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Landmark, times square, that is empty of pedestrians and street traffic that you would normally see. the area around times square in manhattan, traffic is as usual. pedestrians are going about their regular saturday night activities. as you were saying, an officer spotted smoke earlier tonight in a box inside of a parked car. several were shut down and still shut down, although some of the streets have been reopened. but we're still awaiting the latest news from the new york police department. this really is a developing story because they're taking the situation very seriously. the fbi was on...

Exactly is going on in times square, what exactly to report for the public, especially the cities that we have seen you. and we are be teaming up in a national domestic to report this story. >> earlier, i spoke to jean necessary serve she's down on the gulf course, another story there with the overall. but deny, lock to us about how the investigators respond when things happen in new york city. here's his comment. >> reporter: at this stage of an investigation like this, is most likely largely in the hands of the local authorities with assistance from the fbi as susan has mentioned. but they'r...

With us about how they typically respond in situations like this. the police department coverage homeland security, they did not consider this a terrorist threat but investigated what they found in the car. >> you know, as jeanne spoke to us live a couple motels ago about the precautions and plain they nut place, especially after 911 and after the runup to the war in iraq. it was thought that possibly times square would be a target, especially in the runup to that war. so they put certain majors in place. i think was operation atlas. i'll double-check on that. all of those things that you see ...

Several hours as people were pushed back, they shut down restaurants, as you can imagine, to figure out what they had with the car. one report, an officer told a news service that they saw someone running from the car. but that is one report. we'll find out when the news conference bins. >> we saw the video there, the photographers and producers getting ready for the press conference. i want to give our viewers information. this is according to the latest cnn/u.s. wires. they're saying this happened hours ago. several blocks of new york's times square are shut down tonight. shut down because t...

Probably in one of the busiest areas of the city on a saturday night. >> absolutely. times square, as you know, is busy just about every night. and it's ironic because most of it is full of tourists. and there's special seating now for pedestrians and for tourists that was put in not too long ago. all of that was evacuated. the marriott marquee hotel which so many people would recognize overlooking times square, they would not allow anyone to enter or exit. restaurants nearby were closed or evacuated. it's definitely made an impact in this area of manhattan. but i've got to tell you driving ar...