I don't have the signal to tweet photos but the scene outside the Capitol is pretty wild. They've broken down fences to get up to the outside doors of the Capitol. To be clear, most people are standing around chanting or taking photos.

I've never seen anything like this. Protestors crawling all over the Capitol steps, massive crowds outside chanting. "This is our house, let's take it back!" A guy next to me yells.

Smoke bombs of some sort deployed on the west side of the Capitol to clear people out

Some guy on the southeast corner of the Capitol is riling up the crowd by saying police shot a protestors. I do NOT have evidence this happened. He's yelling about police shooting her and telling him "do you want to be next?" People in the crowd yelling "hell yeah!"

Some "they drew first blood" vibes percolating in a small section of the crowd.

Large amount of armed police gathering around the Capitol but not seeing any conflict yet.

"Are you kidding me?" one woman says on the phone to her husband. She turns to the people around her and says "Pence isn't going to sign for Trump!"

The cold is starting to bring the energy level down here. Still tons of people but many also heading out. "We can bring DC to its knees, we have the power!" one guy shouts.

Another man is hamming it up. "They are *not* doing guided tours of the Capitol today, sorry everyone."