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mo4ch:>CNN office evacuated due to bomb threat | Mo4ch News

Police evacuated the CNN offices in New York due to a phoned-in bomb threat for about two hours on Thursday. The caller said five bombs had been planted in the building.Police closed off 58th Street, where the Time Warner building housing the CNN headquarters is located.The alarm went off in the CNN newsroom after 10pm, signaling the evacuation.After CNN resumed its live coverage, Lemon said that a “call was made from the southern part of the United States.” The caller said there were as many as five bombs planted in the building, according to the anchor.The staff was told to immediately vacate the premises. “We grabbed what we could and got out of the building and now we’re standing out front there,” Lemon said.A bomb squad, police cars and emergency vehicles were rushed to the scene.Police gave the all-clear and reopened traffic after failing to discover any explosives less than two hours after the alert.It didn’t take long for some people to link the bomb threat to US President Don…