i know this morning law enforcement officials were stepping up security, concern for this kind of situation. they are treating this as a real explosive device. i m told by law enforcement officials in new york that the bomb squad there believes they have this under control. they will likely take this device, this suspicious package, and probably place it in a secure area. they have this truck that they bring in they they put it in, and they will probably detonate it. serious concern now here in new york as the police are treating this as the real deal. there are similarities in what was found at the time warner center to the other devices, the other explosives we have been talking about this morning, the other four that were intercepted by the secret service and by police in new york. so obviously that is concerning authorities. just to give our viewers some idea of what was found at the time warner center, i m told that it looks sort of like a
from the new york police department here. and jim, we don t have images right now of outside of the building, so if you can set the scene for me, do you get a sense from where you re standing where or the general vicinity of where this device may be in relation to the time warner building? well, let s ee, the police have not told us exactly where the device is, i don t believe. if it s been mailed in to cnn, like other organizations in this day and age, they have a screening process for suspicious packages. so we don t know. i can t see from here. in fact, i ve taken a picture which i m going to tweet out now. we don t see an obvious device that s been singled out or cordoned off on the street here. i m just trying to get a better look. i will tell you, there are a dozen police vehicles now. those officers part of the strategic response unit. it s not clear if the device was able to get inside the building.
hi, guys. if you re talking to me, wolf, there s a lot going on here. as you can see, there s a huge police presence. we have another vehicle arriving on the scene. we ve already seen more than a dozen, perhaps two dozen law enforcement officials. you can see this caravan driving through here now. we assume investigators are going in to look at the situation. there s a suspicious package here reported in time warner center. we re waiting to hear more information. we understand that this package may have contained pipes as well as other material. this is clearly a situation that is in flux. you have a whole city block that has been shut down here at 58th street. i m standing at 8th avenue. there s a crowd of people that s already begun to gather. this all began just in the last hour when we heard fire alarms inside the building. oftentimes you think, well, is this really a real alarm?
concern. so obviously now we re waiting to learn exactly what was in this package at the time warner center where our offices have been evacuated. okay. shimon, stick with us. we re going to go live now on the phone to jim sciutto, who was anchoring but is now outside of the time warner building. jim, if you can hear me, i guess the first thing i want to hear from you is what is happening now, and what are you seeing at this moment? we re standing outside our headquarters here. poppy harlow is here with me. there s a new york police department bomb squad here. also, members of the strategic response group. the new york police department has a very fact-acting, quick-response group to respond exactly to incidents like this one, including incidences suspected of terrorism. so we have four or five police units here, new york police
here. this police response stretches entirely down the street, all the way towards columbus circle there, wolf. and my sources in the nypd are also saying of course there is heightened concern and caution given these buildings house media. they re taking every precaution. as far as you know, poppy and jim, the psuspicious package wa delivered to the mail room at the time warner center. the cnn new york bureau is in time warner center. do we know if it was specifically addressed to cnn? we do not. we don t know who it was addressed to. we know it made it inside the building. i believe it was a time warner employee who called 911. it was, yes. i m asking the nypd that now, but we don t know at this point