close when the bomb went off. but i think the disturbing thing here is that the materials you need to make a real bomb are readily available. it s fertilizer can turn into a bomb. not all fertilizers, as this guy probably thought. but some fertilizers can. and you don t need to use m-80 fireworks. you can get dynamite in this country. all the ingredients to make a bomb are available in this country and nothing would have stopped someone from driving right into the heart of that crowd of several tens of thousands of people probably on saturday night. we have to expect that this sort of thing will work someday. the fact that we were lucky on christmas day with the underwear bomber and lucky saturday night doesn t mean we will always be lucky. so what, if anything, in this says to you we should now be doing x or y? what can we back engineer from this particular thing? well, it s tough.
securities of new york. came right into times square with propane, with gas, with fertilizer that maybe we know now was inert, but perhaps wasn t known to this bomber and all this kind of m-88s and was actually detonated, in the bomber s mind. was allowed to get so close to the main center of this that i think that new york had a dry run here, don. and they re going to have to look and see what the procedures are, what could have prevented this. certainly, all due respect to the t-shirt vendors, to the police who did everything once they noticed that car, but i think the big question for new york city, how did this vehicle get so far in and pose such a danger to the people of new york and the world who were down in times square yesterday without anybody noticing until an m-80 goes off inside that vehicle. drew griffin of cnn s special investigations unit, drew, thank you very much for that. police are gathering their evidence, but the key is
with propane, with gas, with fertilizer that maybe we know now was inert, but perhaps wasn t known to this bomber and all this kind of m-88s and was actually detonated, in the bomber s mind. was allowed to get so close to the main center of this that i think that new york had a dry run here, don. and they re going to have to look and see what the procedures are, what could have prevented this. certainly, all due respect to the t-shirt vendors, to the police who did everything once they noticed that car, but i think the big question for new york city, how did this vehicle get so far in and pose such a danger to the people of new york and the world who were down in times square yesterday without anybody noticing until an m-80 goes off inside that vehicle? drew griffin of cnn s special investigations unit, drew, thank you very much for that. police are gathering their evidence, but the key is connecting it to the person
department of environmental protection to further identify the bagged material. next to the locker in the rear cargo area of the pathfinder were three propane tanks weighing between 15 and 17 pounds. they are the kind used in backyard bbq s, one of them had m-80 fireworks attached to its side. some of which detonated inside the vehicle. an m-88 is legal in some states, including pennsylvania. on the back seat of the vehicle were two full five-gallon red plastic gasoline containers. between them was a 16-ounce can filled with between 20 and 30 m-88 devices. two clocks on the back seat floor of the vehicle were connected by wires to that can. and possibly to the gun locker as well. in light of the lethal potential
town in pennsylvania where a tourist believes he may have captured the suspect s image on his video camera. although a taliban bomb maker has claimed on the internet the car bomb was placed in times square in retaliation of the deaths of fighters, we have no confirmation on this claim. about an hour ago, the nypd bomb squad used an explosive charge to breach the gun locker that was found in the back of the vehicle. it was 55 inches tall, 32 inches wide, and contained eight bags of an unknown substance as well as an inverted metal pot containing a bird s nest of wires and m-80 firecrackers. we re working with the city s