mike, thanks for joining us and giving us that information. we ll be talking to you throughout the night as this develops. and pleesh yait it. thanks again. i want to go head and recap what is going on here for anyone out there that is just joining us. there is sources telling us a suspicious war was found. we know police did find things such as gasoline, propane, wires. things that could have exploded and caused quite a bit of damage, joining us now, again, by known foen is thomas russken, he s president of the c and p group sick ti. thanks for joining us tonight. and for those just joining us we want to relay to them seriousness of what is n found inside of the vehicle. what it what koit have done here in times square. i don t think you can get a more serious type of event such as a car bomb possibly
there he sthailz not been captured for the bicycle bombing as of yet z we re talking about a small device versus what this appears to be in the car tonight. if it was propane tanks and gasoline. and a detonateor. we re talking about a sophisticated type of device could have hurt a lot a lot of people. telling us more about that. the fact that what is found in the vehicle could give a better idea of what this person was planning to do? you said this indicates what is found that this person had awful intentions to hurt a lot of people? in the gasoline contained in a vehicle if it explodes by its own means can cause a lot of injury. now talking about exploding a vehicle and you talk about this shrapnel, the car being
the vehicle has gasoline and potentially could explode. and there is an overheating situation or wiring situation. so they d move. when the fire department and police department got there and probably saw this device, and propane and wires they know there is an explosives key device z keeps people responding such as bomb squad and fire department, police department. and joint task force. how does the bomb squad handle this situation? there is incendiary device. how do they make sure they re protecting officers while
shrapnel, and what else was in that car could have caused a lot of injuries if not death. in that area on a crowded saturday night. and what is important here is what the police department is able to put together relative to dynamics of the particular bomb. and this is hard for people to get their head around. bombers make bombs in similar ways most of the time. so this may tie to a specific bomber or tichl may lead back. remember, when they exploded world trade center in 1994, 1993, this is parts parts of the vehicle that head back to the rental car company in jersey which led to ramsey yusef all being arrested for that bombing. that is got to be hard.
have you not only the bomb squad who is trained for bomb devices there are is emergency service officers assisting bomb squad. and in securing this device. then, normal patrol officers who is risking their life to get the public out of the way so the other organizations of the department can do their job. and this is a very orderly waichl they train for this, they go through police academy for. it s what they re willing to do every day to preserve the public and safety of new york city. talking about they have to worry about that scene and vehicle they found with those chemicals and incendiary