Morning. So thats the latest here. The nypd bomb squad is inside our offices at Columbus Circle. The package was addressed to 10 Columbus Circle. We dont know who specifically it was addressed to. It did arrive. It was received in the mail room of the building. The staff there alerted authorities, alerted Building Security to the device, and thats when the nypd responded. Obviously they became really concerned almost immediately. Shimon, just very briefly, what do we know about the package that was delivered to the Time Warner Center . Why was it suspicious . What raised the alarm bells . Right, wolf. So what raised the alarm bell is when they xrayed the package, they found what looked like metal material, perhaps a pipe bomb. Weve talked about other pipe bombs or other bombs inside Metal Construction that have
been delivered to other locations. That immediately had everyone concerned. Then also were being told that there were wires, what appeared to be wires inside this package. That
lot of people over a longer distance or just that everyone was packed that tightly together, including these american troops. is there any way really though to keep this from happening again if they continue to have large groups, you know, of afghan civilians congregating outside? a, can they stop that? probably not, and b, what can they do to try to prevent this? i don t know. what they don t have here, anderson, is something i know they wish they did have, which is some kind of stand-off distance. there would be nothing better for the u.s. troops there than for this big mob to be back further. but you can see, we have watched this video for days here. they re right up on the fence, right up at the wall. they have to be, because that s how they try to show their documents and try to get through the chaos. if there were more control outside by the taliban, and i don t mean this beating people in line control, but actual control where people were able to be filtered in a little more
off. very interesting to hear what matthew said about somebody being close to the blast because we don t have a sense yet of how big this was. did it reach out and get a whole lot of people over a longer distance or just that everyone was packed that tightly together, including these american troops. is there any way really though to keep this from happening again if they continue to have large groups, you know, of afghan civilians congregating outside? a, can they stop that? probably not, and b, what can they do to try to prevent this? i don t know. what they don t have here, anderson, is something i know they wish they did have, which is some kind of stand-off distance. there would be nothing better for the u.s. troops there than for this big mob to be back further. but you can see, we have watched this video for days here. they re right up on the fence, right up at the wall. they have to be, because that s how they try to show their documents and try to get through the chaos. if
what are the next steps here as i m looking at them repositioning this vehicle and that containment device into the building? so kate, the first step wherever officers arrive on the scene is do that initial assessment to identify what it is they re dealing with. obviously we ve heard some of the reporting about what this device, what it appears to contain and the size. again, these bomb squad experts, you know, will arrive. they ll do that initial assessment. the goal is to determine what is the potential blast radius here of any potential device. are we dealing with a large explosive that would spread to a large area? is this something likely to remain contained? that s the first initial assessment. that helps them determine how large their perimeter needs to be. all of this is very mechanical. it s something that these officers train for every day. so they ll actually set their perimeter based on how much stand-off distance they think they need in order to keep the public safe. wha