welcome back to the 11th hour. protesters greeted donald trump on his first return trip here to new york since the day before he was sworn into office. the president was ring originally scheduled to stop at his pentagon apartment in trump tower which would have brought protests. today sanitation trucks filled with sand lined the street in front of trump tower. but instead, the president went straight from jfk straight to the uss intrepid to deliver a speech honoring world wore two troops. can donald trump ever go home again. i have flashbacks to when barack obama took the white house and he talked about how they were going to be back to chicago all the time. they almost never went back in eight years. trump talked about this to
because usually it is gridlock, but you have cars moving. we have seen a whole bunch of those huge sanitation trucks come by, they are plowing the road, dropping the salt. life will get back to normal in new york city, whatever normal is because it is after all the big apple and everyone has a different definition, but the good news is that we are out of it. north of us, sorry to say come you ve still got snow coming down already two feet in connecticut. heather: did you say it is already two feet in connecticut? yes. heather: wow, thank you so much. jon: the white house is backing away from president trump s allegations that president obama ordered wire taps on his phones at trump tower. here is press secretary sean spicer trying to clarify mr. trump s charge. the president was very clear in his tweet that it was wiretapping. that spans a whole host of surveillance types of options. the house and the senate intelligence committees will now look into that and provide a report
now we have fox news senior correspondent rick, who is with the nypd to learn how they do it. i am great, kennedy. times square may be the safest place on the planet because of all of the resources deployed and extra training and fighter controls on getting in and out. they are some of the 7000 uniformed officers and undercover officer and in addition barricades block all of the cross street and some 65 sanitation trucks and so no 1 can drive in to times square and there is another group of people downtown in police headquarters keeping us safe. outside of the joint operation center activated for big parades and u.n. general assembly and july 4th and new
france. reporter: yeah, that s exactly right, suzanne. the security is very tight here, in fact, enhanced security measures, but the excitement out in the kroutd is very strong, these people have been out here for a long time and i will tell you something being out here it s a very exciting event and it also shows you and gives you a glimpse of some of the magic of the nypd and all of their coordination and choreography for this event to get all of these people in here approaching 2 million people at the height of this event and like i said, enhanced security measures this year. there are 65 sanitation trucks with sand that line this perimeter in times square, they are over on 8th avenue, that surround this entire event and that s to stop any sort of threat, this is just a precaution, there is no threat, credible threat, against new york city or times square. there are also other precautions as well. there are about 100 other secondary vehicles that will be marked around as protectiv
numbers. some of the new enhanced measures this year, 65 sanitation trucks that will be lining the perimeter of times square. those will be filled with sand. that s a new addition because of some of the terror attacks we ve seen overseas with those trucks that have plunged into the crowded marketplaces. that will be in effect as well as 1,000 blocker cars as well. that s double in years previous. 7,000 nypd officers will be all around this city. including 515 new grads from the police academy. and interestingly enough, 65 viewing pens that will be set up all over times square. these are the viewing pens here. these will be fill would 3,000 people per pen. a lot of people that will pack in, they ll go through bag checks, security checks, also radiation checks as well. counterterrorism teams will be out here as well as visible heavy weapons officers.