ABC correspondent Kathryn Diss on covering the US Capitol riot, the Trump presidency and COVID-19

Tension filled the air.

The streets leading towards the Capitol had an eerie emptiness about them, yet sirens drowned out the silence in every direction I turned.

No-one was out, except those attending the march on Congress.

Our journey there was chaotic.

We were forced to pull off the road several times, to make way for large convoys of SWAT and police vehicles screaming past.

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They were scrambling to make their way to Congress, but they were too late, the building’s defences had already been breached.

We got to a point where we’d hit too many roadblocks.

It was time to jump out and continue on foot.