counterterrorism and intelligence for the nypd. so we know a lot of top officials are on the scene to get to the bottom of this. kate? all right, athena. thanks so much. an update for everyone here on the ground. it seems like now we re in a waiting period. they ve moved us back another half a block. we re waiting here. athena is kind of on the other side. what i do see from where i m standing right now, as you can probably see as well, shimon mentioned when this device is moved out, it will have a police escort. what i m looking at right now looks like a major police escort. i want to toss it over to wolf blitzer in washington. all right. we re going to get back to you, kate. we re getting more information here. this is very sensitive information. i want to be very precise in reporting about this suspicious package that was delivered to the time warner center at columbus circle where cnn s new
three locations. the nypd and their intelligence division and the bomb squad gets briefed almost immediately on what to look for, on what these other packages contained. so going into this, you can be assured for sure that the nypd, along with the fbi bomb squad in new york, probably knew immediately what they were dealing with given what they had to deal with in the other situations, really since monday night. so that s the latest, wolf. we re just waiting on word that they ve actually contained this, that they actually have this device and know what they re dealing with and that it s okay for people to go inside. it could be just a little more time before people are allowed inside here, wolf. they want to certainly air on the side of caution right now given the nature of this suspicious package, presumeably containing projectiles, metal. ka
kate, i m being told, as we said a short time ago, that this was going to be moved within the hour. it appears that process is now under way. i was told that they re going to push the perimeter. that is, they re going to close off more streets, push people back as they remove this device from our building in new york. what you re really seeing here is just more precaution by police now that this device is being brought down, now that it s closer to the ground, to the street, they want to move people further back. what we ll see is they ll put this suspicious package in this truck and drive it off. there will be a full police escort with this truck. they ll probably close off streets as they drive it. it s going north. it s going to the bronx, where the bomb squad is housed, where
they re located. they have an area there where they ll probably detonate it. then they ll begin their investigation of really trying to figure out what s inside. the good news here, i think, for s all of us is they feel it s safe enough to move, that they can go ahead and bring this down and go ahead and move it into this truck. we re seeing bomb squad officers, perhaps fbi agents on scene with the nypd, milling around the truck. we ll see movement here soon. once they move it, hopefully the offices will be reopened and things can move on. the key here, i think, is they feel they re at a point now where it s safe enough for them to remove it, and then really the investigation gets under way after that, kate. sorry, guys. i was trying to get another update from the officers on the ground right now. let me go back over to athena
i will tell you from the angle we re at, shimon, everyone is being kept far away for very good reason. i saw more vehicles go in just a short time ago. unclear what it can tell us. i want to bring in josh gamble right now, former fbi agent. can you hear me? yeah, kate, i ve got you loud and clear. we re here at the los angeles bureau. there s obviously been a security presence at news outlets around the country. i just came in. there was a presence here of lapd officers. no indication of any threat, but it shows you how law enforcement around the country monitors these types of situations. they will provide resources as a precaution. as we look at our screen here, obviously we ve seen a number of police officers that have been coming and going. let s talk about what you see and what you don t see, kate. what we re seeing on our screen right now is the threat mitigation phase. this is officers setting up a perimeter. they re attempting to obviously