A suspicious package has been found at LaGuardia Airport in New York City, according to Bloomberg News.
An email from Steve Coleman, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, says that central terminal building (Terminal D) was evacuated.
Coleman says that Port Authority Police Department’s Emergency Services Unit and the New York City Police Department’s bomb squad are now on the scene. NBC New York reports that the package was in a shopping area in the terminal.
According to Huffington Post's Ethan Klapper, the FAA has issued a ground stop (which prohibits all planes from flying) until at least noon EDT.
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