we do know a bomb truck left to go to quantico, virginia to learn more about one of these devices that did not go off. governor cuomo is here. my goodness, first of all, incredible with nypd and everything they did for us here at cnn and of course what they re doing currently. the question on everyone s mind is the investigations, are they closer to knowing who did this? well, first, good to be with you, brooke. and also cukudos to the personn at cnn who handled it very well. your cnn people were very heads up and jeff zucker and the entire team were very cooperative so we thank you. the more these packages that are
happen. hopefully over the next 10 and 12 days, these are spokes people. it is not the democratic politicians. it is not a stupid ad. this is what is at stake. i am a dad. you are a mom. this is our country. it s no longer a joke. go ahead. and while you re talking, donnie willie has been following what s happening in lower manhattan and it s not looking good. yeah. this is the nypd investigating another suspicious package in lower manhattan. you can see a massive police presence now. taking the explosive device away from the scene in a bomb truck. we ve reported a moment ago that it was a similar package to the one that we saw sent yesterday and revealed yesterday to many
couldn t get inside. you notice the fire alarm went off in the middle of the 9 a.m., 10 a.m. show when it was live, we knew it was something different. we immediately started evacuating. when we initially first got out, it was a normal level of confusion. there was some nypd. no one really knew where to go. and then you saw layers and layers and layers of law enforcement coming in. they established a perimeter on this block. that s where we were for a portion of the morning. then there was a new sense of urgency of getting us back another half a block. that s when we saw the bomb truck come in. it looks like it looks like a cement mixer. exactly. they pulled it up. it sat in front of the building for quite some tilme. then they pulled it in to what looked like the loading dock of our building and that s when they expanded the perimeter once again. i was on 58th and 9th.
stage of the investigation, this is being led by the joint task force here in new york city, along with the nypd. we have had assistance from the nypd and assistance from the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms. so it s a group effort. once the package was discovered, emergency services was notified. they called the bomb squad, the bomb squad was able to safely remove a device contained in that package, using the total containment vessel, or in simple terms the bomb truck, that is going through our range at broadman s net, where special agent bomb technicians are working on how to get it to that next stop which is the fbi lab, so all of these can be examined together. there is an additional issue that is being worked on now, and
very early stage in the investigation. this is being led by the joint terrorism task force here in new york city, with the fbi and the nypd. we have had assistance from the new york state police, who are a part of that task force. and, assistance from the bureau of alcohol, tobacco, and firearms. it is a big group effort. the incident here today, once the package was discovered, emergency service was notified. they called the bomb squad. the bomb squad was able to safely remove a device contained in that package, using the total containment vessel. the tcv, or in simple terms, the bomb truck. that has gone to our range at rodman s neck, where the special agent bomb technicians will work with people on how to get it to the next stop, which should be the fbi labs. all this evidence would be examined together. there is an additional issue, which is being worked on now.