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WASHINGTON (AP) — Reporters have returned to the White House briefing room, which had been evacuated for about 20 minutes amid security concerns. Secret Service officers interrupted a live, televised press briefing with the White House press secretary today and evacuated the room. The White House says there had been a telephoned bomb threat. Reporters were escorted to a driveway separating the West Wing from the neighboring office building.
WILLSBORO, N.Y. (AP) — State and federal law enforcement officers are conducting a ground and aerial search in a rural area 30 miles southeast of the northern New York prison where two murderers escaped. A town supervisor in Willsboro says residents reported seeing a couple of men walking in the town last night during a driving rainstorm. He said the men headed off into farm fields and the residents called police.
CHICAGO (AP) — Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert is at a federal court in Chicago for his first appearance in a hush-money case. Hastert, accompanied by at least one of his lawyers, was seen walking into an elevator more than an hour before the hearing. A judge will hear Hastert's plea and is expected to set bail. An indictment accuses him of paying $3.5 million to keep someone from revealing a secret about past misconduct.
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says his family is now on board if he decides to run for president in 2016. Christie spoke this morning at a New Hampshire college. He says his wife and kids are now completely supportive if he chooses to run for the Republican nomination and the decision is now down to whether he really wants to do it. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is expected to jump into the race Monday and many others already have. Christie says he'll make up his mind later this month and announce his decision shortly after that.
HONOLULU (AP) — NASA says a parachute inflated during a test of new technology for landing larger spacecraft on Mars, but it then disintegrated immediately afterward. A NASA official says the parachute appeared to rupture after it deployed. He says the agency will study why that happened and make changes to develop a parachute that won't fail. Yesterday's test off the Hawaiian island of Kauai was investigating technology designed to slow down a large landing vehicle falling through the atmosphere at supersonic speeds.
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