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They didn't close this huge area. centered everything around just this car. >> yeah, you can see the cars and taxicabs all moving. that's probe the police line. that's probably -- not probably. that is a police line in the perimeter. i'm not exactly sure. to check out how many blocks they have blocked off on times square. i'm sure they're down from 47th to 45th or 42nd street on types square that they have block add puff. that's a perimeter, as we say in the business. that's as far as a pedestrian can go, and sometimes just as far as the news media will go. and beyond that, you'll have the inv...

It not being normal. >> propane tanks, and these could be used by a street vendor, but natalie, they don't know at this point. we wanted to tell you, awaiting the press conference out of new york city, i would imagine, you'll see the mayor, also the police commissioner there in new york city as well to bring us information. if you look at that live picture, you see that's the heart of times square. there is a police district, precinct, right in the middle of times square. you see the name. new york city, new york police department right behind it. >> i'm not sure who's this is we're seeing rig...

Witnessed in times square? >> no, actually, my hotel was not evacuated. >> those the area was evacuated and those two went to that hotel. >> to find out if we have rooms cable. that situation is quiet. i'll tell you, but now it seems to come. some people didn't mow what was going on around, because the acrossnd street was open. and until they turn on the tv, i guess that's where they found out what was going on. >> people were calling the hotel. i want to ask you the follow-up question and let natalie take over here. are you giving people rooms? with hospitals that are closed or they can't get...

>> reporter: i'm not hearing anything about that in particular, but that would be true to form in any sort of an investigation, that they'd want to be talking to anyone who's a potential witness who anything that might have transpired there. they obviously want to get to the bottom of it. usually, there's no better way to do it than to talk to people who have been in the area, who might have seen something out of place, someone that didn't belong. something that was unusual. >> talk to us, you're homeland security representative, during iraq and they've developed specifics around times square....

License plate to see if there'smy assistance on that. they'll be doing bench materials. going back and scrubbing all of the intelligence, to see what they might have missed. if there was some hint that that they targeting new york city, perhaps, they're not aware of it just as they try to go back and very carefully piece everything together here. of course, new york steel always regarded as target number one for any sort of terrorist agentivity, times square, particularly, iconic location. and we're always at a period of threat. federal officials, local officials say that constantly, as has be...