to lead the fbi, you think? there are a number of names that have surfaced. one of them is mike rogers, the former chairman of the house intelligence committee, someone who has served on president trump s transition team for a brief period last year and he was a former fbi agent. another name that has surfaced, former nypd commissioner, ray kelly and one out of the box name that has come up is marek garland. president obama s nominee to the supreme court. i think would be doubtful he would take this post under president trump given that he was a lifetime employment to the second most powerful court in the nation. thank you very much for joining us. roughly 48 hours into his role, the acting director of the fbi mass thrown cold water on the claim to justify president trump s decision to fire james
nightmares. the reality turns out better than the initial expectation and fear. joining me now is chris jansing near the scene in new york city, nbc s justice correspondent pete williams, and bill bratton, former nypd commissioner, nbc counter-terrorism analyst. first to you, chris. tell us at the scene what the situation is now and what are you hearing from authorities. reporter: it s pretty extraordinary. we heard at the press conference just a few short hours ago they wanted to get everything back up and running as quickly as possible. look at just the last ten minutes. people are walking down the street and maybe five minutes ago, they opened up both eighth avenue which runs north to south and east to west. 40th street. if you are dropped in here and didn t follow the news at all, you wouldn t nope anything had happened. i m told the port authority has opened, as well although i haven t seen any of the doors on