course, threaten sea life there. still to come here, we are talking about this failed bombing of times square. we re getting new pictures and new details and new information into this suspect faisal shahzad, the suspect arrested and we ll have the latest excuse me, faisal shahzad, 30-year-old pakistani-born naturalized in the u.s. he says he acted alone. more on our top story coming up. [ sneezes ] music plays [ sneezing ] [ male announcer ] what are you gonna miss when you have an allergy attack? benadryl® is more effective than claritin® at relieving your worst symptoms runny nose, sneezing, and watery eyes
a break in the times square bomb case. i want to show you pictures of this individual. we finally have him here at cnn. 30-year-old faisal shahzad. we know he s a naturalized u.s. citizen born in pakistan in custody and expected in federal court some time after 2:00 this afternoon eastern. by the way, we have also learned that president obama will be speaking about this case in about an hour from now. we ll bring that to you live. meantime, shahzad was taken into custody last night right around midnight at jfk airport in new york, he was on a plane headed to dubai. two other people were removed from that plane. they have been cleared. they have been released. they said they have absolutely nothing to do with this case, but a law enforcement official has been telling cnn that shahzad told investigators he was a lone wolf, that he acted alone. he s also believed to be the person who drove the nissan pathfinder full of explosives into a very busy times square saturday evening.
naturalized u.s. citizen born in pakistan is in custody and expected in court after 2:00 p.m. eastern. you are looking at some of the pictures, the first pictures cnn is able to obtain of this individual, shahzad, was taken into custody right around midnight last night at new york s jfk airport. he was on a plane. he was sitting on a plane bound for dubai. two other people were taken off the plane along with him. they have been cleared and released of any involvement here. they said they had nothing to do with the case. a law enforcement official is telling cnn that shahzad told investigators in the overnight hours that he acted alone. he is also believed to be the person who drove that nissan pathfinder full of explosives, gas, fireworks, wiring, clocks, into a busy times square saturday evening. we are not going too far from that story. as soon as we get any breaking developments on that, we will bring it back to you. sp. the oth . the other big story we are
if they step up and conduct a thorough investigation, this is an opportunity to improve relations with washington and help out in the fight against militants. brook? reza sayah, if you hear anything else from the government, please let us know. thanlg you. we are going to have much more throughout the morning. we will bring you every single late-break deeg tail. that includes more on the suspect. 30-year-old faisal shahzad and what happens to him today. plus, what is the word from the white house. that in just about three minutes. i m cnn meteorologist, jacqui jeras. the cumberland river has crested. when will the waters recede, we will let you know coming up in the frags s forecast. national car rental?
what he said this morning. it looks to me like there is a connection back to pakistan. i think the other point he made is even more important. we have 300 million americans, most of whom don t realize we re at war. and they re always surprised when the people we ve been hitting hard for the better part of a decade try to hit back at us. sure. so i think this is this is a good time for americans to kind of think through where we are and realize that whether you want healthcare, whether you want whatever you want in this country, the first goal here should be to defeat this enemy. and we should be very aware of the threat it places on us. absolutely. in addition to the fact that the suspect if you re just joining us, we re on early because the cops have grabbed the guy who is suspected is going to be charged later today with driving that truck bomb into times square. thank god it didn t detonate. but he is 30-year-old faisal