This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Rose good evening. Scott is off tonight. Im charlie rose. And we begin with the latest security scare at the white house. The secret service says an agent shot an armed man outside the executive mansion after he refused to drop his weapon. The president was not at the white house at the time, but the Vice President was. Chip reid has the latest. Get back over that way lets any reporter the incident set off a flurry of activity by secret Service Officers and agents with guns drawn, even on the white house roof. The grounds and nearby streets were locked down for more than an hour. The shooting happened outside a secret Service Checkpoint on the southwest side of the white house compound. A man walked up to the gate and railed a weapon, according to the secret service, Uniformed Division officers gave numerous verbal commands for the subject to stop and drop the firearm. When the subject failed to comply with the verbal commands, he was sho
This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Suggested he wanted to die, a socalled suicide by cop. Police recovered his weapon. The president was golfing at a nearby military base at the time but the Vice President was safe inside the white house complex. A white house statement says no one within or associated with the white house was injured and everyone in the white house is safe and accounted for. Its the latest in a string of security incidents at the white house in recent years. In 2011, a man fired eight rounds from his car into the building, and a number of jumpers have scaled the fence, including a man in 2014 who made it all the way inside the mansion before being arrested, eluding eight secret service members. A followup report cited communication snafus and severe understaffing of uniformed officers. A plan to almost double the height of the perimeter fence is in the works. The shooting occurred at that checkpoint behind me. You can see the white tent where it has been
Rose good evening. Scott is off tonight. Im charlie rose. And this is our western edition. And we begin with the latest security scare at the white house. The secret service says an agent shot an armed man outside the executive mansion after he refused to drop his weapon. The president was not at the white house at the time, but the Vice President was. Chip reid has the latest. Get back over that way lets any reporter the incident set off a flurry of activity by secret Service Officers and agents with guns drawn, even on the white house roof. The grounds and nearby streets were locked down for more than an hour. The shooting happened outside a secret Service Checkpoint on the southwest side of the white house compound. A man walked up to the gate and raised a weapon, according to the secret service, Uniformed Division officers gave numerous verbal commands for the subject to stop and drop the firearm. When the subject failed to comply with the verbal commands, he was shot once by a sec
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