LOS ANGELES, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- Four major bridges in California, including San Francisco's landmark Golden Gate Bridge, may be the target of a terrorist attack slated to take place in the next several days, Gov. Gray Davis announced Thursday.
Davis stunned reporters during a Los Angeles news conference called to introduce his new security adviser by revealing that law enforcement agencies had developed "credible information" that a bridge in California could be attacked by terrorists sometime between Friday and Nov. 7, possibly during rush hour.
Additional security was expected to be deployed Thursday around the Golden Gate and the Oakland Bay Bridge as well as the Coronado Bay Bridge over San Diego Bay and the Vincent Thomas Bridge in the Los Angeles harbor area.
"We are bound and determined to protect California's waterways," Davis said, appearing a bit shaken.
"Well before we received that threat, we had taken elaborate security measures with the Highway Patrol, the Coast Guard and other local law enforcement officials to protect the bridges," Davis said. "We have tightened security even more since the receipt of those threats."
There was no immediate comment on Davis' announcement from the FBI nor any indication that some types of vehicles, such as tankers or rental trucks, might be banned from California's bridges.
A similar terrorist threat alert was issued for movie studios in California shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks on New York City and the Pentagon.
Davis Thursday introduced former FBI Agent George V. Vinson as his Special Adviser on State Security. Vinson spent 23 years with the FBI and developed the Bay Area Joint Terrorism Task Force while serving as the head of the bureau's San Francisco office.
