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Squad has been deployed. they go through two phases when they look at a suspicious package, the cooler near the marriott hotel, on broadway. they will do a technical review of it, that is like an x-ray, to see if there's any reason to believe it's an actual detonation device. the second thing they do if it clears that one, the second thing they do is go to a visual inspection. usually involves cutting a hole in the dhe device itself so then look in. that's what they did to clear the device on the triborough bridge. you remember a couple nights ago there was a car abandoned on the triborough, a...

It extends to at least what it was on saturday night, even maybe more so. there is no vehicular traffic whatsoever in times square at this time. that is a have dramatic move on the part of new york officials. megyn: and now as a result you're probably going to get some for lack of a better term rubber neckers, people who want to see what is going on because it could turn out to be nothing, unfortunately it could turn out to be something. not only obviously was new york the focus of 9/11 among other cities, but we had this attempted thankfully botched bombing attempt in times square less than a...

Flames shot from the ground which happens on occasion. the closing of the rfk bridge until the emirates plane returned to the gate. new yorkers are have much on edge. what happens here today is only going to con dry tribeaut to -- is only going to contribute to that fear. it did have a ripple effect here. to some extent it was successful in terrorizing people. because what happened today i think many would argue would not have happened. but saturday failed -- this is a consequence of that. while this was a big inconvenience for know and business owners.

In new york this evening. let's go over what we know. there's a little discrepancy on time here, as to whether this started at 10:00 p.m. or 11:00 p.m. i believe it's 10:00 p.m. the new york police department says they became aware of these events, the latest update we had, you heard the story from susan candiotti, from fran towson, the former chief homeland security adviser to president george w. bush, who says that police have now completed a visual inspection of the vehicle, and they have cut a hole in the side and looked inside, and they haven't found anything else. i was told somebody els...

Enforcing the national environmental policy act? >> doug brinkley, always good to have you on, sir. appreciate it. good evening, i'm tom foreman in washington d.c., where we are following some breaking news at this hour out of new york city. a situation has developed there on the triborough bridge, known as the rfk bridge now where a vehicle suddenly stopped and abandoned by the driver, a u-haul truck and traffic stopped in all situations, quite nerve-wracking considering the past few events. there you see it on the map, a major thoroughfare in new york city. susan candiotti will join us wit...