What happened to the meals from the White House Correspondents' dinner?

Thousands of meals went unserved Saturday during the White House Correspondents' Dinner, as gunfire outside the Washington Hilton ballroom sparked panic and cut the annual event short.

Guests at the dinner received the first part of their meal — a spring pea & burrata salad — but the prime chateaubriand steak and Maine lobster was not served.

But, the food didn't go to waste, after all.

"The Hilton donated the ~2600 dinners that went unserved at WHCD. They freeze dried the steak and lobster for longer shelf life before giving them to 2 shelters for abused women and children," according to Weijia Jiang, CBS News correspondent and the president of the White House Correspondents' Association. "HUGE thank you to the staff that worked through the night under terrible circumstances."

Steve Thomma, the executive director of the association, said the meals were donated to shelters in Clifton, Virginia, and Calvert County, Maryland.

The White House Correspondents' Dinner has not yet been rescheduled.

This story was updated.