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John harwood about amtrak having been stopped while they check the tracks. there is another report from the station wrc and they have pictures of some sandstone and granite crumb frblg tling from spires of the washington cathedral. and over to pete williams and andrea mentioned amtrak and we got that tweet in from john harwood our colleague saying that amtrak is checking the tracks outside of baltimore and what is the update, pete? well, it is not just the tracks they are looks at, but amtrak according to the official i just talked to shut down service in several northeastern states while it looks at what they generally call infrasfrauk chur, and you are looking at a still picture of people outside of union station in washington, d.c. a moment ago and that is the picture of people that s just down the street from the ....
And you see the events at the national mall and i was on the phone with senator coons, and like you, he said i was walking around and i felt suddenly the earth shake under my feet. i have a note here that another evacuation is taking place, but pete, any more information about the buildingings in your area being evacuated? no, i think that pretty soon people will be allowed back into their buildings here now that it is clearly or at least as far as anyone can tell over. there will be concern about the condition of the buildings, and that may be one question that federal officials will want to look at. i am sure that there is somewhere in washington a plan of what to do about a earthquake, but if there is one, they are grabbing it off of the shelf and blowing the dust off of it, because the only disaster that officials had in mind here was them oc coming of the hurri bearing down and the u.s. and thought to be reaching this area ....
Shortly here, tamron. okay. well, pete, i have a tweet in from backbay in downtown boston and this is someone who felt they were and i want to be responsible and not go off of what people are saying, but the chatter in the e-mails coming in, it follows the pattern, and let me go to craig melvin any colleague standing by and we are looking at the epicenter, and craig, a 6.0 is the estimate of the earthquake, but this number has been ticking up over the last 12 minutes or so i have been on. that is what i am getting here. and you have been getting tweets, too, and i have been getting tweets here. i have spent a number of years working in the same building with pete williams, and if you think that folks in washington, d.c. are freaked out by an earthquake, talk about the carolinas, that is where i m originally from. south carolina, i have gotten a number of friends down there sending me e-mails and tweets and text messages saying that the buildings there in south carolina have been ....
Vineyard, andrea, and goi just t a hot note in that they felt a tremor in the workspace in martha s vineyard and now we have a great portion of the east coast where people are reporting that they felt the tremors and i m standing not far from congresswoman maxine waters and you mentioned that everyone is spread out and you have members of the congressional black caucus in miami with this, and they are like the rest of us a, baffled by the news coming from washington and the area, but also trying to clamor to get more details. we have a picture of the national mall where people are being evacuated and i believe that we have pete williamston ready to talk about the information that he is gathering with all that is going on. pete, are you there? i am, tamron. so far we have not heard of any serious damage here in the washington, d.c. area, because the earthquake was sen the order ....