“Yes, we have to move in that direction, but right now we’re not ready to make those calls yet”.
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The President was speaking from a hotel in midtown Manhattan, where he’s attending his final United Nations General Assembly meeting.
An anonymous senior law enforcement source told ABC News there is physical evidence linking Rahami to the blasts in NY and New Jersey.
“In the coming hours we are going to be able to say a lot more about what happened here”, de Blasio said. All of those admitted to hospitals had been released.
Cuomo, touring the site of Saturday’s blast in Chelsea, said the unexploded pressure cooker device appeared “similar in design” to the bomb that exploded in Chelsea.
Surveillance footage shows the same man near the explosion, and where the pressure cooker was found.
Police in NY have been searching for a suspect named as Ahmad Khan Rahami, 28, in connection to a bombing over the weekend in the Manhattan neighborhood of Chelsea, CNN reported Monday.
The FBI said Rahami’s last known address was in Elizabeth, where multiple explosive devices were found at a train station earlier Monday. It said, “WANTED: Ahmad Khan Rahami, 28-yr-old male”.
Rahami is wanted in connection with Saturday bombings in New York’s Chelsea, which wounded 29 people, and a pipe bomb attack on the Jersey shore, which caused no injuries but forced the cancellation of a US Marine Corps race.
Police confirmed that the assailant asked some victims whether they were Muslim before attacking them and made “references to Allah”.
When the family refused to abide by the ordinance, one of Ahmad Rahami’s brothers got into a fight with a police officer who was responding to a noise complaint.
An ISIS wing claimed responsibility for the Minnesota attack.
The man in the Minnesota incident was described a “soldier of the Islamic State”, the militant group’s news agency said on Sunday. Authorities have not yet officially said whether the bombings in NY and New Jersey are connected, but the area is on high alert.
“Based on the loudness, I think people could have been severely hurt or injured if they were in the vicinity if that went off”, Bollwage said.
What we know: A backpack containing up to five explosive devices was found in a wastebasket in Elizabeth, New Jersey, around 9.30 p.m. on Sunday.
The second package was found in a wastebasket outside a pub and located about 500 feet from the train trestle in Elizabeth city, Mayor Chris Bollwage told CNN. One of the devices exploded as a bomb squad attempted to disarm it with a robot. A local Fox affiliate says that Rahami was linked to a cellphone found inside the device.
What we don’t know: What exactly were these devices?
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‘They want to inspire fear in all of us and disrupt the way we live, undermine our values even as we are vigilant and aggressive in preventing senseless acts of violence, ‘ Obama said.
