US Capitol being evacuated

[WolverineBlue]

Breaking news on Fox right now...stay tuneds

[WolverineBlue]

Allegedly a plane was inbound, and the cops told everyone to run...now it seems like it's over...bizarre

[Moledet]

Are Fox creating news again?

Edited: Israeli news sites report the same thing. They say that the high court was evacuated too.

[WolverineBlue]

No, they're not making up news -- people ran like hell from the Capitol because cops told them to. Homeland Security was able to apparently identify and reach the plane that caused the alarm.

[Pooga]

What the monkeys?

[MARINO]

It's probably a false alarm.

[Pooga]

It's off FoxNews' site.

Dangit, you don't just do that. FoxNews just takes it off their page like nothing happened. At least tell us it's a false alarm, which I hope it is!

[2Sheds_Jackson]

Nah, it was prolly just 'ol Barney Frank clearing out the entire building with one of his triple-flush bathroom "filibusters". Man...that guy eats Mexican for lunch and watch out!

[WolverineBlue]

Now they're saying it was a Kentucky State Police plane -- no idea where the heck it was, but if it were in Kentucky, that would give you an idea how tight security is for this funeral.

[Gordon]

Well, i just heard on the news that it was a light aeroplane that flew within the no-fly zone surrounding Capitol Hill so they evacuated everyone ... as they're supposed to. In the end nothing untoward came of it, although i don't know if they identified the pilot or anything like that yet.

[Seraphim]

Capitol Has a Scare Before Reagan Honors


By JESSE J. HOLLAND

WASHINGTON - Lawmakers, dignitaries and mourners preparing for Ronald Reagan (news - web sites)'s funeral ceremony raced from the Capitol Wednesday after police feared an airplane was headed for the building and warned: "You have one minute to impact."



Within minutes, authorities determined the small plane was carrying Kentucky Gov. Ernie Fletcher to the funeral and had mistakenly entered restricted airspace around the capital. Two F-15 fighter jets were diverted from an air patrol to intercept the plane.


The building was reopened at around 4:30 p.m. EDT, about 1 1/2 hours before the start of the procession bringing Reagan's body to the Capitol Rotunda.


During the period of uncertainty, police had hustled House Speaker Dennis Hastert — second in line to the presidency — away in a secured motorcade.


Across the street, at the Supreme Court, police gathered several of the justices and whisked them away in cars. An alarm sounded, and officers yelled at workers: "To the basement, to the basement."


Police in the Capitol had urged people running down staircases to run faster. An officer shouted at one photographer trying to look back through a camera, "You don't have time to look back."


"Incoming plane!" another police officer shouted at reporters asking what was going on.


Women, many wearing formal dress for the Rotunda ceremony, kicked off high-heeled shoes to enable them to run faster.


Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, was on the third floor of the Capitol with her staff when the fire alarms first went off and they started walking out of the building. "We were walking until we were told to run, get out of the building," Murkowski said, as one of her staffers tried to find a lost intern. "I got a little exercise this afternoon."


The governor's Beech King Air 200 had permission to fly into the restricted airspace but briefly lost its identifying transponder signal 13 miles southwest of Reagan National Airport, said Greg Martin, spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration (news - web sites).

[OB Kenobi]

Within minutes, authorities determined the small plane was carrying Kentucky Gov. Ernie Fletcher to the funeral and had mistakenly entered restricted airspace around the capital...

...reported chief of Homeland Security, Gomer Pyle.

[Bombtrack]

Within minutes, authorities determined the small plane was carrying Kentucky Gov. Ernie Fletcher to the funeral and had mistakenly entered restricted airspace around the capital...

...reported chief of Homeland Security, Gomer Pyle.

rofl

[usa320]

If nothing else at least we now know we are better prepared for these kinda things.