--- title: White House Evacuated During Press Briefing description: The White House Press briefing room was evacuated Tuesday in the middle of the daily press briefing by spokesman Josh Earnest. canonical: https://time.com/3914846/white-house-evacuation/ author: Maya Rhodan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-09T18:40:16.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:58:59.134Z article:section: Politics og:title: White House Evacuated During Press Briefing og:description: Reporters live-tweeted the evacuation. og:url: https://time.com/3914846/white-house-evacuation/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt557c6cf1ae9de50c/698853bff887dc16f4e90d94/white-house-press-briefing.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 594 og:image:height: 334 og:image:alt: White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest answers questions on the massive cyber-attack on the personal data of government employees June 5, 2015 during the daily briefing in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: White House Evacuated During Press Briefing twitter:description: Reporters live-tweeted the evacuation. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt557c6cf1ae9de50c/698853bff887dc16f4e90d94/white-house-press-briefing.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # White House Evacuated During Press Briefing > Sponsored content. 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White House Press Briefing Evacuated_ by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Jun 9, 2015 6:40 PM UTC  White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest answers questions on the massive cyber-attack on the personal data of government employees June 5, 2015 during the daily briefing in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC. White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest answers questions on the massive cyber-attack on the personal data of government employees June 5, 2015 during the daily briefing in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC. MANDEL NGAN—AFP/Getty Images by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Jun 9, 2015 6:40 PM UTC The White House Press briefing room was evacuated Tuesday in the middle of the daily press briefing by spokesman Josh Earnest. As Earnest took a question from a reporter about recent cyber security breaches at the Office of Personnel Management, the Secret Service entered the James Brady Press Briefing room to give an order to evacuate. Reporters who had been in the briefing room immediately began live-tweeting the evacuation. The White House has not yet provided details on the evacuation, but reporters at the White House say the Secret Service brought bomb-sniffing dogs to the scene. > [](https://twitter.com/LinseyDavis/status/608339599673442306) Reporters were let back into the briefing room around 2:40 p.m. “We’ll try this again,” Earnest said as the briefing started again. Earnest said the evacuation came after a call to the local police in Washington around 2 p.m. made a bomb threat. On Tuesday, Senate buildings were also evacuated because of a suspicious package and bomb threat. According to [Reuters](http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/09/us-usa-capitol-evacuation-idUSKBN0OP1ZN20150609)[,](http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/09/us-usa-capitol-evacuation-idUSKBN0OP1ZN20150609) Capitol Police found “nothing problematic.” ## Transcript That these kinds of threats are real and require the attention of the senior level officials at each of these agencies. 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