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On the broadcast tonight, eight years later during the remembrance of 911, a security scare in Washington. Is it the fault of the coastguard or cable network? Tonight, we’re covering the memorials and the unfinished business. One shot. Could it be that’s all it’ll take to protect this against the swine flu and when will the vaccine be available? And making a difference. Across America on this national day of service. Nightly News begins now. From NBC News world headquarters in New York, this is NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams.

 

Good evening. We are a much different country today than we were in the immediate aftermath of 911, while we are still fighting two wars launched in its immediate aftermath, and while thankfully we have remained safe. We aren’t as skittish 겁이 많은, 잘 놀라는 as we were right after 911. That is until something happens like it did today. During the 911 memorial in Washington, an urgent story broke on television about an incident on the Potomac River not far from where the president was at the Pentagon.

 

Outbound flights were halted at Washington’s airport and tensions were high until we learned, it was a false alarm. The day went on from there. Sad memorials here in New York, Washington, Pennsylvania, and elsewhere, many of them in a soaking rain. But the tone was said. Our justice correspondent Pete Williams starts us off from the banks of the Potomac in Washington tonight. Pete? Good evening.

 

Brian? This is Memorial Bridge over the Potomac and as the president’s motorcade was driving back and forth across it this morning, something was going on nearby that set ripples of alarm across the capital. For the crews of the US coastguard’s fast patrol boats, it was a normal day. A routine training drill like this one on the Potomac River between two Washington bridges and not far from the Pentagon and national airport.

 

As part of the drill, a coastguard’s man said on an open marine radio channel that a suspicious boat refused an order to stop. “Bang, Bang, Bang” said one of the exercise participants. “There is other news that we need to get out to you. In fact, a breaking news right now.” A few minutes later, CNN hearing the radio call and seeing coastguard boats maneuvering reported that shots had in fact been fired. “This is pretty incredible. I have to say that as the story’s developing here, I learned that ……rounds had actually been fired.”

 

Based strictly on the news report, the FBI scrambled 긴급 출격시키다 the response team and nearby national airport, stopped all takeoffs for nearly half an hour delaying 17 flights. But there was no suspicious boat on the river. No shots were ever fired. It was all a drill.

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