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Update: The freeway is reopened. The device found was a pipe sealed at both ends containing inert military ordnance, NBC news reports. It is unknown how the object wound up in this location.
May 2, 2011 (San Diego) 9:30 a.m. - A possible pipe bomb has forced closure of I-5 southbound at the Coronado Bridge, Incident Page Network reports. San Diego Police, San Diego Fire Department and the Bomb/Arson squad has been summoned. A SIG Alert has been issued and all traffic is being diverted, San Diego SIG alerts confirms.
The California Highway Patrol website confirms that I-5 is shut-down but does not list a potential bomb. The site does, however, reference a vehicle fire as well as an earlier potential bridge jumper that is apparently unrelated as that incident had been cleared early this morning.
Security is on heightened alert in San Diego and elsewhere following last night's announcement by President Barack Obama that U.S. forces killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan yesterday.
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