Daily Mail: BREAKING NEWS: Joint Base Andrews on lockdown amid reports of an active shooter just before Biden was due there to take off
* Active shooter drill was supposed to start at the Maryland base at 9am
* But at 9am an alert was issued saying there was a 'real world' shooter
* The situation is unfolding at the base's Malcolm Grow Medical Facility
* Security tightened at other nearby army and naval bases
* VP Joe Biden was due to fly out of the base on Thursday morning
Vice President Joe Biden was due to arrive to board a plane.
All personnel were ordered to shelter in place shortly after 9am Eastern Time.
It came at the same time that an active shooter training exercise was due to start at the base.
Vice President Biden was scheduled to fly out of Joint Base Andrews on Thursday morning to give a noon address on cancer treatment and funding in Cuyahoga County, Ohio.
He is now waiting at the Naval Observatory for further information.
Officials tweeted that the situation is centered on the base's Malcolm Grow Medical Facility.
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