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All-clear given in Times Square scare
Police have blocked off parts of Times Square and evacuated people because of a suspicious cooler left in Times Square.
[Updated at 6:06 p.m.] Read the full CNN.com story
[Updated at 2:32 p.m.] Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York acknowledged after that incident that terrorists have targeted New York.
"We have to take every precaution, as you know, because we remain a prime target for terrorists," he said. "That's something all New Yorkers understand and it's something that we need Washington to understand as well."
"We will continue to doing everything we possibly can to protect New Yorkers from terrorist attacks. We have, as you know, built the most comprehensive and sophisticated counter terrorism operation of any local police force in the world."
[Updated at 2:24 p.m.] An all-clear was declared Friday after authorities investigated a suspicious package left in front of a hotel in Times Square and determined that it contained water bottles, police said.
[Updated at 2:10 p.m.] The New York Police Department has deployed a robot to X-ray the cooler that was abandoned in front of the Marriott Marquis hotel in Times Square, police told CNN's Susan Candiotti.
[Updated at 2:15 p.m.] A bomb squad robot has completed its X-ray of the suspicious cooler left in Times Square, CNN's Susan Candiotti reported. But, the results were inconclusive.
Members of the bomb squad are now suiting up to get a closer look.
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[Updated at 2:01 p.m.] CNN's Ali Velshi who is on 47th Street and Broadway reports: "Times Square is entirely empty" on certain blocks.
[Updated at 1:58 p.m.] Kathy Duffy, who is in her office at the Marriott Marquis hotel, told CNN the Times Square Alliance said there was an abandoned cooler left outside. Duffy said officials told her that the bomb squad was trying to determine if it was a threat. She said that the hotel has not been told to evacuate.
[Updated at 1:51 p.m.] A spokesman for the Times Square Alliance says, according to the NYPD, the following streets are closed:
- East bound on 46th Street from 8th Ave
- West bound on 45th Street from 6th Ave.
- And the Broadway and 7th Avenue plaza between 44th and 47th.
- 44th and 47th Streets themselves are not closed.
[Updated at 1:45 p.m.] The suspicious package that prompted evacuations in New York's Times Square is a white cooler that was left near the front of the Marriott Marquis Hotel, police told CNN.
The area is not far from where Faisal Shahzad left his SUV that had explosives in it.
People were evacuated from the streets of Times Square after a report of a suspicious package.
[Posted at 1:24 p.m.] Times Square has been evacuated after a suspicious package was found near 45th street, a New York Police Department official said.
The package was found near 45th Street and Broadway, officials said.
The evacuation comes six days after an SUV with explosives was left in Times Square resulting in the arrest of Faisal Shahzad.
This story is developing. We'll bring you the latest information as we get it.
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apparently there have been about 493 investigations of unattended containers/bags in Time Square this spring.
So, if they're clearing out the area there's probably something to it.
I SAY KILLUM ALL ITS THE ONLY WAY
Bomb squad members a now suiting up?? Couldn't they have done this, oh, I don't know...45 mintues ago? Way to waste time guys, let's completely eliminate one possiblity before preparring for the next.
"He who would give up Liberty for Security deserves neither..." Ben Franklin (one of the radical liberals that founded this country, like the rest of the people at the "real Tea Party, At the time of the Revolution "conservatives" were called "Torries" and they sided with the King)
What happened to the Home of the Brave? Guess it went the same way as the Land of the Free...
NYPD already gave the all clear. Keep up CNN.
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it was full of Glen BECK-ER beer....on ice !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
next week some kid is going to forget his backpack while on a field trip and we can have another awesome thread....
seriously if is a freaking cooler in the side of the street and probably belonged to some bum who got tired of carrying it around and settled for a shiny new cart.
i like how everyone assumes that the people who don't live in NYC automatically populate farms in the US.
You yuppie sh!tsack fvckfaces.
Please go fellate a shotgun barrel.
I've gotta get back to banging my sister and slopping the hogs.
I hope it is a 6 pack of cheap beer. 🙂
There's no harm in checking.....
Hey USA SUX DICK, if you think its that bad here get the hell out. I would love to see how long you last as one of those terrorists.
Someone probably left their beer in a cooler outside, and now he or she will be to scared to drink it.
Better to be safe then sorry. I am glad that the people of nyc and the cops are on top of things. I can't understand how people still try to get away with this stuff. Don't they know that there are cameras everywhere. It's NY for crying out loud! Stay safe people.
next week some kid is going to forget his backpack while on a field trip and we can have another awesome thread....
seriously if is a freaking cooler on the side of the street and probably belonged to some bum who got tired of carrying it around and settled for a shiny new cart.
Hey Sheep – you're dumber than a spatula...where do you live? Your comment reminds me of that classic Dylan song "Idiot Wind." "Nuff said.