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>> so heres our breaking news tonight. we have got the all clear after our studio and offices were evacuated tonight after a phoned-in bomb threat. everybody is safe. the building is secure. the nypd tweeted the threat was not substantiated. and we want to thank them for their quick action tonight. thanks for watching. im don lemon. our coverage continues. ♪ unstopables in-wash scent booster ♪ downy unstopables

Actually showing up in the mailroom. theyre not -- nypds not going to take any chances. security at time warner was excellent. the minute they got the phone call they called it in and they were told to evacuate the buildi building. the fire alarm was pulled and they got out of there. im just glad that don, shimon, and brian and samantha, everybodys okay there at the cnn building. >> explain how this investigation would work because there are no longer payphones i guess. youre lucky if you find a...

Krar. they did have a bomb squad planted on the scene just in case there were in fact any suspicious devices. but as we say, after the building was checked they determined that it is now safe and for everyone to head -- former deputy director -- assistant director of the u.s. marshals. okay. i guess the problem a lot of people are having is were giving this guy who phoned in the bomb threat pretty much what he wanted, publicity. is this what this guy wanted? he wanted the publicity for calling i...

Tonight, new york city police have given us the all clear after a bomb threat was phoned into cnn 9:47 p.m. eastern time. 9:47 p.m. eastern time. bomb threat phoned into cnn. our studio in the time warner center and the surrounding buildings here in new yorks columbus circle evacuated moments after the threat was received. the threat came when a caller said there were five devices in the building. thats according to a law enforcement source. again, five devices in the building. now were back. we...

Anymore. so when they say its coming in from down south, im fairly sure the law enforcement has a pretty good idea of the location where it came from if not the exact location. so theyll have law enforcement out there right away looking to see, you know, was this a cell phone, was it one of the few payphones left in the u.s.? was it made from a land line? so law enforcement is all over this. and nypd is just about the best at this in the world. i have no doubt theyre pretty much on to this. and ...

There are a number of other different businesses including some of our sister businesses, true tv, tnt, tbs and all of that. but there are other businesses here as well. 55 floors in this building. 700 feet tall. its quite a big building and it takes up an entire city block. shimon prokupecz whos our crime and justice reporter, has been working with the nypd, his sources as well, getting information. they certainly took this serious ly as they always will. but they were in the building for quite...

Clearly they were very concerned here. given the climate, given the history, given what we have been through already with those other package bombs, the one that was mailed here to us in new york and also the one in atlanta. so that was all on their mind when they went ahead and made this decision to evacuate. look, its not often that the c nypd evacuates buildings like this because of phoned-in bomb threats. >> when you think about -- again, they say it came from the south. and and f. they had ...

Remember the schools getting threats. these kinds of things the fbi will investigate. and will try and prosecute people. once they figure out whos behind this. because it causes panic. it causes concern. it creates fear in people. especially given what our staff, our fellow employees here, our co-workers have been through already when they had that first evacuation and they found that bomb in the mail room. just right through these doors here. this is going to be an investigation. i know the nyp...