detectives. that was captured on video. and hipped show what happened. there was a phone shall car bombing and those videos will be helpful in determining where the person went who fled from the vehicle. did he, she jump into another vehicle? and how their mode to escape this was accomplished. talking about hundreds of thousands of people that would have been down in times square there. is word it was a mounted police officer first notice that had smoke. and if you ve been there, there is lots of law enforcement. how important is that? police presence when it comes to dealing with something like this? it was exhibited tonight by
order to secure the scene and to get people out of it and away from times square. we re talking thousands of people that were down there tonight. just down there to see the sites. they re talking quite a task. just to get people out of times qair without it being too chaotic. we re getting reports from the associated press saying nypd is calling this a suspected car bomb. and we do know that police say the call came in around 6:30 p.m. and the bomb squad since investigated contents of the car, on 45th street. you re looking at pictures now that. is where thousands of people were ush youred out of times qair. they say inside of the vehicle, they found things for an incendiary device such as gasoline, propane, wires.
if anyone is listening if they can call 911 if they did see anything, if they do have, listen, everyone has videotape cameras. people may have videotapes of someone running from that car or leaving the car if they have it, would please, beg them to call 911, tell the police department you have it. and an investigator will come, and take a look at that video. determine if you have evidence. it s possible with everyone with videos and cameras someone may have captured something unknowingly at that time that may be very valuable in this crime. that is interest ofing. you mentioned earlier that what is found in the vehicle for this device, the gasoline, and that tells thu was no small time device, but someone who wanted to do damage. it s someone who knew
devices inside and worry about other potential devices as well. can you tell us about how that would have gone? what they did after getting down to the scene? and this is not only times square, they re determining if any vehicle is anywhere else in the city. the joint terrorist task force is taking it furtherer to determine if any orjt city could have a phone shall target. that seems like a pretty tall task. talking about looking at other parts of the city what. is the proto call? and steps door doing that? patrol looks for any vehicle that appears to have been left there for a period of time z the police department is putting this investigation together.
this. and the pid town north and south precincts do nothing but train to deal with the problem and masses every day. and again, i want to talk about what was found inside of the vehicle and i know this seems like i m repeating myself. and for them just jining us, we can see investigators working around the scene what. can you tell us about this gasoline and how dangerous these snr. well, propane is a pro pell yanlt. gasoline, an ak sell rent z if it was a proper device. and. at this point in time, if this timer was activated by