the dark green nissan was abandoned last night at 45th and broadway. the engine was still running and emergency flashers were on. surveillance cameras show someone walking away from the vehicle. they are currently examining video that shows a white male in his 40s looking back in the direction of west 45th street. he also was seen shedding a dark colored shirt wilding a red one unner neat. this happened at about half a block from where the vehicle was parked. detectives also are en route to a town in pennsylvania where a tourist believes he may have captured the suspect s image on his video camera. the suv is now at a police garage where it s being searched for clues. it contains two clocks, batteries, two gasoline full containers, three propane tanks and eight bags of unidentified substance. had it detonated t. would have cut the vehicle in half and caused a potential deadly fireball. a t-shirt vendor has tipped off police. eats a man of few words but is offering some ad
containers and consumer grade fireworks from the vehicle. they also removed a locked metal box after opening it with an explosive charge that they found what they described as a bird s nest of wires and firecrackers. the license plate on the car came from a connecticut auto shop as well. auto repair shop is what the police commissioner said. he also said there was there were many bags of fertilizer in that vehicle. meantime, president barack obama just talked about the car bomb situation. let s go to dan lothian at the white house. dan, the president having to tackle a couple things there while he was in a very rainy venice, louisiana, to kind of survey the oil slick. he began his press conference by talking about what took place at times square. reporter: that s right. two very critical issues that the president s dealing with today. as you pointed out, talking about that attempted bombing in new york city and the president saying that earlier in the morning he had spo
says the vehicle s owner and owner of the stolen license plate have both been identified. let s get right to times square now and cnn s mary snow. we understand the mayor is expected there soon? reporter: yeah don, bring you up to speed. right behind me, mayor bloomberg has gone into that restaurant of mire how old is terror. he is now meeting with officer wayne ratigan and his wife, teena marie. he is a mounted police officer and the first on the scene. a t-shirt vendor last night saw smoke coming from that path find and alerted officer ratigan. we are expected to hear from mayor bloomberg when he comes out of that restaurant. this, of course, 24 hours after what police commissioner ray kelly said was a clear intent to cause chaos in this crowded theater district. this after he said this pathfinder, as you mentioned, gasoline, propane, fireworks, m-88s and two alarm clocks and at least eight bags of what is an unknown material but is believed to be fertilizer. it is being
authorities could dismantle the device. poli new york mayor michael bloomberg said the device looked amateur, but the city avoided what could have been a very deadly event. no suspects are in custody at this time. president obama is being given updates on the situation and although it s early, homeland security secretary janet napolitano told us that authorities are treating this as a potential terrorist attack. we have reporters getting all the latest developments. we want to first go to susan candiotti who is in times square in new york. it looks like any other sunday in times square. i can t believe it. i know. how quickly things can get back to normal. of course, it s not a normal day for nypd investigators as well as the fbi a. one of the things they re doing is looking at the cameras all over the city. surveillance cameras by the hundreds and thousands. we can show you one, this is what many of them look like. some are labeled nypd. others are not. the key thing is th
safe? he did. and he had dinner with the mounted police officer who was the first to respond after the alert street vendors of course, went to police. that, of course, was officer wayne ratigan and mayor michael bloomberg said it was sending an important message both urging people to just go about their daily lives. thank you, michelle. on the gulf coast, they ll try again today to stop the oil gushing into waters off of louisiana with a massive oil slick still threatening to come ashore. weather brought the cleanup to i halt this weekend. waves and crews were hampered by high winds and rough waves through the weekend. lester holt is in venice, louisiana this morning. what are they hoping to accomplish today. they re hoping to get the ships out there that can start getting back in the skimming