LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: Another event at the White House today was a bit unplanned and unnerving as well. CNN White House correspondent Major Garrett has the details on that.</s>MAJOR GARRETT, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It looked much worse than it was. An explosives alert on the White House grounds. A Secret Service dog twice detected something suspicious in or on this car, parked a short distance from the West Wing. The car belonged to a House staff member, who had drove Republican Congressman Michael Bilirakis to a White House event, and the Secret Service took no chances.</s>ARI FLEISCHER, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: The entire northern portion of the West Wing was evacuated. That would included the office of the national security adviser. Also, of course, the north lawn, where many reporters were, and the Eisenhower Executive Office Building as well. The northeastern portions of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building were also evacuated.</s>GARRETT: While the Secret Service bomb squad investigated, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice worked from Chief of Staff Andy Card's office, Fleischer from Vice President's Cheney's office. At the height of the drama, President Bush and Mr. Cheney ate lunch, as scheduled, in the president's West Wing dining room.</s>FLEISCHER: The president and the vice president were never affected at any time by this incident.</s>GARRETT: The White House mansion was unaffected, and daily White House tours continued, but the entire White House press corps was moved to the northern section of the Eisenhower Executive Office building, far from the car. The Secret Service said it was very unusual for a bomb-sniffing dog to make a mistake. The Service uses only one breed of dogs, the Belgian Malinois, and trains them only to sniff for explosives. After about 90 minutes, agents cleared the car and removed it. Agents still don't know what substance or a combination of substances caught the dog's attention, but a review is under way. Major Garrett, CNN, the White House.
Bomb Scare Leads to Evacuation of White House Staff