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The 81-year-old president told reporters “I feel good” as he emerged — without a mask to protect others — from the presidential limo and walked up the stairs of the jet at Harry Reid International Airport.

Biden canceled a speech to a Latino advocacy group in Sin City due to his diagnosis.

Both of them radioed the threat on a “blanket tactical channel” before the shooting, on which “everyone who was on the tactical channel heard it” according to Butler Township manager, Tom Knights.

“The boosting officer and the officer that fell were both on the radio indicating that there was an individual on the roof that did, in fact, have a weapon,” said Knights. “There was a blanket tactical channel being used. Everyone who was on that tactical channel heard it.”

The officer who confronted Thomas Matthew Crooks on the roof radioed a "blanket tactical channel" that there was "an individual on the roof with a weapon" before the assassination attempt on President Trump.

Why wasn't President Trump immediately evacuated?

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Mullin relayed that senators were told that the Secret Service realized the building on which the shooter was perched was outside the perimeter of the rally.

Officials didn’t clarify whether local law enforcement was supposed to be on top of the building.

The shooter was identified as a person of interest around 5:07 or 5:08 because he had a backpack and a range finder. Shots rang out more than an hour later, at around 6:11

But security officers allowed him in while keeping an eye on him until he left the secure area a short time later, the official said.

The sniper was one of three snipers, members of local tactical teams, who were stationed inside the building that the shooter used in the attack, the officer said. The operations plan had them stationed inside, looking out windows toward the rally, scanning the crowd. The details about the three snipers were first reported by the local news outlet BeaverCountian.com.

One sniper inside spotted the gunman, Thomas Matthew Crooks, outside and looking up at the roof, observing the building and disappearing, according to the officer who spoke to CBS News. The sniper observed Crooks as he returned to the building, sat down and looked at his phone. At that point, one of the local snipers took a picture of Crooks.

Next, the local sniper observed Crooks looking through a rangefinder, an instrument routinely used by marksmen to determine the distance of a target, and he immediately radioed to the command post, according to the local law enforcement officer. The local sniper also attempted to send the photo of the gunman up the chain of command.

The command post, according to multiple law enforcement officials, served as a central hub to streamline communications between U.S. Secret Service and the local officers from nearby state and county police forces. It is unclear if the command post received the alert.

Officials then lost track of Crooks, who disappeared, but soon returned for a third time with a backpack. The local sniper team called for backup — alerting the command post that the gunman had a backpack and was walking toward the back of the building.

By the time other local officers responded to the backup request, the gunman had scaled the building, positioning himself above and behind the local snipers inside the building, according to the officer.

Two other municipal police officers who heard the call for backup attempted to climb onto the roof. Butler County Sheriff Michael Sloupe told CBS Pittsburgh station KDKA that an armed municipal officer with Butler Township was hoisted by another officer onto the roof of the building where the gunman had taken a position. Crooks focused his rifle towards the officer who ultimately let go, falling off the roof. Moments later, the shooter began firing into the crowd.

The 52-year-old billionaire announced the major move on Tuesday, saying Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signing of a law that bans California school districts from notifying parents if their child is transgender was ‘the final straw.’

‘Because of this law and the many others that preceded it, attacking both families and companies, SpaceX will now move its HQ from Hawthorne, California to Starbase, Texas,’ he wrote on X.

‘I did make it clear to Gov. Newsom about a year ago that laws of this nature would force families and companies to leave California to protect their children.’

Cheatle, who is facing calls to resign over the massive security failure, said Secret Service officials planning security for Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania considered the warehouse 147 yards away from where Trump spoke to be a risky position for stationing an agent.

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‘That building in particular has a sloped roof at its highest point. And so, you know, there’s a safety factor that would be considered there that we wouldn’t want to put somebody up on a sloped roof,’ she told ABC News in an interview Tuesday.

The building — the AGR International Inc. factory in Butler, Pennsylvania — was being used by local police as a “watch post” for snipers to scan for threats as the former president spoke onstage only 130 yards away, according to sources.

Cops were inside, but not on the roof during the shooting, sources said.

Crooks was able to scale the building unchallenged before firing off eight shots with an AR-style assault rifle, grazing Trump in the ear, killing one Trump supporter and wounding two others.

According to multiple sources, a law enforcement officer had also previously seen Crooks on the ground and called him in as a suspicious person with a picture prior to 5:45 p.m. Our sources tell us an officer checked the grounds for Crooks at that point, but did not see him where the first picture was taken.

The noise level of a bullet in flight is primarily due to the ballistic crack, which is the shock wave generated by a projectile traveling faster than the speed of sound. This shock wave cannot be reduced by a suppressor and is separate from the muzzle blast noise[1].

According to the measurements provided in one of the search results, the bullet flight noise for a .223 caliber round (which is essentially the same as 5.56mm) was measured at 148.5 dB when suppressed and 148.1 dB when unsuppressed[1]. These measurements were taken 55 yards (about 50 meters) downrange from the muzzle and 1 meter to the side of the bullet flight path.

Given that the query asks about the noise level at 130 meters downrange and only 1 centimeter from the bullet, we can make an educated estimate:

1. The distance downrange (130 meters vs 50 meters) likely won’t significantly affect the noise level, as the ballistic crack follows the bullet.

2. The proximity to the bullet (1 centimeter vs 1 meter) would likely increase the perceived noise level, as sound intensity decreases with distance.

Considering these factors, we can estimate that the noise level of a standard velocity 5.56mm bullet in flight, one centimeter from the bullet and 130 meters downrange from the rifle, would be approximately 150-155 dB.

It’s important to note that this level of noise is extremely loud and potentially dangerous. Exposure to noise levels above 140 dB can cause immediate and permanent hearing damage[2]. Therefore, appropriate hearing protection is crucial when in close proximity to gunfire or bullet flight paths.

Here’s why:

1. Sound levels above 140 dB can cause immediate and permanent damage to hearing[1][2]. At 150-155 dB, the intensity is even higher and more dangerous.

2. The proximity of just one centimeter from the ear would amplify the damaging effects, as sound intensity increases dramatically at very close distances.

3. Exposure to 150 dB of noise can cause immediate and permanent damage to the delicate structures of the inner ear, resulting in hearing loss and tinnitus[1].

4. At levels around 150 dB, the sound is powerful enough to rupture eardrums[3]. This kind of physical damage would likely lead to severe hearing impairment or deafness.

5. For context, a jet engine during takeoff is around 140 dB, and even that is considered loud enough to cause immediate and permanent damage[2][3]. The levels in question (150-155 dB) are significantly higher than this.

6. The threshold for pain is typically around 120-130 dB, and sounds at 150 dB and above are considered in the “painful and dangerous” category, requiring hearing protection or complete avoidance[4].

Given these factors, exposure to 150-155 dB of sound just one centimeter from the ear would almost certainly result in severe hearing damage, including a high likelihood of deafness. The damage would be immediate and irreversible, potentially causing complete hearing loss in the exposed ear.

It’s crucial to note that such extreme noise levels should always be avoided, and proper hearing protection should be used in any situation where high noise levels are present.

The group, known as NullBulge, announced the alleged hack in a post to their website last week and made the vast trove of data available for download.