To 911. We are told once police got here, thats when they closed down the entire area because they did take the threat seriously. They did use two robotics from the bomb squad to come out and evaluate the backpack and search the area. The perimeter has been opened up but obviously there has been a lot of back up and a lot of traffic. In fact it took us about an hour to get out here because route 50 was closed. Patrick henry drive was closed. Obviously that had an effect on several other roads in the area. This is as you know a very popular area in virginia with lots of families. There is a safe way, a target down the road, subway, dunkin donuts. On a hot day like this, a lot of people were in the area. They did evacuate immediately. They did have to close the perimeter to be safe. Police say at this point they have opened it up and they are going to slowly allow more cars as you see to start to they say you can anticipate more delays because it will take sometime. At this point what th
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