Slow Day for Liberal Campaign Workers in New Hampshire today.

Nov 30, 2007 11:20 am US/Pacific
Workers Held Hostage At Clinton Campaign Office

Report: Man Claims To Be Wearing Bomb
ROCHESTER, N.H. (CBS) ? A man is holding at least two people hostage at the
presidential campaign office for Sen. Hillary Clinton in Rochester, New
Hampshire.

CBS Station WBZ-TV in Boston has learned that the man walked into the office
with some sort of device strapped to him, claiming it was a bomb.

He took two hostages, both volunteers, and released others, Shaheen said.

Witness Lettie Tzizik told television station WMUR of Manchester that she spoke
to a woman shortly after she was released from the office by the suspect. The
woman was carrying an infant, and crying.

"She said, 'You need to call 911. A man has just walked into the Clinton office,
opened his coat and showed us a bomb strapped to his chest with duct tape,"
Tzizik said.

Authorities were sending a tactical bomb unit to assist local police, and the
area was evacuated, said Maj. Michael Hambrook of New Hampshire State Police. A
nearby school also was in lockdown.

The Clinton office is located in the downtown area in a strip of several
storefronts.

Workers for Sen. Barack Obama's campaign office in Rochester also were
evacuated, a campaign spokesman said. The office is four doors away from
Clinton's. Staffers in John Edwards' office, a few buildings away, evacuated as
well.

Police have gathered at a nearby church and set up a command post there. SWAT
teams and the State Police bomb squad are heading to the scene.

"We are trying to establish contact with the person inside," Rochester Police
Capt. Callahan told WBZ's Joe Shortsleeve.


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