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Reporting coming in. what do you have? yeah, kate. obviously you re asking questions of whether or not the police are going to do any kind of briefing there. we don t know yet, but a little update here. i m told by officials in new york that they do expect to move this package within the hour. so it looks like they re pretty optimistic they ll be close to a point where it s safe enough to remove this package. i m told we re probably going to see people either pushed further back or more street closures. i m told that the entire area is going to be frozen once they move this package and place it where we believe will be in this containment truck and driven to the bronx where the bomb squad is located. then they ll probably detonate it there and start their investigation into really trying to figure out what this is. so just a small update there for folks that are out there and for our viewers so they re aware we could see some movement here within the hour. we ll see it here first, ....
Command post past this metal stand. we re standing here waiting. i ve been trying to get updates from fdny, from the nypd on the ground. what they say is right now the situation is serious, it is active. no someone getting anywhere, in or out. let me show you right here, wolf, if we can. these are construction crews who are stuck in the middle of this because this is how this all went down today. everyone is still waiting to find out what s been happening. what happened this morning, you knew it was something unusual. we all have these drills. every major company does, of course. the fire alarm system goes off, but it happened during my colleagues show. jim sciutto, poppy harlow on air. you know that it was something different. we were all told to evacuate. everyone very orderly came down ....
Many times it, the new york police department is trained for they train for this kind of thing every day. they get there more quickly than you can imagine. these emergency response teams encompass a whole host of skills from fire to emergency to the bomb squad that turned out there first. anyway, that response still very much under way, wolf. it s important to note, jim and poppy, and i just want you guys to elaborate on this. if we take a look at these suspicious devices, clearly where you are, the time warner center, a suspicious package sent to the cnn new york offices, addressed to the former cia director john brennan, who s been a very sharp critic of president trump. so there was one package along those lines. another package sent to the hillary and bill clinton residence in chappaqua. they ve been very qucritical of the president as well. a third package sent to the obama residence here in washington. we know they ve been critical of ....
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 device into that for transport. poppy was learning they take it to a place for precaution up in the bronx, well outside the city. that s where they ll take it to examine it further. this is very much an all hands on deck response by the new york police department. we re hearing from the nypd that the bomb squad will transport whatever the device is to a place called rodman s neck, ....
Shimon r y shimon, are you on with us as well? my sense is that this thing is about to be moved, and it s going to be moved out this way. i don t know if it makes sense to be heading down 9th avenue when you said it needs to go up to the bronx, but they definitely have expanded their perimeter. they need more of a frozen zone. this place is cleared out other than police presence behind me. right. we don t know which direction they can go. i don t know if you can look up the street. they probably won t go in the direction of where you re seeing all those officers. i think you re on 9th avenue. it will probably go up to the west side highway, then they could take the west side highway up to the bronx. it could go up you know, they could do whatever they want here. what you re going to see is streets will be closed. there s going to be police vehicles around that, kate, because they want to move this safely. all right. shimon, i m also seeing officers moving my direction. they could ....