[mikegi]

Sounds like they must have found something of some sort. I wonder if they'll have a follow up on this story.

I guess it is standard procedure. There are a bunch of boxes in the back and they need to search through them to make sure there's nothing bad in there. Traffic is flowing again. A false alarm, IMHO.

[concerned about politics]

U.S. intelligence analysts were alarmed over the mention of a "package" in several intercepted conversations because al Qaeda has used the term in the past as code for bomb material, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.

Looking for "packages", I'd suppose.

[Damocles]

We can only hope.

[dep]

queens-bound traffic reopened, but bronx-bound traffic still shut down. there is clearly more than a random stop-and-check thing going on here. how much more, no way of telling.

dep