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Response from new york authorities. you saw the bomb squad here right away, of course. new york police, strategic response unit. firemen here as well. just as a measure of how seriously they take this, they were just checking this fire hydrant to make sure it had water pressure in case it would be needed. there's no indication they do need it now. they're responding inside the building. on the right-hand side of your screen, you see that device that looks sort of like the back end of a cement truck. that's the containment device where once they feel secure, they're going to move the explosive ...

Show you -- phil, come here. can you see it right here? way down there is that cement truck device, the explosive containment device we all saw coming in earlier. i think jim sciutto had a picture we showed. they have just repositioned it. right next to the entrance of the time warner center there is a parking garage where a lot of my colleagues -- where we all park. it s it appears from this angle they have repositioned that truck to back it in, as if that device is heading somehow into the building. josh, if you can hear me, can you tell me what the next step is with that device? shimon says...

Out a statement on behalf of the white house. that has happened. the >> which is unusual, because we likes to tweet on important stuff, not important stuff. this is clearly a very important development indeed. we'll see what the president says. jeff, i know you're working your sources over there. kate, you're there in new york city, outside the time-warner center. you and all your colleagues have been evacuated. there will be a press briefing, a new york law enforcement will be briefing reporters in less than an hour. but what else are you hearing? >> reporter: they have opened up 58th street ...

Understandably so this has gone on so long, any idea why this wasn't attempted earlier? >> i think the more you do, the more you learn, every time they do something, when it doesn't work, they learn more about the technology and hopefully this is just an engineering progression, we're very frustrated that it hasn't been tried before. but i understand when you're doing things for the first time, you got to do a few things, try it, make adjustments and try it again, make adjustments. let's hope this works as predicted. >> and they do have this window of opportunity where the weather is supposed ...

A lot of the area as long the gulf need to keep a monitor on the situation. >> thank you for yours, alex wallace about. live to venice, louisiana. charles hadlock. good morning to you. you have been listening to the weather, you heard that. and so i guess let's get up to speed on the containment effort and what officials are saying because they're keeping a close eye on the tropical storm alex. >> reporter: certainly are. though that storm is in the -- going to enter the southern gulf, they're going to continue working on the relief efforts here. they're making pretty good progress, containi...