What it was like to be at the dinner when shots rang out 'It was unreal': Inside the shooting incident at the White House correspondents' dinner A man armed with guns and knives stormed the lobby outside a high-profile journalists' dinner attended by U.S. President Donald Trump and multiple senior U.S. leaders on Saturday night, rushing toward the ballroom before Secret Service agents swarmed and took him into custody. CBC correspondent Paul Hunter tells chief political correspondent Rosemary Barton what he saw and heard from inside the dinner's ballroom. It's Paul Hunter in Washington — I was at the dinner last night.  My table was at the back of the ballroom right by where it all happened . The ballroom doors were directly behind us and had been kept open as the night's program began, with Trump at the head table up front.  All of a sudden came multiple, super-loud, POP POP POP sounds from just outside those doors. Quite clearly rapid gunfire. I mean it was LOUD.…