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Areas of the east coast, at least for now and it looks like it will hold at least for this enormous outdoor mass. the center piece of center city, philadelphia, is the statue of william penn atop city hall and not far from there our own stephanie gosk out among the people. hey, stephanie. >> reporter: hey, brian. weve been standing out here basically all day, and people have and up until about two hours ago they have been filing through here, going to some of the checkpoints we heard chris talki...

There was a lot of security. >> yeah, a great deal of security still at this point. in fact, don, in order to get into the spot where we are now, we had to go through a security sweep. some of those folks who came out here who wasnt to get that last glimpse of the pope before he heads off to philadelphia, they were actually told that this particular spot where we are on 72nd and madison was under a security freeze and those folks had to stay a block away in either direction. as were here now and...

That we just saw behind luke. elizabeth diaz is a correspondent for "time" magazine covering religion and politics. i i think youre there, elizabeth. are you on the plane? >> i am. im on the back of the plane. were waiting for pope francis, then were off. the second city of this three-city u.s. tour. based on what happened in washington in the last, goodness, just barely more than 24 hours, new york and then philadelphia certainly guaranteed to be jam packed as well. >> whats happening inside th...

Dedicated to. this is for their daughter. you can see more of our interview ahead here on "new day." alison and john. >> thank you, poppy. newark airport resuming operations following a security scare. a terminal was evacuated after a man used a secure hallway exit door as an entrance. the airport was locked down for two hours and performed a security sweep. >> they said nobody is going through. we waited 15 minutes and they said, okay, everybody leave. >> as we were marched out of the termina...

Door as an entrance. the airport was locked down for two hours and conducted a security sweep. >> they said nobody is going through and we waited for 15 minutes and they said okay. everybody leave. >> as he was march mured out of terminal, he was laughing as the officers walked him out. >> we didnt know where to go or what terminals were open. a lot of people are flustered and irritated. it has been exhausting. >> amazing she can still have a smile on her face. the man was stopped by customs and...

Clear. there was some sense in which i felt a genuine threat from the men you were working with. these were fellow contractors. is that right? >> it was both contractors and agency staff. >> and agency staff. youre saying they -- they out of essentially anti-gay animus from the beginning they knew you were openly gay, they treated you differently, and out of that animus, they left you on a mountain and drove off? >> its -- yeah in a nutshell thats basically what happened. yeah. they did come bac...

Yeah. they did come back and pick me up. >> what were the circumstances? you were there essentially doing a security sweep, right? you got out of the vehicle and they just got in the vehicle and drove off? >> actually i had asked everyone to load up this vehicle, because i needed to test -- i was in charge of the fleet out there, so i needed to test this vehicle, because we were going to put some new equipment in it. it was rather heavy. i needed about eight guys, four in the cab and four guise ...

Want to bring in pete williams with some new details about the first security sweep. what can you tell us? >> well the security sweep is over. the first sweep is over. the initial sweep of the building where the report was that there was a suspicious person or that shots were fired. no gunman has been found. no signs of a shooting has been found. no blood no victims, no reports of injuries nothing like that. all clear is the initial assessment. now theyll go through again, the building more deta...

This is a fox news alert. a strong earthquake rocking nepal. the 7.9 magnitude quake could be felt in the capital. there are reports of heavy damage with toppled walls and collapsed buildings. you can see photos here. rescue teams are there at the scene right now. there are reports of injuries, but no deaths so far. the quake could also be felt in neighboring india. all is clear at the statue of liberty after a bomb scare on friday afternoon. the threat came from someone who called fine-1-1 an...

Statue because of heavy winds. were told its being evacuated and a security sweep is being done. no word on why or when this started. no word on if boats to and from the island are are up and running at this time. just to be on the record about the statue of liberty being evacuated now. no update on the status why. real quickly we got this in now. parks police reporting a suspicious package. from our wnbc affiliate, our investigative reporter saying as precaution, security protocols are taken. t...