CNN journalist Wolf Blitzer was just a few meters away from an armed individual who opened fire during the White House Correspondents' Association dinner at the Washington Hilton hotel. "The shooter was clearly lying on the ground firing when I saw him; I was only a few meters away," the veteran journalist recalled on Saturday evening. Blitzer said he saw the armed person inside the secured area of the event, beyond the metal detector checkpoints. It remains unclear how he managed to enter the venue. "The gunfire was so loud and terrifying that it frightened all of us," Blitzer said, adding, "We had no idea what was happening."