Time Warner Center evacuated as police investigate bomb threat

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.

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.

Columbus Circle and West 58th Street between 8th and 9th Avenue was closed to vehicle and pedestrian traffic while police investigated.