Kennedy Center targeted by threat over start of Shen Yun performances, officials say
The Kennedy Center was evacuated early Thursday morning after reports of a bomb threat that targeted upcoming performances of Shen Yun, prompting an evacuation and heavy police presence, the center confirmed to 7News Thursday.
A spokesperson for the performing arts venue said the bomb threat targeted a production of Shen Yun, a popular traditional Chinese dance performance. According to the event's website, Thursday marked the first night of daily performances scheduled to last until March 2.
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Not like I could, but I would actually love to go see this.China wrote: Thu Feb 20, 2025 2:29 pmKennedy Center targeted by threat over start of Shen Yun performances, officials say
The Kennedy Center was evacuated early Thursday morning after reports of a bomb threat that targeted upcoming performances of Shen Yun, prompting an evacuation and heavy police presence, the center confirmed to 7News Thursday.
A spokesperson for the performing arts venue said the bomb threat targeted a production of Shen Yun, a popular traditional Chinese dance performance. According to the event's website, Thursday marked the first night of daily performances scheduled to last until March 2.
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I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not on this one and want to go for a laugh, but Shen Yun is a weird ass cult
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I see the ads on YouTube all the time. A bag a mushrooms and a trip to DC to see it seems tempting.BraveLilToasterOven wrote: Thu Feb 20, 2025 9:42 pmI can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not on this one and want to go for a laugh, but Shen Yun is a weird ass cult
Washington DC Man Reveals He Dresses as an ICE Agent to Scare Immigrants: ‘Complains About “Illegals” While Doing Something Illegal’
I’ve seen some strong opinions on social media lately. Normally, I just scroll along and go on with my day, but I saw a video today that literally made me stop in my tracks. The video revolved around a gentleman named Brandon Fellows, who likes to dress up as an ICE agent and go into Home Depots in the Washington DC area to scare “the illegals.” If you don’t believe him, he’s wearing the costume in the video and even reveals to viewers where they can buy their own and tips for sizing. He tops off the outfit with a backward MAGA hat in black, likely so that others don’t notice it from a distance.
I’ve seen some strong opinions on social media lately. Normally, I just scroll along and go on with my day, but I saw a video today that literally made me stop in my tracks. The video revolved around a gentleman named Brandon Fellows, who likes to dress up as an ICE agent and go into Home Depots in the Washington DC area to scare “the illegals.” If you don’t believe him, he’s wearing the costume in the video and even reveals to viewers where they can buy their own and tips for sizing. He tops off the outfit with a backward MAGA hat in black, likely so that others don’t notice it from a distance.
TikTok Tunnel Girl returns with a permit allowing her to keep tunnel
Kala the Science Girl, also affectionately known as Tunnel Girl, is digging back in after receiving a permit to continue her intricate tunnel work under her Northern Virginia home.
We first met Kala in January 2024, but her work on the tunnel system under her house began years prior. She amassed more than half a million followers on TikTok, where she documented the process of digging.
While many enjoyed watching Kala's tunnel progress, others were not so happy. After posting updates for nearly two years, Kala's tunnel project was shut down.
"They did give me a stop work order and are requiring an immediate evaluation by a professional engineer. Fortunately contrary to rumors here, it is constructed entirely below the slab of my house and it shouldn't be too hard to get the permits and approval," she said in a TikTok posted in 2024.
Now, more than a year later, Kala is digging back in and spoke with WUSA9 about the process.
"I've had to go and get a lot of engineering certifications, a lot of tests, and provide a lot of documentation and provide a lot of calculations and information for the permit process. None of that was wrong, it's very, very thorough and we did a good job," she told WUSA9 at her home Monday.
The tunnel is not Kala's first project shared on TikTok. She says she started posting photos of a four-story addition to her home after seeing videos of other DIY projects on the platform.
"It was so unique building a four-story addition off the backside of my house by myself and it would have been really neat because I'm watching all these TikTok videos of people who are doing their own projects and like I missed it," Kala said. "If I did that project just a few years later, I could have done it on TikTok and it would have been mostly for me to look back at later and say oh this was the project that I did and uh so I was like what other kind of project can I do?"
That is when she got the idea to dig a tunnel, a project she had always wanted to do.
"I thought this is perfect. I can do this as a project, upload it on TikTok, maybe people will be interested maybe they won't, but either way I'll have footage for myself to look back on in the future," she said.
Kala had thought about digging the tunnel for several years, calling it the most challenging and complex project one could do.
"There's a lot of mathematics, there's a lot of engineering, there's a lot of things that can go wrong, complexity in working underground, then just excavating and say an open pit."
Kala started digging in 2022. She explained that while there were some hiccups at the beginning, including trying to figure out if it was even possible to dig under the rock and the soil and not have it all come down.
"How can I do that safely?" Kala said she asked herself.
In the end, Kala decided to excavate around five feet to see if the tunnel was possible. She then dug out another five feet...
But the tunnel didn't stop there.
"It goes about 30 feet down, the first tunnel," Kala said. "Then there's a small landing area, about 5 by 10, and then it goes down another 20 feet."
"Where does it go?" WUSA9's Katie Lusso asked.
"It just stops," Kala answered.
However, the tunnel won't stop there forever, as Kala hopes to continue digging after applying for even more permits.
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Kala the Science Girl, also affectionately known as Tunnel Girl, is digging back in after receiving a permit to continue her intricate tunnel work under her Northern Virginia home.
We first met Kala in January 2024, but her work on the tunnel system under her house began years prior. She amassed more than half a million followers on TikTok, where she documented the process of digging.
While many enjoyed watching Kala's tunnel progress, others were not so happy. After posting updates for nearly two years, Kala's tunnel project was shut down.
"They did give me a stop work order and are requiring an immediate evaluation by a professional engineer. Fortunately contrary to rumors here, it is constructed entirely below the slab of my house and it shouldn't be too hard to get the permits and approval," she said in a TikTok posted in 2024.
Now, more than a year later, Kala is digging back in and spoke with WUSA9 about the process.
"I've had to go and get a lot of engineering certifications, a lot of tests, and provide a lot of documentation and provide a lot of calculations and information for the permit process. None of that was wrong, it's very, very thorough and we did a good job," she told WUSA9 at her home Monday.
The tunnel is not Kala's first project shared on TikTok. She says she started posting photos of a four-story addition to her home after seeing videos of other DIY projects on the platform.
"It was so unique building a four-story addition off the backside of my house by myself and it would have been really neat because I'm watching all these TikTok videos of people who are doing their own projects and like I missed it," Kala said. "If I did that project just a few years later, I could have done it on TikTok and it would have been mostly for me to look back at later and say oh this was the project that I did and uh so I was like what other kind of project can I do?"
That is when she got the idea to dig a tunnel, a project she had always wanted to do.
"I thought this is perfect. I can do this as a project, upload it on TikTok, maybe people will be interested maybe they won't, but either way I'll have footage for myself to look back on in the future," she said.
Kala had thought about digging the tunnel for several years, calling it the most challenging and complex project one could do.
"There's a lot of mathematics, there's a lot of engineering, there's a lot of things that can go wrong, complexity in working underground, then just excavating and say an open pit."
Kala started digging in 2022. She explained that while there were some hiccups at the beginning, including trying to figure out if it was even possible to dig under the rock and the soil and not have it all come down.
"How can I do that safely?" Kala said she asked herself.
In the end, Kala decided to excavate around five feet to see if the tunnel was possible. She then dug out another five feet...
But the tunnel didn't stop there.
"It goes about 30 feet down, the first tunnel," Kala said. "Then there's a small landing area, about 5 by 10, and then it goes down another 20 feet."
"Where does it go?" WUSA9's Katie Lusso asked.
"It just stops," Kala answered.
However, the tunnel won't stop there forever, as Kala hopes to continue digging after applying for even more permits.
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Apparently the NTSB agrees with you:DCSaints_fan wrote: Thu Jan 30, 2025 11:56 amSo it seems the plane was travelling north along the Potomac while the helicopter was travelling south - the collision was more or less head on
What I dont' get is why this is allowed. At least do something like highways where southbound traffic would travel along the east bank and northbound would travel along the west bank
NTSB makes ‘urgent safety recommendations’ after deadly DC plane crash
The National Transportation Safety Board today recommended that helicopter traffic be banned from a four-mile stretch over the Potomac River when flights are landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, hours later, agreed to adopt the recommendation and continue with flight restrictions put in place after a deadly midair collision in January, saying the nation was “threading the needle” in allowing helicopters to fly down the same airspace as landing aircraft.
The “urgent safety recommendation” is part of the NTSB’s preliminary report on the midair collision between a passenger jet and a US Army helicopter in which 67 people were killed in the deadliest crash in the US in nearly two decades. The report did not identify the probable cause of the crash — which is expected to take more than a year.
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