All-Clear Given After CNN’s NYC Headquarters Evacuated Due to Bomb Threat

UPDATE: CNN has been given the all clear to re-enter the building and are back on the air.

CNN reports:

The threat came Thursday night when a caller indicated there were five devices in the building, according to a law enforcement source.

Several fire alarm bells rang inside CNN’s New York newsroom, signaling an evacuation after the call was received shortly before 10 p.m., the company’s security said.

Staffers evacuated the CNN New York offices in the Time Warner Center building and Don Lemon’s “CNN Tonight,” which had been on a commercial break, was taken off the air.

The network temporarily went to taped programming for about half hour before going live from the street while police investigated.

The threat was unsubstantiated.

Original story below: 

CNN is showing taped programming Thursday night after a bomb threat forced the evacuation of CNN’s New York City headquarters.

Brian Stelter — who was downstairs at Whole Foods — tweeted out this report at 10:42 pm:

He added:

Don Lemon, who was on the air when the threat forced the abrupt end of his show, also tweeted out the news.

Fox News reported at 11:16 pm that, according to the NYPD, someone had phoned in that there were five bombs throughout the Time Warner Building, where CNN is housed. The building also has a Whole Foods, a mall area, and is popular with tourists.

The NYPD has confirmed that there is an ongoing investigation in the area and West 58th between 8th and 9th is closed.

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