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A street outside the White House has reportedly been evacuated by security officials following the discovery of a "suspicious package". A street outside the White House was reportedly evacuated by security officials following the discovery of a "suspicious package".
It was found near the north fence, according to CBS News.  It was found near the north fence, according to CBS News.
Donald Trump is not at his Washington DC residence but in his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.  The iconic Pennsylvania Avenue was closed. 
More follows... Members of the White House Press corps were reportedly moved from the north lawn, and nearby tourists were also cleared from the area by officers.
"I was coming up to Pennsylvania Avenue, when I saw three to four members of the Secret Service keeping people from coming onto the street," Giles Gibson, a British journalist based in Washington, told The Independent. 
"There weren't any sirens or anything, it was fairly calm." 
A CNN journalist later tweeted the package had been removed by the Secret Service and the street was reopened.
Donald Trump is not at his Washington DC residence but in his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.