devices that can test for radiological components. so in many cases, the airlines have these, and the pilots have then. there could be a u.s. marshal aboard that plane because obviously from yemen to chicago, that s something that we look at carefully. bob, let me just jump in, i m going to add this additional report to bring in more information. we have yet to confirm this so i want to caution everybody on this but one report says the ups cargo flight from yemen to chicago that was stopped in london was found to contain a toner cartridge converted to a bomb. one other network is citing sources on that. we re working to confirm that. but that s the information as we know it. right. and you know, these bits and pieces of information as they come in, they have to be evaluated carefully. but clearly, there s something it seems as if something is going on here. for a pilot to confirm it, that means he s actually done some field test test and could see that there was something there
to, the two scenes that you re seeing on your screen here, you have one in newark and one in philadelphia, these are the ones that fox has confirmed that there were suspicious packages, that there is an investigation going on. there was a report, additionally, of a delivery truck from ups in queens being checked out. ups denies that. the new york city police says they are investigating. so we are getting mixed reports there. then this additional cargo plane in england, apparently there is a suspicious package on a plane, but so far according to the associated press those first investigations are showing at least that there is no explosives on the plane but it s a developing situation. an additional report, let s just get to real quick here, a local report out of portland, portland, maine, portland police are investigating a suspicious package found outside the federal courthouse. whether or not this this is all related this is a developing situation. the package was reported around
and at this time, fbi has taken over as lead agency, and everything else that we do going forward will be coming from the fbi. jon: reminder to our viewers that these are cargo planes, not passenger planes, so the three persons that you took off i m assuming, two pilots and perhaps a navigator or perhaps a replacement pilot? yes. this is all crew members related to this incident. these are all crew members. jon: all right. thanks very much, lloyd ayres is the philadelphia fire commissioner. there is the shot from philadelphia, a ups cargo plane that landed with some kind of a suspicious package on board. there is a report that it had some kind of a radiological component to it. another ups plane on the ground right now at newark liberty international airport, which that plane also has been quarantined because of a suspicious package. two planes, landing very shortly apart from each
third area is simple security, the kinds of things we do when at the ups stations, the kinds of things we do at the airports, the perimeters we build and these three things have to work together. you know, security in our world is not brain surgery, it s pretty basic, it s enforcement, intelligence and security working together and that s all we can do, because things do slip between the cracks. we have to be prepared for them when they do. jenna: ands with ementioned, we have different law enforcement agencies on the scene in both airports. we re looking at this live shot in newark, new jersey, and all we know is that we have the investigators there, they re checking into these suspicious packages, we also have another report about a cargo flight from yemen to chicago being stopped in london, and additional reports now that there are a few different countries involved, reportedly the u.k. is involved, i did see that one wire that suggested that plane coming from yemen stopped in londo
together the pieces like everybody and originally we had a report that yemen was the origination point for this airplane, it was bound for anything, it was diverted to the u.k., we thought first it was london, london is the main ups distribution center for the u.k., but then we found out that a suspicious package was discovered at this second airport. we believe that the plane that was flying from yemen, heading for chicago, now sitting at the airport that we didn t even know about. we have our network of contacts throughout this continent and throughout the world, in fact, working on this and the minute we get more information, we will. of course, we ve spent a lot of time in yemen, you can jump to all sorts of conclusions, but we will not now, but we will say there is a very active al-qaeda chapter operating in yemen and certainly a lot of people with that kind of orientation, even if it isn t an actual bomb, some people there would sure like to scare the united states. the other rep