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Be on alert -- tonight, that's the warning from police in London, even from some officials right here in the United States. This after bomb squads in London defused two car bombs packed with fuel, propane and nails. Officials say if they had gone off, they would have caused certain disaster, possibly killing hundreds of people.
Let's go straight to CNN's international security correspondent, Paula Newton.
She's joining us from Scotland Yard -- Paula, update our viewers.
What's the latest?
PAULA NEWTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, the latest is that Scotland Yard here, just a little while ago, confirmed what we've been reporting all afternoon, and that is that a second car bomb was found very close, originally, to where the first car bomb was found. It really is a bit of a carbon copy here, Lou, the same thing -- fuel, gas canisters and nails, perhaps tethered to a detonator of a mobile phone. And it's been incredibly unsettling for everyone here in Britain here tonight.
(BEGIN VIDEO TAPE) NEWTON (voice-over): With this light green Mercedes, Britain turned a corner. The new risk dead ahead chillingly uttered in two words -- car bomb.
PETER CLARKE, COUNTER-TERRORISM CHIEF: There was no intelligence whatsoever that we're going to be attacked in this way.
NEWTON: As crude as it was, security sources close to the investigation say the bomb would have worked. Gallons of gasoline packed in the front and back, gas canisters -- the kind used for barbecues -- stuffed inside, the whole...