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Times square. that means more uniformed police officers. more police officers carrying help weapons and more dogs. where i'm standing, several blocks north, south, east and west is going to be shut down to vehicular traffic starting relatively early on sunday morning. there will be 12 access points for spectators who want to come in and enter this area to view the ball drop and ring in 2018. those spectators are going to see teams of police officers, they're going to smetal detectors, they're going to see bomb sniffing dogs. and equipment to detect radiological material. and they're going to s...

Police officers, more uniformed police and police carrying heavy weapons and dogs, and this area where i am standing right now, several blocks north, and it will be shut down to vehicular traffic. the spectators will see, as i said, teams of police officers and bomb-sniffing dogs and metal detecters and police with the ability to detect radiological material. for the first time "the new york times" is saying for the first time there will be reflectors along buildings to help locate a shooter, and there's no credible threat to the celebrations to new york or new york in general, but everybody s...

General of the united states laying it out, it was scathing. i said earlier it was like if there was ever a come to jesus moment for any law enforcement agency in the country, it's this one. as protesters said and folks i talked to this afternoon said, the problem is, you walk three blocks north, you're in another municipality that looks and behaves just like ferguson. go to the south and the same thing. >> one more item on this report i want to take a second with. the use of dogs. there's an obvious resonance here. it appears to have been exclusively reserved for african-americans in every ca...

Allowed to build an islamic center near ground zero? most of ground zero is still under construction nine years after the worst disaster. it is an open pit, open wound. it is hallowed ground. not for away, take a look, two blocks north, one block east on park place is where the islam ik center and mosque would be built. 15 stories, $100 million, that's the plan. community center like a ymca, say it's backers, with a 100-seat auditorium, gym, prayer center, to promote interfaith understanding and promise to have jews and christians on their board. the imam, who is the public face at the center,...

Voices on the right behind the plan for the center. should a group of muslims be allowed to build an islamic center near ground zero? most of ground zero is still under construction nine years after the worst disaster. it is an open pit, open wound. it is hal owed ground. take a look, two blocks north, one block east on park place is where the islamic center and mosque would be built. 15 stories, $100 million, that's the plan. community center like a ymca, say it's backers, with a 100-seat auditorium, gym, prayer center, to promote interfaith understanding and promise to have jews and christ...