{"id":24628,"date":"2018-12-07T09:23:13","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T09:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24628"},"modified":"2018-12-07T09:23:13","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T09:23:13","slug":"all-clear-after-bomb-threat-forces-evacuation-at-cnn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24628","title":{"rendered":"All clear after bomb threat forces evacuation at CNN"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"84.6470099668\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">Police have given the all-clear after a phoned in bomb threat forced the evacuation at the offices of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/united-states.html\">US<\/a> cable channel, CNN, in New York.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Police said a man with a southern accent called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/organisations\/cnn.html\">CNN<\/a> just after 10 pm local time on Thursday and said five bombs had been placed throughout the facility inside the Time Warner building at Columbus Circle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Police said the building was evacuated and building security did a preliminary search. Police units then swept the building with the NYPD bomb squad on standby.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing suspicious was found, CNN later reported.<\/p>\n<p>Outside the building, CNN&#8217;s Brian Stelter and Don Lemon continued to broadcast. Lemon said fire alarms rang and a loudspeaker told them they needed to evacuate during his live show.<\/p>\n<div data-embed-type=\"Brightcove\" data-embed-id=\"5853154246001\">\n<table class=\"in-article-item video\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody readability=\"2\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr readability=\"6\">\n<td readability=\"7\">\n<p>&#8216;Explosive devices&#8217; sent to Clinton, Obama, CNN<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- PAGELOADEDSUCCESSFULLY-->Lemon said he was in the middle of preparations for his show when the order to evacuate was issued.<\/p>\n<p>All vehicle and pedestrian traffic around the CNN offices had also been blocked by police, said New York Police Detective Hubert Reyes.<\/p>\n<p>In October, the building was partially evacuated after a suspicious package containing a crude pipe bomb was delivered to the company, addressed to former CIA Director John Brennan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police have given the all-clear after a phoned in bomb threat forced the evacuation at the offices of the US cable channel, CNN, in New York. Police said a man with a southern accent called CNN just after 10 pm local time on Thursday and said five bombs had been placed throughout the facility inside&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":24629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}