exactly what's going on here. i'm sure you're probably tuning in now. this is not what you normally see on cnn. usually we're in a studio and prepared and ready to go to guests and have our conversations but right now, we have been thrown off the air, so to speak in our normal capacity and we're standing outside of our building reporting from the cold, 40 degrees out here. temperature dropping with a whole lot of people who live in the area and who work in the area and they can't get to their respective places of business, they can't get to their homes. they are stuck on the opposite side of an police barrier and police tape where they can usually just go to their homes. it is a very busy night in new york city. very busy time because a lot of people come here for christmas. people bring kids to go christmas shopping and look at the festivities. we may have to move. there's a car coming. stand by. now we are standing out here and all we know is that there's the potential five bombs being inside of the very building that we're in.