SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Many Bay Area lawmakers were inside the U.S. Capital building when people stormed in on Wednesday. Some of them described what they saw and heard.
"Then they were pounding on the door so they told us to lie down in the marble floors which we did and then there was a shot that I heard," California District 14 Congresswoman Jackie Speier describing the moment when people stormed into the U.S. Capital building Wednesday. Speier says she quickly learned that there are gas masks under each seat of the house chamber.
"There was an announcement made that the Capitol had been breached and we should sit in our seats and wait, that we should get out the gas mask and I have one here to show you. It's in this packing like this and then when you open it up you can hear this thing taking off," said Speier.