Times Square Shut Down Due To Suspicious Vehicle

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[Sub-Driver]

Times Square Shut Down Due To Suspicious Vehicle 42nd Street And Broadway Closed As NYPD Investigates Park White Van NEW YORK (CBS) ―

The NYPD has closed down part of Manhattan's Times Square in response to a report of a suspicious vehicle, CBS 2 HD has learned.

Police blocked off Broadway at 42nd Street just after 11 a.m. Wednesday to investigate a white 1992 Dodge van with tinted windows that has been parked at the location for two days.

The van has temporary plates and a tarp is covering the windows, police say.

[Ramius]

do I understand right that the van has been moved? or is it still in the same spot?

[SE Mom]

Good point.

They’re extending the perimeter again.

[silverleaf]

only another 2-3 hours until obama is notified ....too bad he doesn’t watch FOX News

[BykrBayb]

If you take a close look at this intersection on Google Earth, you’ll see Spongebob Squarepants in the middle of the street.

[chrisser]

Getting a bit strange now- FOX resporting all choppers have been ordered to leave the area.

I'm certainly not an expert, but it seems that if a car bomb would explode in the street, the explosion would be largely contained by the street and surrounding buildings. (I'm not saying they wouldn't be damaged like the OKC bombing).

A lot of the blast would be directed up.

Last thing you want on top of a street-level explosion is a bunch of news choppers plummeting to the ground too.

[SE Mom]

I was mistaken. EARLIER they reported the van was being moved. Now it seems it hasn’t been towed.

Pretty strange.

[keats5]

If they’re expanding the search and telling helicopters to leave, could they fear something like a bioweapon or radiation?

[Shelayne]

I heard that, too. Maybe even Napalitano would find that suspicious.

Or not.

[TheDailyChange]

Showtime in New York, already?

[silverleaf]

cities got tons of money after 9-11 to buy expensive gear like air testers

Where’s Rudy? Is this gonna be the aw shit event that finally ends the liebrals’ pretensions

[SE Mom]

I haven’t even checked the other cables to see if they’re covering it...

[a fool in paradise]

it was uncovered that the Detroit jihadist was an antiAmerican war protester. He certainly wasn’t part of an antiwar movement anymore than William Ayers was.

[SE Mom]

Former NYPD detective saying now that this is being treated as a Level 1 threat.

[Son House]

another 2-3 hours until obama is notified ....too bad he doesn’t watch FOX News

^
you got me-that was funny

[Shelayne]

I just flipped to CNN, where there was a commercial for New Year’s Eve broadcast to be hosted by Anderson Cooper and *GACK* Kathy Griffith.

Now they are on to weather. Back to FOX.

[silverleaf]

Al Qaeda Yemen boasted last week they sent da bomb to the US - now everyone’s been assuming they meant the Nigerian panty bomb

Any radical imams left NYC for sudden vacations the past few days? The Israelis recalled all their diplomats before the weekend. Does anyone in our govt still try to put the pieces together?

[newheart]

the organization doesn’t exist- it’s a bogus placard.

That is the most disconcerting thing I have heard up to this point.

[~Vor~]

"only another 2-3 hours until obama is notified ....too bad he doesn’t watch FOX News"

HA!...good one

[FourPeas]

agreed, but could just be a scammer trying to get a good parking space (I can hope, right?)

[newheart]

The Israelis recalled all their diplomats before the weekend.

Can you source that?