the annapolis area saying the capital gazette is the kind of newspaper he drew a picture of his dad when he was a child and sent it in to capital gazette and printed it on father s day. that kind of community newspaper. what can you tell us about the paper? yeah. i was thinking back to the days of the state house in annapolis. sometimes the only reporter covering an event at the staios house is going to be a reporter of this newspaper. this is the kind of newspaper, the local community and the state of maryland, depends on. there are multiple papers that are printed under the capital and gazette names and then qult baltimore sun parent opens the whole thing. very well-known to the public. and to your point about security and whether anyone would expect security in the office, this was a location, an address, right by the mall well-known to readers and the public. people would and could stop by. it s not like a giant paper where you have to go through
apparently the fire department in the county may have been responding to an explosion when they don t know what it is. they don t know what it is. initial reports say it might have been a chemical explosion. let s go back now to annapolis for a second. and i ll just keep on informing you of what i know. these are all reports i m getting some information now through the baltimore sun. the jeffrey building, which is across from the state house in annapolis, includes a number of gubernatorial staff offices as well as the office of homeland security, the office of appointments, and the secretary of state. so it s an important maryland state building in annapolis, maryland. the state capital, that is the state house. these are google images that we re showing you. anybody that s been to annapolis knows that that part of town is centered around the state house. a bit of a hill to get up there. government offices surround it.
both state of maryland buildings. the department of transportation headquarters and a place where there are other senior maryland government officials. it is unclear what the motivation would be to target those two buildings. annapolis, about less than an hour s drive from washington, d.c. now you re looking at hanover there. and the the complex that houses the maryland department of transportation headquarters. so we have no information yet coming to us about what it is. now, let me tell you more okay. so we have been reporting, again, this is all very, very new information. we ve been reporting no injuries. there are conflicting reports now that a mailroom employee may have been injured. this is breaking news. we are working to clarify information as we go along. but this is this may have happened at the state house in annapolis. again, lots of conflicting nn i information. we first heard that it was at the state house, now we ve heard