attempted times square car bombing, police questioning the owner of the suv used in that failed attack, this as surveillance video now released shows the tens moments after street vendors alerted police to the suspicious parked vehicle. moments later that car began smoking and making poppingnizes, that s when officer wayne ratigan stepped in, ordering passengers to move away from the vehicle. officer ratigan says his nypd training kicked in instantly. everything happened so fast, there s not time to be scared. it s just like time to get the people out of here, time to start a parameter, everybody back, and you know, things start going from there and you don t training kick necessary, everything we ve been taught over years of, you know, all these training sessions we go to, it just kicks in and it s just second nature. jon: the nation s attorney general, eric holder, says federal investigators are making substantial progress in their investigation. we have good leads an
bustling time square theater district. where police found a smoking sports utility vehicle packed with bomb-making materials. let s just show you this video, again. as you can see, the man puts a bag down by that pillar toward the right hand of your screen. he pretty calmly removes this shirt and puts that into his bag, but the police are saying that he was looking around in a manner, that according to commissioner ray kelly. and that is the man they are now looking for. police are describing the homemade device as crude but powerful, if it had detonated it would have been explosive enough to split the truck in two and set off a deadly fireball. that is the latest we have on that. our viewers in the united states will now return to their regular programming. two developing stories tonight. new york city on terror alert, and the hunt is on for the person who turned an suv into a potent bomb, capable of killing thousands. and in the waters of the gulf coast lurks a killer t
earlier this year, he announced plans to increase oil drilling in coast waters. opening more territories here in the gulf, a vast area of the atlantic, as well as northern alaska. this accident has put all that in question. despite the rough seas, drilling began on a relief well which may ultimately be the only way to stop the leak. but that could take three months. as a temporary fix in the next week, huge containment domes are to be lowered over the three known leaks to collect the oil before it escapes. the oil slick has not yet hit the gulf coast but the economic impact of it certainly has. on sunday, the federal government closed a huge section of the gulf of mexico to both commercial and recreational fishing for at least the next ten days while officials monitor the water for contaminants. jeffrey kofman, abc news, burress, louisiana. a boil water order is in effect this morning for boston and 29 surrounding communities. crews have been working around the clock to fix
the investigation, however, is going on with a lot of intensity, as they try to, number one, try to find out where that vehicle is and who the registered owner was. police do tell us they know the name of the person to whom the car was registered. this nissan path finder. they re not revealing it at this time. they do tell us, however, that that car is in the tri-state area, that means anywhere within new york or new jersey or connecticut. they haven t pinned that down just yet. john? and, susan, hours and hours, i would assume, of videotapes from surveillance cameras all around times square. what have they released about the information they ve gleaned so far? what are the big questions we re waiting to have answered? reporter: one of the things they re talking about is, of course, they have images that they were able to capture from surveillance cameras. as you know there are thousands of them around new york city. and these images show that nissan path finder just as i
you what we know and don t know. at about 6:30 last night, an alert t-shirt vendor, who is a vietnam veteran, noticed an unoccupied, suspicious vehicle on 7th avenue. he alerted police officer wayne ratigan of the nypd mountain unit who was on his horse patrolling times square. he saw the vehicle, a nissan pathfinder, which had smoke merging from vents near the backseat and also smelled gun powder. he, with the help of police officers assigned to operation impact, immediately evacuated the area and called for the fire department and more police. firefighters, emergency service officers and the bomb squad responded and the bomb squad confirmed that the suspicious vehicle did indeed contain an explosive device. there were gas cans and