a terror attack on the country. intelligence owe fushls saying they have credible, specific but unconfirmed information for a threat against potentially new york city and washington. moments ago michael bloomberg spoke to reporters. the threat at this moment has not been corroborated. it is cred arable but has not been corroborated. but we live in a world where we must take these threats seriously and we certainly will. the nypd is deploying additional resources around the city and taking other steps to keep our city safe, some of which you may notice and some of which you will not notice. new york s mayor mike bloomberg. a bit more on what we know. we should mention that earlier reports end up usually changing as new information comes in. we want to be careful with what we tell you tonight. a senior intelligence official tells us the plot was believed to involve three individuals, one of them an american citizen. the official saying the threat involved a vehicle bomb but
not been corroborated. i want to stress that. it is credible, but it has not been corroborated. but we do live in a world where must take these threats seriously, and we certainly will. the nypd is deploying additional resources around the city and taking other steps to keep our city safe. we want to be very careful what we tell you tonight. with that in mind a senior intelligence official tells us the plot was to involve three individual, one of them an american citizen. the official saying that the threat involved a vehicle bomb but going on to said intelligence picture is not fully formed and that not enough is known about the potential operatives and their plotting. some earlier reports which actually cited some stolen vehicles have kind of been knocked down. one reporter telling our susan candiotti those reports were false. former white house security adviser fran townsend, susan candiotti and the author of the long f-war joins us as well. what s the latest you re he
it really depends how far the storm is from our location. typically we re probably looking at a one or two-hour flight to get to the storm and then we re in the storm for maybe five or six hours and another one o two hours back. martha: what are your impressions of this hurricane? looking this has always been a very large storm. i was commenting earlier looking at the satellite imagery on this storm, i have family in south carolina, new hampshire and people can look up and there will be clouds associated with this system. so it s an incredibly large storm. even if the winds don t reflect a single peak wind strong wind, there is a lot of power with this type of storm this size. martha: i know you mentioned this earlier, but give us a sense of what the flight is like up there. to a lot of people, this is just a really intimidating job that you do. certainly not a job for anybody. i ll definitely say that. even sometimes those who fly kind of question what we re
although rain is being felt from those outer bands. bill: if you can find a restaurant that s open. because the report we re getting is everything is closed. from maryland, the authorities updating on the storm, pt wtg is there. what are some of the things you re concerned about in these next six to eight hours or so? i think right now operations are fairly normal, but it s going to get worse over the next six hours. the weather will get worse. i think we ll have more calls for service for alarms. i think we ll have traffic situations and trees down on the roadway. so it s just going to get worse over the next six hours. we made sure we have adequate staffing out there, we ve got adequate staffing here at the 911 center so people can get through. probably the most important message we want to get out to folks is if you have a question about the hurricane or something that s not an emergency, call 311. we ve got operators at our 311
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