and times square is a unique avenue and we ll have a population concern all hours of the day. i want to point out the explosive materials referred to discovered at 6:30 by a mounted police officer who s was pouring out thereof. that s completely out of the extraordinary and something that we ll find out exactly what what the votes are. but that would general dough that. that something as arrived. right, they ve done exactly what you would expect. shut the area down. make sure it s not going to cause any greater danger to the public, either pedestrians walking by and nearby businesses. and start their work. mr. fuente, do you find tang
sorry about the feedback we re getting there. we d like you to give us your perspective on what you heard about the situation in new york tonight. well, i think when you have a suspicious vehicle like that, everything you do, you seal down the area, bring in the experts to determine if they have a device in that car. if so, try to neutralize it. then after that, investigate who may have put something like that together and why. at this point, the main issue is to have the area sealed off as they have done. and then try and find out what s exactly in that vehicle. what do you make of what you do know, mr. fuente, as far as the tanks, powder and times device? well, these are devices that were attempted to be in london. and it ended up being a doctor
are prepared to talk to theed my, what they re doing before they make a statement on this? well, i think the main thing that they want to emphasize is that the public is safe. everybody is going to be very concerned here, obviously, the neighboring businesses, a place like times square is going to be empty around the clock. tear trying to reassure us there s no device in there that can do more damage than local information that may have occurred. in a situation like this, mr. fuente, is it all the new york police department in the initial stages as far as cooperating with federal versuses? sure. in this case, you have the first responders which are going to be the police and the bomb squad. then, of course, the new york terrorism task force which includes the police and fbi and law enforcement agencies, then, we re beginning a massive
that till, mr. fuentes, about the fact that they ve reopened some of that area? well, they must have some indication that what s ever in that vehicle is not going to cause damage. this is something, they re looking at the veal. they ll be doing testing around it. and if they think it s an yum that might explode, if is it fro main date would be. something you should also know when you have ground cameras of telephoto lenses and you see cars moving in the distance, it s a little deceptive. the view is depressed and makes the items closer than they are. so that perimeter may be a little wider than it looks through a lens. take us back to when police first sent in this robot to this car. when the car was burning, that
in the chemicals. but obviously, the difference between propane and a great military explosive, or other devices, there would be a huge difference if they went on with what they were doing. again, we re talking with tom fuentes, the assistant director-he follows us as we continue this out of new york city, sometimes yeah. now that the police first noticed, sma smooke coming out e back with the nas san pathfinder. was parking in front of where many people were looking to see the lion king. they did not get to the theater, they got evacuated then when this angle might look with the