 Capitol Police instructed everybody in the three Senate buildings, Russell Dirksen and Hart buildings, to stay in their offices. Keep in mind the Senate right now is on recess, so there are no senators in the building. But it was reported that there was a possible active shooter in the Russell Senate building, which is home to 34 senators. Those reports are still unconfirmed. There were no gunshots reported. DC Fire is saying it may have something to do more with somebody experiencing a mental health situation than an active shooter situation, even though that is unconfirmed at this point. There's a massive police presence there. There were some office workers, some Senate staffers that have exited the building with their hands in the air for their safety and for the safety of the police there on-site. And police are currently searching those Senate buildings at this point. Nobody has been brought out in handcuffs or anything like that. An active search is underway within the Senate complex there at the Capitol. Again, unconfirmed, very unconfirmed reports of an active shooter. No shots, though, have been reported within the Senate complex, Ellie. Right. And Mike, obviously there is a protocol in these situations. So even the slightest suspicion is triggering this chain of events, so to speak, just for, to be on the safe side, if you will. We've seen similar cases taking place outside the White House premise. What do we know about, again, this security protocol once there's the slightest suspicion that there's an irregular security-related event on one of the official venues of the American administration? Police on the ground there outside the Senate say this was all triggered by a quote unquote concerning 911 call, which came from inside the complex. Listen, they don't take any chances there within government buildings. Any concern that there might be a situation such as this number one triggers an automatic lockdown. It's which we saw an immediate email and text alert system went out to staffers there in the building to lock down, get in their offices, find cover, lock the doors high to get away from windows. Things such as that. Number two, it triggers a massive police presence, not just the Capitol Police, but Metropolitan Police. Every emergency service, secret service that can respond comes on site to make sure it's an all hands on deck situation there. At 24 News, the senior U.S. correspondent Mike Wagenheim reporting about the possible active shooter at the U.S. Senate building. Thank you very much for this, Mike, and we might come back later in the bulletin to a touch base with you on this unfolding situation there on the ground. Staying in the U.S. to the worst anti-Semitic attack, rather, in American history, the Tree of Life synagogue shooter handed a death penalty. Yes, it is happening this evening as a U.S. federal jury is sentencing the Pittsburgh attacker who killed 11 people back in 2018 in a unanimous vote from the 12 member jury, also finding Robert Bowers guilty of all 63 charges stemming from the attack on the synagogue. It is still, however, unclear whether the execution will indeed be executed. The official hearing where the judge will be reading the verdict to Bowers will be taking place tomorrow, Thursday. Okay, and former slash hopeful president Donald Trump is preparing to his court appearance tomorrow as we speak over alleged attempt to overturn the 2020 elections and after federal prosecutors indicted the except first in command the latest charges means Trump has now been impeached twice, arrested twice and indicted three times over attempted election subversion, hush money payments to a porn actor, and the alleged mishandling of classified documents. So for more insight on what is expected next, let's cross now live to Washington DC. We're joined by Mr. Micah Sozena, senior fellow dissenter for American Progress Action Fund. Thank you very much, Mr. Sozena, for joining us tonight rather than for your time. Well, officials say it is going to be concluded very quickly, nine to 12 months, meaning before the election. So quite, you know, uncharted territory here. Let's start with option A. Trump has found guilty. Before E-Day, what happens then? An option B, Trump wins the elections. Can the trial even continue? Will he have to pardon himself? Again, quite a constitutional nightmare. It is. It's a whole new chapter in American history with a lot of untested, uncharted waters because we've never had a former president who's been indicted for federal crimes, let alone a leading presidential contender who might win the presidency again. So there are multiple criminal proceedings going on right now, you've named them. Each of them will have a trial date likely next year, although one or more of them could extend into the period after the election. I would expect that Donald Trump will try to delay his trials in each of these criminal proceedings until after the election. Going to your question about what could happen if he was elected, I mean, a lot of people are surprised to hear that anybody who could be in the midst of a criminal proceeding or even convicted of a federal criminal charge or a state criminal charge can still serve as president. But it's true under the American Constitution. There's no automatic prohibition on that. In fact, a president arguably could even serve from jail. So if Trump were- So their red button can be placed in a prison cell, theoretically speaking? You know, that's one of these new questions that we've never had to confront before. Wow. Negligence on behalf of the Constitution writers there, I must say. Right. I didn't, I don't think that the founders really were envisioning this sort of situation and especially on such a serious set of charges which is trying to undo a valid election. Right. Right. So talk to us really about those charges. How serious are they compared to previous indictments? I think this is the most serious indictment so far, this federal indictment, because it involves a really dark chapter in American history, namely the multi-pronged scheme by President Trump has been alleged to overturn the will of the people, to overturn a valid election and to hold on to political power at any cost. These charges are so important because they go to the root of what is a functioning democracy, how there is supposed to be a rule of law. And how, again, that when the people express their will to choose their political leaders that the loser will accept those election results for the good of the country. So again, these are very, very important charges, perhaps even more important than, for example, the criminal charges that just came down several weeks ago where Donald Trump was accused of holding on to classified documents and trying to obstruct the government from getting those documents back. Right, so indeed many questions still up in the air. The self-pardoning mechanism, can he serve from prison if and when? But bottom line, it all comes to the question of whether he wins the elections or not. So how does it all come to play politically speaking? Is it harming or benefiting the Trump campaign? It's hard to know how it will play out, but right now it certainly appears that Donald Trump is remaining very strong within the Republican base. And as you know, he has many challengers within the Republican primary field. But he, according to current polls, is leading all of his challengers by a pretty large percentage. And so I would say he has the inside track to get the Republican nomination. But we don't know, maybe with more and more criminal indictments happening in the trials starting, it's possible that some Republicans will decide that they want to choose another candidate. Or they want to go with somebody who would have perhaps a better chance of winning the general election, because that's my other point. I think that most Americans are looking at these charges as very serious. And so I think many moderate Americans, even conservative Americans, who might be predisposed to voting for Trump, might think twice about it given the severity of these charges. Well, seems that the GOP will first have to make up its mind on the backing. It is providing Donald Trump, Mike Sose, and Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. Thank you very much for your time, for your analysis. We appreciate your insight. Thank you, sir. Okay, we're staying in Washington DC and circling back to the reports of a possible active shooter at the Senate buildings in the US. Well, again, as we've been reporting earlier, the Senate building has now been evacuated, Politico reporting now that DC Metropolitan Police spokesperson is saying the call for the active shooter appears to be a bad call. No injuries and no shooter were located. So as our Mike Wagenheim explained earlier, it might just be a false call that's triggered this security protocol and the proximity of the US Senate building back with the I-24 News, a senior US correspondent, Mike Wagenheim. So now, again, according to reports, it might be, quote, a bad call. Again, all initial reports, it is important to mention, yeah. Again, better safe than sorry in these situations. We've seen politically motivated shootings, Steve Scalise, congressman, Gabby Giffords. It's happened before, so you take no chance. As I mentioned a few moments ago, this was all triggered by a quote unquote concerning 911 call that came from within apparently the Senate building. So an appropriate response, I think, by the police there to make sure that this was not an active shooter situation. So it might be labeled a quote unquote bad call, but still nevertheless, you don't take chances in a situation like this. Metropolitan Police are about to give a press conference there on site, which would lead one to believe that any active shooter situation that was potentially existent earlier is no longer existent there. There's been no reports of any injuries, no reports of any bullets there flying around in the Senate, thank goodness. And so it appears though we're waiting for official word from Metropolitan Police, but it appears that this situation has been resolved there at the Senate. Right, and it also appears that if indeed the case and we're seeing live images throughout our conversation, Mike, from the scene there. And it seems that if it was indeed a case of a bad call, the authorities there would seek to reassure the public that all is a okay. Again, we must be reserved. And once again mentioned, these are all initial reports from the ground there, but as it seems, a bad call as they put it from within the Senate building there. Mike Wagenheim, again, you're suggesting press conference on the site is just moments away. Yeah, that's what we hear from Metropolitan Police that they're about to give a press conference there just to alert everybody probably as to the protocols and why they took the action that they did. But again, there was never a confirmed active shooter on the ground there, no reports of injuries. And it looks like again, this situation has been resolved thankfully without any incident. Yes, that's indeed hope that was the case of a bad call that triggered this security protocol evacuating a Senate building in the US there. And again, we are expecting to hear from authorities on the ground soon enough. I-24 News Senior US Correspondent Mike Wagenheim, thank you very much for this. This is it from the I-24 News Desk. For now, you can always, of course, stay updated on these breaking news stories and all other stories from the Middle East and around the globe online or on social media. Thank you very much for watching.