As I turned on the computer, I thought I heard on CNN an interview with someone from the Gov. and during that time I think a question or statement about a possible car bomb in Maryland? Not for sure I heard right, did anyone else hear this?

-- Anonymous, October 10, 2001

Answers

I've been listening to Fox, haven't heard anything yet. Will keep an ear and eye out.

-- Anonymous, October 10, 2001

Thanks, not totally awake when I was listening.

-- Anonymous, October 10, 2001

You're doing better than me--I'm not totally listening when I'm awake.

-- Anonymous, October 10, 2001

6:06PM Central-This may be it,Mutter had posted this at TB:

U.S.-Canada Border Closed in Vt, NY

By Wilson Ring Associated Press Writer

Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2001; 2:49 p.m. EDT

HIGHGATE, Vt. –– A bomb threat made to a business near the U.S.- Canada border and a suspicious vehicle prompted federal officials to close two major border crossings Wednesday.

Vehicles heading toward the ports of entry at Champlain, N.Y., and Highgate, Vt., were stopped by police Wednesday afternoon and directed to smaller border crossings, said Craig Jehle, port director in Highgate.

The call was made shortly before 9 a.m. to an office of Deringer, a customs broker and international freight handler.

"The caller said: 'There's a bomb that's going to go boom,'" said John Holzscheiter, Deringer marketing vice president and co-owner.

The company's offices in Champlain, Highgate Springs and St. Albans were evacuated.

Officials were investigating the threat Wednesday afternoon and could provide few details. The only thing they said about the suspicious vehicle is that it was near Highgate.

"We're waiting for things to get checked," said Temple Black, a public affairs officer with the Immigration and Naturalization Service in Burlington.

Both of the closed border crossings are busy ones involving Interstate highways, 87 on the New York side, 89 on the Vermont side.

Also in Vermont, the owner of 14 hydroelectric plants along the Connecticut and Deerfield rivers posted armed guards this week after three suspicious men were spotted on a remote road near one plant over the weekend.

Officer Mike Chesanek of the Bellows Falls police department, said the men spoke broken English and appeared to be from the Middle East or India. He asked them for identification, but did not detain them. He said they told him they were looking for American Indian rock carvings that can be found in the area.

-- Anonymous, October 10, 2001