He says the president also expressed appreciation for the work of first responders.
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An interesting side story to the New York/New Jersey bombings involves two men who may be the luckiest guys walking around alive in New Jersey today.
The FBI wanted poster, issued hours before the arrest, warned that Rahami “should be considered armed and unsafe”. His last known address was in Elizabeth, New Jersey, where the Federal Bureau of Investigation executed a search warrant on Monday morning.
She wouldn’t provide further details, but a government official and a law enforcement official who were briefed on the investigation said five people in the vehicle were being questioned at an FBI building in lower Manhattan. It’s good they weren’t hurt and, thanks to them calling the police, no one else was hurt either.
As part of the inquiry into Saturday’s bombing in Manhattan, the FBI pulled over a auto described by officials as “a vehicle of interest in the investigation” in Brooklyn on Sunday night.
The explosion in Chelsea rocked the neighborhood and blew windows out of buildings. No one was injured in that blast. He says Obama will comment publicly “relatively soon”. Police soon realized the backpack contained five explosives.
In the immediate aftermath of the New York bombing, de New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and Cuomo were careful to say there was no evidence of a link to worldwide terrorism. The suspect was taken by ambulance to a local hospital following his capture in Linden, New Jersey, about 20 miles (32 km) outside NY.
On Sunday, Cuomo had effectively ruled out a link to global terrorism, saying there was no evidence to suggest that.
Police arrested an Afghanistan-born American suspected of carrying out this weekend’s bombing in New York City that injured 29 people and planting other devices in New York and New Jersey following a Monday morning gun battle with the suspect. By Sunday, 26 of the injured who had been admitted to hospitals had been released.
Citing the FBI, New Jersey State Police said Monday that the bombings in Chelsea and the New Jersey shore town Seaside Park were connected.
Ahmad Khan Rahami, 28, has lived at that address.
The attacker has been named as 22-year-old Dahir A. Adan, according to two Somali community leaders who are in direct contact with his family.
WPIX caught the moment one of the devices in Elizabeth, New Jersey, detonated early Monday.
The discovery of the suspicious package came a day after the explosion in Manhattan and an unexploded pressure-cooker device was found four blocks away in New York City.
Authorities said the blasts were looking increasingly like an act of terrorism with a foreign connection. Also Saturday, a pipe bomb exploded about an hour from the Elizabeth train station in Seaside Park, New Jersey, forcing the cancellation of a military charity 5K run.
Two men discovered the explosive device among four other devices, some of which were pipe bombs, in a backpack at the Elizabeth station around 8:45 p.m. on Sunday night.
A police officer walks near the area where an explosive device left at a train station was detonated by the authorities in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Sept. 19, 2016. After noticing that the bag was filled with bombs, they dropped it and notified police.
There were no reports of injuries.
New Jersey Transit and Amtrak train service resumed Monday morning after service was suspended overnight.
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Amtrak was operating on a modified schedule.
