that s all we can say officially right now. i am getting no indication those other two people are in custody. minute by minute, we are learning more and more details. finally, we have a picture of this man. drew griffin, reporting from new york. thank you. as we said, faisal shahzad is a naturalized u.s. citizen orally from pakistan e was boarding that flight as drew and i were just discussing this flight for dubai. perhaps en route to pakistan. reza sayah live from islamabad, pakistan. we want to get live reaction. i know you have been in touch with the foreign minister and i know you are learn mortgage about where this man is from. reporter: it is actually the interior minister who provided some important information to you. obviously, a big part of this investigation is going to now take place here in packston. that investigation got under way earlier tuesday. it is really picking up steam. we are starting to find out a
documentation, was there some address to karachi. i m sure you re drilling down on the perhaps dubai connection with shahzad. stan grant for us, thank you. i want to get to a quick check now of the dow this morning. we are actually seeing quite a drop. right now it is down roughly 115 points. it looks like 140 points sitting at right around 11,000. stay right here. cnn newsroom rolls on. i have astigmatism. so my old contact lenses would sometimes move out of place and blur my vision. my eye doctor said there s great news for people with astigmatism.
they met, took a test drive of the car, liked it, paid $1800 for it and drove off. that is how police got to him, through the vin, the registered owner, the daughter, who actually met faisal shahzad. so much emphasis was on this car, where did he get it from, how did he buy it? all of these things were going on within a 20-minute radius. where he bought the car, where he got the license plate from another vehicle from a scrapyard, the last known address which is now being searched by many members of the fbi. all of this is now coming together and, of course, leading to his dramatic arrest last night when he was on board that plane, that emritz airline plane headed to dubai. his ultimate destination was islamabad, brook. deb, just to follow up.
firms a float during the 2008 economic crash. back to our top story here. less than 48 hours after that car bomb was discovered at a crowded times square right around 6:30 saturday evening. investigators now have made an arrest in the failed attack. take a good look at this man. this is 30-year-old faisal shahzad, a naturalized u.s. citizen who was born in pakistan. here s what we know. he was taken into custody last night at new york s jfk airport. he was on a plane headed to pakistan via dubai. law enforcement official tells cnn shahzad had told investigators in the overnight hours of all of the questioning, he says he acted alone. he s also believed to be the person who drove that nissan pathfinder full of those explosives into times square. our crews, of course, have been working through the night to dig up new information to bring it to you this morning and one of those correspondents is cnn s
likely that the people in the follow vehicles didn t know exactly where he was going. he got into a car and started driving. they didn t know his destination was jfk until perhaps quite late in the journey and even if and when they figured that out they wouldn t have known what airline he was taking, and they wouldn t have known what flights, but emirate his information. emirates had realized that someone had contacted them at the last minute and this was something unusual. i m told by this source that the airline went through its usual processes and then notified the u.s. that shahzad had showed up in their booking system at the last minute. that triggered a mobilization to try to keep him on the plane, but that takes time. it took too much time. he got on the plane successfully. as we know later he was taken off. so it was a close call apparently, brooke. just to make sure i m hearing what you re saying. this was not at all a plan to keep him on the plane to perhaps tap into his