5 people taken into custody in connection with Chelsea explosion

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Monday, September 19, 2016
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Lucy Yang has the latest developments.

CHELSEA, Manhattan -- Sources say five people were taken into custody with a possible connection to Saturday's bombing in Chelsea.

At 8:45 p.m. Sunday the FBI and NYPD conducted a traffic stop of a vehicle of interest in the investigation into the bombing.

The men were in a car stopped on the Belt Parkway. They were headed from Staten Island to Brooklyn on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge.

No one has been charged yet with the explosion, and the investigation is currently ongoing.