New York, DC on High Alert After Moscow Terror Attacks

Moscow is halfway around the world, but the subway bombings there today hit close to home for New York City and Washington, D.C.

Hours after a terrorist attack killed 38 people on the Moscow metro, the New York and D.C. subway systems were on high alert.

In New York, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority was operating under a “heightened security presence,” spokesman Kevin Ortiz told the Associated Press. The city doubled the number of police patrols this morning and sent specially trained anti-terror teams into bus and train stations “in response to the Moscow bombings,” the New York City Police Department said in a statement.

Washington had already planned to conduct planned anti-terrorism drills today, but the city beefed up its security as well.

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