couple of vendors, is this your guy s car, and they were like, nah, don t know whose this is. and i looked back and saw the ignition running and saw the hazard lights on and saw it was parked haphazardly. i was like, this is more than a parked car with a cigarette in the ashtray. and it was emitting smoke from the rear quarter panels and it just reeked of gun powder. long night in times square. still, he made his daughter s la crosse game today. he s the coach and gets dinner with the new york city mayor tonight, wayne ratigan. let s get back to our panel. you see a cop like that that s just a hero. he notices details, the ignition s running, parked haphazardly. how do you start in the first 24 hours to take, here s what we know so far, and i assume you put up a map, connect your dots, try to go from there. what are you looking for now? they re going to look for the unexpected. they don t start they start with some assumptions in terms of how people think and act, but they push b
officer ratigan said he knew immediately something was wrong. duane robinson, the vendor, alerted to me a car that was smoking. we went over there and we smelled gun powder with my partner, pam duffy, and we knew something was up as soon as we smelled the gun powder. cnn correspondents and producers have been digging on this story since it first broke last night. let s get right now to our national correspondent, susan candiotti. she joins us with new developments. susan? reporter: well, some of the latest developments include this. we re learning more about the fertilizer that was inside that vehicle. you remember that there were some cans of gasoline, some propane tanks, some fireworks as well as a big metal locker. and inside were eight bags of fertilizer. now police are telling us that preliminary tests indicates that this really was a nonexplosive fertiliz fertilizer. that, in fact, you would have needed much more to make this thing very, very, very
development, along with everything that we ve reported to date, plus, more images of the spill you will not see on television. log on to foxnews.com. bill: unless a moment here, we re going to get back to our top story, uma, a man hunt for the person responsible for planning a car bomb in the heart of manhattan. we will talk to the hero cop who led the times square evacuation efforts on saturday night. literally, taking hundreds if not thousands of people out of harm s way. wayne ratigan is with us in three minutes. everything happened so fast. there s not time to be squared. trying to get the people out of here, time to start a perimeter, everybody back and things start going from there, and you don t training kicks in, everything we ve been taught over years of, you know, all these training sessions we go to, you know, it just kicks in and it s second nature.
went off, and, the smoke started. inside the car. inside the car. uma: quite a guy and jackson also says, quote, we had each other s backs, this is our street. our livelihood, so, we have to protect it. bill: guys like that. and the officer, wayne ratigan, we had on last hour. uma: a hero. bill: that is why you love new york city, those guys are terrific. uma: sure are. bill: well spoken and budget cuts taking a toll on the nation s court systems and could mean major delays for both criminal and civil suits along with a serious slowdown in the process of allowing children to get out of abusive homes, anita vogel is live on the story in l.a., what is the impact on the court system? reporter: it is having a huge impact on the l.a. county superior court and keep in mind, this is the largest trial court system in the nation. case in point, take a look at this video. this is from downtown los angeles. lines wrapping around an entire city block, twice in around the block, people in lin
you d see the smoke coming out of the hood but this was a clear indication that something was not right. now, listen, from that point forward, they cleared the area, took several hours to get the suv out, i think they took it out about 5:00 in the morning, you go back home to your wife and three children at 9:00 a.m. sunday morning, and off you go to teach your young daughter lacrosse. because she had a game that day, and you weren t going to miss it. heck no! not at all. i m the coach. and i we re a big lacrosse family here. my kids were born with lacrosse stick necessary their hands. so i couldn t let haley down, the other little girls on the team. ended up winning. bill: when you come in the city, stop by here and we ll shake hands. without a doubt, nice talking to you. bill: wayne ratigan, the police officer on the scene saturday night, and a t-shirt vendor and two other officers helped clear thousands and thousands of people away to make sure