This inauguration was supposed to be women’s chance to celebrate Petula Dvorak Farah Mack had her hotel and her flight all booked. It was going to be her first time in D.C. for an inauguration. And it was going to be personal. As a Black woman with Jamaican roots and a degree from a historically Black university, Mack, 47, felt a connection with Vice President-elect Kamala D. Harris, an Indian-Jamaican woman who graduated from Howard University. And even though the novel coronavirus was going to constrict the celebration, Mack wanted “to be in the space and share the energy” when such sacred history was made.
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A fire under a bridge near the Capitol building produced huge plumes of smoke on Monday morning
It sent the nearby rehearsal into a panic and staffers ran for their lives from the bleachers set up
A loudspeaker announcement played warning people to evacuate; no public officials were in attendance
Staffers in nearby buildings were told to stay away from windows and the military was evacuated
The fire department later tweeted that the smoke came from a fire beneath a bridge a short distance away