Caitriona Perry

And the president was still in the building at that point at the huge hotel complex.

And then there was another period of confusion as to

You know, sometimes these things are drilled or false alarms.

What's actually happened?

What's going to happen next?

And then it was decided that we would try and proceed with the programme.

The White House Correspondents Association president, Rita Zhang, came to the stage and said, you know, everyone's OK.

President's OK.

No one's been injured.

We're going to try and go ahead with the programme.

Everyone stay here.

Then it emerged that a Secret Service agent had been shot, although, according to the president, was doing well, but is in hospital.

And the gunman also in a local hospital in Washington, D.C.

And then the law enforcement personnel decided that, no, this can't continue.

It's an active crime scene and everyone has to leave.

So at which point the doors opened and everyone was kind of ushered out of the dining room.

Yeah, I mean, it's just gone 6am in the morning here and I think most people, including myself, were working on air until a couple of hours ago.

So, you know, we don't know is the short answer in relation to the gunman.

He's in detention.

I said he's in hospital.