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Investigated by law enforcement officials and they are moved have moved to this area where they can search the planes, while air traffic continues in and out of both airports, so if you re traveling you probably won t be affected at least not yet by these incidents but the tsa and other federal authorities, taking this very seriously, investigating cargo planes in both philadelphia and newark airport. what you re looking at now are some aerial it says newark, but this is not obviously the airport, but again, federal authorities investigating both of these situations for possibly suspicious packages on board these planes. we know that in philadelphia, apparently a crew member on board a u.s. flight noticed a suspicious package on the plane that he thought had radiological components to it and that s why he then called officials who then sparked that investigation. not sure what sparked the newark situation but again, federal authorities at both airports investigating cargo planes fo ....
Found in a flight coming to chicago from yemen. so if we can work on that while we re live, that would be great because i want to make sure we bring the most up to date information. but again, the first reports were something about the pilot thinking there was something radioactive. it was very bizarre. and jon mentioned this as well, as we were talking about this, jon. jon: it was unusual, the early reports indicated that the plane was made contact with authorities on the ground, while it was on final approach. that has to be coming from the pilot, concern aboutun with of the packages on board. and again, the early indication was that the package might have some kind of radiological threat. it would be very strange to me to imagine that a pilot somehow goes back into the cargo hold and notices a glowing package and i m being slightly facetious there, you wouldn t expect the pilot to understand or know anything about some kind of a radiologic component in a package on board, would yo ....
Developing story right now. as you re looking at philadelphia, we re also watching what s happening at newark airport as well, another ups flight there as well, you also have a suspicious package in brooklyn that we reported to you that law enforcement is checking out, as well, newark on your screen there. we re also taking a look and keeping up to date, what s happening in portland, maine and a suspicious package there. jon: let me unring the bell, because now sources are telling us there was no radiological component found on board one of these flights. we had earlier reported that federal reports had told fox off the record that there was such material found. no radiological components found on board the philadelphia flights, or any of the others to this point that we are aware of. let s just make that clear. no radiological component found. a quick update, jon from the fire department in newark, new jersey, the elizabeth fire department says the port authority has released them f ....
Has been seized in the united kingdom. you just heard from our greg palkot some developments there, that there was indeed a suspicious package on ao flight in birmingham. jon: we ve got greg on the phone and will get to him in a second. just wanted to point out, what terrorists are trying to do is scare us, trying to get us to change our ways, trying to disrupt our national life as much as possible. so far, flight delays at these big airports are minimal. that s why they put these planes well away from taxiways and trafficways, so that the very busy east coast traffic at newark liberty and philadelphia can go on as scheduled. we ve actually checked with our west coast bureau, they have checked, and everything west of the rockies is running on time. no impact whatsoever on flights as a result of these security concerns over planes on the east coast. let s get back to greg palkot now. he s got some updated ....
About the worst, we re still trying to confirm if it s a terror plot and we don t know that. we re working on that. jon: let s check in with a guy who has sores all over the planet, bill gav ip is former head of the fbi office in gavin is former head of the fbi in new york city, any of your friends getting on your blackberry and telling you what they think is at work here? jon, quite frankly, there s been a couple a couple of inquiries, but the big thing here, this stresses a global standpoint as neil has been pointing out is the vulnerability of our transportation system. jon: especially air cargo. air cargo and you got to think about the ships as well. it s not out of the speckter, and when you talk about air krargo and air cargo and planes in general with al-qaeda and whatnot going after those as a target, you mentioned the lockerbie flight and think about the bochinko plot, the ....