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NYC's Times Square shut down over suspicious car
Several blocks around New York's Times Square were closed to pedestrian and vehicular traffic Saturday night after a police officer saw smoke emanating from a box inside a parked car, according to authorities.
New York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne told CNN that the shutdown began after a foot patrol officer passed by a Nissan Pathfinder with Connecticut plates on 45th Street between and 7th and 8th Avenues. Browne said the officer noticed a box inside the car with smoke coming out.
Browne said officials at the scene were using a robot to search inside the car. The police department's public information office said the box and other items found in the search are not confirmed at this time to be a bomb.
The Marriott Marquee Hotel wasn't allowing anyone to enter or leave the hotel Saturday night, and at least one nearby restaurant, TGI Friday's, had closed to customers and was evacuating staff.
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I depend on CNN for some up to date coverage. Big fail CNN.
I also couldn't believe that NBC was coving this while Larry King reruns played on CNN. Fox picked it up before CNN also. Sad....
Okay, now let's ban all vehicular traffic from Times Square as we have in some areas of DC. Amazing how people and news organizations jump to conclusions so quickly. Now they are making comments about Al Qaeda on TV....if it was Al Qaeda, most likely it would have been successful-look at their record of "successes"
Strange that our intelligence agencies have been issuing warnings for New Delhi – 10000 miles away in India ........ yet had no clue this stuff was going down in NYC. Just glad that some restaurant owner was alert enough to notice this car and call police.
Glad CNN did not make a big deal out of something that ended up not being a big deal. Way to go CNN!!!
Has the CNN studio in TImes Square been evacuated? Is that why you aren't covering it on TV??
msnbc rocks!!!
Get this on your damn front page with the oil spill. F@#$ flooding in Tennessee.
The October 2006 Larry King with the Bush imposter is terrible......What, Barack have the week end off, no coverage of the real news.........UNREAL
Check the Times #52!
Police say it, ‘Appears to Be a Car Bomb’.
You're an idiot. Preempt an LKL rerun for the closure of Times Square seems to be a no-brainer.
Is America offically a third world country now? Lousy coverage CNN.
I was in Times Square earlier this evening when they were first clearing the area.
The place where the car is parked is just outside the Viacom Building. I don't know if it has anything to do with anything – but Viacom owns Comedy Central, which has been a target of threats in the past couple of weeks because of the recent South Park episodes.
Related?
Literally every time I see a breaking news headline it is on MSNBC for a while before it's ever mentioned on CNN. I really suspect CNN of nitpicking the content they are willing to put out for us to read, and sometimes it seems as if they are just following behind other outlets because they don't want to feel irrelevant. Last night Kim Kardashian's burrito fiasco was the link ABOVE an article about the disastrous oil spill. Not to mention the whole article posted a few weeks ago on reporters who went to South America to try some new drug and chickened out...what in the?
Goodbye to CNN as the 'go-to' for breaking news.
Here's a shovel of dirt on the coffin of your journalistic responsibility as it lowers further into the ratings.
What's worse is NY1 is running some sports show.