White House shuts: Journalists face up until secret services behave mysteriously

Journalists posted messages to social media announcing the closure until they were gathered in the White House press room, Periscope follows.

We're literally closed here,” wrote Megan Pratz, a rapporteur for Chaddar.

We can't see much, but the secret service officers just ran across the hall. ”

Secret services posted a Twitter statement a few minutes ago, saying the agency was responding to an incident involving a suspicious package placed in Pennsylvania Ave. ”

Pratz later added to Twitter that a secret service official had asked the group of journalists not to go out. /Periscopi