Women Wired In

Posted by digitalsista on August 28th, 2008 in Netroots, elections 2008, politics

Last night the Big Tent closed shortly after Joe Biden’s speech and the surprise appearance of the Democratic Presidential Nominee Barack Obama at the Pepsi Center. Outside, Liza Sabater (@blogdiva)), from Culture Kitchen, and I were talking with Marcy Wheeler. We began to walk down the street toward 16th Street and we were stopped by fire trucks, sirens and police cars. We started to ask what was going on and then heard a loud “boom.” I pulled my camera out as Liza walked up to the police officer to ask what was happening. The orginial footage as I pulled my camera out is below:

After I turned the camera off for a minute Liza inquired more about what was happening and this is what we were told.

As this was happening Erin Kotecki Vest and Maria Niles were tweeting about not being able to get to their car. The police cars and ATF had baracaded their rental car so they could not leave the scene right away. They were near 16th and Wynkoop. Some twitter followers of both myself and Erin asked her was she stranded because of my tweet about the explosion. She replied “yes“.

Liza and I leave the scene but notice that 16th street had been blocked off and everyone was walking and trying to catch cabs in the traffic on 15th street. Gina @bwbconference, was also tweeting that she and some of the delegates were trapped on a bus that was getting re-routed to Invesco Field.

There was no news footage of any of this by 3:00 am, mountain time.