Personally, I don't think there ever is or was any "threat" of people going to the capital today, but the DS has thrived for 4 years on writing anything citing "unnamed sources familiar with X...".
Anyway, I am writing this post to provide some additional information and context as to why the media has the sharks circling on March 4th.
March 4th would have been the day Trump remained President per the 12th amendment if Pence had come through and declared the electoral votes as invalid (for just cause) and no one had 273 votes and so on and so forth.
Obviously that didn't happen, so whatever is going to happen is happening behind the scenes. Keep the faith. Stay safe.
This is totally false. If Pence had discarded the electors or sent them back for a 10 day review, it would have triggered a contingent election where state delegations in the house vote for the next president, which would have gotten Trump sworn in on Jan. 20.