PER: WNYW
THERE WAS AN EXPLOSION IN TIMES SQ. AT 0345 EST. IT HAPPENED ON 43RD AND 8TH AT THE MILITARY RECRUITING STATION
"IT WAS LOUD ENOUGH THAT PEOPLE AT THE MARRIOTT MARQUIS HEARD IT AND SAW A PUFF OF SMOKE"
ALL TRAFFIC DIVERTED
46TH TO 42ND CLOSED BETWEEN 6TH AND 8TH
ALL SUBWAYS ARE BEING DIVERTED
NYPD ARE ON SCENE
http://www.foxnews.com/urgent_queue/index.html#10b8e5e7,2008-03-06
It was a minor blast that only blew out the front window of the recruiting station. The only damage done was to traffic flow.
NEW YORK, New York, March 6, 2008 (NBC) --Security cameras were rolling when a suspect on a bicycle planted explosives at a Times Square military recruiting booth early Thursday morning.
Well, it is their job. And, according to the most recent news, several New York congressmen were mailed photos of the building before the incident. The bomb was also very similar to those used at bombings in consulates earlier in New York. Now there's more out there coming in all the time.Especially in Times Square, right? :crazy: The news hounds were just drooling at their news desks waiting for the story to get bigger and more intricate so they could have something to salivate over for a few days.
At that time of the morning (3:45 am), Times Square is pretty quiet and not many people out. Weird that someone would do that in the middle of the night... unless they were doing it as a test run, or it went off BEFORE it was suppose to.
This is a crazy scary world, at times...
ETA: where it was planted is right across from the ABC news studios... had it gone off later in the morning, it would have been on live tv because ABC/GMA uses that area as their backdrop.