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Officials Investigate Possible Intrusion at Deseret Chemical Depot

Aired September 05, 2002 - 15:09   ET

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KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: We are going to take you back to Utah and another story we have been following, a breaking news story. And that is a possible intruder at the chemical depot, the Deseret Chemical Depot just out of Salt Lake City, Utah.
We do have a report that was just filed by CNN affiliate KUTV's Brian Mullahy. We got this from him just moments ago.

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BRIAN MULLAHY, KUTV REPORTER: Well, we saw, just a moment ago, a vehicle moving towards the north end of the facility, near the perimeter road. It looked like a military vehicle, one vehicle only.

Again, this may be similar to the type of vehicles we saw going into the facility maybe 15, 20 minutes ago, carrying perhaps 50 to 75 military personnel in full fatigues, that facility the only one moving in this, at least from our vantage point now. But we can't see beyond a certain area over here. There is a plateau. You can't see south of that. And beyond the facility, of course, you can't see there as well.

You get the sense that they are willing to wait it out, to be thorough. And they have set up a joint information center in order to start disseminating more information. We expect to get a briefing from officials at that facility some time this early afternoon.

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PHILLIPS: And we are told that briefing will come about 4:00 p.m. Eastern time from the Deseret Chemical Depot. We will bring that to you live as soon as it happens.

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