. >> lockdown, lockdown, lockdown. >> got to be on point. >> lockdown, lockdown, lockdown. >> can't let your guard down for nobody. >> this is not a place to be. >> this is as close to a living hell as i think i ever want to come. >> step back behind the red line. >> everyone, bend over. >> if you like this type of thing, this is the place to be. >> i want to kill myself. i can't take it. >>> for the uninitiated or in this case, the unincarcerated, there is sometimes confusion between prison and jail. prison is only for convicted felons. jails also how's convicts but only those awaiting transfer to prison or serving short-term sentences. usually less than a year. >> listen up for your name. >> stand on the foot prints for me, please. >> most jail detainees have pending court cases, have been denied or are unable to make bail. >> put your stomach on the wall, hands behind your back. >> there is another type of jail detainee as well and they're often the most dangerous. those who have just been arrested, sometimes still drunk, high on drugs or fresh from committing a crime. >> my biggest

a gunshot on the west lawn and a lockdown. tonight come a massive investigation. >> the fbi is on the scene, the secret service, and u.s. park police. kimberly: thousands packed the mall during one of the busiest days of the year. the new details emerging and the additional threats that had a bomb squad called out. abc 7 news at 6:00 starts now. good evening, i'm kimberly suiters. the police on the west capital just now wrapping up a press conference after a man shot himself and sent the entire area into lockdown. abc 7 has been on the story since it first broke. we have live team coverage. we begin with richard reeve. rich, the lockdown has been lifted, but still a surreal sce ne at the capital. richard: yes, the lockdown has been lifted, but there are plenty of police in the area. they have roped off areas directly in front of the u.s. capitol. neither the media nor anybody else is allowed in that area. there were a couple of tenths hours, just after 1:00 this afternoon. we have some video of the activity. one man was walkin

now, that area was placed on lockdown for a couple of hours. no one else was hurt. we want to revisit that story. we have nbc justice -- nbc news justice krpt pete williams here with us and, pete from talking to your sources, no ties to terrorism, lone wolf? any idea of the motivation at all? >> no they're going to look into this person's past this young man's past. witnesses say that he appeared to be a young man. he was holding some kind of a sign something about taxing the 1% something about social justice the police say. the witnesses say he walked up. he had a backpack and a roller bag, and before anyone around him knew what was happening, he had taken out a gun. they heard a gunshot, and then realized that he had shot himself. now, initially there were reports of shots, plural. shots fired at the u.s. capitol but police now tell us that there is only a single shot fired by this man killing himself. law enforcement officers did not fire any shots. you are looking at that roller bag with the handle. because he was carrying immediately lockdown. you see an office

capitol under lockdown. tonight, the bizarre suicide in front of one of the biggest crowds of the year. and a tragic accident in prince george's county. what we are learning about an accident involving a young child. a wounded warrior getting a fresh start from a neighborhood effort. the news at 11:00 starts now. >> now abc 7 news at 11:00, on your side. kimberly: tonight the calm after the chaos on capitol hill. people spent hours stuck in the capital building and visitor center after a man shot and killed himself on the west lawn. richard reeve joins us with the developing story. rich, what did the man leave behind? richard: it was a back pack, a carry on, and a single gunshot that calls the lockdown. the capital is pretty much back to normal. they are cleaning up the scene right now. this is a very bizarre incident this man committing suicide in broad daylight in a very public place. it was a total heavily armed lockdown in the u.s. capitol. >> it sounded like a balloon pop. richard: the police ordering s

capitol building lockdown after shots were fired prompting a massive security response during a busy tourist weekend. >> reporter: sirens and police shouting at emergency crews put the u.s. capitol on lockdown. >> came over on the loud spoker the capitol was locked down. >> reporter: cell phone footage shows the response on the west front of the building after man shot himself. >> one girl started to ask me something. she was looking over my shoulder and i saw him fall. >> reporter: the map had on a blue backpack, sign taped to his hand, suitcase nearby. capitol employee were told to take shelter and stay put. the area declared offlimits. >> we have cleared the area and re-opened the united states capitol. >> they're professionals. they know what they're doing. they made sure we were safe. >> reporter: the lockdown and related street closures bads in for a busy weekend in washington, which i blowing host to the annual cherry blossom festival which draws in tens of thousands of tourist from around the world. >> you suspect to not see this thing. and makes me nervous. you're not secure

the capitol is on lockdown while police continue to investigate. we are joined from washington now.ve been monitoring this for 45 minutes. what do we know at this point? >> well poppy, the u.s. capitol police confirming it was suicide. spokeswoman saying in a statement it was self-inflicted gunshot by neutralized subject. this happened on the west front of the u.s. capitol building side of the capitol that faces the mall but this situation is still ongoing because the entire capitol complex including the capitol billing itself and the capitol visitors' center is on lockdown. capitol police are continuing to investigate a suspicious package. they say this is related to that incident. members of congress they are still out on recess so likely not many members were inside at the time and they are not due back into washington until monday. it's a weekend. many staffers were not inside at the time, but congressional staff, poppy, they received a message from the capitol police that they -- if they were in the capitol building they should shelter in place. poppy? >> just so i understand c

the response at the capital tonight after yesterday's hours-long lockdown. plus, developing right now a quadriplegic man found abandoned in the woods in pennsylvania. a warrant for his mother's arrest. how police found her son and the last thing she did before she boarded a bus for montgomery county. >> i'm getting ready to do something too. i'm running for president. >> tonight hillary clinton breaking one of the worst-kept secrets in politics. she's now an official candidate for president in 2016, good evening. this ends months of speculation and kicks off a campaign many thought was all but iestable. as shows us, nothing in washington is a sure bet. reporter: some say she's got the most probable past at the top of the ticket, but in politics nothing comes easy. >> it's unclear whether order voters are paying attention to the clinton foundation or e-mails. for people that do pay attention, it reinforces all of the world narratives about the clintons not playing by the same rules this the rest of us play by. reporter: and don't think for main republicans wo

lockdown at the u.s. capitol as a gunman takes his own life on the steps of the building. >> it was insane. >> axelrod: walter scott the unarmed black man gunned down by a white cop in south carolina, is laid to rest. and the thames, they are a-changein. oxford's women's rowing team rocking the boat. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> axelrod: good evening. i'm jim axelrod with a western edition of the broadcast. for more than half a century, it was unthinkable, but today, for the first time since 1956, an american president sat down for formal discussions with the leader of cuba. president barack obama and cuban president raul castro met in a small conference room at a convention center in panama city panama where the summit of the americas has been taking place. mr. obama total 83-year-old cuban head of state "we are now in a position to move on a path toward the future." major garrett is in panama city with the president. major, good evening. >> reporter: good evening. even

one person has been arrested and the lockdown at the capitol building has been lifted. >> lockdown is watch to see what happens there. thank you. a new con terned entered the growing field of apps. how can vapor chat stand out from the rest? that's next. >> messaging apps are all the rage. facebook spent $22 billion for what's that. snap chat has popularized teck. there is another one on the market with focus on business. >> vapor chat has been live for four weeks. snap chat for business. really interesting. joining me to talk about this is ken, the c.e.o. and founder of vapor chat. the messaging space is crowded but this is intriguing taking the idea of messages that the user can drol duration and bring that to business. what is the opportunity for you? >> this applies much more than businesses. fundamentally the way people text, every day people text is flawed. the second we send a message to someone we lose control over that message. if i text you right now you can take that message and you can do anything you want with it. you can post a picture on facebook, copy my message save i

following the attack, all state facilities went into immediate lockdown.e this incident was an isolated one. >> ever since the incident at tehachapi against officers, corcoran has been on full alert, searching cells and shaking down inmates to prevent similar attacks in their own prison. >> what are you looking for right now? >> anything, weapons, anything that would be considered contraband. >> pornography, not supposed to have it. >> we'll give him a cell search receipt saying we took it. most of the time we'll just destroy it because it's not dangerous contraband. >> what are you really looking for? >> just anything, like needles, drug paraphernalia, information. like that would be information. you got names, numbers, akas. >> what makes information so dangerous? >> what we don't know is what's dangerous. these guys just had a major staff assault up at tehachapi, less than a week ago. we don't know. could it go down here? very easily. you never know. i mean, that's -- i like to go home after i do my eight. and i like to see everyone else go home after t

. >> our teacher told everybody we were on lockdown it was not a drill. she told us to get up from our seats and move to the other side of the room which was a corner away from the doors and windows. she cut the lights off barricaded the door with a table and told us to remain calm and quiet. >> that student said she remained in the classroom for 40 minutes until police gave them a clearance to leave. >>> two other schools were put on lockdown, we'll have more on "action news" at 4:00 p.m. and 6abc.com. >>> back here construction worker was critically hurt this morning while on the job at the king of prussia mall. the accident knocked out power in the area for a short time. annie mccormick joins us live from king of prussia with all the details. annie. >> reporter: and rick williams and sarah work continues here as normal at the king of prussia mall after three people were taken to the hospital this morning after one worker was shocked and survived at the scene and the second suffered minor injuries when they cut into an energid cable that had 13,000 volt

they had the entire area on lockdown. it has since been lifted and police discovered that he was in d.c. but again a very sad morning for employees as they return to work here this morning. their security guard 59-yard lawrence buckner has now died. the gate here at silver hill road is closed. the seen sus bureau is expected to -- the census bureau is expected to open, though. >>> an associated press report is revealing a disturbing trend at the nation's airports. there were more than 260 security breaches at some of the busiest airports since 2004. >> a little unsettling. san francisco international airport had the highest number of incidents reported. more than a few in our own backyard. let's bring in mike hydeck to break down the numbers. >> reporter: we had ten at our local airports. the information has sent shock waves across the country. we remember the story last year about the 15-yard boy who climbed a fence at san jose international airport and was able to hide inside a jet wheel well and survive add nearly six

cops say the lockdown was just a precautionary measure.saw what happened says the shooter had a sign referring to the so-called 1 percent. >> he had a sign. the sign said something about 1 percent, 1 percent or something to that effect. i just glanced at it and somebody else had mentioned they had seen it. he had just raised the sign up and then he shot himself. >> the lockdown lasted about two hours. several agencies continued to investigate this incident. >>> the summit of the americas kicked off today in panama and it's already made some history. president obama and rule castro sat down for the first sit down between u.s. and cuban leaders in more than half a century. fox's cara mchugh has the very latest. >> good afternoon everybody. >> reporter: president obama says the united states will not be imprisoned by the past when it comes to improving diplomatic relations with cuba. >> i'm optimistic that we'll continue to make progress and that this can indeed be a turning point not just between the united states and cuba but for greater co

capitol on lockdown. >> came over on the loud speaker that the capitol was on lockdown. >> the officersly on the spot. >> reporter: cell phone camera footage, a massive response on the west front of the building after a man shot himself. >> one girl started to ask me something. she was looking over my shoulder. i heard it. i turned and saw him fall. >> reporter: the man had on a blue backpack and sign taped to his hand. there was also a briefcase nearby. capitol employees were told to take shelter and stay put. the capitol and surrounding area declared off-limits. >> we subsequently have cleared the area. and reopened the united states capitol. >> there are professionals inside that building. they made sure we were all safe. >> reporter: the lockdown and related street closures, bad news for a busy weekend in washington playing host to the annual cherry blossom festival which draws in tens of thousands of tourists from around the world. >> you come with your family. it made me nervous yeah. you're not secure any longer. >> reporter: police are still investigating the shooting but say th

kellye: and put daily life on lockdown. video just released and how it is changing the investigation into baltimore's officers. the news at 11:00 starts now. >> now abc 7 news at 11:00, on your side. kellye: we are getting to baltimore in a moment, but first a story coming from fairfax. members of an urban search and rescue team have just finished packing, prepared to head for nepal. this is a live look from chantilly. their flight leaves from dulles in two hours, helping those affected by the earthquake. kimberly suiters will have that side of the story. but first, we are going to tell you more about the situation in baltimore. incredible images showing this, almost a war zone. protesters smashing cars throwing flaming trash cans and advancing riot police. richard reeve is there. things turn dangerous just about an hour ago? richard: yes, they did kellye. pratt street is open again, but for a while, a large part of this city was sealed off, shut down, protesters filling the streets. earlier today, things were relatively ca

it is on lockdown. called two hours ago reporting a shoot at the campus library said to be one victim. there has been video of students and administrators and teachers walking away from the campus building with their arms in the air. southeast of raleigh in the eastern part of north carolina. >>> the white house takes on capital hill in a high stakes battle over the iran nuclear deal. lawmakers challenging for president insisting congress needs to have oversight on any deal that is done. >> the whole purpose of the sanctions is to have negotiation negotiations. we have having them and earned the right through the interim agreement and what we laid out in the parameter that has been set forth we have earned the right to try to complete this without interference and certainly without partisan politics. >> tucker carlson is here. john kerry is in deep on this one and worked hard and he is afraid his former colleagues in the senate are trying to blast it a part. what do you think? >> the white house is mad

and the direction to lift the lockdown no megses were sent to the community advising the lockdown. the copter landed at 1:23 p.m. you say later the gyro copter was determined to be clear of any hazards at 2:57 p.m. and yet it was 5:03 p.m. before any notice went out. why did it take so long? >> you're absolutely correct. we immediately fixed that. the next day i gave a directive for our people to put out that affect the community. what no one got was a lockdown message. we did send some messages out to the senate community based on their direction. but that matter has been fixed. we had an overly complex notification system and we have immediately fixed that and that will not happen again. >> to the sergeant of arms mr. irving, welcome back. i know you've had duties with the prime minister. but why didn't we get notification that there was a potential threat? >> there was a mixup in the command center, lack of communication between my staff and the command -- capital police command staff. that will not happen again, as the chief said. we have fixed that. so we -- >> they're the sam

prompting a temporary lockdown of the capital visitor's center.ice did not immediately identify the pilot but the associated press is reporting a florida postal carrier named doug hughes took responsibility for the start on a website where he said he was delivering letters to all 535 members of congress in order to draw attention to campaign finance corruption. european regulators are accusing google of violating antitrust laws. the european union said today that google is abusing its dominance of the internet search market and unfavored -- and unfairly favors its own service in search results. the eu says it will also investigate google's android phone system. regulators say the complaint of not just coming from europe. >> one out of four individual companies -- company from the united states also play a major role when it comes to these business associations who have complaints. mark: google has 10 weeks to answer the accusations. first-quarter profit rebounded at bank of america. earnings beat estimates bank's a big drop in expenses. more than

james monroe high school is on lockdown right now. call police immediately if you've seen this man. >>> and developing first tonight, a mother's misteers death in arlington county, now considered a murder. she was found dead in a home on south 18th street after her two children were spotted wandering alone outside. news4's pat collins spent the afternoon talking to police and neighbors to find the latest. pat? >> reporter: what a troubling story this is, wendy. look down the street. that's where it happened, that rust-colored house at the intersection of 18th and kent street in the aurora highland section of arlington. two children in their pajamas outside that house early this morning. they were distraught. a passerby stops to help out. he calls police. they go inside and find the children's mother dead. the search for clues in this case has broadened. two blocks from where the body was found, police systematically went through trash cans looking for something that might lead them to a suspect. friends have identified the victim here

but we can tell you that the capitol building is on lockdown. >>> president obama is praising the fix of how it pays doctors. it deals with payment structures of. the president plans to sign the bill. the president welcomed west african leaders to the white house. they were there to talk about the fight against ebola. the president said that more needs to be done to insure that the number of new cases continue to decline. >> now we are afocused on a shared goal. we can't be complacent. we have to be fully engaged in partnership with these three countries until there are no cases of ebola. >> there has been the testing of an ebola vaccine with the money coming from the united states. >>> now to the war in yemen. they say that the rebel lines are starting to crack and along the saudi border tribal forces are volunteering to take up arms to stop from any fighting from smelling over. but the humanitarian crisis inside yemen is only getting worse. >> reporter: on the shores of djibouti they land, tired but relieved after a dangerous journey. they flew need the airstrikes in yemen. >> they

. >> and when you say there's a lockdown on campus.are advised to stay where they are, lock their doors, that kind of thing? >> that is correct. stay safe lock your doors, barricade yourself if you see the shooter, stay quiet, get on the floor, don't make any noises at all. >> has the library itself been evacuated? >> we're unsure at this time. we do know we have law enforcement on scene at this time, handling the situation. so we're letting them handle any evacuations at this time. >> how did the call come in that there had been a shooting in the library? >> we have reports over the radio from a campus police officer that somebody had been shot. >> and did authorities storm in to the like library? or was the shooter gone by the time you arrived? >> i believe the shooter was gone by the time authorities arrived. >> can you tell us whether you're looking for a male or a female? >> we do believe it is a male subject we're looking for but an unknown description of that male suspect. >> all right. thank you so much for being with me this m

were sent to the congressional committee advising them of the lockdown. >> reporter: hughes is facing felony and is confined to his home in florida. authorities had been tipped off to his stunt almost a half-hour before he landed. his aircraft was visible for at least two minutes and testimony revealed that the u.s. secret service knew of the 61-year- old's intentions nearly 18 months ago. >> air traffic controllers could not do their jobs if they had to work with an unfiltered radar feed. any would not be able to give the aircraft they are charged with handling. >> reporter: secret service director joseph clancy admitted an investigation was opened up back in october of 2013. after the agency learned that hughes intended to fly an aircraft on the grounds. but the director maintained there was no way to know if he would ever act hon the plans. >> special secret service interviewed him who denied having an aircraft or had plans to fly one to washington, d.c. >> reporter: the secret service dealt with a similar breach last year. all who testified today said they are reviewing protocol t

. >> the white house was lockdown two days in a row. a four-year-old got under a set of barricades outside the fence yesterday. the child did not get on the lawn. there was a lockdown on saturday because of an unattended package on the north fence line. >>> now a reunion between a man who nearly died and the man who saved his life. they were property together by east bay-created cpr phone app that abc first recorded last year. here is david wright. >> life or death emergency on this california soccer field. for a 62-year-old man. >> i had cardiac arrest. my heart stopped. >> help was across the street. >> i was to sit down to din consider i -- dinner and i received a cpr alert. >> he subscribes to something like uber for cpr that connects people with life saving skills with people who need help. right now. as the first responders raced to the scene he was already there. >> i immediately started cpr. >> it connects straight to 9-1-1 call center in 1,100 communities an the nation using cell phones to alert volunteers. >> i gather minutes

the school in lockdown in goldsboro, north carolina.y told the paper police have a suspect under control, but there is no confirmation from police. we'll continue to watch these developments and bring you new details as they happen this morning. >>> now to hillary clinton's road trip. she's part way to iowa right now, where she will hold the first of hundreds of events designed to reintroduce candidate clinton to the person public, but to win the white house in 2016 she has to learn the lessons of 2008. nbc's andrea mitchell has more on that. >> and i hope you'll join me on this journey. >> reporter: this time hillary clinton is promising a listening tour. instead of big rallies, small events targeting the middle class. instead of downplaying her gender, this time playing it up. >> i'm still kind of in the grandmother glow. >> reporter: what is going to be different? >> what early state primary voters most of all are going to want to see is to see her really earn their trust and their support. >> reporter: from republicans, already a ch

the immediate lockdown. >> this is not good, people. >> the bomb squad called in. how did that pilot get so close? >>> the guilty verdict. the former nfl star the $40 million contract. tonight, convicted of murder. you'll see the tears in that courtroom. >>> the police officer using his car to take down a suspect. >> oh! >> tonight, authorities standing by their officer as we reveal what happened in the moments before. >>> the urgent warning. the rare strain of deadly dog flu now showing up in the u.s. more than 1,000 cases and counting tonight. >>> and the famous actor, and the meltdown on-set. it left so many stunned. >> don't [ bleep ] dennis me. >> tonight, the real story.

and there were people on lockdown here at the u.s. census bureau headquarters.s clear right now on campus. this all started this evening. the suspect ran the front gate at the headquarters. police say he shot the guard in the chest and got away from the scene. prince george's county police federal officers shut down the campus. they searched for the suspect, not knowing if he was still on the property. they looked in the parking garage. they looked in the area. u.s. census bureau employees were on lockdown at the time. we'll now hear from matt expense. he told me he was terrified. >> about 6:30 we saw -- we heard gunshots. and i thought it was just people in the neighborhood. but then a friend of mine who sits right near the window said oh my goodness something's going on. i ran to the window and i saw the security guard was down because he was in the yellow vest. and i saw a guy driving away really quickly and another security guard was pursuing him on foot shooting at the car. we thought oh my goodness this is really scary. >> scary indeed. he tells me that so

a postal worker forcing a lockdown by landing a small copter on the capitol lawn. how did he get into restricted airspace, especially since he made no secret of his outlandish plan. >>> life in prison. aaron hernandez, the ex-nfl star who had it all, now convicted and sentenced for a cold-blooded murder. tonight, what the jury is saying about the verdict. >>> is it the end of spring break? the ugly moment, a woman assaulted on a crowded beach. tonight, the popular destination saying they have had it with spring breakers. >>> and space invaders. many airlines looking to squish passengers even closer together. it might get awfully uncomfortable, but is it hazardous, too? "nightly news" begins now. ♪ >>> good evening. a small gyro-copter piloted by a florida postman caused quite a scare when it flew apparently unchallenged into highly respected airspace in the center of washington, d.c. and landed on the lawn of the u.s. capitol. the capitol went into immediate lockdown as police searched the aircraft for explosives. and now once again questions are being raised about

and after the lockdown was lifted school did go back to normal. what is still not clear at this hour is whether or not that former employee moore was fired by the school. for now reporting live in radnor township, annie mccormick, channel6 "action news." jim. >> thank you annie. >>> philadelphia police have charged the mother they say locked her four children inside the basement of their kensington home. police say the children ages nine to 13 were left there for 12 hours as punishment. today police charged 29-year-old charnae lee with endangering the welfare of a child among other offenses. police were alerted to the home in the 1900 block of east atlantic street yesterday after receiving a 911 call from one of the trapped kids. >>> the death toll has soared to 4,000 in the wake of the earthquake in nepal. more than 7,000 people have been injured. rescue teams are digging through the rubble in the capitol of katmandu looking for more survivors but time is indeed running out. >>> and today the evacuation of hundreds of climbers got under way at ba

a lockdown on one of the city's busiest tourist weekends a man with a suitcase shoots himself outside the capitol. orders to stay in place. the bomb squad on the scene. >>> saying good-bye. the south carolina man shot by police laid to rest and tonight a second officer now under the microscope. did he tell the truth when he said he tried to save walter scott's life? >>> and, wiped out. new images of a deadly tornado that destroyed an entire town. the flattened church van. the drivers hinding beneath an underpass and tonight volunteers rushing there to pick up the pieces. >>> good evening and thank you for joining us on this saturday. i'm cecilia vega. we begin with the historic milestone for america and one of its closest neighbors, cuba, ending generations of hostility. president obama and raul castro meeting today joining the two countries for the first time since the height of the cold war. two leaders face-to-face for more than an hour. the conclusion of their talks? they say they're ready to turn the page on history. abc's white house correspondent jim avila starts us off with th

. >>> the lockdown is over and back to business as usual at anne arundel medical center in annapolis. according to the hospital website, somebody in the emergency department made a threat against the hospital and standard procedure calls for a partial lockdown. anne arundel county cops say they talked with the person who made the threat away from the hospital. >>> a prince george's county police officer is facing really big trouble tonight. corporal jesse stewart, jr. is on suspension hit with a lawsuit and charged with reckless endangerment. it involves a hazing incident alleged to have happened when he's accused of smacking, hitting, caning and paddling men trying to join the alumni chapter of the kappa alpha psi fraternity. one of the alleged victims is 45-year-old harry drawn. he's filed suit against the fraternity and officer stewart. >> he seemed very comfortable in doing it. he just is someone who just took advantage of the power that he had. >> we tried to contact stewart, but nobody answered at his home. prince george's county police say stewart was off duty when the alleged

this massive federal complex was already on lockdown. police and federal agents from multiple jurisdictions arrived in droves searching for a gunman who shot a security guard here in the chest. they centered on gate 5 marked off as the scene of the crime. initially police believed the shooter was still on the grounds of this sprawling facility. employees were warned to stay in their offices. gates were locked and a car by car search began. >> now move, move, move. >> reporter: at 7:45 tactical teams arrived. sharpshooters took up position in a parking lot across the street as s.w.a.t. teams armored up. silver hill road was closed and civilians and media was move back 200 yards from gate 5. then this. [ gunshots ] >> reporter: more than 20 loud bangs rang out from inside the complex, two or three at a time sounding from different locations over half an hour, always startling and not yet explained. by 9:30 police gave the all clear and began allowing employees to leave. late tonight law enforcement sources tell me those bangs were breachin

capital was put under lockdown today when a man shot and killed himself. the suicide happened as thousands roamed the national mall for the cherry blossom festival. >> we do not know the identity of that man. that suicide stunned her near the capital when the shooting happened. the deputy spoke to one person who tells us the shooting happened right behind him. >> didn't sound like the gun shot. it sounded like a balloon popped. and i started seeing the girl and the mother that was standing there, both started crying and holding their face. >> he immediately tried to calm the people down, not realizing the suspected gunman's suitcase he says he can see in this photo was still on scene. >> an offduty police officer, you know, everybody calmed down and they said get out of here. >> bishop says this was by the capital building's west front fountain and that's when the capital building and surrounding area went into lockdown on this very busy saturday. >> we were inside the library of congress when the alarm started going off and they slammed all the doors shut

a postal worker forcing a lockdown by landing a small copter on the capitol lawn.how did he get into restricted airspace, especially since he made no secret of his outlandish plan. >>> life in prison. aaron hernandez, the ex-nfl star who had it all, now convicted and sentenced for a cold-blooded murder. tonight, what the jury is saying about the verdict. >>> is it the end of spring break? the ugly moment, a woman assaulted on a crowded beach. tonight, the popular destination saying they have had it with spring breakers. >>> and space invaders. many airlines looking to squish passengers even closer together. it might get awfully uncomfortable, but is it hazardous, too? "nightly news" begins now. ♪

. >>> lockdown. a shooting at the steps of the u.s. capitol on one of washington's busiest weekends of the year. tonight, what we're learning about the suspected shooter. >>> what a bargain. if you dreamed of a european vacation now's the time. why more and more americans are cashing in on trips overseas. >>> and pipe dream. the chance for modern movie goers to experience the grand old days of film. >>> this is "nbc nightly news" with le holt. substituting tonight peter alexander. >>> good evening. late this afternoon president obama did something that no u.s. president has done since dwight eisenhower meeting face-to-face with his cuban counterpart. it marked the most dramatic moment yet as the two countries redefi their relationship. time for us to try something new, president obama said. today's highly anticipated talks overshadowed this weekend's summit of the americas, the first-ever attended by a cuban leader. we begin tonight with our senior white house correspondent chris jansing in panama. chris. >> reporter: good evening, pet

this prompted a temporary lockdown and raised serious security concerns after the gyrocopter landed. it was undetected by radar. abc news reporter karen travers joins us live from d.c. karen? >> good evening larry and ama. it is quiet at the capitol but earlier a chaotic scene. that gyrocopter landed right behind me in the parch of grass and the west lawn of the u.s. capitol. it's an area that's known to many americans as the praise where presidential inaugurations happen every four years and every winter you see video and pictures of kids sledding here at the u.s. capitol. today a senior u.s. official tells abc news that the gyrocopter was flying at a relatively low speed pretty slow and was less than 150 feet which means it wasn't getting picked up by radar and that's raising a lot of very serious questions of what would have happened if this pilot posed a violent threat? a bizarre scene sparked panic and chaos. a man who says he was delivering a political message to congress flew a gyrocopter and landed it right there on the lawn. the capitol went on lockdown traffic in the area s

capitol when put on lockdown. vicki and her husband are in town from l.a. to see the cherry blossoms. they were taking a tour inside the capitol when a man outside took his own life. >> we weren't alarmed but we were concerned. >> reporter: they spent hours indeed as police investigated the shooting death near the capitol steps. a man, without saying a word pulled out a gun, and fired. they took photos and video, as they were leaving through a tunnel. >> we understood that the government was actually doing its job, and we appreciated that. >> reporter: police are seging who investigating who the man was. the only clue a sign he was holing that read something about taxes and 1%. he also had a backpack and roller back. >> not of stable mind. he -- to take his own life you know he could have made a statement and took out other people and thank god he didn't. >> reporter: elizabeth and her boyfriend were visiting from pittsburgh. they were in the capitol visitors center when the shooting happened. they were also kept inside for hours. >> uneasiness going on peo

this was a city on lockdown a community on lockdown. take us back, mike to that time period and the quick police work that went into this investigation to figure out it was these two young men that were behind it. >> yeah well they had photographs of the two young men within 36 hours. video cameras are in and around the scene of the bomb. they had photographs of these two young men, dzhokhar tsarnaev and his brother tamerlan now dead. that was very effective investigative work very effective police work following the identification of the two. all of it plays into the fact that boston is a very small town compared to places like new york and philadelphia. very small town. everyone i know knew someone impacted by the marathon bombing, and many many people certainly know a lot of people who participated in the marathon. it's a state holiday. there's no school. people come from all over new england and all over the world to participate and do the marathon. 23-mile-long block party. it had a vivid and electric effect on millions of people i

the hispanics are now on lockdown, actually they've got the entire badger second on lockdown. >> our crew was at san quentin just hours after an inmate was slashed across the face with a shank. the attacker was identified and put in administrative segregation for questioning, but now the entire cell block is about to be searched for weapons. >> keep your eyes open. keep your ears open. do your normal cell searches, handle your business and be safe. >> a large team of correctional officers will search every square inch of their cells. first, all the inmates are removed. first for weapons, then taken out to the yard. >> step over here. >> all right. all right. >> these surprise raids are usually successful in finding weapons. but present a unique challenge for "lockup" crews. >> it is action. it's real action. and the only thing that you have to be careful of you don't want to piss off the cell block. you kind of run the risk of alienating the very guys you're trying to extract stories and cooperation from. so, we always hope that if there is going to be a raid, that it's toward the en

but they did not evacuate the capitol building but they put it briefly on lockdown. and they were also discussing having to evacuate the iraqi prime minister out the other side of the capitol, the side facing the supreme court, if that had been necessary. in the end, this man was brought into custody. but it was bizarre and not an ordinary day on the hill. >> indeed. he's lucky to be alive. athena jones, thank you so much. while this incident may have caught u.s. capitol police and bystanders off guard, there was one witness ready and waiting for the aircraft to make its descent. he's a reporter who was tipped off. the pilot wanted someone to know his story in case the pilot got hurt or even killed. and ben montgomery with "the tampa bay times" who's been writing about this and has the scoop on the whole story joins us now. ben, what can you tell us about this pilot? why did he do this? >> well he's been thinking for a very long time about a very boring issue, campaign finance reform. and his mission was to do something big, the sort of mix of p.t. barnam and paul re

this morning and when it ended, part of the neighborhood and some of the surrounding area was on lockdown. >> he's going through a lot of stuff. it's just a misunderstanding. >> reporter: he was not there hen his brother held his mother and grandmother hostage. he said they are okay in spite of a tense swat stand off. >> he is a good person. he did graduate from st. joe's university. he's very intelligent. he's going through a lot of problems. a guess an argument led from one thing to another. >> reporter: the swat team arrived to the home after the neighbors heard the women screaming for help. he told the first officer to arrive that he had an ak-47 inside and would shoot. that prompted neighborhood evacuations and a nearby school to close. >> what you saw out here was a cry for help. >> reporter: the neighbor has known him for 30 years and says the responsibility of caring for his blind grandmother and disabled mother had become too much. >> he's a generally nice guy. just going through a lot of different things. stressful time. >> reporter: police took thompson into custody. they tell

no messages were sent advising the lockdown. the gyro captor landed at 1:23. later it was determined to be clear of any hazards at 2:57 p.m. and yet it was 5:03 p.m. before any notice went out. why did it take so long. >> we needily fixed that. the ned day i put out a directive to put out messages to the entire community that effect the community. no one got a lockdown message. we did send some messages out. but that matter has been fixed. we had an overly complex notification system. and we have immediately fixed that and that will not happen. >> and to the sergeant of arms mr. irving welcome back. why didn't we get notification there was a potential threat? >> there was a mix up in the command center. lack of communication between my staff and the command -- capitol police command staff. that will not happen again as the chief said. we have fixed that. we vowed that won't happen again. >> they are the same people, they are in the same room correct? >> it is correct. they are all in the same room. and the notification should ha

a lockdown means that no one is allowed inside or outside. we'll keep you updated. >>> venezuela's president nicolÁs maduro has used the platform to criticize what he calls the u.s. war machine and president obama's reluctance to hold talks. >> with a punked fist venezuela's president nicolÁs maduro arrived in panama. to demand president obama to resign an executive order that sanctions certain individuals accused of human rights abuses. >> i will say it at the summit and wherever i stand to speak. wherever i go i will take the truth about venezuela and no one ever will silence the voice of venezuela. >> but this is no ordinary request. for close to a month. ruling socialist party set out to collect 10 million signatures requesting the u.s. backtrack. this year the goal was reached and in different ways. 3million additional significants and answer on the eve of the commitment the indict of the invasion. yet, it's not clear who the long-term winner will be. >> the first grabs last attention and makes head lane loose. but did in the weak you'll

. >> on his way to pre-seg, a temporary lockdown for inmates awaiting disciplinary hearings, harrison reveals his reason for having the shank. >> the dude that murdered my cousin is in this prison. >> does he live in "e" dorm? >> no, he lives in "f" dorm. but word was he was going to get me, so the day i heard that is the same day i got caught with it. that's when i got the shank. >> all right. >> shakir smith was the man that harrison was allegedly targeting. >> he already passed a rumor that he wanted to try to kill me or was going to kill me. and i could either go at this guy head-on and probably prove everybody right that i'm this big, violent person that they marked me to be, or i could talk to him face up, and i came in one day from work. the dude was waiting outside. and i kind of seen he was antsy and everything. had something in his pocket. >> so you had the shank in your pocket? >> i had tied -- i had a shoestring holding my pants up, and it was tied to the shoestring, hanging by my right side. >> smith was convicted of killing harrison's cousin, but claims it was someone el

. >>> and back here at home, delaware state university was put in lockdown after two shootings on and near campus. three were shot during a cookout event saturday night. hours later, shots were fired on a student housing complex. no one was injured there. the victims are all in stable condition. >>> and the fbi is responding this morning to a scathing report that says fbi examiners gave flawed hair testimony. according to the washington post, the bureau's experts overstated forensic hair matches testimony. 32 defendants in those trials were sentenced to death. the fbi and the department of justice will review all cases before the year 2000. that meets certain criteria. including where the defendant was convicted. >>> and a senior trip for a dozen of uconn students takes a horrifying turn, when the bus they were riding in burst into flames. >> get off the bus! >> everybody off -- >> some of the 52 students on board said they heard a loud bang and rushed off to the massachusetts highway. investigators say the fire may have started under the wheel well. >>> and finally, a louisiana woman