A power outage reportedly struck much of Washington, D.C., Tuesday morning.
The U.S. State Department, White House, Capitol and Justice Department were among the buildings that lost power.
A White House spokesperson said that backup generators kicked in initially after the outage, according to a tweet from Mark Knoller, a CBS News correspondent.
Other areas throughout the D.C. metro area, including the University of Maryland in College Park, went dark.
“There is a campus-wide power outage. Crews are working on
addressing the problem. Thank you for your patience,” university President Wallace D. Loh tweeted.
Shortly after, Loh explained that there was a problem with the electric feed to the campus and that Pepco, the main electricity service provider for Washington, D.C., was working on the problem.
At least one class at the university’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism decided to move its discussion outside.
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