Be made permanent and the speaker of the house is rather ominously warning that quote the enemy is within. The acting chief of the Capitol Police department recommended the fence remain around our Capitol Building indefinitely and that there be a Back Up Force always stationed nearby to respond to any such violence. This follows yesterdays warning from our own department of Homeland Security about the potential for attacks by those inspired by the assault three weeks ago now. And an attack even Donald Trumps former defense second said was fomented by the former president and all of it because of the big lie. A lot of members of congress have received threats to their lives while in washington. And back home in their districts. 32 members of congress have now asked House Leadership for more protection. We will probably need a supplemental for more security for members when the enemy is within the house of representatives. A threat that members are concerned about. In addition to what is
welcome back to the lead. we re following some potentially violent weather kicking up around the washington, d.c. area. there s a stoppage at the airport. what s the latest? they re ordering people to go to the lowest parts of the airport. it s a big sprawling airport, closer to baltimore than washington. it s one of the major airports and they re ordering people to move into these safer areas as the storm front sweeps through there. we ve had delays at dulles airport and reagan national airport here in d.c. so massive impact. metro here in d.c. has advised people there may be a slowdown in the subway service. it s 4:30 in washington now. this is the height of the beginning wave of rush hour on a thursday afternoon. we re talking about millions of
russia. if we zoom in, we can get a closer look in regard to moscow. it s on the southside of the town. big sprawling airport as you might expect in any major city in the country. this is the main terminal. this is international arrivals down here. and this is a sense of why it was such a vulnerable point. it happened at 4:32 in the afternoon. 15 pounds of tnt wrapped and chards of metal. if you ve been around any kind of tnt blowing up, you know how much that is. it would be tremendous in a closed room like that. busiest airport in russia. 22 million passengers in 120. you know at 4:32 how busy it would be. look more closely at the actual facility here. if we move across, we can bring up details inside the building. down here, this is baggage claim up in here. this is security, and this is where we believe it happened. so the blast itself was actually just outside of security.