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the actions of law enforcement following the White House Correspondence Association Dinner Saturday Night.
“As NPR's Tamar Keith reports, there were shots fired outside the ballroom where the event”
was taking place. "There were several tense minutes, as the President, Vice President, and members of the cabinet were quickly evacuated from the ballroom at the Washington Hilton, while more than 2000 other guests in the packed room took cover. It turns out the gunfire was actually one floor above the ballroom.
Law enforcement officials say the alleged assailant ran through a security checkpoint trying to reach the stairs down to the ballroom before being subdued. The annual dinner has long been held at the Washington Hilton, which has unique security features to protect presidents. They were added after President Reagan was shot outside of the hotel in 1981.
Tamar Keith and P.R. News NPR has learned the shooting suspect is 31-year-old Cole Allen of Torrance, California. He used to be a range-day in federal court in Washington, D.C. NPR's Ryan Lucas says authorities are building a case against him.
“"Investigators are continuing to interview witnesses and people who knew Allen, they'll”
be building a profile, they'll be trying to trace his actions, his footsteps, so to speak in the weeks, days and of course hours leading up to what happened on Saturday night. So far officials say they believe Allen acted alone, they don't see any sort of foreign involvement for next is here. Now Justice Department officials have said that Allen will face charges as of now.
The initial ones are expected to be assault on a federal officer with a dangerous weapon in using a firearm in a crime of violence. They also expect to add more down the line." NPR's Ryan Lucas reporting. The U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments today about geo-fensing.
This is a relatively new law enforcement technique that lets police tap into giant tech databases. They're trying to learn who was near the scene of a crime and may have been involved, and PR's Nina Tottenberg reports. "Geofencing allows police and prosecutors to draw a virtual fence around a large geographic
area where a crime was committed. After that, the government seeks a warrant requiring a tech company, in this case Google, to search its data to identify any of its millions of users who were within the geo-fans line at the time of the crime. In the last analysis, the question facing the justices today is whether that technique
is ingenious, or well-in, or both, and ultimately whether it's constitutional."
Nina Tottenberg and PR News Washington. The Justice Department says it is dropping a probe of federal reserve chair Jerome Powell. That satisfies a demand from North Carolina Senator Tom Tullis. Tullis says he will now support President Trump's nominee to be the next Fed chair, and wash.
"You're listening, too, and PR News, from Washington." The state of Hormuz remains blocked by both Iran and the U.S. The Trump administration says it is block-cating Iranian ports. Iran's foreign minister is in Moscow today for talks with Russian leaders. Stock shares in a Chinese oil refinery felt today after the U.S. Treasury Department
placed economic sanctions on it for doing business with Iran. Senator Cherice FAM has more. "Hungely, petrochemical stock plunged 10 percent. The daily limit imposed by the Shanghai stock exchange. The fall comes after the U.S. sanctioned the Chinese oil refinery on Friday.
It accused Hungely of being one of Iran's largest customers of oil purchasing billions of dollars worth of Iranian petroleum. Hungely denies the allegations.
The company said in a statement on Sunday that it has never engaged in any trade with
Iran, adding that all crude oil suppliers have pledged and guaranteed that the origin of the crude oil supplied complies with US sanctions. China is a big buyer of Iranian oil, accounting for roughly 90 percent of Iran's exported oil, according to the U.S. government. For NPR News, I'm Cherice FAM in Hong Kong."
While fires continue to burn out of control in parts of southern Georgia and northern Florida, officials in Florida say a volunteer firefighter died last week after he experienced a medical issue while responding to a brush fire. Tornado's over the weekend killed two people near Dallas, Texas. Forcasters weren't more tornadoes could happen today.
They're watching an area from Illinois to Tennessee. I'm Corv. Colman and PR News from Washington. You know, every day on up first NPR's golden globe nominated morning news podcast, we bring
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