be bombers. clearing crowds if they detect a threat. stopping the bomber with lethal force and treating the wounded if a bomb goes off. and detectives in the many hotels surrounding time square after the october shooting in las vegas. when a gunman fired from a hotel window into a concert crowd below. killing 58 people. the worst mass shooting in modern u.s. history. previous years we had spotters in elevated positions. this year, along with spotters, they ll be accompanied bid snipers. heavily armed counterterrorism units. and vapor sniffing dogs to smell explosives from a distance. measures that both protect and reassure. i think they got it under control. nypd, they know what they re doing. so thanks to stephanie for
we did it initially in iraq, where the state department was mirroring much of what the military was doing. and i think the same thing has been going on in afghanistan in an attempt to bring all of the elements of nationalower to bear. he said people of afghanistan should take charge of their own country. i don t think we had the capability to enforce that in the past. as i said before the speech, that might be something that could take place now because of the advances made by president ghani. i think that is the potential. it links to the next one he talked about in terms of killing terrorists. that to me was a signal of what we were talking about before, that the primary focus is going to be helping the afghan counterterrorism units, strike al qaeda, and the taliban. he did offer an olive branch, potentially in the future, to the taliban. the same thing we talked about. i partially agree with nick
mirroring much of what the military was doing. and i think the same tng has been going on in afghanistan in an attpt to bring all of the elements of national power to bear. he said people of afghanistan should take charge of their own country. i don t think we had the capability to enforce that in the past. as i said before the speech, that might be something that could take place now because of the advances made by president ghani. i think that is the potential. it links to the next one he talked about in terms of killing terrorists. that to me was a signal of what we were talking about before, that the primary focus is going to be helping the afghan counterterrorism units, strike al qaeda, and the taliban. he did offer an olive branch, potentially in the future, to the taliban. the same thing we talked about. i partially agree with nick paton walsh on that. now is certainly not the time, the taliban has the advantage. but i think they ll see this
hour when they update us on the latest in their investigation and of course on the latest in the condition of the victims, d sarks . are they letting any residents back into the area that police had cordoned off yet? reporter: no. as we ve been standing here actually, almost every few minutes somebody tries to come by either to get to work. this is a very busy area. there are businesses here, people s homes. the police saying you guys might not be able to get in here for quite some time. this is an active crime scene, an active investigation taking place. i don t know if you can see behind me, but three large police vans blocking off the street. there are many more police officers down there, counterterrorism units down there as well. there s going to be forensic investigators collecting pieces of evidence, combing through the crime scene, trying to figure out exactly what it is that took place here just hours ago as they investigate this potential terrorist attack. dara? lucy, r
to expect a higher level of security. there are these heavily armed, highly trained counterterrorism units that are easily seen around the city, some of them i ve already seen here in times square, and they have a relatively new tool in their tool belt called a vapor wake explosive detection dog. unlike the bomb-sniffing dogs that we have known in the past that can smell a bomb in a bag or something, these dogs can actually smell a bomb down the street. katie. down the street, stephanie, are officers already employing those in times square? what security changes have you seen there? yeah. these dogs are out, around the city, and they have been in other kind of high-profile events. you know, the difficulty thing, the difficulty is, that you ve got soft targets everywhere you go. yeah. and times square is not as soft as some, you know that there s already high levels of security, it is logistically