bill: we are tracking this right now. here s the update from new york, and all clear given for that third device so all three devices are all clear. you can still consider this unusual and you can still consider it suspicious, but they were not set to explode. that s a big distinction in the end but still many questions. we are hearing the nypd may give a briefing and if and when that happens, we will give it to you. were forced to try to figure out what is going on here. it is a subway stop you can access from any of the different boroughs around new york city but at 7:00 a.m. on a friday morning when you see a device like that on the bottom right-hand corner. you re going to raise a lot of red flags. waiting for some answers right now from police and we will give it when they are ready to stand for all that. sandra: president trump expected to meet with his top national security officials in bedminster new jersey to discuss the situation in afghanistan and
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and executive vice president of subways and chief monahan from the mta police. i m going to ask andy to run through. good morning, everyone as you heard from the, this was a serious incident and we took it very seriously. as soon as our real control center namely as the chief said around 7:00, there has been these two suspicious packages found here at fulton street. immediately acting upon police advice, putting safety first for our customers, we immediately suspended service on lines two and three and we bypassed services on the other lines. as ever, we always put safety first. so the service lines two and three with remains suspended.
we evacuated out of the station. and we provide information by every medium possible, twitter through our web site their announcements on trains to let customers know that until further notice, fulton street station, all line through fulton street trains would not be stopping. because the all clear to resume on all lines except the two and three and as of right now, that remains the case. all of the lines stopping expecting the 23 which is still suspended, still by passing through while the police conduct their investigations. when that came through from the police that there was an issue on on the 2-3 platform, they had to to deal with. so i waited credit their
2019 is officially under way in some parts of the world. a large part of australiaustral including melbourne and sydney, rang in the new year. in the u.s., preparations under way in new york city for a safe start to the new year. in times square. for the first time ever, the nypd planning to use a drone to watch over the area. i believe we re going to bring up right now. 7,000 police officers are on duty for the festivities alongside the fbi and new york state police, mta police and bomb sniffing dogs. city officials are expecting very big crowds. it definitely takes a brave person to weather the kind of crowds, weather does that mean we re not brave? probably lazy. lazy, tired. lots of work. it s been a remarkable year. kind of thinking where everything is in terms of the