WUSA 9News Now At 6pm January 1, 2011
connection with a tower for about 15 minutes. after that, all heck broke loose here in the capitol. this was the scene at the u.s. capitol on new year's day afternoon. federal police evacuated hundreds of tourists and dozens of workers from the u.s. capitol, the capitol grounds and nearby federal buildings. the scare was caused by a piedmont airlines flight that strayed near washington and lost radio contact with flight controllers at reagan national airport. the north american aerospace defense command scrambled fighter jets to intercept the flight. the emergency was called off afte...
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