'Absolute COP-out': forecasters coup heated in the GA officials blame game. time

"There was a long time to make adjustments for any type of snow removal" in Atlanta, told NBC the Roker.

By M. Alex Johnson, writer, NBC News

Flat feet under fire from Georgia officials caught in the winter storm that hit the South this week, meteorologists are crazy ray and I want to know: will not tolerate.

Georgia officials with the capital city, Atlanta, paralyzed by less than 3 inches of snow, complained that he warned not what was on the way on Tuesday:

"We have bumped into an unexpected storm that struck the metropolitan area", said the Governor of Georgia Nathan Deal on Tuesday night.On Wednesday, said, "no one in this room could have predicted the extent and the magnitude of the problem that developed."Later Wednesday, he said: "if we close the city of Atlanta and our Interstate system based on"maybe", then be a very productive Government or a city. We can do based on the answers."Asked why the city display not sanders and plows until eight hours after the national weather service issued a winter storm warning early Tuesday, Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed called such criticisms "Monday morning quarterbacking."

The national weather service not to comment, but other experts were quick to jump to his defense.

"Bad, bad, bad and bad," said Marshall Shepherd, President of the American Meteorological Society, from critics who argued that the weather service failed in its forecasts.

In a post on a blog created on Wednesday specifically to defend the performance of services forecast this week, pastor said that the weather service issued watches and warnings before the storm arrived, providing time to spare for Georgia officials to make the right decisions.

"However, as soon as I saw what took place with children are trapped in schools, 6 + hour commutes and other horror stories, knew that it was going to go, I knew it." "Some in the medial position or public decision making, social would be 'blame' meteorologists," shepherd wrote in a post titled "One open thanks to meteorologists in Atlanta".

Meteorologist for NBC News to the Roker agreed.

"The Mayor and the Governor was yesterday on TV and they said that this was not intended, and that is not true" Roker said on Wednesday.

Roker and other meteorologists pointed out that the weather service issued its warning for metro Atlanta 3:38 Tuesday - Roker, means "that they were warned of this, and they should have been prepared for this," said. "It's a shame. It really is".

Scroll through the weather service reports the last days revealed that analysts were sounding the alarm of possible "widespread ice accumulation" across the South as soon as Saturday - "expanding in the southeast of the United States Tuesday to Wednesday 's":

National Weather Service

That is exactly what happened.

On Monday, a day before the fall the first snowflake, the Meteorological Service warned of possible heavy snow and snow on the other side of the North Georgia:

National Weather Service

That it is also exactly what happened.

03: 22 Pm on Monday, the weather service issued a notice that specifically had a potential "of" 2 inches of snow, and up to a half inch of meltwater from Atlanta to Athens.

Once again: what exactly happened.

"It absolutely breaks the heart," said Jim Cantore, a meteorologist for The Weather Channel.

"There are certainly possibilities that you take with this inexact science predict a winter storm warning," said Cantore Wednesday. But this time, "the national weather service was absolutely spot-on with this".

"It's just an absolute excuse," he said, saying the officials of Georgia:

"Admit that you are wrong. Admit that you took the opportunity to save some money and cagaste it. You cagaste it. And now, the people are suffering, unfortunately, in the city of Atlanta.

92 nuclear missile officers implicated in cheating scandal, Air Force says

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By Jim Miklaszewski, Courtney Kube and Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News

The number of nuclear missile launch officers under investigation for allegations of cheating has ballooned to 92, the Air Force said Thursday.

The new total is nearly three times the initial 34 officers who were implicated in the scandal and nearly one-fifth of the force. The officers have been taken off their missile wing duties during the investigation into the cheating, which happened during a key proficiency exam, Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James said at a Pentagon news briefing.

Of the 92, 40 are suspected of actually cheating by obtaining answers in advance of the test; the remaining 52 were allegedly aware of the cheating, but failed to report it to superiors.  

"The situation remains completely unacceptable," James told reporters. 

Officials have stressed that there has been no change in the overall nuclear mission and no degradation of the U.S. nuclear capability.

"This is a failure of integrity, not a failure of the mission," James said Thursday.

The original officers in the probe, all assigned to the 341st Missile Wing at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana, are accused of apparently texting answers to each other, or knew that the cheating was going on and didn't report it, according to officials.

The monthly exam tested the officers' knowledge of the missile launch systems. It was administered in August and September 2013.

Air Force Chief of Staff General Mark Welsh said earlier this month the officers shared the exam "electronically.” Text messages were involved, he said. He would not expand on the exact circumstances of the alleged cheating, citing an ongoing investigation.

The investigation into the cheating ring was announced on Jan. 15 by the Air Force.

The 341st Missile Wing provides security for 150 nuclear-armed Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missiles, one third of the entire ICBM force. James said there is no evidence of similar cheating at the other two nuclear missile bases, F.E. Warren in Wyoming and Minot in North Dakota.

Just two days ago, a U.S. military official told NBC News the number of officers under allegations had nearly doubled.

James, who is the service's top civilian official, said Thursday that the systemic micromanagement in the nuclear force has created "undue stress and fear," and that situation at Malmstrom was "not a healthy environment." 

She has said that the alleged cheating at Malmstrom was discovered during a previously announced probe of drug possession by 11 officers at several bases. Initially, that probe only included 10 officers.

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This story was originally published on Thu Jan 30, 2014 3:25 PM EST

Snow storm chaos: Divers urged not to rescue abandoned cars as South begins recovery

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Georgia National Guardsman Command Sgt. Maj. Buddy Grisham (C) is joined by fellow troops as they help people get their stranded cars out of the snow in Atlanta, Georgia January 29, 2014. A rare ice storm turned Atlanta into a slippery mess on Wednesday, stranding thousands for hours on frozen roadways and raising questions about how city leaders prepared for and handled the cold snap that slammed the U.S. South.

By Erin McClam, Staff Writer, NBC News

Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal on Thursday took responsibility Thursday for the state’s slow response to a snowstorm that left people stranded for more than 24 hours on gridlocked interstates, and his top emergency management official said flatly: “I got this one wrong.”

Deal pledged to reporters that the state would be more aggressive in responding to future weather threats.

“I’m not going to look for a scapegoat,” he said. “I am the governor. The buck stops with me. I accept the responsibility for it, but I also accept the responsibility of being able to make corrective actions as they come into the future.”

He added: “We will take those weather warnings more seriously.”

Facing criticism over the city's response to an unusual winter storm, Atlanta mayor Kasim Reed said that while they did not have the experience to deal with the unusual weather, their efforts have made 80 percent of the city's roads passable.

Charley English, head of the Georgia Emergency Management Agency, said he had made a mistake by activating the state’s emergency response center six hours too late, long after the National Weather Service upgraded its winter storm alert for Atlanta on Tuesday morning.

“I made a terrible mistake, and I put the governor in an awful position,” he said.

Thousands of people were stuck, without food and water, on the interstates in and around Atlanta after the storm struck on Tuesday afternoon. Thousands of schoolchildren were also marooned overnight in their schools or on buses trapped on the road.

In Atlanta on Thursday, the National Guard helped people retrieve abandoned cars that littered the Atlanta interstates. Meanwhile, the mayor and governor struggled with the political fallout.

Mayor Kasim Reed assured people on Tuesday, in a message on Twitter before the snow began to fall: “Atlanta, we are ready for the snow.”

On Thursday, he acknowledged that authorities made a mistake by not staggering their orders for people to go home — schools first, then private businesses, then government employees. Instead, hundreds of thousands of people poured onto the interstates at the same time.

But Reed suggested, in a pair of interviews on NBC’s TODAY and MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” that he was being unfairly blamed for traffic that clogged highways outside the city limits.

“I think we need to work much harder on coordination,” he said on MSNBC. But he stressed: “The highways are not the responsibility of the city.”

It was the latest episode of finger-pointing after the storm. On Wednesday, the governor infuriated meteorologists by calling the storm “unexpected” and saying that nobody “could have predicted “the degree and magnitude of the problem.”

In fact, the National Weather Service issued a winter storm alert for Atlanta at 3:38 a.m. on Tuesday, 12 hours before the worst of the traffic set in.

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Atlanta student David Hunter and his mother Demetra Dobbins walk up an exit ramp along I-75 North on Wednesday.

Cities in the North are much more accustomed to snowstorms, and in places like New York, powerful mayors have the single-handed authority to order salt-spreaders and plows onto the streets.

But the Atlanta area, as frustrated experts pointed out, is a patchwork of regional governments that often don’t get along with each other.

It also has a deeply ingrained car culture and a mass transit system that serves only a fraction of the metro area’s 5.5 million people. In 2012 voters across the region defeated a one-penny sales tax that would have strengthened regional transit.

After a snowstorm hobbled Atlanta in 2011, Reed, the Atlanta mayor, wrote in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that he had learned an important lesson about collaboration and cooperation.

“We will work faster and smarter to deliver the kind of response that our residents demand and deserve,” he wrote.

Asked on “Morning Joe” why authorities had not worked better together this time, he said: “I think that we all have responsibility.”

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This story was originally published on Thu Jan 30, 2014 2:46 PM EST

8-year-old hero who saved six declared honorary firefighter funeral

Tyler Doohan was credited with saving the lives of six members of his family when his mobile home was burnt in flames last week.

By M. Alex Johnson, writer, NBC News

The boy from New York State 8 - year - old who died while saving the lives of six people in a roaring fire of trailer was buried Wednesday - complete with its own firefighter helmet and the title of honorary firefighter.

Mourners from across the country attended to Fairport, near Rochester, in honor of Tyler Doohan, a fourth-grade primary school East Rochester.

Tyler ran through his grandfather trailer in suburban Penfield early in the morning of January 20, alerting friends and family to a cut-throat of fire.

They are credited with saving the lives of six people, including two children, 4 and 6 years of age.

But then he returned to hell to try to rescue his grandfather, who uses a wheelchair because he lost part of a leg. They never did. On Wednesday they were buried with a third victim, his step grandfather.

"Compassion has no end and community has no borders," said Phil Buderic, basketball coach at the University of Silver Lake of the Holy family, who traveled with his team of Manitowoc, Wisconsin, to serve as pallbearers at the funeral of Tyler after being touched by the story.

Penfield fire chief Chris Ebmeyer, Tyler declared an honorary firefighter, Catholic Church, presents a personal fire helmet during the service at San Juan de Rochester NBC station reported WHEC of Rochester.

"Tyler should be honest in a way that reflects what he did this morning," Ebmeyer said, marveling at the "courage (and) heroism he displayed for someone so young, at the age of 8.

"Tyler showed that there is something good in the world," the Chief said.

Fire companies cross that country also added name Tyler to their lists of duty in tribute on Wednesday, photos of scrolling of page after page of the Facebook account of fire Worldwide, an international fire community based in Mechanicsville, Virginia.

But she remember him as "the quiet guy who sat in the front row", said Denise Alfieri, Tyler fourth-grade teacher and loved mathematics and drawing.

"Tyler, I'll miss every day," said Alfieri. "To be honest, I'm still looking for walking through those doors, just to see you smile again."

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Gridlock baby, dangerous waits, Candy Crush: Stories from the South's epic snow jam

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Stalled traffic on Interstate 285 outside Atlanta on Thursday morning.

By Erik Ortiz, Erin McClam and Lou Dubois, NBC News

A rare winter storm hatched a nightmare traffic jam that paralyzed parts of the South — especially the city of Atlanta — that was ongoing nearly 24 hours after it began.

Here are some stories from the stranded:

'I didn't know where my 10-year-old daughter was'

Almost 24 hours after she left work, Jennifer Wilkins was finally close to her Atlanta area home Wednesday afternoon.

Jennifer Wilkins has been stranded in her car for more than 20 hours because of the snow and ice in the South. She tells NBC's Andrea Mitchell about it.

She had at least one steep hill left to navigate and figured that she might just hike the final quarter-mile.

She left work at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday. For about 12 hours, from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m., she was "parked on the interstate," she said.

The gas tank worried her. She said she turned the car off for 15 to 30 minutes at a time, "depending on how long I could stand it before I was too cold. Then I would turn it on for 15 minutes to warm up."

But the worst part was a stretch Tuesday afternoon. Wilkins thought her daughter, who is 10, had been sent home from school, but her son reported that she never showed up. It was five hours later when Wilkins learned that the girl had been dropped off safely at a local middle school.

"I didn't know where she was," Wilkins said, breaking down in tears in an interview from her car on MSNBC's "Andrea Mitchell Reports." "From 1:45 in the afternoon until 6:45 last night, I didn't know where my 10-year-old daughter was."

'Just praying we get home safe'

Vontana Atkins, a wellness coordinator with United Cerebral Palsy of Georgia, said she had been stuck on Interstate 285, near the suburb of Marietta, since 2:30 p.m. Tuesday.

She was driving five men to their group home, a trip that should have taken 40 minutes. The men suffer various mental and physical disabilities, she said. They didn't all have their medications with them, and they've been without food and water.

"They're tired and they're hungry, but so far, so good," Atkins said. "I've been talking to them and encouraging them that we're getting there."

Traffic was at a standstill Wednesday morning. Atkins did have a cellphone charger with her and was able to call her office and relatives of the men to let them know how they're faring.

"I called 911 several times, too, but they've been busy," she said. "We're just praying we get home safe."

They've been biding their time watching videos on Atkins' iPad and listening to gospel and country music. One thing Atkins hasn't gotten — sleep.

"I can't. I need to make sure everyone's OK," she said.

Starving and biding time

Tim Dougherty left downtown Atlanta for his home in the suburbs about 3 p.m. Tuesday. He didn't make it home for 26 hours.

The trip normally takes half an hour.

"Taillights. I just see taillights," Dougherty told NBC News by phone from I-285 earlier in the morning. "I have not moved an inch in 15 hours."

Dougherty has lived in the Atlanta area for 17 years but grew up in Indiana, so he's used to ice storms and blizzards.

"But I've never seen anything like this," he said. "I've got to say for a city, this is an epic failure."

By morning, a few people were walking down the interstate offering snacks and water. Dougherty was lucky enough to start with a full tank of gas, although he said he was down to half a tank and idling. He also had a phone charger — and "I am dominating Candy Crush."

Born into gridlock

Nick and Amy Anderson

A baby born on the side of the road in Sandy Springs, Ga., to parents Nick and Amy Anderson.

Tim Sheffield, a police officer in Sandy Springs, Ga., was on his way to check out a traffic accident when he saw a car on the side of the road. The occupants didn't look like they were stuck. He pulled over to check on them.

"I asked the dad: 'Are y'all broke down?' He goes, 'No, we're having a baby,'" Sheffield said.

It was a couple on their way to the hospital. The man was on the phone with a 911 dispatcher. The woman was in labor.

Sheffield said he talked them through the delivery of a girl. The woman "did about 99 percent of it, and the father did a lot," he recalled.

"I had time to get the gloves," he said Wednesday in an interview on TODAY. "The father started to pull. I said, 'No, don't pull,' and the baby came out and just happened quick. It was beautiful, and it was on my birthday."

He said the new mother kept her cool the whole time.

"She was a trouper," he said. "She didn't have any anesthesia or anything, any medication or anything. It was 100 percent natural, but she did amazing. She really did."

Journey of peril

Friends Robert Warthen Jr. and James Hunt, both 52, left Atlanta at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday and were heading home to Smyrna when they got stuck in the monster gridlock. The drive should have taken 30 minutes.

Warthen said his car's battery died, and they remained stuck on the side of the road along State Route 401 on Wednesday morning.

"We're freezing to death. I'm shaking. I can't feel my feet," Warthen said, his voice choked with emotion.

Earlier in the night, the friends went to a hotel in Marietta, but they didn't have the $159 for a room. Warthen said he saw people smashing windows of parked cars and stealing items, and they decided to leave.

After getting stranded, they repeatedly called AAA but couldn't get through.

"They could pick up the phone and say something!" Warthen said. "Not treat us like we're trash. The government's going to have a lot to answer for."

Stranded trucker: Never seen anything like it

Joe Schmitz, a trucker, was driving from Miami to Atlanta and was almost there when he got stuck at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday. More than 20 hours later, he said he hadn't moved.

"I've been driving a truck for 14 years, and I've never with my own eyes witnessed something like this," he told NBC News by phone.

He said that he knew of at least one baby who was stuck in a car without diapers — although Schmitz said he found one for her — and that truckers were taking people in to keep them warm. A truck can run for days on idle, he said.

"There are some people who are really kind of scared," he said, but he added that nobody had a bad attitude.

About 2 a.m., he said, he walked two miles to a gas station, filled five or six bags with food and drinks, walked back and gave them to the stranded.

He said he had been told by authorities that the crisis could stretch through a second night.

Finally to school — and then stuck there

Katie Ganske, a psychologist who works in the city, got an email from E. Rivers Elementary School about 2 p.m. Tuesday. After-school classes were canceled. She got in her car to retrieve her child.

"I looked it up later — it was seven miles, and it took me 8½ hours," she told NBC station WXIA of Atlanta.

By the time she arrived, just before 11 p.m., she decided to stay the night with the roughly 100 kids who were stranded at the elementary school. Her car had spun out on the drive over.

Brave rescue

Neighbors, churches and grocery stores took in strangers. And Chipper Jones, the Atlanta Braves' retired and beloved third baseman, took to his 4-wheeler and rescued a former teammate who was stranded.

It started Tuesday afternoon, when Freddie Freeman, the Braves' current first baseman, tweeted that he was stuck in the brutal jam:

Going on 5 and a half hours in this traffic! Atlanta traffic is the worst but then you add snow...woah!!

— Freddie Freeman (@FreddieFreeman5) January 28, 2014

By late Tuesday night, Jones' girlfriend decided to send him on a rescue mission:

The cavalry arrived:

The rescue was a success:

A memorable night for both of them:

Read more at NBC Sports' HardballTalk.

Out of traffic and jumping in to help

Sheneka Adams of Atlanta was stuck in the traffic Tuesday for four hours.

Even though she was tired, she woke up Wednesday and rushed out the door. Adams, an actress and socialite, volunteers every Wednesday with the group Kashi Atlanta to help out at a homeless shelter at Peachtree and Pine streets.

With the winter storm bearing down, she realized there would be an influx of people looking for food and warmth. She was right. There were 500 people, including children, needing a meal.

Adams and her boyfriend, Jacob York, jumped into his Jeep Cherokee and drove to Publix, where they filled an entire cart with water, bologna, cheese and bread.

"I would say we bought out the whole aisle of bread," she told NBC News.

There were so many people that Adams made a second trip to the grocery store.

"Obviously, people have a lot of things going on today," Adams said. "But I couldn't just sit home. There are people out there who still need help."

Nadia Sikander of NBC News contributed to this report.

This story was originally published on Wed Jan 29, 2014 10:55 AM EST

Supreme Court green lights Missouri lethal injection after delay

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By Pete Williams and Tracy Connor, NBC News

A convicted murderer was executed with a controversial lethal injection in Missouri on Wednesday night after a day-long reprieve from the U.S. Supreme Court.

Herbert Smulls, 56, who was on death row for murdering a St. Louis jeweler during a 1991 heist, was pronounced dead at 10:20 p.m. central time - less than two hours before his execution warrant would have expired.

Smull was scheduled to die nearly 24 hours earlier, but the U.S. Supreme Court issued a stay while the full court weighed two petitions filed by defense lawyers.

The high court denied the petitions and later removed the stay - and then vacated a stay issued by a lower court - and last - minute motions by the defense could not stop the execution.

The defense had challenged Missouri completo current method of lethal injection, which relies on to loosely regulated, out-of-state compounding pharmacy for the drug it uses.

Smulls' lawyers also argued he did not get a fair trial because prosecutors improperly removed a black woman from the jury pool, resulting in an all-white jury.

The condemned man expected out legal the counter-move with a mix of dread and optimism, his legal team said.

"Our client is having a very difficult day," lawyer Cheryl Pilate said several hours before the execution.

"He's trying to remain hopeful while at the same time the people who want to execute him are hovering outside his door."

After the execution, Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster issued a statement saying that his "thoughts and prayers" were with the widow, friends and family of victim Stephen Honickman.

Smulls' execution focused fresh attention on prisons' controversial use of compounding pharmacies for drugs used in lethal injections.

With many drug manufacturers refusing to sell their products for executions, death-penalty states have increasingly turned to customer-order specialty pharmacies.

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A 2005 photo of the death chamber at the Missouri Correctional Center in Bonne Terre, Mo.

In Smulls' case, his lawyer argued that the state must disclose in court papers the name of the pharmacy that sold the pentobarbital so that it can investigate it and ensure the integrity and sterility of the drug.

His defense team has also argued that pentobarbital could cause extreme pain and cited the Jan. 9 execution of convicted killer Michael Lee Wilson in Oklahoma.

His final words were, "I feel my whole body burning", but he showed no signs of physical distress, according to a media witness.

In a motion filed with the Supreme Court opposing a stay of execution, Missouri noted that Smulls lost numerous challenges to his conviction and sentence in federal and state courts in the 21 years before Tuesday's 11th hour bid for a delay.

"The time for enforcement of Missouri completo criminal judgment against Herbert Smulls is long overdue," state lawyers wrote.

Scores of condemned prisoners across the nation have filed legal challenges to new lethal-injection protocols put in place as the old drugs have become unavailable.

In Ohio, convicted murderer Dennis McGuire failed to win a reprieve by arguing that an untried two-drug compound could trigger an agonizing phenomenon called "air starvation" before death, violating the constitutional protection against cruel and unusual punishment.

When McGuire was executed Jan. 16, it took him 25 minutes to die and witnesses reported that he repeatedly gasped for air. Three prison guards filed incident reports claiming he said his lawyer told him to put on "a big show," but an investigation by the public defender's office found no evidence of that.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

This story was originally published on Wed Jan 29, 2014 10:58 PM EST

Mass transit attack seen as top Super Bowl security risk

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Un signo de cámara de seguridad de la policía de Nueva York se registra a lo largo del Blvd. Superbowl delante de Super Bowl XLVIII en Nueva York, 29 de enero de 2014.

NUEVA YORK — Atentados como los que se rasgó a través de sitios de tránsito masivo en Rusia por delante de los próximos Juegos Olímpicos de Sochi son una preocupación principal de los funcionarios de seguridad preparándose para el Super Bowl del domingo, dijo el miércoles el jefe de la policía estatal de Nueva Jersey.

Mientras que las autoridades policiales dijeron que no tenían conocimiento de amenazas específicas dirigidas al Campeonato de la NFL el 2 de febrero en East Rutherford, Nueva Jersey, ataques como los mató a 34 personas en dos días en Rusia el año pasado son su mayor preocupación.

"De especial interés para nosotros es lo que estaba pasando en el extranjero en Volgogrado con respecto a los Juegos Olímpicos de Sochi. Como "sabes tanto de esos atentados fueron dirigidos a transporte masivo, Rick Fuentes, Superintendente de la policía estatal de Nueva Jersey, dijo a los reporteros. "Es una preocupación con el transporte público, nos hemos preparado para ello".

Los funcionarios han limitado agudamente aparcamiento MetLife Stadium, donde se jugará juego del domingo y esperar hasta 30.000 personas para llegar en autobús o tren.

Nueva York Departamento de policía Comisario William Bratton dijo que mientras que los funcionarios se centraron en un tipo de tránsito masivo de ataque, no tenían conocimiento de ningún plan específico para apuntar los eventos circundantes o juegos.

"No estamos manteniendo un ojo sobre las actividades alrededor del mundo, pero ciertamente en este momento hay amenazas dirigidas a este evento que somos conscientes de," dijo Bratton.

El estadio se encuentra a unos 10 km al oeste de la ciudad de Nueva York, el sitio de los ataques del 11 de septiembre de 2001. Lo ha bloqueado toda la semana y las autoridades va a escanear todos los vehículos que circulan en, una práctica que continuará el día del partido, dijeron que los funcionarios.

Bratton señaló que la policía de Nueva York estaban usando extensas operaciones de inteligencia desarrolladas desde el atentado del World Trade Center para observar posibles amenazas.

Unas 400.000 personas se estiman que han viajado a la región por los acontecimientos que rodearon el juego, aunque sólo unos 80.000 aficionados se llega a ver el partido Seattle Seahawks-Denver Broncos en persona.

Unos 4.000 oficiales estarán disponibles para el partido del domingo, y los aficionados, serán prohibidos de traer bolsas en el estadio si no son transparentes y no más de 12 pulgadas por 6 pulgadas por 12 pulgadas, con bolsos de las mujeres limitadas a 4,5 pulgadas por 6,5 pulgadas.

La naturaleza contenida del juego resulta más fácil garantizar que los actos públicos, como la maratón de Boston, donde dos olla a presión las bombas fueron detonadas entre una multitud de meta de miles de espectadores, voluntarios y atletas el 15 de abril, matando a tres personas e hiriendo a 264.

'LOBO SOLITARIO' UNA PREOCUPACIÓN

 Pero la feria "Super Bowl Boulevard", a lo largo de un tramo de 3/4 millas de Broadway de Nueva York, presenta un reto diferente, ya que será amplia abierta con hasta 1 millón personas espera para visitar atracciones como el trofeo del Super Bowl y una pista de trineo imponente.

Gran número de policías ha sido asignado al evento y los organizadores han tomado medidas como la eliminación de contenedores de basura a lo largo de la ruta y reemplazarlas con bolsas de plástico transparente que pueden inspeccionarse visualmente fácilmente.

En la planificación del evento, Bratton dijo a policía de Nueva York había preparado para responder a una variedad de ataques.

"Había un montón de focus on the lone wolf, los escenarios 'mochila queda sin garantía', así que estamos preparados", dijo Bratton.

Los bombarderos de Boston dejaron sus explosivos de fabricación casera a lo largo del curso en mochilas negras.

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Los fanáticos que visitaron la feria el miércoles dijeron confiaban debido a la presencia policial grande.

"Puedo ver a policías acabó, así que creo que es bastante seguro," dijo Steven Ferraro, 18 años, del barrio de Brooklyn de Nueva York. "Cualquier cosa puede suceder en cualquier parte, pero creo que es seguro".

Adicional por David Jones en East Rutherford, Nueva Jersey

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