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Suspicious package. trying to confirm that. from all interest cases wait looked like to me was the detectives after one assumes -- >> reporter: apparently what he was carrying was the contents of the white cooler. and it looked like a food container. it was in a plastic bag it was hard to see. it could very well have been someone's lunch that was in a cooler. it looked like a box of donuts. they put it in a police vehicle and they are driving it away. and the authorities at this time not want to go disclose what it was. but whatever it is, people continue to pour into this pedestrian mall cong...

>> reporter: megyn. megyn: what cues are you getting from the police. >> reporter: i think everyone is pretty good. i think they are just curious more than anything. i tell you what is most impressive is how prepared the police were for this. a couple of folks from the fire department to my right on 7th avenue. the police have this place locked down. this is very impressive. megyn: in terms of nypd's attitude, bill, urgency, what? >> reporter: frankly i think they are calm, i think they are doing their job. i think if anything what we learned over the past couple of days when we talked to the ...

There, they will take their time and x-ray it. if they think it's a package that could be somewhat dangerous, they will get a containment vehicle in here and get out to the city island to disarm it. and they are going to try and preserve as much evidence at the scene as possible. megyn: what are we to make of the fact that several blocks of times square have been shut down to vehicle traffic and foot traffic? does that tell you anything about the nature of this threat? we are trying to get our arms around whether there was something more than a cooler on its side that led to this. >> i don't t...

Was less than seven days ago. mike when you see this scene what grabs you. >> reporter: recommend nice sapbt after the anthrax attacks when there were all these copy cats and there were all the envelopes showing up. that is always the challenged when you have this type of situation, that someone tries to do a copy-cat or put people on edge and do something that is phony but nonetheless has the impact of stopping everyone in their tracks. megyn: michael in a situation like this where you have reports of a suspicious package in times square, what authorities would be call to the scene? >> report...

Right now and the close proximity to last week you have to take every precaution. megyn: this is from our sister company "wall street journal" owned by the same company as we are saying since the botched bombing in times square last saturday the number of suspicious package calls to the police has skyrocketed by nearly a third. between sunday and wednesday police have checked out 493 suspicious packages compared with 381 in the period last year. but to me that does under score that this one perhaps is a bit different. we have not had 493 lockdowns akin to the one we are seeing now. our assignm...