly injured but will fully recover our thoughts and prayers are with him. that is the tweet coming from president trump early this morning. this morning, the hearts of the whole house are with senator scalise the brave capitol police staff and all those who were in harm's way that is from paul ryan this morning. and then gabrielle giffords iting two this high heart is with my former colleague they're families and is it and us cal toll police heroes today and every day. this one is from senator mark rubio praying for steve scalise capital police aids and any other who's may have been hurt this morning. as you see just a lot of tweets coming in from all members of congress. both sides of the aisle. also, some of the members who were

about their experience. i know senator rand paul tweeting he thought without the capitol police officers this would have been a blood bath he says. he says that they have could have been all of them sitting ducks there. that sent many echoed from other senators and congressional congressmen and women who were out there on that baseball field commending the capitol police assigned to the dignitary detail what it's call. they're assigned to that detail for congressman scalise. but turned out to be invaluable in this case one of those capitol police officers hit in the leg but managed to still return fire and actually one the one who hit the gunman through his pain through his injury avert wagon certainly would have been tragedy. want to take you back outside to our colleague bob barnard has been magnificently working the scene and getting us information. bob, you were able to talk to who exactly a what's the new information you're able to share now? >> reporter: well, what i'd like to let you know you see right there are several members

one of them the man in the middle with the white t-shirt has bandage on his right leg there. they've been released from the police who were questioning them it appears they're waiting to get their cars out of the parking lot here. the parking lot is obviously surrounded in crime scene tape. so they can't get their cars right yet. i asked if any of them would come over but they haven't. and some of them were seeking shade in tree over there. the senate sergeant at arms is here and chad per gram the fox news capitol hill producer is speaking to him now to see if he'd come over and talk to us. you can't see him. he's just around the corner h here. but he was here speaking with senator flake who has walked away as you see some of the emt's and what have you leaving here. so that's the latest here and it was just a fleeting shot at the end there but senator flake had spoken to some of those ball players and they've now just walked down to the other end of the parking lot again it looks like waiting to get their cars out.

sergeant at arms is not able to talk to us right now. he's here in ooh suit and tie he's here in his official capacity not here to may ball or to practice. that's the. so it appears at least so far guys a handful of the baseball players members of the congress and staff and family members who have been talking to police are free to go at this point and if we can, we'll try to get another one or two of them over here to speak with us to share with you their accounts of what happened here this morning. >> i'm sure, bob they're trying to process it themselves. what they just went through this morning. >> right. >> in the meantime, representative roger williams of texas has put out a tweet. he was there this morning. and in his tweet the actual tweet says, please keep the member of my staff and members of the congressional baseball team in your thoughts and prayers within that tweet here is the official release that has come from his office. office. 7:00am this morning armed gunman arrived at baseball p

opened fire. congressman williams was not shot. however, a member of his staff was shot and is receiving medical attention. gunman has been dee taped and at this time we do not have any further information but will continue to release it as us comes to the surface. republican baseball team holds practice every morning at 6:30 at jew even simpson state park. williams has been the coach of the steam since he joined congress in 2013. so confirming what we first reported here on fox that one of the aids of congressman roger williams was indeed one of the victims this morning of the five people that were shot during baseball practice. and in fact, we remember senator flake was talking about this young man that he referred to as zac that he was shot and that he ran off the field as he was shot was able to get to the first base dug out where all the congressmen were and they were able to adminis

aid to him until the real medics could get there. >> right. and holly arc lot of people are coming in and i think also maureen alluded to it as well a lot of congressional the lawmakers there everyone from the lawmakers to other police foforces to watch dog groups tht report on what goes on in congress praising up s capitol police for their bravery and we did hear from the senator saying that even though he himself was hit one of the two officers that were -- that were shot u.s. capitol police out there providing security still managed to take down that gunman and i can't even imagine the story we would be roaring had they not been there and their quick action. >> i think that's what some of the members of congress are saying to as well. we've seen self tweets. about 25 members of congress that were there taking baseball practice on the republican side. we've seen self tweets now that they don't know what would have

was not there and then when senator fleck was recounting the incident on live television, he even said we were just sitting ducks there and he didn't even realize because this exchange of gunfire was happening over them. >> crack of a bat. >> there was the security detail behind the first place dug out -- first base dug out and the gunman was taking cover hyped the third base dug out, and there was this exchange of gunfire that at one point senator flake even said, hey, are you friendly? behind us because -- >> he just didn't know what exactly was going on. but the good news is, they were indeed the friendlies behind them. it was the two capitol hill police officers, a woman an man hook immediately engaged when they saw that the people they were protecting were under fire. >> you have to imagine i mean even if you and i are out we're doing something having a good time. we're involved in leisurely sporting activity

all of a sudden the situation goes from zero to 100 your guard is down but thankfully the u.s. capitol police, they stand there at the ready and that put their lives on the line. we want to let you know we've been telling you about lawmakers tweeting, and past congress people tweeting and the president. we've now heard also from the first lady melania trump she has tweeted out her reaction and response from watching this horrific event unfold. and she too says thank you to the first responders who rushed in to help protect those who were hurt in alexandria, virginia, my thoughts and prayers to everyone there! >> you just can't imagine as the wife of the most high profiled politician arguably in the united states and in the world, you can imagine that her hair goes out to others who have been put in harm's way just by existing and serving the country in a political

it's very disheartening they would become targets. >> there's a live picture from where our bob barnard and his photog are and as you can see, the driver side window there shattered. shot out by one of the bullets that was fired. we've heard reports up to 50 to 60 shots fired in the course of the battle that took place at this ball field. bob, are you there? what can you tell us? >> reporter: we're standing right across from this car here. yeah, a mack suv with virginia plates. you can see police are pro protecting it, and it is the driver's side front window that's been shattered here. glass on the street. we'll just pan left just to show where you we are. we're slightly up from the ball field, and if you look down monroe avenue here, several blocks are closed off. you see lots of law enforcement only officers investigators emt's paramedics allowed on the street itself for several blocks here in front of the ymca and this simpson park. and we're not on a tripod it might the

over there where we were showing you where -- i was poon stories the gunman's clothes are in the parking lot, you zoo he bunch of other materials. there's some cones there. and other evidence markers that may indicate the rifle and the gun that could still be on the scene that we just can't see from this great distance. but clearly the clothing of the gunman and i'm getting a thumbs up from indira levine guys maybe you can see more and perhaps the rifle and the gun that were used in this attack this morning and again we're not sure who's car this is here but there's another gentleman who was at the baseball practice and frankly we came up the street because senator flake was walking by and i wanted to make sure he didn't have any new information that he could share with us to share with you. he said he did not. and there's a gentleman here doing what appears to be maybe a phone interview and some people are around him and if you bar with me one second i'm going to see if there's any way to get in on this, um -- i don't know if -- he may be just talking to family or something. he's on the phone

is standing by hoping that he'll talk. you can't even see him from our camera angle. i don't want to frankly step around and get inside the police tape and perhaps get us in trouble. let's just show you again one of the visual results of the gunfire here today. angle of this shattered front driver's side door window is a it way from the field but i do see what appears to be probably the bullet entry park on the windshield itself. so it appears to me that that bullet hit the windshield from the area of the ball field, and then shattered the driver's side door window as it exited the vehicle. you see the officer standing guard here at this point. again, just right up from the ball field and i don't know from this vantage point which is new view from us out on the field we can see any of the clothing, the bats or baseball mitts or anything that were just basically abandoned on the field as the shots rang out thi

so this is the field where this closed and you can see someet i- stuff out there. the street is closed. as police do their work to not only gather evidence but speak to people and, guys, as soon as whoever this gentleman is and i haven't an able to hear him identify himself he's seeing on the phone again. he hasn't been doing much talking i don't know if he's listening to someone he was clearly here and he's surrounded by other journalists and as soon as we get a chance we'll hopefully have him speak with us to share with you his account of what happened here. >> bob, we believe that it might be representative mo brooks who's been very key in giving out early information regarding what he knew. >> report roar okay, yeah. >> someone just asked. mentioned that. >> we would love to hear from him. >> reporter: yeah. when you can. >> they're telling me to get back on the other sigh of the tape. give us a few. >> sure. >> reporter: he's listening to his phone maybe he's getting a briefing or something. i'm soup

scrum here we can get to. and nobody is actually talking to him because he's on the phone and he may be getting a briefing himself because he's just listening to phone and everybody is waiting to speak to him and as soon as he can say something this is his back here. this gray haired gentleman with the dark blue t-shirt as soon as he's done i'm assuming getting his update from his people we'll hav him turn around and ideally with everyone else have him give us an update much okay guys. >> sounds good, bob. thank you. let us know when it happens. we'll come to you. we are receiving word that two of the vick tips were tran transported to gw hospital. we have a crew on the way to that scene to the hospital th there. so we can hopefully get word. we have no idea who the victims are, which of the five. we do know the two transported listed in critical condition. we have two people that went to gw hospital listed in critical condition earlier we know that one of the capitol hill police the baseball field

star and that gives us three. we know there are five victims. we don't know where the other two are at this point. the person with tysonsed to who was reported shot in the chest he's speculated that perhaps he was the most seriously injured again that speculation when you hear that it was rival and a chest wound would not be surprised to learn he's one of those critically injured but what we do know as holly just said two at george washington hospital in critical condition. >> republican congressman from louisiana. he was shot that is representative steve scalise. he was shot in the leg.

ago in surgery trying to repair the damage done by lone gunman who walk up to the baseball field where they were practicing for tomorrow's bipa bipartisan baseball game which benefits charity and just opened fire. there were reports that he had two firearms. one a rifle. the other a pistol of some sort. and they're just started shooting those who were out there practicing, and thankfully they were there, though, with security and the security perhaps here the difference maker for sure as the us capitol police were able to return fire and to take that suspect down. as crazy as it sounds it was literally a gun battle at a baseball field the players the congressmen go there every morning around 6:30 to practice leading up to this long standing d.c. tradition of the congressional baseball game set

field or tomorrow i'm not sure what the actual game time was but 10,000 people in attendance they were going to raise $650,000 for under privileged kids here in the d.c. area. this was their last practice before the big game and someone actually noticed someone walking up and then leveling a rifle and just started shooting. we know that senator steve scalise was second base. he was shot in the hip. he dragged himself for little bit and then just laid motion less very scary and representative or senator flake was saying that they wanted to get out to him but there were so many shots being fired that they really were hold up in the first base dug out and were waiting for that to come to an end before they could go administer aid to their friend. we do know that -- let's see. we're getting here -- >> this is list of those

scalise one united states capitol hill female police officer shot in the foot, we're hearing that. one united states capitol hill police officer hit with fragments. so reported until would be the one the man that actually took out the gunman. one staff we know that as we reported first here on fox from congressman roger williams' office out of texas, and then the gunman himself. so, um, now not listed here is the guy from tysons. any way we'll try to get more information on that. and verify as much as we can. let's go back out to bob now and see if he's caught up with someone. bob? >> reporter: yeah, guys, this gentleman caught our attention if you don't mind we saw the dirt obviously and the pants. can you tell us your name and what happened, where you were this morning. >> i'm marty lavoy a photographer who has been photographing this game for their

>> senator flake mentioned you earlier. >> and what was your question? >> the senator said you were the first to see this guy. >> i did. i'm not a weapons man so i -- all i know it was long and black. it looked like a rival to me. but he was standing behind the third base gate so he was outside the gate, and he was a white male and all i know he picked up the weapon and i was struck by how calm he was but it was totally out of context so i didn't pay any attention to it. in fact i thought why would anybody be shooting at birds when a baseball practice is on? so it was that simple. and then i'm alive -- good ah ahead. >> please. >> i'm alive because of either members or staff who said get into the dug

because i was still standing out there not realizing what happened and it was before he shot and -- did you take a picture of him was he in your lense? >> i wouldn't have taken a picture. because it was so out of context that there was no reason to. in fact if you had your camera there you wouldn't have taken a then somebody said, dive into the dug out. and -- i see. can you turn around. we noticed you're covered p dirt, sir. >> i landed on a congressman, i don't know who it was, but i would have really been hurt. once we were inside the dug out, and the shooting stopped, i just assumed it was over and then i started to get up and somebody in the dug out said, get down and get close to the wall. then we heard another round coming from

we heard it. we her the capitol police who were an scalise's detail, and they were the ones who saved us. and i can't say enough about the capitol police and what they d did. but it was simply a surreal experience. the main thing is, it was so out of context for everybody. this is a game for charity. members play it. they've been playing it for almost 100 years. and to have this happen, it's unconscionable. >> marty your last name again. >> la very. >> are you a congressional staff photography. >> no i'm a free lance. i work on the hill. >> senator flake when he was talking to us live earlier mentioned marty the photographer who was the first to see this guy. >> yeah. >> and are you okay? phys physically? >> yeah i guess so. >> you're covered in dirt but you're alive. >> i just wish they let me get my camera i'm

over the place because i have people on the ground and when i walked out, i put my camera in my car. i lifted up the trunk and put it down, and now i find out there's a hole in my car because the capitol police were behind it and so that's a crime scene. i cannot get to my car and i have no idea what i have but i have people on the ground. >> marty, thank you for sharing your story. >> thank you. >> i'm glad you're all right. thank you. >> from your lips to god's ears. >> photographer again referenced by senator flake earlier the first one who realized there was gunman there and you just heard him live describing that. you see here guys this suv with shattered windows. we'll see if we can join this interview of congressman brooks who just got off the phone and is speaking to reporters and we'll see if... why don you listen him and get him to look toward us this morning. >> another person put the belt as tourniquet on his leg

and then we were breathing dug out dust face first down then we started hearing gunshots about . and that's where i see one of our capitol police officers shooting from around the corner of the dug out the first base dug out towards the third base dug out where the man with the rifle is. and i don't know how long that was. it seem like forever. but i'm pretty sure it was not more than 60 to 120 seconds. capitol security reactioned firly quickly. there was some time to figure out what was going on. i'm sure there would have been some more time to figure out where the shooter was and from where the capitol police are stationed they would have had two dug outs the first and third base dug outs between themselves and the shooter. >> pardon me, tio. we need to most media seen much this is going to be become a secured area. >> we need to move the media scene. >> congressman brooks -- >> sure. we'll relocate. >> i heard steve

something and i heard people yelling active shooter. we ran in the dug out there were people who had cell phones screaming into the cell phones for back up. >> capitol police officer that got the suspect that shot the suspect? >> i don't think that local police had yet arrived. it was long time before we heard a siren. >> at what point -- >> i think the shoot probably was targeting all of us. steve scalise was the second base and was in close proximity to where he could be shot. >> at one point did you see representative scalise go down. did he go down -- >> within the first two or three shots. he was probably the first person shot but i can't say that for sure. >> congressman, can you talk about the... >> can you talk bout importance of this by part sap nature of these games? >> it's been going on for seven or eight decades. it's for charity. we were raising $600,000 this year for charity. >> congressman, can you spin around fox5 just joining you here.

i think we got away far enough for minute. can you take us through what your experience this morning? >> um, normally during batting practice -- >> can you move down. i'm sorry to interrupt we need to make this secure scene. >> we'll move down a block, guys. >> thank you very much. >> news conference 10:30 at the -- >> we'll walk with this congressman and. stay with us. we have a few feet to go to get where we can actually, disturb i have heard things to that effect from other reporter that is jeff duncan had a conversation with the gentleman, jeff duncan from south carolina, but i don't have any personal knowledge of that. i just heard another reporter say that there was a conversation. but the neighborhood knows that this is where the republican congressman and senators practice for the congressional baseball game. we've been doing it ever since i've been in the united states congress. >> they would have known you were here? >> the neighborhood would, yes. the neighbors have always be wonderful walking their

walk and we chat with them. we have pleasant time. i don't know where this gentleman came from. i shouldn't call him a gentleman. where the shooter came from. >> everybody step back. >> we're still walking. >> telling us to go a few more paces guys we'll continue here. congressman brooks, sorry, meghan. >> tell us about that conversation that the shooter possibly had. >> you really need to speak to jeff duncan. anything i know about what jeff duncan said is coming through a reporter, i don't know if the reporter is getting it straight from congressman duncan or not. >> can you give -- stick with >> can you give us your story again for fox5 news just showing up here. >> all right. thank you, sir. >> i leave the place where i stay in washington, d.c. about 5:30 in the morning. i bike over here. across the potomac. down past reagan national to the baseball practice. about eight or 9-mile bike ride. 45 minutes we warm up. practice starts about 6:30. we field ground

and others. then after that, we have batting practice. >> sure. >> please keep moving. >> system what you were doing? >> 6:30 practice started. >> practice starts at 6:30. >> you guys were out here. you were getting ready to do batting practice, is that right? >> we had finished -- keep telling us the story. >> we had finish the feeding practice and starting the batting practice part many of our staffers get into the fielding positions to shag the balls that are hit. normally i'm a fielder, in the much of a hitter. and normally i stay in left field. >> yes. >> but this time for some reason i left left field early which was very fortunate because i'd been one of the closest guys for the shooter to have shot at. but i went to the batting cage at home plate. picked up some bats, moved over to the -- they're -- >> moved over tohe

side of home plate in the backing cage and was swinging bats when i heard this loud bam and i turned around towards the third base side. i thought it was back back firing or something. >> give us two minutes. two minutes and we're letting him go and we're good if you don't mind. >> please move. >> i saw that there was a rival either sticking through the chain link fence or right up next to the chain link fence. as the shooter was shooting away it took two or three or or five shots for me to recognize the danger and precarious position i was in because i was real close to him. >> sure. >> 80, 99 feeder feet away. if he shifted has view 20, their degrees to the right, then he'd have clear shot at us at home plate and i was the closest to him in that regard. at the same time that the first shots going on i heard a scream from steve scalise. i don't remember what exactly was said because there was a lot of bedlam. there were people yelling active shooter.

active shooter. there were i think steve scalise was yelling i was hit. or screaming because he got hit with the pain reaction. um, from there, once i realized that i was in very bad position -- >> behind the crime scene tape. >> keep on moving. >> all the time you want. >> i ran around the batting cage which is a chain link area with a cover. might not be chain link might be some kind of webbing, plastic webbing. it's got a 4-foot high blue plastic around it. at least the shooter can't shoot you any more or see you. >> sure. >> i ran behind that to the first base side, and then lied down, hit the dirt along with some other congressmen or senators, i don't know who all was neck to me but there were three or four others. it occurred to me that if the shooter came around the third base dug out then he would have us tennessee

on the ground an easy shot, and so while he was still shooting, i made the decision probably smarter thing to do to take chance of getting shot while rnning. ran to the first base dug out, dove in as did the other people who were with me. then hit the deck in the dug out. in the dug out there are a dozen or so people. some were on their cell phones screaming that we have an active shooter. and that we need assistance. i see one of our staff members has a bullet hole in his leg in his calf. i take off my belt and myself and another gentleman i don't remember who it was applies the belt as a tourniquet to his leg to staunch, n fairness that staff he was gutsy he was saying it wasn't bad at all but i mean there was a hole in his leg. so we put on the tourniquet despite his remark

laid down on the dug out floor again. shortly thereafter, just loud explosions. i look up and there's a guy with a gun about 5 feet above me shooting. at first you don't know if that's the second shooter but it turn out to be one of our guys shooting back risking themselves giving us protection. when i say risking themselves when you're shooting 90 to 100 feet away one guy has got rifle and you've got a pistol that's not a fair fight. so at this point in time both of our capitol police the security detail that was there with us is engaging the shooter and i think trying to pin him down behind the third base dug out. at some point or another, he goes around the third base dug out towards home plate where he's taken down and if we had stayed behind that batting cage we would have ten or 15 feet from him prone on the ground easy

so but for the grace of god and the aim of those shooters execution me our capitol police officers shooting back i'd with steve scalise in the hospital some place along with our other people. gotten to our dug out, there were another dozen or of us senator instead of flake was there -- jeff flake was there. i can't keep track of who all was there it was kind of bedlam. it could have been really bad. our two capitol police both were wounded, again, arrival against a pistol, and they risked themselves and sacrificed themselves in the line of duty protecting us. >> do you fuel like they were targeting you? do you have a sense they came here because you guys were playing? >> well it was one person. >> right. >> republican baseball practice. united states congressmen. i cannot imagine him going there for any other reason than to try to kill as congressman as he can. >> copping man have you worried about the atmosphere of violence you've seen kathy griffin with be

trump and snoop dog shoot the president. does that is concern you thisces >> we in the united states congress have always been high profile targets. the president of course is the highest profile target of the terrorists and the bad guys but you saw what happened with 9/11. a lot of people in the washington dc area who helped the united states government function we understand we're high profile targets. kathy giffords drove that home when she was shot and some other people were killed in arizona. we've had other kinds of threats that occur on a regular basis. i've had my name on the internet with a bounty if you shoot me somebody other congressmen, um, and so we understand the risks. it goes with the job you do what you can to try, not only to protect yourself but those who are with you. typically speaking, congressman and senators cannot protect themselves that much because normally if there's a shooter you're the first target. but what you need to kno

make sure that you have law enforcement available so that after the gunman has shot you or the senator depend ong who is presiding over the event that the law enforcement officials that were there can prevent others have having their lives lost as with the case with kathy giffords -- >> gabbie. >> my bad. i'm sorry. i'm still a little bit -- absolutely. >> emotional. with gabbie giffords having been shot in arizona where the second, third and fourth and fifth shots a lot of them if we had better law enforcement protection then the casualties probably would have been less. >> when you say high profile did you see the guy -- did he say anything, did the man say anything. >> i never heard him say anything. did he not say anything before he was shot, become he started shooting. i never heard him say anything after the shooting started what i heard primarily were gunshots. rival shots and gunshots and a lot of hollering. >> there were kids out there. there was a child. >> most people at

recognize that you guys don't have full-time security detail. >> once we're off campus unless we're in group we have no security detail unless we a range it. so when we have gatherings in our doctors tricks it's always a wise thing to have at least one law enforcement officer there and you've got the random shooter and this may or may not have been a random shooter, i don't know, but ever present is the terrorist risk. that are bad people around the world who would love to take the president's life, take us senators life, take a supreme court justice's life, take one of our military commanders in the pentagon's lives taking united states congressman's life. the capitol police brief us on thee things. they advise us on what we need to do to increase our security presence. but all of us congressman and senators we recognize that the security presence is primarily there to protect the other who's were there with us. that we are the primary target and security detail does not have enough time to

first shot or two. but they can react and stop other lives from being lost. >> do you know capitol police officers were there. you is a it when you saw the gun above you were you aware who it was? >> normally when you have a group of congressmen together in one place, it's in washington, d.c. area, there is capitol security with us f we're solo then not. having congressman steve scalise there where he's third in the chain of command in the house of representatives, that was a blessing. i don't know if we would have gotten that police protection or capitol police protection without him, but we sure got it with him. >> what do you want to see happen? congressman mo brooks speaking to us here who's on the ball field today. >> i think in this kind of environment it is wise to have adequate security to minimize the risk of loss of life. you can always stop it. all of us in congress and the senate we take on that risk when we run for public office and

you ran, you know when you get in the security protection that is there and you understand how high profile the target you are. the general public doesn't understand that bought law enforcement does and i'm just my heart is out to the two capitol police who were shot defending us. >> congressman -- >> i'm so thankful that they risked their lives to save ours. >> congressman, does this change your views on the gun situation in america? >> not with respect to the second amendment. the second amendment right to bear arms is to help ensure that we always have a republic. and as with any constitutional provision in the bill of rights, there are adverse aspects to each of those rights that we enjoy as people. and what we just saw here is one of the bad side effects of someone not exercising those rights properly. but we're not going to get rid of freedom of speech because some people say some really ugly things and hurt other people's feelings. we're not going

fourth amendment search and seizure rights because it allowed some criminals to go free who should be behind bars. these rights are there to protect americans and while each of them has a negative aspect to them, they're fundamental to our being the greatest nation in world history so, no i'm not changing my position on any of the rights that we enjoy as americans, as with respect to this particular shooter, i'd really like to know more about him whether he was an ex-felon by way of example who should not have have had potion of a firearm. i'd like to know other things about his background before i pass judgment -- >> congressman brooks -- >> congressman brooks it's only been three hours. >> it's been three hours. >> wow! >> what's your mental state. >> your first impression of this whole this ming. >> well, it's the feeling of helplessness. when you've got a baseball

and a guy has got a rifle. and you see your friends steve scalise in particular lying on the ground dragging himself from the infield dirt to the outfield grass where there's nothing we can do to help him. that's a long lasting eming from i'll always have. and the length of time it took for our capitol police to respond it probably seemed a lot longer than it was. that's the way these things typically go where the clock slows down. but the second impression would be the bravery they displayed taking on guy with arrival while they have pistols shooting from long distance and if they had not been successful then the tragedy here would undoubtedly have been much greater because those of in the first base dug out we'd have had no chance. >> thank you very much. >> that's congressman mo brooks, guys republican party baseball team.

flowing. i'm emotionally distraught where i've just scene, and these policy type questions really ought to be for later day when we have more information about what transpired. >> sir, talking and walking, thank you. if you've been along with us this whole time congressman brooks there basically as they extended the perimeter here the police extenting the perimeter around this shooting scene in great detail telling us the story of his experience here at ball field when colleagues and others were getting shot by a lone gunman and he did a great job of explaining the scene from his advantage point, guys. that's congressman mo brooks who was on the ball field this morning. >> sure did, bob. you can see tame he's trying to process it himself and really ingest what he just experienced this morning. that feeling of helplessness is what he

we actually have a statement that is come out now from representative steve scalise's office. this is the official statement and it says at practice for the congressional baseball game scalise was shot in the hip transported to med star washington hospital center where he is currently under going surgery. he is in stable condition. prior to entering surgery, the whip was in good spirits. spoke to his wife by phone. he is grateful for the brave actions of u.s. capitol police,& first responders and colleagues. we ask that you keep the whip and others harmed in this incident in your thoughts and prayers. this office will row lease additional information regarding the whip's condition as appropriate. and it is ironic in some regard as we heard representative brooks talk there that we're talking about scalise being the one that was shot. he is the house majority whip the third in line in the house there and t

him, those capitol hill policemen would not have been there at practice they wouldn't have had security detail. >> senator paul describing it as sitting ducks. that's what the congress people and their aids and everyone there would have been. so we are -- we are also very grateful for that and we're going to join our matt ackland at med star now. where we know some of the victims were taken, as we do so, matt i'm just looking at representative scalise's twitter page and it's just wither sweet you see this two kids smiling front and center at the end of the day all these people out there are just human beings just trying to do a job and getting home at the end of the day. good morning. >> reporter: isn't it terrible allison i've been getting tweets from friends across the country. everybody really concerned about what happened this morning. we are here at washington hospital center in northeast. as you well know this is one of the best trauma centers in the area often where people who are in terrible

that's the case in fact i think you're looking at a picture or video of eagle one that's u.s. park police's helicopter landing here at washington hospital center earlier this morning. as you were saying moments ago congressman scalise is in surgery here at the hospital. i've been here for i'd say about the last hour or so. when i arrived, eagle one was still on the landing pad and there were officers stationed around the area with their lights on making sure no one got here. also, i should tell you that there was a large armored tactical vehicle the type that you would see the typically rush in to an emergency scene. that vehicle has since pull out. dave, can we show them around here? this is emergency area here. i just want to you seawall of the law enforcement vehicles that are here. the emergency room just probably about 100 feet from me. there you can see capitol police officer.

force are here. we've noticed a lot of activity coming and going and i have to tell you when law enforcement officers and other dign dignitas are typically involved in some type of emergency situation especially law enforcement officers, you see all of their colleagues rush in to the hospital area. at this point, we are being kept off the grounds for awhile but i just heard from a security officer that they could be calling the media in to one particular area. we're still unsure if they're going to give muss kind of media briefing in the next hour or so. so we don't know exactly how many people are here at the hospital. this particular hospital. we do know congressman was brought here. we also know that there are two other people that were taken across up to to george washington university hospital. they also have a great trauma center here. so the very latest things have calmed down i'd say in the laugh half hour. there was lot of activity

when i arrived about an hour ago. the helicopter took back off that tactical vehicle. it also left but there are still are a lot of officers here. we've also noticed some black suv's pulling up. we're wondering if maybe other dignitary errs are coming here. we just don't know. they typically ride around in those type of suburban vehicles, and we think that maybe someone is coming here to either be here near the congressman, get updates, things like that. so that's the very latest from washington hospital sent. once again we are hearing congressman scalise is in surgery at this hospital. this is one of the best hospitals in the region. so many believe he's in good hands and that's the very la latest. as soon as we get an update hopefully hospital officials will give us some kind of briefing, we'll get to you right away. back to you. >> so matt, i just want to clarify i'm not sure member you said this. we know the congressman is there at washington hospital center. any word about the capitol police officers? >> reporter:

about that although fox5's paul wagner has been reporting, you know he knows the police department and law enforcement very well. typically when an officer is shot, they are brought here to this particular facility. but at this point, we haven't heard from hospital officials. we believe that also those officers are here but we have heard from the congressman's office. that's how we know that he is here at this hospital for sure. at this point, though, hospital officials here at washington hospital center haven't briefed us. we hope to get a briefing in the near future, holly. >> all right, appreciate it. thanks matt. again, congressman scalise there washington hospital center went no surgery was reportedly in good spirits when he went in. spoke to his wife. and that he is in stable condition. it is also important for to us note we know that two other of the victims had were shot were taken to gw hospital they are listed in critical asian. >> don't know the shooter what hospital, you know, they're at

so you know i would imagine that person would have been hit pretty severely by the capitol police officers returning fire but we don't know where the shooter is now. the good news here, the silver lining is that there have been no reports of any fatalities as holly just methed congressman scalise is in surgery but was well enough to talk to his wife. i can even imagine what that phone call must have been like, um, only to start with i'm al alive. gnaw good spirits as was representative roger williams from texas. he was being transported on the journey we saw to life here on fox5. he gave the two thumbs up. he was not shot. but one of his aids was shot and we are hearing now that actually representative williams did break his foot. so you can imagine we've heard a lot of different representatives talk about the

ensued following all of this and they were running to get down and get to different places. so and we saw his feet were covered up there when he was on the journey. so representative williams reportedly has a broken foot. one of his staffers who senator flake referred to as zac is one of those that was shot and had to be transported. want to just let you know news from the capitol, of course, on a regular day this would be a day of business under the beautiful capitol dome. congressmen and women going about their business giving speeches. what have you appearing on the floor. given today's events and this is coming of course from the u.s. capitol, there are no votes expected in the house today. and there will be no morning hour speeches that routinely begin at the top of the 10:00 o'clock hour. so business anything but normal there. though the s

not been raised in around the capitol. we are told that the police presence there the security force has been told to be extra visible. they are there if you happen to have business later expect to see them with their weapon out. it's pri allege that we enjoy i believe in these united states that you don't typically see long guns by police force. you don't see those weapons out of the holsters typically but on an -- out in abundance of caution. security though the level has not been raised at the us capitol. they have been told to, of course, display their weapons and to just basically ask officers to be more visible and to show their guns. >> it's interesting as you talk about the fact that we usually don't see the guns present. it was pretty chilling i thought when marty lavor the free lance photographer that was there and ha

game for years and years and years said, you know, hey, i'm in the a gun guy but he reportedly was the first guy there to actually see the gunman and he said he saw this guy and he sees him just raise this long and black gun which is where then it is assumed obviously it was a rifle. but they also commented on just how eerily calm the gunman was, and about what he wanted to do this morning. right. us, story it seems hard tog believe. this is on the eve of a tradition in washington some call it one of the last great bipartisan traditions the congressional base game that were typically take place tomorrow at nats park where republicans and democrats come together to play for charity. instead this is the reporting -- this is what we are have to report the day before. that at just after seven calatheas morning a lone gunman

there this is in a neighborhood in alexandria. this is at -- simpson -- >> simpson ballpark. >> and opens fire. >> yeah. they've been practicing there for as long as anyone can remember, and in fact representative month mo brooks said anyone in that neighbor knows this is where the republicans practice. there were we've members of the congress all republican getting in their last baseball practice before the big charity game. they have practice there every morning at 6:00 their am as allison just said just after 7:00 a lone gunman decided to open fire on that field of men that were there. though we do know there was 110, sentence-year-old as well joe barton representative from texas that was there had his ten-year-old there shagging balls. all of a sudden this pandemonium erupts on the ball field. several of the congressmen have said, you know, we her the% shot but you don't think that there's going to be gunfire at 7:00 o'clock in the morning. >> on a baseball

neighborhood. it that it really took three or four shots before they realized the severity of the situation. that first they thought t was car back firing. i'd say three or four shots because then the reports go up to, you know, it was 50 to 60 shots that were fired when all was said and done, of course, kind of gives you an idea of what was going on. the actual battle of gunfire between these two capitol hill police officers that were there as security detail. they had pistols versus this lone gunman who had rifle and was just picking people off. >> in the end, there would be five people who would be taken to hospitals. including the suspect. and we don't have an identification on the suspect as of now but we are told that thankfully that suspect is no longer a threat. is in custody wherever he is. either at -- he's at the hospital. but basically that there's no threat to that area. schools for a moment were in a lock in status

students were just told to go on wither regular day. they were not allowed outside. we now know that ymca near this ball field. this is in the del ray area of alexandria. there are homes there, busi businesses, there's a church there. we know if not for the really the security and the fast action of the two u.s. capitol police officers there because of the third ranking member in the house congressman scalise that this could have been a different story there we'd be talking about today, holly. not that it's not tragic stuff. >> it could have been worse and representative mo brooks saying by the grace of god really, and one of the things that really led to that was the fact that representative steve scalise was one of the men that was on the ball field because he's the house majority whip. so because he hold that is title, he had security detail and that if he wasn't there those congressmen may not have had any security

will have been sitting ducks in that dug out as this lone gunman opened fire on them and targeted them. >> maureen is back with more to share. what do you have? >> new information about the staff who was injured in the shooting. first here on fox reporting that his name is zac barth and there is his picture. he is the staff for congressman williams who was shot in all of this. right now you are looking at his picture and the tweet behind it saying we stand with our republican colleagues my thoughts and prayers going out to them. you see the scrolling tweets couldn't to go come in. with representatives congressman senators et cetera everyone responding reaction to go this horrific shoot hemoglobin as we're hearing now could have been much much worse with just the turn of events and at any given moment. there you have it much this is one of the people injured as zac barth congressman staff must be injured in this mo brook the congressman who was there on the scene one of the first to see

what he -- the harrowing experience he went through and trying to get to safety and trying to ensure no one else was injured. but again we are getting information about some of the injured. the extent of their injuries. two people under going surgery in various hospitals. more information as we get it but again picture of zac barth who's a congressional staff member injured in the shotting. you know what strikes me, maureen, as i look at this picture here's just this young person so excited to be in washington, you know, being an aide helping out, of course, never thinking for one moment that he's going to be the victim of gunfire by simply being on baseball field. then up in the upper right hand corner you see representative steve scalise of course he was also one of the shooting vic victims. we are getting word right now we just want to make sure we get that telling us president trump's even this morning -- even this morning at the department of labor has been canceled. so he was supposed to be at the department of labor this

that event. >> one of the big stories we would likely have been talking about today is the virginia primary. the race for who will go up against whom come november in wanted just to say tom perry he will low who did lose that bid to become the democratic candidate just tweeted and saying, a few blocks away from my house is where that shooting happened, and he just comments it's terrible. heard the sirens blair by. praying for the injured. grateful for the bravery of police. again, a democrat not that it matters weighing in here just because at a time like this hold ticks certainly has no place. >> to that end allison i'm glad you brought that up because as you pointed out earlier on twitter, which is one of the worse things i hat about social media when the vultures come out and try to politicize every situation and you're starring to see that happen but what i am heartened by the push back by so many people saying listen, this is in the a time for partisan ship. this is not a time to lay

let's come together as human beings. we all bleed red. today this could have been a massacre of just untold proportions which was averted ad bickering and the nonsense and just come as human beings and say, listen, this happened. let's get through this. let's come together as one and perhaps maybe this begins a dialogue don't want to start doing post-mortems just yet let's handle the moment now. social media can be great for lot of us things but a some of the worse comes out in it. i'm glad to see people pushing back against ugly voices trying to rear their ugly heads. >> i was appreciative representative brooks where he stands on this issue and that issue and he said you know this isn't the time for policy questions. >> right. >> i appreciated that he stepped back from that and was like let's just process what happened because, um -- >> we need to. >> clearly. clearly we need to. let's go back out to bob he's still on the scene working it there. what angleo

>> reporter: well, holly less of an angle we've had all morning as congressman mo brooks who so eloquently this morning was describing what happened to him as alexandria police were literally pushing us down the street and around the corner here to give them more perimeter around the scene the ballpark is right here. that's some ballpark right there where the shooting happened this morning. i was impressed by congressman brooks who was a republican from alabama whose actually running for the senate seat that jeff sessions vacated to take a position with the trump administration as attorney general. so he's a senate candidate. currently a member of the house of representatives. i thought congressman brooks was very eloquent as we were being moved and jostled in describing the account of today. i frank didn't ask policy questions i was more interested in his impressions of what he saw, what he was thinking about and how he felt, and whether he thought the members of the congress who were

baseball here this morning were targeted by this gunman and he believes they were because this was not an unknown thing. maybe we, i didn't know, member you at home didn't know, that the republican members of congress practice for their charity baseball game at this field, but congressman brooks said the community new. perhaps this guy new as well. i was impressed by that, and his harrowing account of what happened. i moon he was very level headed obviously in just less than three hours time describing his experience here at the shooting this morning but earlier, our first real eyewitness account of what happened this morning was right around 8:00 o'clock if i'm not mistaken this morning. so within an hour of the shooting and it was u.s. senator jeff flake of arizona. republican senator from arizona who was on the ball field, and he was the first really who had been caught up in all of this to come over and speak to us, and other reporters then joined in on it. here's a

senator flake of arizona. his description of the scene here this morning. >> -- was standing near joe barton, um, watching some of the batting practice, and all of a sudden we heard a shot a very loud shot that everybody thought sounded like a gun and then, boom, rapid succession after. he had a rival of some type. and obviously a large gauge rifle. and, um, there were people in the field. one staff was shot out in the field. and he ran with a wound to the dug out. a lot of us dove into the dug out and tried to get as many as we can. but then at that point, there was firing behind us from the security detail capitol police. and i is that right started yelling back, are you friendly? are you friendly? making sure that was our guy because we didn't know if there were on the shooters that had us surrounded and would come into the dug out.

or not but as soon as we found out we had a friendly behind us, then we stayed and tried to keep down. i poked my head up at one point and soup the shooter behind the back stop, behind the fence, but he still had line of shot, a line of fire into the dug out. >> firing flew the fence? >> well he was firing around. but he still could have fired into the dug out. that's why i kept everybody d down. joe barton's boy was here ten-year-old shagging bus went got him into the dug out and stuffed him under the bench. >> joe barton is who, sir. >> joe barton is congressman from texas. owe the manager. >> did this appear to be coordinate add tack? >> well it look like only one shooter. so you got to assume he knew what he was doing here. >> senator -- >> whether he was targeting certain members we don't know. >> reporter: again very compelling account in senator jeff flake of arizona who recounting how

police officers man an woman who return the fire and who dropped the gunman not one hadn't fred% sure of that gunman's condition but it appears to be a lone gunman who according to congressman mo brooks of alabama in his mind new darn well who was out on the ball field and was there to kill as many members of the congress as he can. both congressmen and senators here on this ball field in the del ray section of alexandria this morning, guys. just a harrowing account, and just to let you know where we are, this is leslie avenue here. so it's, you know, you would drive right here into the ball field, and that's monroe avenue and you've got about three or four blocks of monroe avenue which is east-west thorofare here near the del ray section north of old town alexandria you have three or four blocks of monroe that are closed and now they've taken us down leslie avenue and part of this is now closed. so they've kind of extended the

as police are doing their investigating, and they're gathering evidence we've seen it. we've seen officers standing by what appear be the clothing and whatever else the gunman had on him at the time he was shot and dropped. and as you see her live picture you got police and decking pointing things out here just, you know, what they want to gather up because just up the street these guys are heading up the street where that suv with the bullet hole in the windshield and the driver's side door window shattered is right around the corner here and there's a coffee shop here on the right. they're the ymca to the left. so a large area with a lot of people who were, you know, very lucky that none of them got struck by any of the flying bullets. but car window shattered, and other evidence in this area that they're still in the process of gathering right now. guys. you know what, in this situation, bob, it's one of those scenarios the what if sometimes are indeed

than what happened. not discounting,. >> absolutely. >> not discounting the tragedy what happened this morning we've heard many people say it definitely could have been a whole lot worse. >> reporter: well imagine if that ten-year-old boy, we saw him when we first got here realized it's like straight where you're looking now you see the street and some burbs. just down below there's a basketball court where a lot of the ball players and family members were gathered within the hour after the shooting waiting to be questioned by police for their accounts of what happened. and we saw this kid there turns out it's a congressman's son had was there. imagine ten-year-old boy getting shot and killed on ball field watching his dad practice for a congressional baseball game being held the neck night at nats park. a lot of excitement. a lot of fun way to spend your morning and there's gunshots from a lone gunman coming out of the dug out and targeting people on the ball field who are basically sitting ducks. i mean, this could have been a whole lot worse. >> the whole thing unimaginable and yet it is our reality. >> it happened this morning. yo

side of your screen there, force of people walking up we are expecting a 10:30 press conference which is right now. you can see there's governor terry mcauliffe he's going to be attending this press conference and undoubtedly speaking about what went down here this morning. as soon as this all begins we'll bring the to you live chief michael brown of alexandria police department also a part of this. them giving us the very latest information official information as they can give it this morning of the. >> right. >> and we'll be prepared to just stop talking at any moment as soon as they make their way there to the microphone. but surely a tragedy like this no doubt brings up the top executive in the state and in this case of course it is democrat terry mcauliffe co comg out to address this incident. >> thank you, sir

>> good morning, everybody. i'm mike brown chief of the alexandria police department. b-r-o-w-n. we're today to give an update on the incident that occurred this morning here in alexandria. let me pre pete if i can, some of the facts that we do know at this point. before i start, though, i want to say that this is an incident is not an active incident. the city is safe. we have, v an active investigation going on for the incident that took place this morning but i want to reassure the community here in alexandria that this city is indeed safe. we will continue to work witness investigation as it moves forward. the facts as we have it this morning again at 0709, nine minutes after 7:00 o'clock, we received a call 911 call of an active shooter at

on monroe in alexandria our units responded and were on scene within three minutes. the officers were received fire from a suspect and they return fire. and part of the investigation is on going as we speak. we came to find out that at this event was a practice session for baseball team invo involving soe representatives from congress or some employees from congress. there were capitol police individuals on scene and they also engaged with the subject and i'll let the chief the capitol police respond to that. the emergency medical personnel that responded to the scene from the alexandra fire department as well as officers from the alexandria police department provided treatment to a number of individuals on scene. those individuals we know that five of them were transported by public emergency medical sources to hospitals within the area to deal with v

and treatment. at this point the alexandria police department because this is case involves the assault on a federal officer the federal bureau of investigation will be taking over the investigation and we welcome our work with the fbi. we are imbedded in assisting the fbi along with other agencies that are trying to deal with this particular scene and in this investigation of this incident. with that said i would also like to say our gratitude to the allied agencies that respond to do this scene. we had individuals from the alexandria sheriff's department, of course, the alexandria fire department who were initial response helped us great deal in trying to manage this thing. and quite frankly i couldn't be more proud of the men and women that were involved from the alexandria police department. they did an out staning job in my opinion from what i hear so. at this pent i'd like to go ahead and introduce chief villa rosa from the cap tool police to

efforts in this area and what they're doing. >> chief? >> thank you, chief. i like to first start out by thanking the alexandria police, sheriff's office, fire department, the fbi, atf and all of our federal law enforcement and local partners who assisted in this response. certainly it's a very large response. it will take awhile to sort through all of the details. my units of our dignitary protection division were on site with congressional protect tee when we had,, when the incident occurred. they did engage in gunfire witness suspect and were assisted by the alexandria police. the officers the united states capitol police officers who were injured are in good condition and have not suffered any life-threatening injuries at

as we get more information, we'll be working through the fbi and our local partners with the alexandria police to provide more details as they become available. but at this point i'd like to turn it over to the fbi. good morning. tim slater i'm the sac special agent in charge of the washington field office. i just want to reiterate what the chiefs have said. this is a secure community at this point. it's an active investigation. however, the security of the community is rah mount and i want to row ensure you that's the case we got involved around 9:00 hit this morning initially we responded with our national capitol response squad from the jttf per protocol and they were assisting our state and local partners. once it was confirmed that we had a member of congress that was involved in the incident, we have taken the

however, this is a joint command and this is a joint investigation with our state and local partners to include who had a has been from the microphones and atf and alexandria county and city and capitol police as well. i will take couple of questions in just a second i want to turn& it over to the governor for a couple comments. thank you. first of all, thoughts and prayers everybody affected by today's incident. i want to congratulate the effort of the state, local and federal. we're all here together. early this morning state police and d dem were activated i want to thank everybody involved but i want to specifically want to thank all the first of first responders. i have been told members of the neighborhood and community came out to be in assistance. i want to compliment the us capitol police. for their quick action and threw their heroic efforts and others they saved a lot of lives t

our community save. i once again want to thank all the law enforcement personnel and first responders who were involved today. thank you. >> agent slater, sir? can you step to the microphone. what can you tell us about the suspect. >> is it your view number one, a deliberate planned attack and are you investigating this now on the basis it could be an act of terrorism by an individual? >> ma'am, it's too early to say. really raw at this moment. we're just at the initial part of the investigation. >> a little louder. >> so, um, it's too early to say. we're working it both ways right now. >> when you say you're working it both ways one of the angles you're exploring investigating that it could be an act of terrorism? >> we're exploring all angles. >> do you have any information it is said there may be a tentative id. even if you can't say specifics are you beginning to narrow down on the identity of the shooter? >> yes, we are. >> sir -- >> was this assassination attempt? >> do you know who he is. >>

attempt good do you know who he is. >> we're still working on it. >> is he former military, former military. >> we will not confirm that. >> certain members of congress were being targeted. >> too early to tell if they were targeted or not. >> can you tell us anyone sudden life-threatening injuries and tell us about the conditions. >> everybody was tran transporto the hospital and is receiving medical treatment. just don't know about life threatening injuries. >> member of congress said the shooter asked are these republicans or democrats? can you say yet you think there's a political motivation in this shooting. >> not aware of that at all. >> no information on the wea weapons. >> don't know yet. >> sir you're saying this could have been random? good don't know. it's really early in the investigation. >> you said it's not an assassination. how do you know that yet. >> i don't have of those facts. it's too early to say one way or the other. >> can you give us the condition of the suspect. the suspect was taken to the and also the general condition of the officers who were shot? >> i think the officers are doing better.

at this time. >> suspect talking to law enforcement? >> say that again. >> is there any information about -- >> no, ma'am. not at the at that is point. (question from reporter). >> can you give us a sense of the importance of the fact that there were armed officers on the scene when this started? >> members of dignitary protect, yes, they were here. yes. as protection team. >> and the difference it made? in i'm sure it made a significant difference. >> sir, is that suspect talking to you at this point? is he cooperating? is he explaining? do not know the a tons that. >> security detail was this a service or cap pal police. >> any other else this investigation is taking place. >> we have secure the scene and getting through the logical investigative steps at this point. >> you had said you don't think this is assassination attempt yet it would appear members of the congress were targeted. >> no i did not say that. what i said we are not sure at this moment. it's stelle an early on in the investigation and we're working

>> is your suspect a local man or from elsewhere. >> don't know yet. >> you don't know if he's from the region. >> no ma'am. >> say that again. >> do you know if the suspect approached lawmakers in the parking lot and asked whether or not they were republicans or democrat cat tick members. >> i'm not aware of that. >> you said it wasn't an assassination attempt. can you clarify what this -- >> if i said that i misspoke. it's too early in the investigation to say one way or the other.& >> can you confirm his appearance. there's some reports he had white hair. others that he had dark hair. can you tell us what he look like. >> i'm in the aware of what his appearance looks like. >> last couple of questions. >> given the fact you've laid out obviously how much you don't know at this pope how much you're investigating. >> right. >> with all due respect can you and the chief and governor say that you don't know the community is safe and this area is safe. how can you rule out, sir, that there is no other threat or situation. >> from the early on in the investigation, where we are right now, we think we have a really good handle o

we just want to run out a couple details before we confirm other additional stuff. >> sir, fair enough. >> can you tell us about the weapon and whether or not there was more than one. >> i cannot, no, ma many. >> can we ask the capitol hill police chief -- >> i do not know -- >> can we ask the capitol hill police chief can we get an update on your officers that engage the suspect. we understand they were wounded in the line of duty. can you give us an update on how they're doing. >> certainly, yes. they are being treated local hospital and the injuries do not appear to be live threatening at this point. >> did you say good diagnosis when you listed their condition, sir. >> i would categorize from what i've been informed that they're in good condition. >> can you describe what they did? how they engage the suspect? >> we received reports of gunfire through our communications and then we coordinated with the alexandria police. so obviously from early instance of this incident it was shots were fired. >> your officers engaged the suspect. >> that's my u

this. >> were your officers at when they started firing on the gunman. >> this is r really two preliminary to go into the details of the investigation. suffice to say our oversoaked i believe heroically today, and they're in good condition. and we look for a rapid rec recovery. with that setter i'll turn it back over to -- >> one officer male, one female, is that correct. >> i'm not going to comment on the names. >> that's fine. >> numbers. >> until i'm reasonably sure that next of kin are notified. >> absolutely. >> what about investigation tells you anything about the motivation here and whether it was political? >> we're not going into any kind of motivation. many too preliminary in the investigation. >> any occasion who he shot, what he was doing. >> again, it's too early on. when the facts come to light, we'll share what we can share. >> you said the area is safe right now. >> thank you. >> one final question. is the tim person victim firth person the shooter

>> we're not going to comment on that. like the chief said it's significantly early. >> alexandria police department said -- >> four victims or five victims. >> the fifth injured was the shooter. >> is that correct. >> i'm not going to confirm. >> you can confirm there are five people injured. >> i'm not going to confirm that either. >> chief, you said that earlier. there were five people transported by public emergency personnel to hospital. >> was the suspect one of them. >> i'm not going to comment on that. that's on hoy going investigation. let me comment on the question about the safe community piece. we have several things going on. the police department after we secured the scene here awful lot of work in the community. we walk the community and walk for secondary issues and brought in additional resources and assets so that we can deal with any possible secondary thing. the question that was directed about the investigation if in fact it reveals something else then we will certainly respond to that. but right now every occasion in this city is that this is an isolated incident but the

long term and let me also do a thank you to the agencies that assisted us and as we canvassed the neighborhoods and looked around the community to make sure this was safe, that would include the virginia state police, the alexandria stere riffs office and a lot of folks even in the neighborhood came out to kind of make sure that we were doing the rye thing. >> chief, is there any other -- minor injuries. >> there were five people transported by emergency. i won't go into that. >> i can't speak to the information others are reporting. five people were transported. >> i'll refer to the fbi. >> any other injuries life threatening. >> from your point of view on a broader level and your knowledge about the national capitol area, your view about safety of the area did you have any information prior? any investigatory agenciesha

might be a threat in this area. there might be a threat directed towards congress. how satisfied are you now as you stand here that you have handle on what happened here and that there is no additional threat in washington? >> i can tell from you the virginia perspective from my secretary of public safety brian moran who's here with them we had no prior information that would lead us to believe anything like this was going to occur. >> gov no general do you think anything more needs to be done to protect politicians? >> well, let me say this. i think we need do more to protect all of our citizens. i have long add 53 indicated this is in the what today is about, but there are too many guns on the street. we lose 93 million americans a day to gun violence. i've long talked about this. background checks shutting down gun show loop holes that's not for today's discussion but not just about politicians. we worry about this every day for all of our citizens. >> why are you bringing it up. people are going to criticize you're bringing up gun

at this time. >> i talk about this every single day this is a very serious issue. i just came with kennart tee we just buried one of our great state troopers a special agent with a wife and three young children. needless and senseless. so we've got to look at this i'm not going to get anywhere the investigation. the fbi is leading this. this obviously with 93 million people a day it's something -- >> 93 million is a big number. did you mean to say 93 million. are you sure about that? >> 93 individual as day. >> 93 individual as day. >> how confident are you there were any other attacks plan. how confident are you? that is was a one and only and there couldn't be any. >> from virginia perspective we monitor all of this. we had no threats now. we're not concurring looking at as it relates to this incident. this is tollly up fbi and the local law enforcement. >> there's so much am chris moan knee on the political discourse and dialogue in this country. there's so much back and forth and venomous discussion. are you concern that that climate in in it way crib to do what we saw

thoughts about the climb we're in? >> i can answer on today. the investigation is going on. i do think things have become very hardened in this country today we got to begin to work together to get things done we're the greatest nation on earth and that's been too much raw discourse in this country today pulling people apart in general and we need to work together to bring people together to work together as governor i worry about economic development, education, transportation, basic things that people here in virginia want, and that's what we need to focus our energies on. >> thank you. >> we do not enough briefing scheduled at this time. however we will be communicating with the media to let you know we will be providing another update later this afternoon. >> news conference just wrapping up this is the second one since this happened. this one obviously involving governor terry mcauliffe there reports trying to engage him in some policy discussion. but he was very clear when he first stepped up to the mike and said i just want to

clear that this was extraordinary effort by first responders especially capitol police in what went down and i want to thank them for that. >> holly did it strike you that the message that community around there is safe was definitely driven home couple of times? >> yeah. i think that rightfully so people are unnernerved when allf a sudden a gun battle erupts in your neighborhood. they said multiple sometimes chief mike brown especially is fbi tim later from the fbi saying look this is safe community. this is not an active situation an active incident any more it is very much an active investigation. there is still though some confusion over perhaps the number of people that were shot there. we got that really first hand account from senator flake and he indicated there were five people shot. but the officials will not confirm whether the five people include the gunman or that the gunman is in addition to the five people that

but definitely they would nowhere close to anything about the gunman at all. nothing. >> not at all. one good news, though, i think we got from that press conference was chief villa rosa u.s. capitol police saying that his officers are in good condition, and they're definitely not life-threatening injuries. we didn't think they were. he did roar they were in good condition. >> governor mcauliffe himself a democrat when he walk up his message was that they saved a lot of lives today. of course, talking about the first responders law enforcement that's there. it's important to note us capitol police of course first line of defense a lot of people are calling them the heroes saved the day, saved this from being something much more tragic that you would hear about but also wip a couple of minutes three minutes in fact the chief mike brown of alexandria police department saying that his officers arrived on the scene some 52 to 100 -- 50 to 100 bullets shot back

between law enforcement and the gunman who was holding some sort of a long gun some say an ak47. >> we've seen that. >> we have not confirmed that. >> not your typical pistol which is all the capitol police officers were armed with. so no -- essential follow new details to come out with but basically driving the message home that area there of del ray is safe. the capitol police off officersl recover. they said five people were transported that was the word they used transported from the scene. of course if you're at home you're wondering is this an act of terrorism. ? was it politically motivated were they specifically targeted you know, they asked all those questions. the officials wouldn't go there. fbi tim slater did say he did not believe it to be assassination attempt. >> i think we have chuck schumer on the floor right now. >> so he just wrapped. d

we've her the rhetoric we've her this morning from everybody on both sides of the aisle. >> literally put their lives on the line. so the house side of things we mentioned earlier that word coming out from the -- from congress that there would be no votes today there would be no speeches on the house floor today in honor of what has happened here and the colleagues who are missing today. >> well our colleague bob bar far has been working hard this morning from the scene. he's gotten a lot of first hand accounts. he's right up there where all action happened. so we want to go back to him now and see what you're seeing now. bob. >> reporter: yeah, guys. i think some of the numbers confusion we saw a man here who was one of the ball players who had bandage around his leg. we have also heard and saw with our own eyes tt

congressional leaders of this ballgame this charity ballgame was taken away on gurney but we don't believe he was shot. that maybe he got hurt running from the gunfire. so that's where the numbers might be confusing. who has been shot. who has been taken to the hospital for other reasons. and you heard senator jeff flake describing some things so maybe some of the pictures are murky but one of the men we heard from him earlier in case you missed him if you heard him earlier it's worth hearing again marty a free lance photographer he saw the first saw the gunman aiming at people on the ball field. one of things we just heard in the news conference witness governor and fbi police chief marty they didn't want to say anything or couldn't say anything much about the gunman himself. tell us the person you saw, you were one of the first to see h him. >> i was standing near first base. he was behind third base a

chain link fence. so that's quite a distance. all i saw was a white male then suddenly i saw the rifle, the big black rifle and i don't know if it was a rifle, shotgun or what it was but hit a clip so obviously it was an automatic. the thought that went through my mine why would anybody be out here with rival shooting at birds at this time of the morning? because nobody comes to the practice to observe and there are people who go through this around the park who walk dogs. so when you're there at 6:00 o'clock in the morning you don't expect people there. and so i -- that's all i saw, and i drop it out of my mind and then suddenly i heard somebody say, get in the dug out! so whoever said get in the dug out, saved my life, because i was just standing therend

hear the shots up to that point. >> there had been shots though you didn't hear them? >> i wasn't aware of it. you know,. >> sure. >> you're asking the right question. who knows. >> you had a camera you were there to document this as you have for years to take pictures of the members of the congress practicing. >> and hitting a baseball. and had i put on my photojournalist hat oh, there's the shot and i would have taken it of him with the rifle. and then you said that scalise wasn't shot, i'm surprised because i thought he was -- >> no, scalise was shot but there's some question. there was an older gentleman we've got to go. marty an older gentleman i think williams or something, a congressman williams. >> oh? williams. >> taken away on a stretcher we're not sure if he was shot -- >> no. he either broke his leg or -- >> his foot. >> he broke something and was probably getting a it way or

getting into the dug out. >> that's the question. marty, thank you so very much. >> my pleasure. >> appreciate your time and marty, again, explaining that that congressman hurt his leg but congressman scalise shot as he was out on the field, guys, and that was marty lavor are free lance photographer who cover these practices and games for years and was here this morning according to most who were here was the first one to realize that there was a gunman on the ball field this well, guys. >> bob, just for your own information we did receive word earlier about congressman williams that he had actually broke his foot and that's why he was being trance for po poured. >> makes sense. >> goes along with what you were saying does we have video of him. >> yeah we did. >> we saw him life waving to everybody he seemed to be okay. again i think that's why some of the officials were transported five people well one congressman williams was transporte but he wasn't shot. so that's where the numbers are a little murky at this hour. >> all right. appreciate you bob. thank

check back in few. right now we're getting some new information where a tributing this to the washington post. they are releasing the fact that the suspect is james t. hodge kin son of bellevue, illinois. >> washington post is reporting law enforcement officials according to the washington post say the suspect is james t.hotchkinson. bellville, illinois. 66-year-old. a little older than what the description of the people who were there they had guessed to be in the 40s or 50s. they did say report him to be a white man. james t. hodge kin son. the port is reporting on him he had a home inspection business but that license expired in just november of last year

>> they are roaring the 66-year-old man from illinois was indeed the shooter this morning. that's the latest information now to come out that is new information we hadn't known the suspect's dent if the b no pictures right now. we her the photographer say had he had his photo journalism hat on he would have been able to get that picture but we do have the next best thing which is his age, 66 as holly mentioned from illinois. james t. hochkinson. >> as you can see from our live pictures everyone still in place there. it's still very much a secure situation. it's an active investigation that will go on for some time as we can imagine. the fbi and the latest press conference that we saw there saying that they are indeed taking the lead in the investigation. it's an assault on federal officer. so once they found out the member of congress was involved they become the lead organization but he also went on toay

went on to say it's very much a joint task force that is working on this and we have seen many parties partake this morning and we're seeing many members of the congress from both sides of the aisle come out and be grateful to all of the first responders that went into immediate action this morning. atf on the scene, too. also with the fbi. holly one thing that you remarked earlier was that there's fantastic sound or sound bites or witness account from people in that community because of just how active that area is. people running by stopping or even the former mayor working out there and just walking over the ymca not too far from where that ballpark is. so right now we want to recap and bring you some of some of those interviews that reporters in the field have been able to get from near where the shooting happened early this morning. a couple of minutes after 7:00 this morning. people were running

baseball and we were -- everyone was yelling get down. so we all kind of were running toward the end dog park and had our dogs get down. after the first shot i knew it was a shooter but i didn't know why. i didn't know who was playing here because we usually come here every morning. >> how many shots did you hear? >> it went on for it felt like ten minutes. >> that was just one witness there we've heard many accounts this morning of the harrowing experience the battle on the baseball field that went down in alexandria. we also know that president trump he really only had one event public event i guess you would say that was scheduled for today it was supposed to be at the department of labor. that was canceled. the white house is now reporting that president trump will speak. he will address the nation and that will happen at 11 11:30 of course we'll bring that to you live when it happens but president trump and going to address the nation regarding what went on. what transpired this morning right here in our neighbor the nation will hear him but

right here he will talk at 11 11:30. >> you know and we -- it's hardd when you're talking about this incident, though, my favorite image of the day is the group of democrats praying for the republicans who were attacked in this manner. i love that by partisan unity there, but we have also gotten reports and the reason why we know this person knew he was shooting a group of lawmakers the earlier reports that person mentioned or the gunman mentioned before who is out there right now? is it republicans or democrats? i just think it's important to to know the motivation yet. coud have just been anti government altogether. who knows? making comments. who knows what it is? he did know that they were -- they were lawmakers out there and that's what we have to focus in on right now, because for me ultimately it does become an attack