Missus Sommers then took the elevator which carried her to an upper floor into the ladies' rest area.
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After being driven through the streets of broken glass and police lines, he ascended to a suite on an upperfloor at the Westin Hotel and flipped on local news, where he saw for the first time the scenes of chaos that had raged all around his hotel earlier that day.
Versace was shot to death on the doorstep of his home in 1997, and spree killer Andrew Cunanan is believed to have killed him and four others before Cunanan shot himself in the head on theupperfloor of a houseboat in Miami Beach, where he was holed up to avoid police after the Versace shooting.
But Daschle held firm, telling reporters in a hastily convened news conference afterward that the bill does not have enough votes in theupper chamber, and he had little intention of bringing it tothefloor.