WATCH: Baste Duterte on Dad's critics, Inday Sara's pregnancy.

<br /> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OLt_lv4Z-rI" width="693"></iframe><br /> <div style="font-family: franklin-gothic-urw, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; padding: 10px 0px;"> MANILA - President Rodrigo Duterte's youngest son, Sebastian, is unaffected by unrelenting criticism of his father, saying it comes with the territory.</div> <div style="font-family: franklin-gothic-urw, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; padding: 10px 0px;"> The young Duterte, more popularly known by his nickname "Baste," said that with over two decades of public service under his father's belt, the family is used to critics.</div> <div style="font-family: franklin-gothic-urw, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; padding: 10px 0px;"> "Not really, it's politics, it's gonna happen. I'm his son for 28 years. We had it coming. Alam niyo naman yun [You know that]," he told ABS-CBN News</div> <div style="font-family: franklin-gothic-urw, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; padding: 10px 0px;"> While not entirely unaffected, the young Duterte said the family has learned to live with criticism.</div> <div style="font-family: franklin-gothic-urw, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; padding: 10px 0px;"> "Of course, maaapektuhan ka naman; it's just that marunong ka lang maging numb [Of course you get affected. It's just that you learn how to get numb]."</div> <div style="font-family: franklin-gothic-urw, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; padding: 10px 0px;"> <span style="font-size: 16px;">Duterte also talked about his older sister, Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte, who is coping with the loss of two of three unborn babies in her womb.</span></div> <div style="font-family: franklin-gothic-urw, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; padding: 10px 0px;"> <span style="font-size: 16px;"><i>"She's okay, okay naman siya. Yes, she lost the twins but there is still one more so she's resting, she's always resting. Maybe trying to go to work, but not really working araw-araw siguro sa opisina [but not really working in the office everyday]. She needs to be careful to take care of the baby," he said.</i></span></div> <div style="font-family: franklin-gothic-urw, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; padding: 10px 0px;"> At the launch of "Probinsaya," an art exhibit celebrating Mindanao's untold treasures on Thursday, Duterte remained unfazed by misconceptions surrounding Mindanao. </div> <div style="font-family: franklin-gothic-urw, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; padding: 10px 0px;"> <i>"We are proud. Whatever, you know like kung paano nila kami titignan [how we are seen], we're still Mindanaoans. We're proud of ourselves," he said.</i></div> <div style="font-family: franklin-gothic-urw, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; padding: 10px 0px;"> <i><br /></i></div> <div style="font-family: franklin-gothic-urw, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; padding: 10px 0px;"> <i>SOURCE: <a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/09/23/16/baste-duterte-on-dads-critics-inday-saras-pregnancy">ABS-CBN</a></i></div>

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WATCH: Explosion rocks New York's Chelsea neighborhood.

<h2 style="text-align: center;"> <span style="color: magenta; font-family: inherit;">"Here’s the latest on last night’s explosion in NYC"</span></h2> <div style="text-align: center;"> <iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" height="315" scrolling="no" src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fcnninternational%2Fvideos%2F10154496238394641%2F&show_text=0&width=560" style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" width="560"></iframe><br /></div> <div class="el__leafmedia el__leafmedia--sourced-paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> <h2 style="text-align: center;"> <span style="color: magenta; font-family: inherit;">New York (CNN)A day after a bombing injured 29 people in a Manhattan neighborhood, police are scouring the area for clues about who was responsible for the explosion and why it happened.</span></h2> <div style="text-align: right;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><u>________________________________________________________________________________</u></b></span></div> <div style="text-align: right;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><u><br /></u></b></span></div> <div class="separator" style="background-color: #fefefe; clear: both; color: #262626; font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="background-color: #fefefe; clear: both; color: #262626; font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqjq1s6hjO7bLPPClqSh_Vp0gkyKwbkzAiQUdJDIQFllPjmQlRld6UWWENFXE9ViwFWUG1R-A6zM71PDF5OxrbjBe8TSI7H6Zc105Y45jNFggkefhPhRqram_3p8n3uO3-3sCeCj-xtCo/s1600/98531.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqjq1s6hjO7bLPPClqSh_Vp0gkyKwbkzAiQUdJDIQFllPjmQlRld6UWWENFXE9ViwFWUG1R-A6zM71PDF5OxrbjBe8TSI7H6Zc105Y45jNFggkefhPhRqram_3p8n3uO3-3sCeCj-xtCo/s320/98531.png" width="320" /></a></div> <div class="el__leafmedia el__leafmedia--sourced-paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: right;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">"We know it was a very serious incident, but we have a lot more work to do to be able to say what kind of motivation was behind this," New York Mayor Bill de Blasio told reporters Sunday. </span></div> </div> <div class="el__leafmedia el__leafmedia--sourced-paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: right;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div> <div class="el__leafmedia el__leafmedia--sourced-paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: right;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">"Was it a political motivation? Was it a personal motivation? We do not know that yet."</span></div> <ul class="cn cn-list-hierarchical-xs cn--idx-4 cn-zoneAdContainer" style="background-color: #fefefe; box-sizing: border-box; color: #262626; font-size: 15px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"></ul> <span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br /> <div style="text-align: right;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A few blocks away from the blast site, investigators found one possible clue: a pressure cooker, with dark-colored wiring sticking out, connected by silver duct tape to what appears to be a cellphone, officials said.</span></span></div> <span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><br /> <div style="text-align: right;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div> <div> <div style="text-align: right;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">It's still unclear whether that suspicious device has any connection to Saturday's explosion, which shook New York City's Chelsea neighborhood and sent panicked people scrambling for cover. </span></div> <div> <br /></div> <div> <br /> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">A police bomb squad was still investigating the device Sunday afternoon, NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce said.</span></div> <div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">"We don't have everything in. Think of a jigsaw puzzle out in the street right now," he said. "Do we think they're related? Yes, we have to move in that direction, but right now we're not ready to make those calls yet."</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <b><u>_________________________________________________________________</u></b></div> <h4 style="text-align: left;"> <span style="color: red; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://go.ad2up.com/afu.php?id=774878">View via Satellite here (mirror1)</a></span></h4> <h4 style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq4QNc-G9VmkjPlmmN_vNKVu_ftqnGBCgJltxJ0PNZ9r4HeCUSeeU1F1mjjWR0ZMCxZoPuN4kHGVIHg2MfwOGJPE3kxMAGR1Jl4q8QsxMrpSl1QMbCQ2mqZj_B1kkHRxP-2VSVl5vYV2c/s1600/24632.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq4QNc-G9VmkjPlmmN_vNKVu_ftqnGBCgJltxJ0PNZ9r4HeCUSeeU1F1mjjWR0ZMCxZoPuN4kHGVIHg2MfwOGJPE3kxMAGR1Jl4q8QsxMrpSl1QMbCQ2mqZj_B1kkHRxP-2VSVl5vYV2c/s320/24632.png" width="320" /></a><span style="color: red; font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: left;"> <a href="http://go.ad2up.com/afu.php?id=786809" style="font-family: inherit;">View via Satellite here (mirror2)</a></div> </span></h4> <h4 style="text-align: left;"> <a href="http://go.ad2up.com/afu.php?id=786809"><span style="color: red; font-family: inherit;">View Via Satellite here (mirror3)</span></a></h4> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">Investigators are still waiting for the results of forensics tests to reveal more details about the explosion, a senior law enforcement official said.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div> <div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">The blast occurred on the same day as an explosion went off near a Marine Corps charity run in New Jersey and a man stabbed nine people at Minnesota mall, leaving people across the United States on edge. </span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">Authorities are investigating all three incidents as possible terror acts.</span></div> <div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; 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font-size: 1.2rem;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="background-color: #fefefe; clear: both; color: #262626; font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2rem; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-DgtfRuZ1SchI6B-f1E1aMRwPZsR1xVsCVl2YJVsCCKDj6iozbKNojKmxZz0VPAYNEkUKu0O9jv6pzRN8qw9tfinqN5IPGwb0Od0CJAVcnQIHg_bPOzhi8sjtOkriANp9EYseXCTPlP8/s1600/newyork-blast-091816.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-DgtfRuZ1SchI6B-f1E1aMRwPZsR1xVsCVl2YJVsCCKDj6iozbKNojKmxZz0VPAYNEkUKu0O9jv6pzRN8qw9tfinqN5IPGwb0Od0CJAVcnQIHg_bPOzhi8sjtOkriANp9EYseXCTPlP8/s640/newyork-blast-091816.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br /> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Investigators have found some similarities between the explosives used in New York and New Jersey, according to multiple law enforcement officials, but authorities said they have not concluded the incidents are linked.</span></span></div> <span style="font-family: inherit;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">"We do not have any specific evidence of a connection, but that will continue to be considered," de Blasio said. "We're not taking any options off the table."</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><u>________________________</u>                                         <u>_________________________________</u></b></span></div> <h2 style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: magenta;">Authorities step up security, ask public for help</span></span></h2> </span><br /> <div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 0px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5VtNGsSsVby7MJqYOI2wVAeJOwuLm85wV1xPC0F8WEe6vEToFUyXXWfBgNm4RL8L7iRFsZVt-bC8U_piE4UcEdrMJLZKXgb_MMXMJY1Mvb9YCCQBAg2h67P_4yC4seSTHrpeUrE-cm0M/s1600/160918001218-de-blasio-presser-chelsea-explosion-exlarge-169.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5VtNGsSsVby7MJqYOI2wVAeJOwuLm85wV1xPC0F8WEe6vEToFUyXXWfBgNm4RL8L7iRFsZVt-bC8U_piE4UcEdrMJLZKXgb_MMXMJY1Mvb9YCCQBAg2h67P_4yC4seSTHrpeUrE-cm0M/s640/160918001218-de-blasio-presser-chelsea-explosion-exlarge-169.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> City officials called on the public to help them track down who's responsible.</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> Investigators are also combing through surveillance video for clues, but so far they haven't found anything pointing to a suspect, a senior law enforcement official said. Some of the video is not helpful because the cameras are either too far away or the footage is too grainy to tell what's on it, the official said. Investigators will be canvasing for additional video Sunday.</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> Authorities have cordoned off the street where the explosion occurred, in the Chelsea neighborhood south of Midtown in western Manhattan. A small crowd watched from behind police tape Sunday as investigators gathered at the blast site. Some onlookers said residents who live on the block still hadn't been allowed to return to their homes.</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> Investigators are still searching the scene for evidence, officials said.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmbpILj3OogxJk7jdgPgvyM3mHZ3wVIrvAustoPVqmyv9AvmQ_G_-iwnBtte18mwupfmGHO0G0cqiphk5hNePCUzuxl82yy62qPElRyTb61RiUQbL8-IYq3a6FkTWuaytSzA7irKRnSMU/s1600/160917233949-14-chelsea-explosion-gettyimages-607368888-exlarge-169.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmbpILj3OogxJk7jdgPgvyM3mHZ3wVIrvAustoPVqmyv9AvmQ_G_-iwnBtte18mwupfmGHO0G0cqiphk5hNePCUzuxl82yy62qPElRyTb61RiUQbL8-IYq3a6FkTWuaytSzA7irKRnSMU/s320/160917233949-14-chelsea-explosion-gettyimages-607368888-exlarge-169.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> "The evidence we've collected is being taken to our lab at Quantico for review, and we are following every available lead," FBI Assistant Director in Charge William Sweeney Jr. said Sunday.</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> Meanwhile, New Yorkers will see an increased police presence around the city, de Blasio said.</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> Stepped-up security across the city is common as world leaders arrive for the United Nations General Assembly meeting, which is underway. But now it will be even more intense, de Blasio said.</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQD1u4oTZfK9SFW32XXDudmVYFabWIlTniDPWslCidd6ndvwJF-C6cOSj17Tm8Ya3oY8Wd0RZyiXr6MXnXU_wIcXRwvWSyJCeQjfnttZkORmJTFruGzNDkHz-VYXPpEp5QduGeSKWN7vU/s1600/160917221525-06-chelsea-explosion-exlarge-169.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQD1u4oTZfK9SFW32XXDudmVYFabWIlTniDPWslCidd6ndvwJF-C6cOSj17Tm8Ya3oY8Wd0RZyiXr6MXnXU_wIcXRwvWSyJCeQjfnttZkORmJTFruGzNDkHz-VYXPpEp5QduGeSKWN7vU/s320/160917221525-06-chelsea-explosion-exlarge-169.jpeg" width="320" /></a>"You should know you will see a very substantial NYPD presence this week -- bigger than ever," he said.</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> And New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said 1,000 additional New York State Police officers and National Guard troops will be deployed to patrol bus terminals, airports and subway stations.</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> The increased policing, Cuomo said, is "just to err on the side of caution."</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> "I want New Yorkers to be confident when they go back to work on Monday that New York is up and running and we're doing everything that we need to do," he said.</div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <b><u>_____________________</u>                                                               <u>_______________________</u></b></div> <h2 style="text-align: center;"> <span style="color: magenta; font-family: inherit;">Suspicious device found nearby</span></h2> <div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 0px;"> <div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 0px;"> <div class="separator" style="background-color: #fefefe; clear: both; color: #262626; font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2rem; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXoNkAayD-cgg3hSTv6Fwon1YaNsaIrWYoBsvHZAJAkxGjvXc2lKf_OVfQsMuLGRZvGLB8gE1NElBXJdDzhEyaCM_UGQJ0bZalDOuCVBWRZTmakraRxJAplYVpRXQgUmLXTE1XHU7n0Dg/s1600/160918010720-pressure-cooker-device-nyc-exlarge-169+%25281%2529.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXoNkAayD-cgg3hSTv6Fwon1YaNsaIrWYoBsvHZAJAkxGjvXc2lKf_OVfQsMuLGRZvGLB8gE1NElBXJdDzhEyaCM_UGQJ0bZalDOuCVBWRZTmakraRxJAplYVpRXQgUmLXTE1XHU7n0Dg/s640/160918010720-pressure-cooker-device-nyc-exlarge-169+%25281%2529.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div> <div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">Police officers and federal agents searched the streets with flashlights, robots and dogs early Sunday to ensure there were no other devices in the area.</span></div> <div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">Multiple local and federal law enforcement officials described the pressure cooker found at 27th Street. None of them would say what was inside the cooker, which has since been removed from the scene.</span></div> <div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">A device at a second location in Chelsea appears to be a pressure cooker, according to multiple local and federal law enforcement officials.</span></div> <div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">A piece of paper with writing on it was found nearby, the officials said.</span></div> <div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">Search attention also focused on another object in the area, but it turned out to be trash.</span></div> <div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">De Blasio said investigators believe there is no connection to an </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">earlier incident in New Jersey,</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">where an explosion went off in a garbage can on the route of a Marine Corps charity run Saturday.</span></div> <div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl_ivRwZ3fsvDJ1jmKnrwKxCYm9CXKsXj3-Vdh0fjtakBpLkLQLqJGypt3nIdAmMkbCrLvJhU5f9efw32LyNNyBVjIlO8PDI07KFOAhtn3BcWBTTwVZuepj_3c0sXAPqvDxs7Fg1M7eAs/s1600/160918110500-01-chelsea-explosion-0918-exlarge-169.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl_ivRwZ3fsvDJ1jmKnrwKxCYm9CXKsXj3-Vdh0fjtakBpLkLQLqJGypt3nIdAmMkbCrLvJhU5f9efw32LyNNyBVjIlO8PDI07KFOAhtn3BcWBTTwVZuepj_3c0sXAPqvDxs7Fg1M7eAs/s320/160918110500-01-chelsea-explosion-0918-exlarge-169.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">The New York explosion caused "significant property damage," Cuomo said.</span></div> <div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">"We really were lucky that there were no fatalities," he said.</span></div> <div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">By Sunday morning, all 29 injured victims had been released from hospitals, the governor said.</span></div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsC4Z8cF8gJsahr5_aJ1QOcv5tCFP1C7-lSGXewHP-yiSXQI4zvvrVkjEcoMXNUrc5Gjs_3HGmF2r7VN0NgYKkzHZZI9npnr-t8RdgssGIoR3xi2PTHpP9kwsO-IWRtKHDN7exiXoIg8Q/s1600/160918131301-03-chelsea-explosion-0918-restricted-exlarge-169.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsC4Z8cF8gJsahr5_aJ1QOcv5tCFP1C7-lSGXewHP-yiSXQI4zvvrVkjEcoMXNUrc5Gjs_3HGmF2r7VN0NgYKkzHZZI9npnr-t8RdgssGIoR3xi2PTHpP9kwsO-IWRtKHDN7exiXoIg8Q/s320/160918131301-03-chelsea-explosion-0918-restricted-exlarge-169.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br /> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Is it terrorism?</span></span></div> <span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">New York's governor didn't mince words Sunday when he talked about the explosion.</span></div> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">"A bomb exploding in New York is obviously an act of terrorism," Cuomo said, vowing that authorities would catch whoever is responsible.</span></div> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">"A bomb going off is generically a terrorist activity. That's how we'll consider it. And that's how we will prosecute it," he said.</span></div> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">But law enforcement officials and the city's mayor cautioned that without a known motive, it's too soon to call the bombing a terror attack.</span></div> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">CNN law enforcement analyst Tom Fuentes said the information authorities have revealed so far about the blast leads him to a troubling conclusion.</span></div> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">"It tells me that it was a rather large explosive device that someone built and someone detonated and caused the injury of dozens of people. ... It shows me it's a deliberate act and indicates an act of terrorism," he said. "Whether it's domestic terrorism or international, we don't know, but it certainly would have an appearance that somebody made an attempt to kill people, on purpose."</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY00SglWFa85uN_BeHUa_9VeUD-mrWRx4GuC1gKA9G2xqrrohnEVCh3ghVmdfKq7maFxEfbmeyxFFoFP3rNUC-koE9qOClUqo_4W49ri7z0RD5XEaG7IogghaN-Sq52Ptgjg_REgPv2io/s1600/160918131656-04-chelsea-explosion-0819-restricted-exlarge-169.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY00SglWFa85uN_BeHUa_9VeUD-mrWRx4GuC1gKA9G2xqrrohnEVCh3ghVmdfKq7maFxEfbmeyxFFoFP3rNUC-koE9qOClUqo_4W49ri7z0RD5XEaG7IogghaN-Sq52Ptgjg_REgPv2io/s320/160918131656-04-chelsea-explosion-0819-restricted-exlarge-169.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <br /> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">But CNN national security analyst Juliette Kayyem said it's too soon to label the blast a terror attack without knowing the motivations behind the explosion. Terrorism, she said, generally has political or religious motives behind it.</span></div> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">"I think it's premature to call it terrorism until we know -- unless you want to define terrorism as any violent act in an urban area -- but given that there's no proof of motivation, you wouldn't be able to bring a terrorism case, so to speak, today," she said. "You certainly would be able to bring other types of cases if you found the culprit."</span></div> </span><br /> <div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglgbXeVN0M2u-93soucA6EYbOqMpSHpSjy9OrSqJWyTLoYUR83QrOvFP5u2I_g5VZ9_qJPyT1KfMN_SKEKV_5cv5wpOX5X-d_Qhkt8oy3Dt7fGNpzqpgqVf5C6MvuATk5iUq_534biKsA/s1600/160918000542-chelsea-explosion-dumpster-exlarge-169.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglgbXeVN0M2u-93soucA6EYbOqMpSHpSjy9OrSqJWyTLoYUR83QrOvFP5u2I_g5VZ9_qJPyT1KfMN_SKEKV_5cv5wpOX5X-d_Qhkt8oy3Dt7fGNpzqpgqVf5C6MvuATk5iUq_534biKsA/s320/160918000542-chelsea-explosion-dumpster-exlarge-169.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br /> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">'I could feel it in my chest'</span></span></div> <span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div> <div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 0px; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">The explosion rocked Chelsea, a New York neighborhood that's packed with restaurants, subway stations, shops, businesses and art galleries.</span></div> <div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 0px;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br /> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Nearby resident Sam Smith, 50, said he was closing the shades of his apartment when the blast hit.</span></span></div> <span style="font-family: inherit;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">"All I saw was a big light, and then I heard the explosion," he told CNN as he watched investigators and waited for word about whether he could return home Sunday morning. "I could feel it in my chest. It took me an hour and a half before I could hear again."</span></div> </span></div> <div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 0px;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">Danilo Gabrielli, 50, was watching TV at his 23rd Street apartment about a block away from the explosion site when he heard the blast. He rushed to see what had happened and found a chaotic scene.</span></div> <span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br /> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"We smelled something, like an intense sulfur smell, and saw smoke coming out of this building. I saw pieces of metal -- not large, but not small either. A few friends of mine saw glass there."</span></span></div> <span style="font-family: inherit;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">Gabrielli said "the entire neighborhood is real scared."</span></div> </span></div> <div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 0px;"> <div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 0px;"> <div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 0px;"> <div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 0px;"> <div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 0px;"> <div class="separator" style="background-color: #fefefe; clear: both; color: #262626; font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2rem; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7Ri4-KA2hPY36F26SlHSWjkG4xuIWiGtpoByaCv73JOhmtqRlhCpOFLMOA6EjOOziJ0Zlzot3bhhncaa_sd16xvZMl8c1Sr0BlBa99y2pUMWzvkRc5cr6gxqGpqzhSBkcUKLLE6zSYcQ/s1600/160917233837-10-chelsea-explosion-gettyimages-607369824-exlarge-169.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7Ri4-KA2hPY36F26SlHSWjkG4xuIWiGtpoByaCv73JOhmtqRlhCpOFLMOA6EjOOziJ0Zlzot3bhhncaa_sd16xvZMl8c1Sr0BlBa99y2pUMWzvkRc5cr6gxqGpqzhSBkcUKLLE6zSYcQ/s640/160917233837-10-chelsea-explosion-gettyimages-607369824-exlarge-169.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">"It's a real quiet neighborhood -- not like the center of the city or the Wall Street area. It's tiny bars, where you go to grab a drink, grab a bite to eat, watch a film. We were worried."</span></div> <div class="separator" style="background-color: #fefefe; clear: both; color: #262626; font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2rem; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZxMXSXmf9jDo6ceLr4X4pEpZWckkoXs3JyY9pPIjOuUYUucNw79wZ8MiU0Yq_D-I1G45EfRswtWUrvwtvuhwkZJd36gL_qxCn9LbQak-mxdtwmG85zeuW7b_Y6qGz-u-8SGRACOgElrw/s1600/160917225804-06-chelsea-explosion-exlarge-169.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZxMXSXmf9jDo6ceLr4X4pEpZWckkoXs3JyY9pPIjOuUYUucNw79wZ8MiU0Yq_D-I1G45EfRswtWUrvwtvuhwkZJd36gL_qxCn9LbQak-mxdtwmG85zeuW7b_Y6qGz-u-8SGRACOgElrw/s640/160917225804-06-chelsea-explosion-exlarge-169.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: inherit;">Surveillance video shows windows shattered with terrified people running on the streets and ducking. The video, which shows angles from inside and outside Orangetheory Fitness in Chelsea, shows a screen laying outside on the street after the explosion and what appears to be papers flying in the air.</span></div> <div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 0px;"> <u style="font-weight: bold;">_____________________</u>                                                                    <b><u>_____________________</u></b></div> <h4 style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 0px;"> <span style="color: magenta; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;">Surveillance video shows the impact from the explosion.</span></h4> <div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 0px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPCXRLjDIZ6loiqw6VJHBfrFw8d7hedk3XdTP03-VHlb665TnVAhxVpRgjFRLrE2a9jNxkQbel4_e6W2xnt6a16Omw5nurBJJtTEXZLBRr4lewajg0On2uqp5TI6mb09TiE87sPXLHOYQ/s1600/160918015723-surveillance-video-msnbc-orangetheory-fitness-chelsea-vo-nr-00000207-exlarge-169.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #262626; font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2rem; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPCXRLjDIZ6loiqw6VJHBfrFw8d7hedk3XdTP03-VHlb665TnVAhxVpRgjFRLrE2a9jNxkQbel4_e6W2xnt6a16Omw5nurBJJtTEXZLBRr4lewajg0On2uqp5TI6mb09TiE87sPXLHOYQ/s640/160918015723-surveillance-video-msnbc-orangetheory-fitness-chelsea-vo-nr-00000207-exlarge-169.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <h4 style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Some social media users said the sound of the explosion was heard as far away as Hoboken, New Jersey, across the Hudson River.</span></span></h4> <div> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div> <br /> <div class="" style="clear: both;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">SOURCE: <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2016/09/18/us/new-york-explosion/index.html?sr=fbcnni091816new-york-explosion0438PMStoryLink&linkId=28919735">CNN</a></span></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #262626; font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2rem;"> <br /></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>

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