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An announcement was played inside the Capitol as lawmakers were meeting and expected to vote to affirm Joe Biden’s victory. Due to an “external security threat,” no one could enter or exit the Capitol complex, the recording said. Both chambers abruptly went into recess.
On March 4, 1954, four Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire from the galleries of the House of Representatives, wounding five congressmen. A former House page later told the historian of the House about what he remembered.
Yeah. Yeah. That’s true. A lot of the Congressmen didn’t realize they were real guns. A lot of the Congressmen just heard pop-pop-pop-pop going on, and they thought it was firecrackers. Everybody had different ideas. And I saw the gun. I knew they were shooting. They weren’t firecrackers. Bill was hollering at the photographer not to take photos, but you can’t, it’s like trying to stop a charging elephant. You can’t do that. We were coming down the Capitol steps, and
captions paid for by nbc-universal television good evening, everyone. the unrelenting flow of oil and bubbling anger over the massive spill reached a kind of critical mass today with both bp and the obama administration facing a new level of outrage. a lot of it coming from the oil-stained shore of louisiana, where that state s governor today blasted washington and demanded a greater sense of urgency and action. but even the federal government seems divided tonight on who best can handle the disaster. with one hand defending bp, the other condemning its response. but none of the finger-pointing has stopped the oil or the slow-motion destruction of the gulf coast. we have reports from louisiana and washington tonight, starting with our chief environmental affairs correspondent, anne thompson in venice. anne? reporter: good evening, lester. what i m about to tell you isn t going to help. coast guard officials say bp s attempt to cap that well may slide until wednesday. and