juncture, culminating with the super bowl on sunday. what the crews are performing right now are security sweeps, surveillance sweeps across the l.a. area. and they are responsible now for something like 500 square mile area for the super bowl. you think about tampa, that s at the most about 175 square miles last year, so it s a larger operation. we have just turned in from the coast over santa monica, we are now flying towards downtown l.a. those are the hills of malibu, and coming up to the hollywood hills very shortly. let me tell you about the security operation. we are told that there are something like 40 federal, state and local agencies in total involved in this huge operation. that obviously a massive undertaking. the biggest threat obviously some type of terrorist attack.
surveillance sweeps. been there twice in like two and a half weeks. both times they were outside between 1:00 and 4:00 in the morning. they come out shooting at odd hours of the night. the raid will require ert snipers with night vision, high-powered weapons and the element of surprise. it has to be dark to give some cover. so the plan that we came up with is put the sniper observers bring a team in the woods around midnight. once we bring that containment in there they will effect that arrest. scott will step in once the human threat is gone to make sure the meth lab doesn t pose a chemical one. the ert needs one more week of intense planning to pull off this risky operation. okay. all right. we will talk in the morning then. all right.
ert has already made two surveillance sweeps. we ve been there twice in two and a half weeks. both times they were outside between 1:00 and 4:00 in the morning. they yust come out at odd hours of the night. the raid will require ert snipers with night vision, high-powered weapons and the element of surprise. give some cover. so the plan that we came up with is the sniper observers bring a containment team into the woods around midnight. once we get that containment in there scott will step in once the human threat is gone to make sure the meth lab doesn t pose a chemical threat. ert needs one more intense planning to pull off this operation.