风中的承诺

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Hundreds of people who attended President Donald Trump’s rally Tuesday evening at Eppley Airfield spent up to three hours in freezing temperatures waiting for buses to take them back to their cars.

Officer Michael Pecha, an Omaha Police Department spokesman, said 30 people received medical attention and seven were taken to area hospitals with various medical conditions.

Tim Conahan, police chief for the Omaha Airport Authority, said just over 21,000 people were screened into the event, and more people were still in line awaiting screening. Trump said during his speech that 29,000 people were there.

The president, who spoke for nearly an hour, wrapped up shortly before 9 p.m. The last person got onto a bus about 11:50 p.m., Pecha said.

Rather than wait in the 31-degree weather, some people in the audience elected to walk to their cars, which were parked about 3 miles away. Officers gave rides to some elderly and infirm people who were walking, Pecha said, with some misjudging the distance to the parking lots.