CBS Evening News top story - 2005-10-06

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[0:04] Officials here in New York say they have

[0:06] received the most specific terror threat

[0:09] ever against this city's subway system.

[0:12] A system used every day by 4 and a half

[0:15] million people. The threat to attack the

[0:17] subways in coming days comes from

[0:20] overseas and the police here will be

[0:22] searching bags, briefcases, even baby

[0:25] strollers to try to stop it. We're going

[0:27] to begin our coverage tonight with

[0:28] Randall Kingston. Randall, tell us what

[0:30] you know.

[0:31] >> Bob, word came late this afternoon, just

[0:33] before the evening rush hour was to

[0:35] begin here in New York City. Authorities

[0:37] revealed few details.

[0:39] >> While the information has not been fully

[0:40] corroborated, it has been deemed of

[0:43] sufficient concern for the police

[0:45] department to enhance its

[0:46] counterterrorism coverage of the subway

[0:48] system.

[0:50] The New York City subway, which carries

[0:51] more than 4 million passengers a day,

[0:54] may be the target of a terror attack in

[0:56] the next few days.

[0:58] >> Of this spec uh specific threat, is in

[1:01] fact classified.

[1:03] We put down threats, multiple threats

[1:06] every day, but the detail of this

[1:08] specific threat was uh so on point that

[1:11] we uh we did uh raise this concern with

[1:14] the New York City Police Department.

[1:17] While New York's mayor Michael Bloomberg

[1:18] and his police commissioner Raymond

[1:20] Kelly are taking the threat very

[1:22] seriously, they are urging New Yorkers

[1:24] to maintain their routines. Bloomberg

[1:26] said he's planning on taking the subway

[1:28] home tonight. A source tells CBS News

[1:30] that the threat is far from trivial.

[1:33] According to that source, information

[1:35] has come from overseas with specific

[1:37] details about how the attack would be

[1:39] mounted, how many people might be

[1:40] involved, and by what route the

[1:42] terrorists would approach the rail

[1:44] system. It was more specific as to

[1:48] target.

[1:50] It was more specific as to timing.

[1:54] And uh some of the sources

[1:58] um had more information that would lead

[2:01] one to believe that it was not uh the

[2:04] kind of thing that appears in the

[2:06] intelligence community every day. The

[2:09] New York City Police Department has been

[2:11] conducting random searches of bags

[2:13] carried by subway passengers for several

[2:15] months now. Police Commissioner Raymond

[2:17] Kelly says his men and women will step

[2:19] up those searches now on a much larger

[2:22] and much more aggressive scale. Bob,

[2:25] >> has it disrupted the routine? We are in

[2:27] the middle of the rush hour right now

[2:29] >> so far. And people did get early word

[2:31] about the news conference. Um, but they

[2:34] say that they have to get to work and so

[2:35] the subway is the best way to go. It

[2:36] will be interesting to note however in

[2:38] the coming days whether wrership

[2:39] declines.