Tuesday’s White House briefing was cut short after Secret Service ordered an evacuation of the briefing room.
This comes on the heels of the Russell and Dirksen Senate Office Buildings being evacuated earlier Tuesday due to suspicious packages. The two office buildings were given the all-clear an hour later.
JUST IN Press briefing being evacuated now
— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) June 9, 2015
White House briefing room evacuated in the middle of briefing.
— Byron Tau (@ByronTau) June 9, 2015
BREAKING: all press now being evacuated from press briefing, not being told what threat is
— Shannon Bream (@ShannonBream) June 9, 2015
BREAKING: US Secret Service interrupts White House press briefing to evacuate briefing room.
— Peter Alexander (@PeterAlexander) June 9, 2015
Secret Service agents prepare to enter Press Briefing room with bomb sniffing dogs -> pic.twitter.com/vvLkDSKeLs
— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) June 9, 2015
WH press corps evacuated from briefing room in the middle of the briefing. Not told why. pic.twitter.com/gexrNa3x8Z
— Francesca Chambers (@fran_chambers) June 9, 2015
We are now being moved to EEOB
— Francesca Chambers (@fran_chambers) June 9, 2015
One more question to @PressSec – what's going on? cc @Schultz44
— Jonathan Karl (@jonkarl) June 9, 2015
My colleague @JamesRosenFNC reports entire West Wing evacuated – press still being held across the street
— Shannon Bream (@ShannonBream) June 9, 2015