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police were among the officers on scene.
Mayor Muriel Bowser is calling the attack on two National Guardsmen as, quote, targeted.
The assailant was also shot and is in custody.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said today President Trump has instructed him to send 500 more troops to the nation's capital.
The area around where two National Guardsmen were shot is closed off with police tape.
It's in a normally busy intersection of the nation's capital called Farragut Square, just about two blocks away from the White House.
So far, we know the National Guardsmen were shot earlier this afternoon and caught by surprise.
officials called it a targeted attack.
The gunman was also shot and is in custody at a local hospital.
West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrissey said that the two soldiers were West Virginia National Guardsmen.
The White House says it is monitoring the situation.
Jacqueline Diaz, NPR News, Washington.
Early in the morning, users started reporting problems with popular online games, Fortnite and Roblox, and with financial apps like Robinhood and Venmo, just to name a few.
The route to many of these problems appears to have been with Amazon Web Service.
The cloud computing service lets users store and manage data online.
Amazon says an error in a software update to a database service called DynamoDB caused this widespread disruption.