The NYPD has begun encrypting scanner radios that the press and the public have used to monitor basic police communications for more than 90 years. While the desire to put such communications on an impenetrable private channel is understandable, transparency has well served the city for generations. It should not be rolled back. Scanner radios have been a fixture in newsrooms going back .
listening to all the police frequencies on the scene. tom, are we able to report that, not all the all clear being sounded, but something close to that, that it s no longer an active scene? reporter: that s a good description, brian, right now it appears that the scene is only active only from the standpoint of going through the facility, double checking as the police chief said on this air moments ago. making sure that there s nobody else that s been injured, that they re not yet aware of it. at this point it appears that they know who the suspect is, that she is deceased and it is from a gunshot wound, a self-inflicted gunshot wound. what we don t know is this woman s identity, and to a point that we were making earlier, we don t yet know thwhat type of weapon this woman had. it is very rare for a woman to be involved as an active sho shooting as the shooter.
ago. ten years later all over manhattan, washington, d.c., there are echoes of that terrible day. police and troops with assault riefls in the train stations, same as it was. checkpoints and road blocks pulling over trucks and vans looking for explosives and other dangerous material. same as it was. people on edge, same as it was. and not just because of the anniversary. the breaking news tonight, new developments in the potential plot targeting new york and washington. two of the three people thought to be connected to it are american citizens. susan candiotti has been working her sources. she joins us now so does fran townsend former homeland security advisor for george w. bush. on the phone, analyst peter berg again. last night we thought at least one person was a u.s. citizen of the three. now we re hearing two, fran. that s right. which adds to the amount of information we have on that. but the question is, how much more do we know? not that much. what we are hearing a
new terror plot from down at one of the busiest construction site on earth. if that s all it were, a construction site, it would be remarkable. it s much more than that. along with a new transportation hub and two enormous skyscrapers up behind me, there s a remarkable memorial, the 2,606 people killed here almost ten years ago. and ten years later, all over manhattan, washington, d.c., there are echos of that terrible day. police and troops and the assault rifles and the train stations, the same as it was. check points and roadblocks pulling over trucks and vans and the anniversary to breaking news tonight. new developments of the potential plot targeting new york and washington. two of the three people thought to be connected to it are american citizens. susan candiotti working her sources. she joins us now. and a volunteer for george w. bush, and national security analyst, peter bergen. last night we thought it was just one person was a u.s. citizen, now we re hearing two.