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Are prepared to talk to theed my, what they're doing before they make a statement on this? >> well, i think the main thing that they want to emphasize is that the public is safe. everybody is going to be very concerned here, obviously, the neighboring businesses, a place like times square is going to be empty around the clock. tear trying to reassure us there's no device in there that can do more damage than local information that may have occurred. >> in a situation like this, mr. fuente, is it all the new york police department in the initial stages as far as cooperating with federal versuse...

All of a sudden, it's waved off. so they have a number of these type incidents. but this one appears to be serious enough to get the bomb squad out there, dcpi, when we called, they said it was a serious enough situation to obviously get these folks out here and the bomb squad was called. it's a suspicious situation. we don't know suspicious packages. in any major city. people leave their briefcases or gym bags. they forget their computer, the laptop case. those are deemed suspicious packages. we'll have to wait to see how this one unfolds. it appears, it's more than that. >> burning car right...

He said a box inside of the car with smoke coming out. as natalie mentioned moments ago, hotels, restaurants, theaters, all the businesses shut down. times square a ghosttown until they try to figure out what is going on. friday night, a busy one. saturday night, even busier. of course, the next businessy time, matinee time on sunday. this happened with a lot of folks out there. if they are going to target someone, it's an opportune time because there's a lot of people there. >> and we know the investigators in the past few months have thwarted possible situations in new york city and have mad...

So that's when the evacuation began. not very clear on how much was evacuated tonight. we know between 44th and 49th treats were shut down between 6:00 and 8:00. so several blocks became completely empties tonight. there was a scene earlier at times square where there was slino one there. no one in the hotels to go in and out. the very popular toys "r" us that many people know may was simply empty. it's very cures what they have. >> martina grinaldi. what i'm hearing, the totally had to be evacuated. it was a chaotic scene that you

Well. >> eboni, thanks. we want to take you back to a developing story from new york's times square. times square was blocked off, theaters and restaurants and hotels because of that right there. the contents of a nissan pa pathfinder that was found to be burning. officials found an apparent timing device. we want to get more from our cnn producer, david fuente, back on the telephone. david, you were saying that the streets have reopened. and the police department will be holding a news conference soon, is that correct? >> reporter: natalie, not all have reopened. i'm actually a couple blocks ...