early friday morning authorities discovered three rice cookers at two different locations. two of them were found at the fulton street subway station, one of the busiest transit hubs. the other located near a garbage can a couple miles north. all of those devices were eventually deemed safe. polo sandoval is live with more. reporter: good afternoon. though the nypd has not identified the individual by name, they have confirmed they have the individual in custody behind at least two of those pressure cookers, which caused quite a scare after they were dropped at subway stations. the investigation started, they later determined that those pressure cookers were in fact rice cookers and that they were empty and harmless. but of course that initial report once you get that report of a possible pressure cooker, that certainly dozen lead to concern given what we ve seen in
person that we believe wouldn t do something like this. carron phillips. breaking news this hour, a suspect has been take noon custody by the new york police department in connection to a rice cooker scare that caused evacuations friday in lower manhattan. if you were riding the train had you to deal with results of this. police arresting a man who allegedly left two rice cookers in a subway station downtown, causing police to shut down the area. investigators later determining the objects were not explosives, we ll bring you updates as it develops. coming up the top of the hour, israel s decision inflaming political tensions here in the united states as the president doubles, triples, quadruples down on attacks on a democratic congresswoman and how america first is making the world worse.
president trump has expressed interest in bringing the troops home from afghanistan since he was running for president, so he has been pushing for this his entire presidency even though many of his advisers have raised concerns about the long term implications of not having a robust u.s. military presence in afghanistan. absolutely. sarah westwood, thank you so much. we have breaking news. police say the man in this surveillance video dropping off rice cookers in new york city is now in custody. we re live in new york with more on that in a moment. also ahead, a closer look at dale earnhardt jr. s incredible escape from a burning plane. you ll matter what eyewitnesses said. also the new york city medical examiner s office says that jeffrey epstein died of suicide by hanging. his attorneys do not believe the findings. so what they plan to do next.
chairman, lindsey graham. he will be on sunday morning futures tomorrow. we will talk with the latest immigration ruling and if they can pass bipartisan gun control legislation after the recess. tomorrow morning 10 am, maria and senator lindsey graham. arthel: i will take it! the man accused of causing a scare nearest city subways heard officers taking this man here, larry griffin, in for questioning overnight. they say the west virginia man placed two empty rice cookers inside a manhattan subway station during yesterday s morning rush. the station was evacuated and trains were delayed. no word yet on why the cookers were placed there. new york city chief medical examiner rules the death of disgraced financier, jeffrey epstein, was a suicide by hanging. epstein was awaiting trial of federal sex trafficking charges. involving underage girls when he was found unresponsive in his jail cell last weekend. now his lawyers are challenging
custody. three rice cookers described as suspicious devices were discovered yesterday morning in manhattan. that prompted a brief scare. police say the man was found, this is what is so perplexing, he was found unconscious at an address in the bronx and is currently in the hospital. we don t have a lot of expounding on that. not many details beyond that. we do know this he was taken in brian robin son, theron on a previous warrant urn relnr johnson back. to friday s incident. he has not been charged. i want to talk about north the new york city medical korea. examiner s office says jeffrey there have been six missile tests from north korea in the epstein died of suicide by last month. no repatriation of the korean hanging. this a week, of course, after he was found dead in his cell at war dead in almost a year. the metropolitan correctional the president calls his north center. he was awaiting trial on charges korea policy a success. he operated a sex trafficking ring and paid