DC Harbor Patrol: No Incident, Coast Guard Was Doing Training Exercise

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An official with the DC Harbor Patrol just told us definitively that no rounds were fired, that the Coast Guard was just conducting a training exercise.

CNN had been reporting that shots had been fired at a “suspicious vessel.”

Obama had traveled to the Pentagon for a ceremony commemorating the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

The Washington Post reports: “D.C. police spokeswoman Traci Hughes said the incident near the Memorial Bridge was a training exercise.”

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