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Couple vendors, is this your car? they're like, no, we don't know whose this is. i looked back and saw, you know, the ignition running and hazard lights on. it was parked happen hazardly. i was like, u hoerkh-oh, this i than a parked car and cigarette in an ashtray. was a emitting smoke and wreaked of gun powder. >> long night in times square. still he made his daughter's lacrosse game today, he's the coach. he gets daughter with the new york city major tonight. wayne ratigan. back to our panel. you see a cop like that, it's just a hero. he notices right away details. the ignition is running, ...

York city police department did a great job, the officer who found this, the t-shirt vendor who led the officer to it, but how much can this thwarted plot be credited to the bomber, who just didn't do a good job of detonating whatever it is that he wanted to detonate? >> you know, i've been talking about this all day with experts in various fields of security and i think that's going to be the big takeaway from this, don. i mean, thank goodness that this guy or this person or this team, whoever put this bomb together, didn't really know what they were doing. not necessarily amateurish, but suc...

Pointed this out? do you feel good you pointed this out to -- do you feel like you -- >> of course. what do you think? >> this was important for you? >> of course. >> to the people of new york, what do you want to tell them? what do you want them to know? your message, lance, to the people of new york. >> if you see something, say something. >> we go now to the quick-thinking police officer, wayne ratigan treated to dinner tonight by a grateful mayor bloomberg. the officer knew immediately something was wrong. >> wayne robinson, the vendor alerted me to a car that was smoking, went over there,...

City, the police officer who sounded the alarm late on saturday night, started evacuating a packed times square, only moments after learning that smoke was pouring out of a suspicious vehicle. the nypd police officer, wayne ratigan, is with me now and sir, good morning to you! hats after to you, my friend. >> thank you. bill: i know you're getting a lot of attention that frankly you're not in the job or the business to get this kind of attention, but you and a few others may have saved a catastrophic situation from unfolding in times square on saturday night. i just want to recreate the moment...

Uma: two street vendors possibly stop a massive terror attack, dwayne jackson alerted police to a smoking suv and describing what he saw. listen: >> i approached the car, i saw the keys inside. it -- >> was it running. >> yes, the car was running and flashing lights were on and i kind of instantly looked around, to see, hey, whose car is this, and no one stepped forward, and, then about that time, the officer came up on the mounted horse and he's asking me, do i know whose car it is and, a couple officers came and one of the officers from midtown south, a regular beat cop and said dwayne did y...