The Capitol Police arrested Manuel Oliver, the father of a 17-year-old Parkland shooting victim, during a House Judiciary Committee hearing Thursday.

The hearing was related to gun regulations in the U.S., and Oliver reportedly shouted and interrupted the Republican Chair of the committee, who then removed him from the meeting, reports NBC News.

Rep. Pat Fallon from Texas was speaking when the interruption occurred, arguing that guns are “merely a tool” similar to cars or alcohol, and should not be treated differently.

When a man was then heard shouting from the audience, Fallon compared it to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. “Is this an insurrection? So will they be held to the same — I don’t want another Jan. 6, do we?” Fallon responded.

Rep. David Cicilline, a Democrat from Rhode Island, quickly fired back: “If they’re trying to overthrow the government, they ought to be held to the same standard. But I think they’re trying to express their views.”

Fallon told Cicilline he was “out of line,” and when interrupted for a second time asked the room, asked, “Does the Capitol Police not do their jobs? What the hell’s going on?”

The Republican Chair then recessed the hearing, which is when the arrest reportedly took place.

A video of Oliver being detained on the floor of the hallway outside the hearing was posted to Twitter by Florida Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost.

“Here is [Manuel Oliver] being arrested for speaking out at a committee hearing,” Frost wrote in the tweet.

“His son, Joaquin, was shot to death in Parkland, Fl. MANNY IS A HERO. He didn’t deserve this. The Republican Chair of this committee just called him a narcissist. Disgraceful,” he added.

In the video, a woman can be heard shouting, “Let my husband go!” It was later confirmed by a Democratic aide that Oliver had been attending the hearing with his wife, Patricia.

Frost tweeted again later, saying, “Manuel and Patricia Oliver were just kicked out of this committee hearing on gun violence. Patricia said one thing and [Fallon] escalated the entire situation.”

Rep. Fallon spoke afterwards about the incident. “We asked Capitol Police to remove them,” he said. “Then one decided to come back in while we were still gaveled in and disrupted the hearing.”

The months-long search for a rat czar to tackle New York’s rodent crisis is over — Mayor Adams announced Thursday he has finally hired someone to fill the job of reducing the city’s population of four-legged vermin.

”We put out a call for a rat czar, and we got thousands of respondents. We’ve dwindled it down to one person that we’re getting ready to announce,” Adams said at a rodent mitigation event in the Bronx hosted by the Health Department.

The mayor said the czar is a woman — but would not shed any more light on the long-awaited appointment.

”The first thing I asked her was, ‘How do you feel about rats?’” he said. “And I was waiting for some type of, you know, ‘Well, I think they should be around’ — No. She made it very clear: ‘I hate rats.’”

Adams first announced in December he was hiring for the newly-created post, formally called director of rat mitigation.

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More than half the solar system’s planets will align Monday in a rarely seen spectacle, arcing across a corner of the night sky.

Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Uranus will parade across the sky, accompanied by the moon and a possible star cluster. While the scenario will be visible to the naked eye, astronomers recommend breaking out the binoculars or a telescope for a more detailed view.

The planets will be arrayed across the western horizon in an arc about 20 to 25 minutes after Monday’s sunset, according to Space.com, starting with Mercury and Jupiter. However, twilight’s brightness could mask them, Space.com warned, adding that the viewing window is only about 25 to 30 minutes.

The planets will also be so close to the horizon that any structure or sightline glitch could obscure them. “Your best option is looking out over a westward-facing shoreline that is perfectly flat and wide open with nothing to block your view,” Space.com said.

Slightly higher, but more discernible and with a longer viewing window, will be Venus, and above it to the left will be faint, greenish-hued Uranus. Mars is next on the list, higher up and cozying next to a crescent moon, according to Starwalk.

Monday is the best day to observe this phenomenon, but the alignment will be visible in the days leading up to and following the high point.

Before that, though, a massive asteroid the size of a skyscraper will whiz by Earth inside the moon’s orbit. Asteroid 2023 DZ2 is three times the size of the one that jangled nerves and blew out windows over the Russian industrial city of Chelyabinsk 10 years ago.

2023 DZ2 will not come anywhere near that close, but it will cruise about 100,000 miles away, halfway between Earth and the moon, NASA Asteroid Watch reports. This will happen at 3:51 p.m. Saturday, though that timeline could be tweaked as the observations pour in.

The newly discovered asteroid, which NASA estimates is between 141 and 310 feet across, will be traveling 17,426 mph on its way to the sun, EarthSky.org said.

“While close approaches are a regular occurrence, one by an asteroid of this size happens only about once per decade, providing a unique opportunity for science,” NASA said.

A Los Angeles suburb was hit by a possible tornado Wednesday afternoon, with significant damage done to a line of commercial buildings and one person suffering an injury.

The National Weather Service sent teams to assess damage in Montebello, as well as the city of Carpinteria, where a separate tornado was rumored to hit Tuesday.

Five structures and a small number of vehicles were damaged, but the full assessment is still ongoing.

The lone individual who was injured was taken to the hospital but the severity of the injury is unknown, according to city spokesman Alex Gillman.

The likelihood that the violent cloud was a tornado is “very possible” said meteorologist Rose Schoenfeld. “It’s definitely not something that’s common for the region,” she said in a statement from the weather service.

Schoenfeld noted that the last time they had sent out tornado assessment teams from their Los Angeles office was for an event in Ventura County in 2016.

The severe weather was part of a massive rainstorm that swept through San Francisco earlier this week, killing two people.

Trees and power lines were blown down during the storm, several glass windows were torn off of San Francisco high-rises, and three barges got loose causing damage to a nearby bridge.

A record was broken in Los Angeles, as the 1.4 inches of rainfall surpassed the 1.34 inches recorded in 1983.

Roughly 121,000 customers throughout California were without electricity early Wednesday, according to PowerOutage.us.

For the state that’s coming out of an unusual winter marked by a “blizzard warning,” in addition to heavy rainfall and snow in its mountainous regions, the first couple days of spring have brought much of the same.

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New York City will launch efforts next month to create seven miles of greenway in the Bronx along the shores of the Harlem River — an effort advocates view as long overdue and say could ultimately take more than a decade to complete.

Mayor Adams and several other top city officials announced the plan Wednesday atop the High Bridge, a 175-year-old span that connects the Bronx and upper Manhattan and which overlooks a portion of the proposed green space.

The first phase of the plan — set to begin on April 18 — will involve the city getting feedback from local residents on what they want out of the new space. That process will culminate in a design with construction expected to begin sometime next spring.

“We’re doing it the right way. We’re doing it by having communities engaged and communities involved,” said Adams, who rolled into the press conference on a Citi Bike. “We have over 500 miles of waterfront in this city, and all of it should be explored, all of it should be developed for people to walk, for people to ride, for people to just be encouraged to experience the outdoors.”

The green way is expected to run from Van Cortlandt Park in the northern section of the Bronx down to the borough’s southern shores, near Randalls Island.

Adams and Rep. Adriano Espaillat, who represents part of the Bronx and upper Manhattan, both highlighted that the project is not only aimed at creating more green space, but doing so in areas that traditionally haven’t received the attention and funding more affluent enclaves have.

“When you walk around New York City and you walk south of 96th St., you see the investment on the waterfront and see places like the High Line and see places like the waterfront along the Hudson,” Espaillat said. “You see all the major investment going on in certain parts of the city. It is called disparity, right?”

The congressman then praised the mayor for trying to invest in “neighborhoods that have been left behind.”

The city’s Transportation and Parks Departments, as well as the Economic Development Corporation, will be responsible for shepherding the project through to completion.

When asked about the project’s projected cost, Transportation Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez said he did not have those numbers immediately available.

Chauncy Young, coordinator of the Harlem River Working Group, has been pushing for the greenway for years. Young was ecstatic over the announcement, but tempered his enthusiasm for it with realistic expectations about when the greenway will be completed.

“The entire greenway itself, I would say is going to take over a decade,” he told reporters. “Projects in New York City take a long time, but it’s for the betterment of the community that we’re doing this because all residents deserve access to their waterfront.”

NJ Transit and Amtrak services were disrupted Wednesday after brush fires took hold near state railway lines.

The fires were reportedly started from sparks caused by a passing freight train, according to the Middlesex County Department of Public Safety.

In a series of tweets posted by NY4′s Steven Bognar, you can see videos of large black clouds of smoke rising from the flames as firefighters attempted to hose down the area.

Bognar identified Edison and Matawan as the two towns affected by the fires.

New Jersey Transit announced that service was temporarily suspended for its Northeast Corridor Line between New York Penn Station and Trenton at 3:45 p.m., reports ABC7NY.

The suspension affected many workers on their commute home out of the city.

Service was partially resumed an hour later, between New York Penn Station and Metropark.

NJ Transit is currently advising customers to seek alternate routes of transportation, and Amtrak has announced that service between New York Penn Station and Philadelphia is still suspended.

Amtrak Northeast posted a tweet updating their passengers at 5:23 p.m.

“SERVICE ALERT UPDATE: Due to continued fire department activity in the Metropark (MET) area, all rail service between Philadelphia (PHL) and New York (NYP) is temporarily suspended until further notice. We will provide updates as information becomes available.”

Those impacted can follow @AmtrakNECAlerts on Twitter for updates.