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Fiery
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Fri May 26, 2006 9:54 am |
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SHOTS FIRED AT THE RAYBURN /HOUSE OFFICE BLDG
Cable channels are reporting that shots have been fired in the rayburn garage across the street from the capital building.
http://www.drudgereport.com/
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/bw-cong/2006/may/26/052605210.html
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| CSI
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Fri May 26, 2006 9:55 am |
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Thanks - just now turned on the new to watch it.
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| victims cry
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Fri May 26, 2006 10:14 am |
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Four ambulances arriving now
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On Vacation!
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| CSI
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Fri May 26, 2006 10:19 am |
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FBI terrorist task force on scene.
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| writergal
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Fri May 26, 2006 10:49 am |
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Whatever this is, there's supposed to be a press conference about it at noon.
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| writergal
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Fri May 26, 2006 11:06 am |
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I have heard a sketchy report that one gunman was captured.
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| Fiery
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Fri May 26, 2006 11:12 am |
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| writergal wrote: | | I have heard a sketchy report that one gunman was captured. |
The producers and reporters can only communicate via blackberry. They are not allowed to leave where they are, they must stay put under lockdown conditions. Some are in the cafeteria....at least they will eat!!!
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| writergal
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Fri May 26, 2006 11:15 am |
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Okay, a police spokeswoman is denying that a gunman has been captured. She says there are no injuries of which she's aware. Another press briefing in an hour.
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| Fiery
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Fri May 26, 2006 11:17 am |
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I think a lot of people took vacation days today and made it a very long weekend. FBI terrorism task force sarriving and four ambulances doesn't sound good to me.
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| likestoflap-lol
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Fri May 26, 2006 11:23 am |
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more for precaution to have ambulances -nothing really happened of an emergency in fact senate meetings still going on---no one is even sure if shots fired.could be car noises
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| writergal
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Fri May 26, 2006 11:38 am |
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Latest report is that there's a man with a gun hiding in the gym of the Rayburn Building.
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| Fiery
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Fri May 26, 2006 11:42 am |
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Capitol Police Probe Report of Gunshots
By DAVID ESPO
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON (AP) -
Police investigated reports of gunfire in a House office building on Friday and sealed off the Capitol as a precaution. Police said there were no immediate injuries or arrests.
"The report is that shots were fired" at 10:30 a.m. EDT in the garage of the Rayburn House Office Building, said Capitol Police spokeswoman Sgt. Kimberly Schneider.
"We have not gotten any reports of anybody being captured, anybody being arrested." She also said there were no reports of injuries.
On high alert, police lined the street between the Capitol and the Rayburn building, rifles prominently displayed, and four ambulances, two firetrucks and other emergency vehicles were on standby outside the office structure.
Schneider said the search and police deployment was triggered by a single telephone call from an unidentified individual. Police had no other confirmation of gunfire, she said at a noon EDT news conference.
"Right now we want to err on the side of caution," Schneider said. "Lives could be at risk. If we have a gunman in the building we certainly want to find him. It's premature to assume that it may not be a gunman."
The Senate was in session at the time, but the House was not as most lawmakers had left for the Memorial Day recess.
Rep. Peter Hoekstra, R-Mich., conducting a House Intelligence Committee hearing, interrupted a witness to request those attending the meeting to remain in the room and said the doors must be closed.
"It's a little unsettling to get a Blackberry message put in front of you that says there's gunfire in the building," he said.
The Rayburn House Office Building was completed in early 1965 and is the third of three office buildings constructed for the U.S. House of Representatives. It sits across the street from the Capitol. The building has four stories above ground, two basements and three levels of underground garage space.
Steven Broderick, press spokesman for Rep. William Delahunt, D-Mass., was in his car in the Rayburn garage Friday morning getting ready to drive his boss to the airport, when he was ordered by a Capitol Police officer to park the car and put his hands on the steering wheel. The officer then told him to run toward an exit where other officers where gathered.
"He just told me to run and don't look back," Broderick said.
The U.S. Capitol Police Department's Containment & Emergency Response Team maintains an indoor shooting range in the basement of the Rayburn building, according to the department's Web site. Eleanor Holmes Norton, the District of Columbia's delegate to Congress, raised the possibility that noises from a nearby construction site were mistaken for gunfire.
Within minutes of the reports, Rayburn halls were virtually empty and police were not allowing anyone to leave or take elevators or stairs to the garage.
"No one's panicking, everyone's calm," said Charles Isom, spokesman for Rep. Chris Cannon, R-Utah. "It did ruin some people's lunch plans."
The incident occurred at the end of a week of unusually tumultuous series of events that ironically enough, began in the same building. FBI agents armed with a search warrant seized documents and computer material from the first office of Rep. William Jefferson, D-La., in a weekend raid. Jefferson is at the center of a federal bribery investigation.
At the Capitol, police quickly closed all doors, stopping people from either entering the building. Tourists were herded into a first-floor chamber in the middle of the building. Other corridors on the House side of the building, where lawmakers had already left for the recess, were deserted.
The Capitol was reopened within an hour, then sealed back off by police, and eventually opened to the public again about 12:30 p.m. EDT.
Jeff Connor, a spokesman for Rep. Jo Ann Emerson, R-Mo., said Capitol Hill police notified the office that gunfire was heard in the Rayburn building garage.
"They specifically said there was the sound of gunfire on one of the garage levels of the Rayburn House office building and asked staff to remain in their offices," Connor said.
Incidents of violence inside the Capitol and its office buildings are rare.
On July 24, 1998, a man with a history of mental illness shot and killed Capitol Police officer Jacob J. Chestnut at a first-floor Capitol entrance. He then charged into an adjacent suite of offices occupied by Tom DeLay, then the House Republican whip, and exchanged fire with officer John Gibson, who also was killed. The gunman was wounded and captured.
In 1983, a late-night bomb, possibly set by someone protesting U.S. military action in Grenada and Lebanon, exploded just outside the Senate chamber. No one was injured.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/bw-cong/2006/may/26/052605383.html
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| writergal
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Fri May 26, 2006 3:04 pm |
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Apparently it was someone using an air hammer.
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