where the incident, as you know, happened. also some new information. the fbi is also responding to the team. as you know, fbi is represented on the works with the joint terrorism task force and a number of different alphabet soup agencies are part of that. so the fbi has also confirmed to cnn that it is also checking this out. susan of course, nypd is in the lead. i m going to report something i m reading from the wires. this is from the wires from the associated press. police are investigating the discovery of a suspicious package at new york city s times square. police say the package is at 46th street. we have been reporting 45th. we re going to check that out for you. always early on when these sorts of things happen there may be a little bit of discrepancy. 45th street, really, the same difference there. right in the same area. we will get specific on the exact street. 46th and broadway. a few blocks. a few blocks from where a smoking suv in that failed car bomb was fou
off, only police now in that three-block region. and we re just about broadway and 7th avenue. remember, broadway and 7th avenue converge right in the middle of times square. so, allan, you re saying and specifically do you know, there s some reporting that it was on 46th street, someone else said 45th street. do you know exactly? is it too early to determine that? because they ve closed it off and you can t see it. don, can you repeat it? was it 46th street or 45th street that the cooler was found? between the two streets. marriott marquis is located between 45th street and 46th, so it s between those two streets right there. okay. and we also have an ambulance here from st. luke s roosevelt hospital. i see they re taking a gurney out. obviously that s just for precautionary measures here. there are mounted police standing as well. i see four point mounted police
man had parked there first taken to the bronx, checked out by the bomb squad by new york city police and fire departments and then taken to quantico to fbi headquarters to be checked out there. that story is still unfolding. we re still in the midst of that. we don t know exactly the connection or how many people are involved in that plat. track the money, who he may have spoken to. even spoke with craigslist to figure out how he bought that suv for $1500 cash and drove away with it. that s how they caught up with him. so this is still unfolding. then there s a suspicious package in times square again. we don t know exactly what it is. police have cordoned off and shut down parts of times square. evacuated. that s what you re looking at in the center of your screen right now. we re told it s broadway and 45th street. that s according to our allan chernoff. as we look down here, that gives us a little bit more of a percent expectative here. you know what, this is really in the same area
cnn. we re getting some new information about parts of times square being evacuated at this hour. that s according to the new york city police. we re hearing that it s because of a suspicious package. the details are just coming in. it s 45th street where they are police have found this suspicious package. again, confirmed, parts of times square being evacuated because of a suspicious package. we have got our allan chernoff and our reporters on the way to the scene. as you can imagine, people in new york city are very jittery right now after what happened on saturday night when that gunman excuse me, when that man drove that suv into times square and intended to make it into a bomb. faisal shahzad who was accused of this. he was on his way to dubai. and then, again, just a few nights ago the tbridge evacuate.
progress as they try to cork a leak responsible for that massive oil spill. four story containment dome is now suspended above the seafloor and lining it up for placement over the gushing well-healed. we re going to turn to allan chernoff following the breaking news story for us. parts of times square are evacuated. what do you know? right. what we know at this point is that an officer just told me that there is a suspicious package at 45th street and broadway. that is in the heart of times square. i m walking right down 7th avenue right now. the cars are being prevented from driving down 7th avenue at 57th, however, i m looking straight down 7th and there are plenty of vehicles still in times square, plenty of pedestrians. it s just an investigation right now. as i said, suspicious package, and we ll be there been a few