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Be more than a year away. nearly 5 4urbgs republican officials are set to hold the granite state's first ever presidential straw poll. today's results symbolic for sure. could tell us who in the g.o.p. may have a leg up on the competition in 2012, at least that's what many are saying. steve centanni live in washington with more on that. steve, what could the outcome of today's vote really tell us? >> not much, realty early stage, jamie, except to give some indication of which campaign is better organized. the polls have been showing former massachusetts governor mitt romney as the frontrunner ...

Right now and the close proximity to last week you have to take every precaution. megyn: this is from our sister company "wall street journal" owned by the same company as we are saying since the botched bombing in times square last saturday the number of suspicious package calls to the police has skyrocketed by nearly a third. between sunday and wednesday police have checked out 493 suspicious packages compared with 381 in the period last year. but to me that does under score that this one perhaps is a bit different. we have not had 493 lockdowns akin to the one we are seeing now. our assignm...

Tools at their diposal that they can come -- that they can use and that's what they're doing now. we don't know how long it will take for them to get a reading on this, but, of course, i'm making constant phone calls to get the latest information to see what they can tell from the x-ray. >> uh-huh. hey, susan, and i'm glad you said it happens all the time. listen -- and this is -- someone sent me this, one of my producers, from "the wall street journal" reported that between sunday and wednesday, police have checked out 493 suspicious packages compared to 381 in the same period last year. fran...

Brown leaving the scene. he said what he had to say. and i get a sense as much as possible they want to restore times square to what it was before this package was discovered. megyn: for those of you who did not hear it. it was an abandoned cooler. it posed no threat it was accompanied by a small shopping bag. they first x-rayed the cooler and bag. there the result were inconclusive. then there was an inspection by the bomb squad. they said sit posed no threat. that's what shut down times square for about an hour here on this friday afternoon. we are told if you see something, say something. s...

Trace: what do you know about this guy? we can see the description right there, dark green or black hooded sweatshirt, khaki pants, spoke with an island accent. what else do we know about this guy? >> slim build. she described him, something that she kept on going back to was the accent. she said it was either caribbean or island accent, wasn't quite sure if it was jamaican, haitian or one of the other islands in the caribbean, but that's what she described him as. he's approximately 5-10 to 6 feet tall and, again, someone she described as being very brutal. trace: right. we can see that. yeah...