Time Warner Center evacuated as police investigate bomb threat

Thursday, December 6, 2018
NEW YORK -- A bomb threat was called into the Time Warner Center in Manhattan Thursday night, causing the evacuation of CNN.

CNN security and the NYPD searched and found nothing.
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Employees were then let back in.

No explosives were found.

According to police, someone phoned in a threat stating there were five bombs placed throughout Time Warner Center.
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Columbus Circle and West 58th Street between 8th and 9th Avenue was closed to vehicle and pedestrian traffic while police investigated.
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