Media report a bomb threat and suspicious vehicle near the Library of Congress. U.S. Capitol placed under lockdown. Police evacuating the nearby area.
FBI Washington Field Office's National Capital Response Squad responding alongside the Capitol Police.
Cannon House Office Building and the Library of Congress were also evacuated.
Directive at the Madison Building is to remain calm and move in a safe manner to the exits on the SECOND STREET side of the building.
According to @dianermacedo, a vehicle was driven on to the sidewalk, and a suspect was seen inside of the vehicle holding something in his hand. Negotiators being sent to engage the suspect who was making bomb threats.
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Suspect in video says that "only Joe Biden" can detonate the apparent explosive by shooting out his window. Suspect has made multiple threats to blow up the explosive if he is shot at.
"If you shoot me, 2 and a half blocks are going with me. Then you're talking about a revolution. The revolution is on. It's today."
"I told my wife I'd be home by Sunday. I'm looking for all my other patriots to come out and help me, cause I've got it standing, I've got the foundation built people."
"Op-ed" style posts on this account will not be a thing for long, don't worry. The past week or so of covering the fall of Afghanistan has been causing a boiling anger within me since then, and these rants are my attempt at venting.
I cannot even begin to imagine the anger and the pain that veterans are feeling right now. I know it can't even come close to how shitty I feel at the moment.
The anger will come and go as the situation in Afghanistan continues to develop, but for those who aren't fans of --
the ranting and the anger, the only thing I can say is that it won't be this way for forever. Right now, this is an outlet, and I think we're all just trying to find ways to cope with the various emotions we're all probably feeling right now.
If I could tell the President one thing right now it'd be that nobody is really upset with the fact that the United States left Afghanistan. I think for the most part, a lot of us had been pushing for it for a while now. It's HOW we left that everyone (rightfully) is upset with.
Whether or not the U.S. should have stayed in #Afghanistan is irrelevant. I think most would agree that we should have left, but I think we would ALL agree that we did it in the worst way possible.
There is no other way to describe this, this was a MASSIVE security failure --
on behalf of the United States. The U.S. fucked it up somewhere along the line. I don't know if we failed in regards to intelligence, that we didn't know the Taliban would make such an aggressive and fast push. Maybe we didn't have the intelligence that the Afghan's wouldn't --
put up a fight in any of the cities conquered by the Taliban.
20+ years, $2 trillion plus spent, an unbelievable number of deaths for not just Americans but others around the world that also served in Afghanistan. It's just sickening, I don't think there's any other word.
Multiple Taliban leaders surrounded by heavily armed guards are now within the Presidential Palace. Appears the Taliban has full control of the Presidential Palace now.