Radio reports of exercise led to D.C. shots scare
Posted: September 12, 2009 at 5:34 a.m.
Radio traffic about a Coast Guard training exercise Friday led to erroneous television news reports that guardsmen had fired on a recreational boat in the Potomac River, near where President Barack Obama was remembering the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, a senior Coast Guard official said.
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