Gentlemen were walking and noticed a package in a waist basket. They took it out because they thought it was of value to them. Walked under the arch and around the corner near an suv and saw wires and dropped the package and went to Police Head Quarters to notify the police of what they just found. The Police Responded and checked it out and looked at it. Thought it could be a bomb. Called the Union County Bomb Squad who sent a drone to examine further. The drone indicated that it could be suspicious and it could be a live bomb. The fbi is on site and the police will arrive and check it for evidence and compare it at which time a decision will be made on how to remove it. Both the new jersey train and amtrak are shut down going to the elizabeth station. A schultz will be here to take passengers to north and south. Hopefully this will be resolved by the morning commute. You can tell us about the response. The Police Responded and the Sheriffs Office responded. Elizabeth Fire Department
And a third set of pipe bombs, one of them exploded on the jersey shore yesterday. All similar in kind. This is what is left after the two bombs that exploded. On the left, a wrecked dumpster that new york that bomb in new york that detonated inside of the dumpster. On the right, a trash can on the route of a charity 5k race in seaside, new jersey. Nobody was hurt in the seaside bombing. Only three of the pipe bombs in the trash can in new jersey actually detonated. Theyre not saying with certainty that all three of the bombs in new york and new jersey are exactly the same or necessarily made by the same person. But we now know they are all similar by design. Everybody, get off of the street lets go, get off the street saturday night, 8 30, people in the manhattan neighborhood of chelsea say the blast hat rattl the street and apartment buildings and sent everyone in the vicinity running and ducking. All 29 people injured in the blast have been released from the hospital. While the inve
Be vigilant at this point in time, and not just because of this incident, but because we are going into the united general assembles week, and vigilant, because the police need your help. If you see anything that might be pertinent to this case, we need you to call it in. The bomb was one of two devices found just four blocks north, and a wired Pressure Cooker left on the street was safely removed without incident. An eyewitness described the frantic scene. We could. See anything. And like, it was, it sound like a million pianos just dropped and like a big thunderstorm. And you felt it in your heart, you nknow. Like when you are hearing the fireworks. It felt like fireworks. It was like, wait a minute, what is that explosion . And then everything got crazy. There is some good news, all 29 victims have been treated at the local hospitals, and all have been released. We go to Tammy Lightner who is going to join us live from chelsea and you were there shortly after the explosion, and what
Terrorism. And now the terrorists are threatening to plant more devices in the city. A 911 call reportedly placed minutes after saturday nights explosion and published by the New York Post includes the following line quote, im looking at the explosion down the block. There will be more. That is a frightening pledge allegedly coming from someone capable of making a few blocks of manhattan feel like a battlefield. I heard boom, boom and everything started shaking, like if i was in iraq and a bomb dropped. Thats what it sounded like. Investigators spent sunday poring over surveillance footage. On 23rd street where it sent 29 people to the hospital and shattered nearby glass windows and doors and on 27th street where a similar Pressure Cooker device left on the sidewalk failed to detonate. Right now we dont have enough information to make any final conclusion. We dont know if there is any political or social motivation. But we do definitely had a bombing last night on 23rd street. If the f
You. What is the latest on this investigation unfolding . Reporter the Police Commissioner, the mayor and other Public Officials just held a press conference, it just wrapped up. And what commissioner oneal said is that they have gotten a lot of video from this area. He referenced two specific crime scenes, the first one right here at west 23rd street where that explosion went off at 8 30 last night. Commissioner oneal saying it does look indicative of an explosive device, an ied. Other getting individual xro from the other crime scene at west 27th street where investigators found the unexploded Pressure Cooker. What were learning from our showers is a lot of that video is survey lachbs individuillanc grainy, so not necessarily getting anything from that, but one thing that they have seen is an individual who is in the vicinity of the explosion last night, police and investigators now trying to discern whether or not that individual somehow is connected to this explosion. Now also spea