5 floors of the Waldorf Historia in New York is being evacuated due to a suspicious package. This is according to Fox News, they will have more later on this situation.

I think they said it was a suitcase w/ wires sticking out of it. :eek:

They also said Collin Powell is staying in New York, so that is another big reason for concern.

Originally posted by Three'sCompanyrules
They also said Collin Powell is staying in New York, so that is another big reason for concern.
Wow. I sure hope it turns out to be a false alarm

Originally posted by TheFonz

Wow. I sure hope it turns out to be a false alarm


I hope so to, yeah they said he was staying there while waiting for Hans Blix's report tomarrow.

I seriously hope this is just someone's idea of a sick prank.

Originally posted by Snoopy
I seriously hope this is just someone's idea of a sick prank.

If it is, then they are VERY sick. That is not even funny.

Originally posted by ~*Hannah_Lee*~


If it is, then they are VERY sick. That is not even funny.

i agree, it's sick, not funny. I'd still rather it be a prank than an actual threat though.

Well, any more news on this?

I haven't heared anymore, but there will probably be more on it tomarrow. Maybe someone else heared something new.

Why is this country so full of morons???

Whats going on? I have been at school all day and I haven't heard anything about this

Originally posted by leah02_06
Whats going on? I have been at school all day and I haven't heard anything about this

Yeah...details please!

I've just been through a bomb threat at school. This is getting too common.

Last night about 10pm central time they had to evacuate 5 floors of the Waldor Historia in New York, because of a bomb threat and Collin Powell was staying there, there was a suit case with wires sticking out of it, they called the bomb squad, but thats the last I heared of anything so it must have been just a sick prank by someone.

It's okay. It was a false alarm.

Waldorf rattled by false-alarm bomb scare



By TAMER EL-GHOBASHY, MARTIN MBUGUA and LEO STANDORA
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

A loaded gun and a suspicious suitcase forced scores of frightened guests to evacuate the Waldorf-Astoria, where Secretary of State Powell was staying, police said last night.
But the case turned out to be harmless.

The nerve-rattling drama began about 8 p.m. when sanitation workers found the 9-mm. gun in a trash receptacle across Park Ave. at 50th St. from the elegant hotel and turned it over to cops at the Waldorf, according to Chief of Department Joseph Esposito.

Police providing security at the hotel for Powell and other dignitaries expected to attend today's UN meeting called the Emergency Service Unit for a safety sweep.

Shortly before 10 p.m. a bomb-sniffing dog in the search zeroed in on a suitcase left in a breezeway in the hotel's underground garage.

Fearing the worst, cops ordered the evacuation of the first five of the hotel's 42 floors. Powell was staying on the 34th floor. It was unclear if he left.

Esposito said the bomb squad X-rayed the case, and "saw something they didn't like" - small canisters and wires.

Using a small charge, cops blew open the valise about 10:50 p.m. and found only personal-care aerosol cans and what appeared to be a battery or cellphone charger.

Guests were then allowed to return to their rooms.

Esposito said the luggage was the property of a salesman staying at the hotel who reported it missing.

He added that Powell "was never in any danger."

I was wondering, why in all of the things in the Big Apple, would they attack the Waldorf Hotel? Even if Powell is there, there are bigger places to hit. But a 5 star?