5 dead after pro-Trump supporters stormed US Capitol Share Updated: 12:16 AM EST Jan 8, 2021 By LISA MASCARO, ERIC TUCKER, MARY CLARE JALONICK and ANDREW TAYLOR
5 dead after pro-Trump supporters stormed US Capitol Share Updated: 12:16 AM EST Jan 8, 2021
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Show Transcript pro president Trump rioters breaching the halls of Congress. Essentially over taken the front of the Capitol is an overwhelming number of people for the Capitol police, triggering an armed standoff. At the doors of the House floor, protesters caught on camera taking the seat of the president of the Senate there. We ve been hearing class banks every few minutes for the last hour protest. There s an penetrated the capital. Tear gas has been deployed. Members are now have masked that are in the capital. Vice President Mike Pence rushed out of the Capitol building to safety, the entire House and Senate floors evacuated and lawmakers told to shelter in place. This
Jan 6, 2021
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Vice President Mike Pence talk before a joint session of the House and Senate convenes to count the Electoral College votes cast in November s election, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
WASHINGTON (AP) The Latest on Congress’ tally of the Electoral College vote won by Joe Biden (all times local):
1:55 p.m.
The U.S. Capitol Police are evacuating some congressional office buildings due to “police activity” as thousands gather outside the Capitol to protest the electoral vote.
Police told congressional staff members they should evacuate the Cannon House Office Building and the building that houses the Library of Congress. It wasn’t immediately clear what specifically sparked the evacuation.
Written by Associated Press on January 6, 2021
WASHINGTON (AP) The Latest on Congress’ tally of the Electoral College vote won by Joe Biden (all times local): 3 p.m.
Protesters backing President Donald Trump have breached the U.S. Capitol, forcing a delay in the constitutional process to affirm Joe Biden’s victory in the November election.
Trump urged his supporters to come to Washington to protest Congress’ formal approval of Biden’s win. Several Republican lawmakers have backed his calls, despite there being no evidence of fraud or wrongdoing in the election.
Protesters are now inside the Senate chamber. One got up on the dais and yelled “Trump won that election.”
2:40 p.m.
The mayor of Washington, D.C., has ordered a curfew in the nation’s capital beginning at 6 p.m. Wednesday after protestors seeking to overturn the election results stormed the U.S. Capitol building.
Mayor Muriel Bowser issued the order as protestors supporting President Donald Trump breached the Capitol, where lawmakers were meeting to formally count the electors that will make Joe Biden president on Jan. 20.
The order extends through 6 a.m. Thursday.
The skirmishes came shortly after Trump addressed thousands of his supporters, riling up the crowd with his baseless claims of election fraud.
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Police with guns drawn watch as protesters try to break into the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
WASHINGTON (AP) The Latest on Congress’ tally of the Electoral College vote won by Joe Biden (all times local):
6:45 p.m.
Dozens of pro-Trump protesters remain on the streets of the nation’s capital in defiance of the curfew imposed after rioters stormed the Capitol.
The mostly maskless crowd was forcibly removed from the Capitol on Wednesday after breaking into the building and halting the constitutional process of voting to certify President-elect Joe Biden’s win. They were pushed out of the immediate area and moved down the hill, where they taunted law enforcement and moved barricades.