Times Square surveillance helps investigation

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Investigators are analyzing surveillance tapes from Times Square to try to identify one man who was acting strangely near the site of the attempted bomb. Cameras are almost everywhere in Times Square and we speak to The New York Times’ Michael Schmidt about security and surveillance in the wake of the incident.

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