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ABC\u2019s Selina Wang was smiling into her iPhone when the first shots cracked through the North Lawn. A heartbeat later, her face shattered into raw panic. Reporters dove, Secret Service screamed, and the world\u2019s most heavily guarded home suddenly felt exposed. Sirens, rifles, a sprint for cover \u2014 and a gunman dropped at the gate. Then, a chilling si\u2026
\nIn seconds, a routine standup became a war\u2011zone scramble. Wang and other journalists were corralled from \u201cPebble Beach\u201d and ordered to run \u2014 not walk \u2014 into the White House press briefing room as gunfire echoed from the 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue perimeter. Outside, Secret Service agents moved with terrifying precision, racing toward the gate where a gunman had opened fire, locking down the grounds that symbolize American power.<\/p>\n
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Inside, reporters pressed against windows, phones shaking as they filmed the chaos they usually just narrate. Wang later wrote on X that it \u201csounded like dozens of gunshots,\u201d her composed correspondent persona stripped to something far more human. No podium, no spin, just fear and gratitude that the response was faster than the bullets. For a few long minutes, the distance between those who cover danger and those who live it simply disappeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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