1.   A group of Russian journalists, local residents and government hotel employees was trapped in the downtown hotel basement by the siege and was running out of food.

2.   The water damaged the hotel basement and soiled some of the linen supply, Shatoff said.

3.   Ting went to the security offices in the hotel basement to call for help.

4.   USC players were taken to their hotel basement along with other guests during the tornado warnings.

5.   He said he saw the Pentagon on fire from his nearby hotel after the attacks on Tuesday and was later taken to the hotel basement for security reasons.

6.   Iman said that Irsal fled, but was cornered by his attackers in the hotel basement.

7.   She, like hundreds of other foreigners, had spent the past week sleeping on the floor of the hotel basement for protection.