Two men were taken into custody for violating the no-fly zone surrounding the U.S. national capital in Washington D.C. The Capitol Building, the Supreme Court, the Department of the Treasury and the White House were evacuated around noon Wednesday. People in the vicinity were told to head to a rail station approximately a half mile south of the White House. Reporters in the White House itself were told to move into the basement. President Bush was not in the White House at the time. CNN and Bloomberg have reported that the President was on a bicycle ride; CTV has reported that he was at Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Beltsville, Maryland . Wire sources report the cause of the evacuation as being a small plane that wandered into the no-fly zone. The craft was reportedly a Cessna 150 , which flew into restricted space, left the area, and then returned. It was then escorted out of the zone by two F-16s that fired warning flares at it. At the time of the police-ordered evacuation, Sen. Richard Shelby, R-AL ,  was on the Senate floor. "They said get out of here, so I ran. There's no joking about this kind of stuff," Shelby said. In Washington, D.C., a 25 km radius from the Washington Monument is restricted air space.
Two men were taken into custody for violating the surrounding the U.S. national capital in Washington D.C. The Capitol Building, the , the and the were evacuated around noon Wednesday. People in the vicinity were told to head to a rail station approximately a half mile south of the White House. Reporters in the White House itself were told to move into the basement. was not in the White House at the time. CNN and Bloomberg have reported that the President was on a bicycle ride; CTV has reported that he was at Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in , . Wire sources report the cause of the evacuation as being a small plane that wandered into the no-fly zone. The craft was reportedly a , which flew into restricted space, left the area, and then returned. It was then escorted out of the zone by two that fired warning flares at it. At the time of the police-ordered evacuation, , -, was on the Senate floor. "They said get out of here, so I ran. There's no joking about this kind of stuff," Shelby said. In Washington, D.C., a 25 radius from the is restricted air space.
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