U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D), was on the Senate floor Jan. 6, debating on the certification of the Arizona vote for the U.S. Presidential election when it was announced there was a security concern. “Within a matter of minutes, we rushed off the Senate floor and to a private stairway, past windows where I saw a mob carrying baseball bats, pipes, Trump flags, Confederate flags,” Blumenthal said. Blumenthal was among those who went “down the stairs, into a tunnel, and into a safe place.” when rioters broke into the U.S. Capitol building on Jan 6 during the certification of the electoral college votes. By the end of it all, at least five people, including a Capitol Police officer and a woman shot by police, died. As of Friday, USA Today reported various changes that will be made to inauguration festivities because of safety concerns, from U.S. President-Elect Joe Biden (D) not taking an Amtrak to Washington D.C., to many states beefing up security around their own capitals, based on an FBI warning that all 50 state capitols may see armed protest this week.