Breaking Now: Protestors Enter the US Capitol debate halted as the situation worsens outside chamber doors. “Protesters are in the building.”
Tear gas deployed inside rotunda; lawmakers told to find escape hoods / gas masks under their seats and put them on.
Vice President Pence and Senator Charles Grassley, the president pro tempore of the Senate, have been moved to a secure location amid riot at Capitol – CNBC
Reports of ‘shots fired’ inside the chamber; lawmakers blocking doors with furniture & some have guns drawn-@MEPFuller
The Defense Department has just DENIED a request by DC officials to deploy the National Guard to the US Capitol – @byaaroncdavis
At least 1 person shot inside US Capitol, WTTG reports
Associated Press servers down due to the influx of news outlets trying to get updated information
Reports of 2 people shot. One in neck. One in chest. Condition unknown.
The woman shot and killed inside the U.S. Capitol Wednesday has been identified as Ashli Babbit
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"You're on the wrong side."
Protesters chanted at police as hundreds pushed against barricades outside the Capitol in Washington, D.C. pic.twitter.com/dWxv0duuDe
— Bloomberg Originals (@bbgoriginals) January 6, 2021
Several people got on to a scaffolding outside Senate, took it to second floor, which looked like the area where McConnell’s office is located, and started banging on windows pic.twitter.com/IIZ21nkzFT
— Igor Bobic (@igorbobic) January 6, 2021
CHAOS ON CAPITOL HILL: A massive crowd of protestors forced a lockdown as members of Congress inside debated over Republican challenges to Joe Biden's presidential victory. Some Trump supporters were chanting, "We took over the Capitol."
WATCH LIVE: https://t.co/epwfQJCsDl pic.twitter.com/Ks9UccaI2z— ABC13 Houston (@abc13houston) January 6, 2021
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