Bronx, obviously theyre cle clearing the way for it. It is an amazing thing to see. Its one thing to cover it. But its another thing for it to be happening at your place of work. Reporter and the people that ran in when we ran out. Those lights were switched off. Our mikes were in our ear and our entire staff ran out of the building and these folks ran in and got this device and got it out of the middle of manhattan. Its like th there will be this briefing, the mayor de blasio, and james oneil, theyll be briefing on the Security Situation where you guys are outside the Timewarner Center in new york. Jake, this is a story that, you know, came out of the blue, but there were suspicions for days now that there were some Serious Problems beginning with that suspicious package that was delivered to George Soross residence outside of new york city. In Westchester County, new york, george soros who supports a lot of liberal causes, getting a bomb on monday at his home and now more bombs all o
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
i m at 58th and 8th avenue on the corner here. you can see behind me the policemen. i m not sure you can make it out now. we re seeing the other end of that containment truck you mentioned. it looks like a cement truck, a concrete truck mixer that s been cut off at one end. that is called a containment truck. that s where they will put this device and most likely take it to a place called rodman s neck. that s a facility in the bronx that the bomb squad uses to handle these sort of potential explosives. that s what we re seeing. as you can see, there s this huge police presence. we re in the heart of new york. we re in midtown new york, a very, very busy area. the time warner center, the entire center next to me has been evacuated. this is not just office buildings containing your cnn, time warner media, the offices of tnt and turner. there s also an entire shopping mall here and a whole foods grocery store in the basement. we re talking about dozens and dozens of stores and business
on the forensics that they get from these particular bombs is going to be key. and this whole situation of offsite scanning of mail coming into federal facilities and also governmental buildings started during the anthrax scare after 9/11. so the government established these continuation plans and part of the main ones was the offsite sorting of the mail so it wouldn t interrupt the governmental office buildings. and we saw the time-warner building completely shut down. and it s the home of not just cnn, but tnt and turner and tbs and a lot of wealthy people have condos there. i want to bring in evan perez. obviously as art noted, one of the things that law enforcement