“nuclear” can also mean “radiological” . . . have any of the local stations given a source for this unverified threat?
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/ny-linuke0811,0,3803483.story?coll=ny_home_rail_headlines
” . . .CW 11 television news reported that the police reaction was in response to an unverified threat of a nuclear device in the 34th Street area of Manhattan.”
Thanks, Joe.
Ping to Milford.
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN1026252120070811
NY police receive “unverified radiological threat”
Fri Aug 10, 2007 11:06PM EDT
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York city police increased security throughout Manhattan on Friday and at bridges and tunnels in response to what they called an “unverified radiological threat,” but said the city’s alert status remained unchanged.
The New York Police Department said in a statement it has increased the deployment of radiological sensors on vehicles, boats and helicopters and had set up vehicle checkpoints in lower Manhattan and at bridges and tunnels.
Police confirmed the increased security was in response to receiving information that a dirty bomb may go off around 34th street in Manhattan on Friday evening.
The Empire State Building, New York City’s tallest building, Madison Square Garden and Macy’s department store are in the 34th Street neighborhood.
A spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security in Washington said they assessed the radiological threat to New York as “unsubstantiated” and there was “no credible information telling us there is an imminent threat to the homeland at this time.”
New York has remained on an orange alert — the second highest such level, below red — since the September 11, 2001, attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center.