“I don’t think we can accept it as being part of a new normal”, he said.
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Surveillance shows the same man on 27th Street about 10 minutes later with the same duffel bag, leaving it where police found an unexploded pressure cooker, multiple law enforcement sources said. A forensic examination of the device and its components will be conducted at the FBI Laboratory at Quantico, Virginia.
Investigators on Sunday sifted through blast remnants, examined video and scoured the scene of an explosion that wounded 29 people in Manhattan, attempting to establish if there were any links to worldwide terrorism. It was taken from the scene by a bomb removal robot.
Mr Obama, who was expected to arrive in NY yesterday, is among dozens of world leaders who will be in the city this week for the UN General Assembly.
Law enforcement officials are on the hunt for whoever is responsible for last night’s explosion in Chelsea. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the person wasn’t authorized to speak about an ongoing investigation.
Leo Calderon, who also works at the kennel club, said the explosion brought back memories of 9/11 when he was 13 and attending school very close to the World Trade Center. Gov. Andrew Cuomo said it didn’t appear to be linked to global terrorism.
Donald Trump, the Republican candidate, was reported by the Associated Press to have told a rally in Colorado: “I must tell you that just before I got off the plane a bomb went off in NY and nobody knows what’s going on. I want to assure all New Yorkers that the NYPD and all other agencies are at full alert”.
The New York Police Department says the controlled detonation will take place at a police facility in the Bronx on Sunday evening.
Police and firefighters work near the scene of an apparent explosion in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, in New York, Saturday, Sept. 17, 2016.
Police have not said what, if any, forensic evidence they’ve collected from that device.
Both presidential candidates have been quick to weigh in on the attacks. New Yorkers who endured the September 11 attacks in 2001 and the devastating Hurricane Sandy in 2012 said they were generally unperturbed.
In a statement Sunday, the Democratic presidential candidate said law enforcement officials in NY and New Jersey need support as they investigate.
U.N. Spokesman Stephane Dujarric said Sunday that security inside the complex “is being assessed on a constant basis”.
“We’re not going to let them win”, Cuomo said at the scene. Experts said a large amount would be required to create a blast like the one Saturday night, as well as an accelerant or other ignitor.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump moved ahead of New York City officials when he declared a “bomb went off” before officials had released details.
Homemade pressure cooker bombs were used in the Boston Marathon attacks in 2013 that killed three people and injured more than 260. All of them have been released from the hospital.
A second device was later found inside a plastic bag blocks away, and it appeared to be a pressure cooker with wiring and a cellphone attached to it.
NYPD and FBI Bomb technicians rendered the device safe. Physical evidence, including the pressure-cooker bomb, was sent to an Federal Bureau of Investigation lab in Quantico, Virginia.
The law enforcement official also said that the explosion appeared to have come from a construction toolbox in front of a building.
However, the Islamic State claim made no mention of the incidents in New Jersey and NY.
Tannerite, which is often used in target practice to mark a shot with a cloud of smoke and small explosion, is legal to purchase and can be found in many sporting goods stores.
Associated Press writer Alicia A. Caldwell contributed to this report from Washington, D.C.
Saturday’s explosion shook New York City’s Chelsea neighborhood and sent panicked people scrambling for cover.
Meanwhile, New Yorkers will see an increased police presence around the city, de Blasio said.
An explosion on a residential street in the Chelsea neighborhood injured 29 people. Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo toured the site Sunday. Investigators believe the blast was caused by an explosive device in or near a dumpster, a law enforcement source told CNN.
Authorities say there was no structural damage from the blast.
Although no worldwide group had claimed responsibility, New York state Governor Andrew Cuomo said detonating a bomb in New York City “is obviously an act of terrorism”.
Cuomo spoke Sunday morning near the site of the Saturday night blast on West 23rd Street in the Chelsea neighborhood.
Authorities found a second device in Manhattan a few blocks away from the one that exploded and removed it. Most of the injuries were minor.
As a precaution, Mr. Cuomo said, he was deploying an additional 1,000 state troopers and National Guard troops throughout the city. Mayor Bill de Blasio ruled out any terror connections, but called the blast an “intentional act”.
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The video shows a man dragging what has been described as a duffel bag with wheels on 23rd Street around 7:50 p.m., about 40 minutes before the explosion, according to the sources. Officials said 29 people were injured.
